Saturday, 7:15pm (UK)/8:15pm (Germany)
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Join us for another exciting edition of Schlag den Star where once again two celebs will be battling it out over 15 mystery events for €100,000.
If you’ve got a microphone you’ll be welcome to join us and hangout in the Hangout – link will appear here soon after the show starts.
This episode, musician Sasha takes on TV chef Tim Mälzer over 15 events for Elton’s €100,000 briefcase. Announced musical acts include THE Herbert Grönemeyer and also ZAZ and Sigrid!
The link to the commentary stream will be live here from 7:15 until end of broadcast.
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Next one is the 16th March – Singer Lucas Cordalis vs ex-Bachelor Paul Janke.
Great fun episode tonight – sometimes the prospect of a five hour commentary fills me with slight dread, but they found two great contestants and although he was a bit useless at basically everything, I would absolutely watch Schlag den Malzer on a regular basis.
They picked the wrong chef, evidently.
They said at the the start that they’re good mates. Sasha is chilled and Mälzer is funny but he’d probably want €100k/€250k himself if he was to do it regularly! I’d say Mälzer is the closest to Raab in personality and competitiveness, but well off the mark in terms of ability :p
Interestingly, they put out a casting call for a show called ‘Schlag den Besten’. No idea when it will debut, but it pits normal contestants against each other for a prize of €50,000. If a contestant wins, they come back the following show and so on (winner stays on).
Ooh, I could see Besten working quite well, actually. If they find a really good player, they could become the new Raab.
The impression we got for Besten is that it sounds like a Summer pre-recorded series, although that’s complete conjecture on our part.
Last night had the show’s best rating for years I gather.
2.01m (9.1%) in total viewers
1.15m (16.4%) in 14-49 viewers.
Best total audience since October 2016 when they had just as entertaining a pair as last night (gymnast Fabian Hambuchen vs comedian Bulent Ceylan). I thought it would be around that, especially after how entertaining last night’s show was. I doubt March’s episode will get that kind of number, but it’s a positive start.
Having had a chance to think about it, there’s no reason why they couldn’t do a ‘Schlag den Mälzer’ – but only if he takes on other celebrities. If Raab put Mälzer through a performance bootcamp and he was up for doing the show, then it would be just as fun and interesting as last night. Definitely worth a shot.
Prosieben haven’t said anything about Besten yet except for that it will ‘take a bit of time’.
I’ve thought for a while that the quality (and ratings) of Schlag den Star depends hugely on who the celebrities are, and this proves it.
As expected, ratings in Italy were a bit lopsided yesterday night:
Sanremo Song Contest final 1st half / 2nd half: 12.12m/8.39m (53.12%/65.2%)
next best program: 1.37m (5.8%)
And this is the winner!