It’s Schlag den Raab this evening for €1.5m! And here is a special place for people to talk about it if they want. Also: posting up links to naughty live streaming.
It begins at 8:15 European time on ProSieben, that’s 7:15 in the UK.
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Alicia Keys will be the musical interlude tonight. Given the past two shows they have been borrowing our original Beat the Star games (Backspell, Egg & Spoon and ATV), will they be bothered to use Broken Ladder tonight?
Fingers crossed for those who don’t have direct access someone will post an online feed.
How long before showtime do the naughty links usually go up? Part of me knows I need to run to the grocery store, the other part of me just wants to keep hitting F5 until something wonderful happens.
Looking forward to tonight’s SDR. Hopefully some naughty links to watch online will go up soon, but I’ll check the usual places as well:
http://www.justin.tv/streamareadevu3
http://www.justin.tv/xstreamx4
I thought Germany was out of the recession? So why are they now advertising those postal gold companies over there?
Awesome, watching now. I’m not going to be able to do the play-by-play like last time.
Torsten seems the winning choice – but Phillip could be interesting too.
Game 1 is Stehen–Standing. Torsten and Stefan have to stand on a tiny pedestal. The first to fall loses the game. Stefan falls off after a few seconds, so Torsten takes it!
Game 2 is Fremdsprachen–Foreign Languages. They have to figure out a German word given various translations of that word. First to 7 points wins.
I find it kinda funny that I could figure out a lot of those words in English before they could get it… but then again, I couldn’t answer in German, so I’d lose out there.
I noticed that they seemed to have added the option to take a guess after your opponent forfeits a point to you… Do you think they added that after last week when so many questions had to be thrown out because of one person getting it wrong? Or was this just a game that particularly lended well to questions offered across?
The opponent to win an extra point after being awarded one for a penalty has been used numerous times on the show. It depends on the buzzer game they play.
Stefan wins game 2 and takes a 2-1 lead. Still very early.
Game 3 is Medizinbälle–Medicine Balls. They each start with 5 medicine balls, which they have to throw over a high bar, down a ramp and into their opponent’s zone. After 3 minutes, the player with fewer balls in his zone wins, and quite clearly, that’s Stefan! It’s 5-1 now.
Game 4 is Novuss, which is like pocket billiards, only played on a wooden square table with discs instead of balls.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Novuss
or like Carom, a game they played in 2008 but with pool cues.
And that’s it! Stefan extends his lead to 9-1!
Thanks Anonymous, I’ve been out and am catching up through you.
No problem.
Yay, Kenny Everitt is back to doing those shouty mobile phone adverts.
Game 5 is Musik Rückwärts–Backwards Music. The players have to name the song being played backwards.
Torsten needed this one, and he got it! It’s a 9-6 match.
Game 6 is Spitz, pass auf! Some help on this one, please?
One player holds some string with a counter attached in a target area, another holds a cup. Matthias rolls a dice, if it lands on 6 the person holding the rope must pull the counter away from the target area before the other player captures it with the cup.
Pointless observation. They background music for game 6 is actually from Beat the Star.
It’s if it lands on a 1 or a 6.
Also if there’s a flinch by either player when the roll isn’t 1 or 6 the other player gets a point. That’s why they both got points when they both moved early on a 3..
Make that either a 1 or 6 when the dice is rolled. If either player goes for either capturing the counter or pull the string when either 2,3,4,5 is rolled, the point is passed to the opponent.
http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/3727/pounce
Stefan takes Game 6, so it’s 15-6, going into Game 7, which is Penalty Schiessen–Penalty Shots. It’s an ice-hockey shootout, apparently.
We’re currently guaranteed to get to at least Game 12 this evening.
And I don’t know if you noticed but that looked like a race track outside the hockey pitch. Exciting!
I also spot two sets of skis on that track…
Didn’t know Chris de Burgh is still churning out albums. Germans’ must love him.
Ooh, it’s snowing.
Wasn’t it snowing last time?
It was but not as bad as tonight. They can keep it as well, we’ve had our turn with the white stuff.
This might not last long, Cologne have got heavy snow at the moment, crew are trying to clear it off the pitch.
Stefan wins the shootout 3-2, so his lead increases to 22-6. We stay outside for Game 8, Langlauf–Cross-Country Skiing.
The ever popular TV Total Wok racing is back for 2010. For those who don’t know, it’s basically a luge/bobsleigh competition but using a cooking wok to go down the track.
Torsten falls down, and Stefan overtakes him to win. He pulls even further away in the overall score. It’s now 30-6! If Torsten wants to win the jackpot, he’ll have to start winning some games! But first, Alicia Keys will perform.
Yeah – Raab could clean him up with game 12. Alternatively Torsten could win with game 13. I know which is more likely though.
Just seen the advert for 2nd February. Stefan will be Graham Norton when he will host German’s version to Your Country Needs You to find the 2010 entry to Eurovision. This is a joint production with Pro7 and ARD. I think ARD will be broadcasting the final.
I’ve been watching on and off while packing to go back to school, but I had to stop and play along with the backwards music round… LOVE that game. Truly a fun party game, give it a shot sometime.
I glanced up during the hockey/ski tag games, and saw that the blue person won both of them. I was excited because I thought Torsten was making his comeback, but I didn’t realize that Stefan was in the blue tonight. Yikes. It’s really not looking good for Torsten.
Oh, and what perfect tmiing for my connection to go out, during Alicia Keys. Who was that first performer, by the way?
It’s back to front on SdR. Stefan always wears blue, the challenger in Red. However, when they showed Schlag den Star last year the Star was in the same colour as the UK version, red, the challenger in blue.
Backwards Music has been popular with SdR, since they played it last year.
Game 9’s the ever popular Blamieren oder Kassieren.
Torsten needed that one! He now trails 30-17.
Make that 30-15. Game 10 is Squash.
Interesting fact – both of the past two scorelines have been valid tennis scores.
Torsten got squashed there, 11-5. Stefan now leads 41-15, which means he only needs to win any two out of the next 5 games to win outright.
Game 11 is Der Toaster–the Toaster. I guess they have to buzz in right before the bread pops out of the toaster to score.
It’s 40-15, I think.
40-15, I mean.
Quality Saturday night television. Two grown men watching a toaster.
For health and safety reasons, it looks like the toaster isn’t actually toasting.
Which is bizarre, on a show like this, there are much more risky things than making some toast!
That or they got a crap toaster. I did notice there were some spare bread slices by the buzzer podium.
Maybe to avoid any kind of influence on toasting time ?
Stefan takes it, and Torsten is almost toast. 51-15. It’s Matchball time.
Game 12 is Länderumrisse–Country Outlines. Simply name the country whose outline is being drawn.
Is Torsten chewing? I thought that is a big no no in the TV world?
Stefan wins it walking away! Final score: 63-15. The jackpot’s now 2 million euros, and someone will try to win it next month. See you then!
Next episode : April 10.
If the contender loses, do they get anything? Something like 1000 euros per point or something?
Talk about an early finish, it’s hardly reached the four hour mark. Germany can sleep early tonight now their national, multi-talented hero has won again.
Somebody on Facebook thought I was watching a new BBC sitcom, “Two Men Watching a Toaster”. That is sure to be BBC Three bound.
April 10th? Blimey.
I’m sure we will ALL be playing the Toaster game at home in the meantime. I can’t believe there won’t be a third series of Beat the Star they can play it on 🙁
April 10th sounds right. It’s usually January, April, May, September, October, December in that order. It looks like we won’t be seeing Schlag den Star this year as Stefan will be working on Eurovision and TV Total Wok in March.
I’m still curious to know how much it cost Gallowgate/Diverse to record the first series in Cologne. Since it cost £1 million per episode when they produced it here.
I was thinking exactly the same last night, during the outside games (and by the way, I’m sure if they were playing by proper ice hockey rules, Stefan would not be allowed to lie across the goalmouth as he was doing)
Beat The Star series 1 was recorded during late March/April 2007, which would also line-up with the April 2007 edition of Rabb, so the set and studio would have been struck at Brainpool Studios – so the budget from ITV/Gallowgate would have been on technical production facilities and crewing, which probably would have been cheaper than finding a studio here (ie TV1 & 2 at Pinewood), and building the set and games locally.
As Beat The Star perfomed OK for ITV last year I surprised it’s not coming back again this year, and if money was the issue – and was cheaper to make in Germany why not go back over there again this year?
No doubt the Toaster game will show up on The Cube series 2 instead.
Voice of The Cube: “Toaster, for £100,000 all you need to do is to buzz in within ten seconds when the toast will pop up from the toaster, can you feel the heat?”
I like my version of the toaster game better. When the toast pops, catch it with the plate before it goes down back in. It usually doesn’t get high enough the first time, but if you play with the handle a bit, you can force it to fly comedically high.
Internet really started fading out towards the end, although I apparently didn’t miss much. Caught the final round in its entirity before my connection went out again. Then I ate dinner. Leftovers. Didn’t exactly taste like victory.
Do you ever wonder if the audience secretly deliberately picks who they think would most likely lose against Stefan? I don’t know what the purpose of this would be, either to boost the jackpot or just to have more reason to cheer for Stefan, but… I dunno.
It’s interesting you mention that, when that €3m jackpot was won there were boos from the studio audience!
I don’t think the audience deliberately pick people who won’t beat him, Raab’s just very talented and competitive (check out the Wiki entry: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stefan_Raab). The pitch film also notes that whoever it is who has to be beaten won’t be nervous about the crowd and public performance, whereas the contestant might well be!
I thought there were boos when the €500,000 was won by Hans-Martin in September and not the €3 million rollover.
I seem to recall they didn’t warm to him and when they were booing him when he did win €500,000 Stefan had to come in and put the audience straight.
The audience try to choose the right opponent but as Brig stated, Stefan Raab is a multi-talented genius. He is virtually Germany’s variation on Bruce Forsyth, since some could say he is an all round entertainer.
Yes you’re probably right about that, come to think. I’d look it up if I could be bothered to get the DVD out.
Stuff the DVD, you got yourself to thank for keeping those comment boxes.
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Good spot! Well done, er, me.
Actually, I think I’ve figured out what’s wrong with me. I know you (or someone) had mentioned a few SDR’s back that the audience generally pulls for Stefan… but I’m definitely still in the mindset of cheering for the contestant. I hold nothing against Stefan, and I agree that he’s incredibly talented, but I think that makes it all the more better when someone beats him. Stefan will continue to be awesome, and he’ll undoubtedly thrash other contestants around, so why make such a huge stink about it if he loses? (<—that last question was directed toward Germany, by the way, I just needed to get it off my chest)
So , yesterday, at the same time that Schlad den Raab was running, TF1 was also running Schlag Den Star (recorded the day before ; it didn’t helped to know who won in advance)
http://videos.tf1.fr/qui-peut-battre/qui-peut-battre-philippe-lucas-5632605.html
3.8 million viewers , 18% share – which is ironically close to SdR’s ratings yesterday ( http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schlag_den_Raab) , but way worse – it would be very surprising to see it again.
Not avaliable in the UK unfortunately 🙁
Well I’ve gotta say I’d rather see your channels like bbc2 (love nmtb) or channel 4 than my German TV. Schlag den Raab is one of the best shows on German televison but it starts getting boring. The host Matthias Opdenhövel and Stefan Raab’s ambition are the only things that make it interesting. I think it’s bad the are planning the shows that well. In the beginning you never knew when it would end, but the last couple of shows have always been ending right when they wanted it to end. It’s not that surprising anymore.
Could it be down the network, Pro7 wanting the show not to overrun after midnight?
Given you live in Germany and Gameshowkult no longer running, can you confirm if Pro7 have recomissioned Wipeout?