Beck is back!

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Television broadcast
Original title Beck is back!
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Country of production Germany
original language German
Year (s) 2018-2019
Production
company
UFA fiction
length 45 minutes
Episodes 20 in 2 seasons ( list )
Broadcasting
cycle
every Tuesday
genre Dramedy
Theme music Beck is back - cover story
Director Ulli Baumann
production Silke Winter
music Loy Wesselburg
Sebastian Schubert
camera Sebastian Gray
cut Manuela Kempf
Bernd Schriever
First broadcast January 30, 2018 on RTL
main actor
supporting cast

Beck is back! ( Stylized as BECK is back! ) Is a German dramedy - television series , the January 30, 2018 through April 16, 2019 from RTL aired. It is about a fictional criminal defense attorney of the same name in Berlin who works for the first time after a long time as a househusband ; Bert Tischendorf plays the main role .

At the beginning of March 2018, RTL extended the television series by a second season with ten episodes. Due to poor audience ratings, the series was discontinued after the second season was broadcast.

action

The series is about Hannes Beck, a single father who works as a public defender in court.

When Beck wants to pick up his wife Kirsten, who works as a prosecutor, from work for a surprise birthday party with the family, he catches her cheating. He then left his wife and began to work as a public defender in addition to raising children. Since he never worked after studying law and it was a few years ago, he is overwhelmed and has difficulties. He is supported by his Croatian legal assistant and former cleaning lady Jasmina Božic, who was unknown as a judge in Croatia. His office is in the back room of a chicken diner. In order to advance her political career - whereby she has to prove an intact family - his wife tries to be able to withdraw custody of their children from him.

occupation

role actor Main role
(episodes)
Supporting role
(episodes)
Remarks
Hannes Beck Bert Tischendorf 1.01-2.10 Public defender, ex-husband of Kirsten, friend of Sarah
Jasmina Božić Andreja Schneider 1.01-2.10 Hannes' legal assistant, former judge
Kirsten Grammbach-Wachta Annika Ernst 1.01-2.01, 2.03-2.04, 2.06-2.10 Public prosecutor, ex-wife of Hannes, ex-wife of Marius
Susanne Kolberg Julia Dietze 1.01-2.04, 2.07 Lawyer, former fellow student and ex-girlfriend of Hannes, friend of Moritz
Marius Wachta René Steinke 1.01-1.03, 1.06-2.01, 2.03-2.10 Public prosecutor, ex-husband of Kirsten
Arslan Azadi Serkan Cetinkaya 1.01-2.10 Snack operator, landlord of Hannes' office
Mr. Paulsen Simon light 1.01–1.03, 1.05, 1.10–2.02, 2.06–2.07, 2.10 Judge
Lena Beck Deborah Schneidermann 1.01-2.10 Eldest daughter of Hannes and Kirsten
Luca Beck Louis Christiansen 1.01-2.10 Eldest son of Hannes and Kirsten
Emma Beck Jolina Uhrig 1.01-2.10 Youngest daughter of Hannes and Kirsten
Max Beck Oskar Weiss 1.01-2.10 Youngest son of Hannes and Kirsten
Sarah Schilken Tanja Hirner 2.01-2.10 Nanny in the Beck house, friend of Hannes, sister of Vincent
Vincent Schilken Eugen Bauder 2.01, 2.06-2.07, 2.09-2.10 Brother of Sarah
Moritz Temme François Goeske 2.01-2.02, 2.04, 2.07 Friend of Susanne, son of Judge Temme
Mr. Dempel Lutz Herkenrath 2.02, 2.07, 2.09 Chief Public Prosecutor
Mr. Wiedemann Kai Albrecht 2.05, 2.09 Prosecutor

Production and broadcast

From July to October 2017, ten episodes were filmed in Berlin under the working title Suddenly Lawyer . The series is produced by UFA Fiction .

The series has been broadcast on RTL on Tuesdays since January 30, 2018.

Episode list

season 1

No.
( total )
No.
( St. )
Original title First broadcast D Director script
1 1 surprise Jan. 30, 2018 Ulli Baumann Annika Soisson , Dominik Moser
2 2 Nine minutes Feb 6, 2018 Ulli Baumann Peter Ackermann-Laubenstein , Gerd Lutz
3 3 To the limit Feb 6, 2018 Ulli Baumann Dominik Moser
4th 4th no means no Feb 13, 2018 Ulli Baumann Stephanie Dörner
5 5 Great tennis Feb 13, 2018 Ulli Baumann Valentina Brüning
6th 6th Death speedster Feb. 20, 2018 Ulli Baumann Alexander Lindh
7th 7th Hippocratic oath Feb. 27, 2018 Ulli Baumann Eckardt Wolff
8th 8th Love until the end 6th Mar 2018 Ulli Baumann Tommy Wosch
9 9 The wrong client 13 Mar 2018 Ulli Baumann Thomas Franke
10 10 outbreak 20 Mar 2018 Ulli Baumann Boris Anderson

season 2

No.
( total )
No.
( St. )
Original title First broadcast D Director script
11 1 A heart for Lilly Feb 12, 2019 Ulli Baumann Dominik Moser
12 2 Gawkers 19th Feb 2019 Ulli Baumann Dominik Moser
13 3 The child abduction Feb. 26, 2019 Ulli Baumann Annika Cizek
14th 4th Death to the tyrant March 5, 2019 Ulli Baumann Polina Horosina
15th 5 Pro bono March 12, 2019 Ulli Baumann Laura Tamoj
16 6th The bought child March 19, 2019 Ulli Baumann Annika Cizek
17th 7th Drug dealer March 26, 2019 Ulli Baumann Janosch Kosack
18th 8th The teacher Apr 2, 2019 Ulli Baumann Tommy Wosch
19th 9 final destination 9 Apr 2019 Ulli Baumann Laura Tamoj
20th 10 Family ties April 16, 2019 Ulli Baumann Hannes Blamayer

reception

Audience ratings

The first episode on January 30, 2018 was watched by a total of 2.32 million, of which 1.09 million were between 14 and 49 years of age. It thus achieved an average of 11.5 percent market share, but only 7.8 percent among 14 to 49 year olds.

With a market share of 6.6 percent and 2.06 million viewers for all, the values ​​fell with the second episode on February 6, 2018. A market share of 10.9 percent was determined for the 14 to 49 year olds, which 1, Equated to 12 million viewers. Subsequently, the third episode only achieved 1.83 million viewers with an increased market share of 7.3 percent. The reach among 14- to 49-year-olds also fell to 0.97 million, with the market share also increasing by 11.9 percent.

criticism

In contrast to the previously started series Sankt Maik , the television portal TV Wishlist had more words of praise for the series. Reviewer Annick Peters says, "" Beck is back! " scores above all with the wit of the quick-witted characters Hannes and Jasmina as well as situation comedy. For example, when Hannes has advertised the application for a legal assistant in the wrong newspaper section and his alleged applicant suddenly stands in front of him stark naked because she thought she was answering a relationship advertisement. Or the headquarters ("office") opened by Jasmina of the newly qualified lawyer, which is located in the back room of a chicken snack and, as a running gag, ensures that Beck and Jasmina are repeatedly made aware of the chicken smell that surrounds them. It goes so far that Jasmina reports that she is even followed by dogs because of her chicken smell. "The series is" [...] a lawyer series that works with both comedy and drama elements. "Nevertheless," the stupid sayings of the prosecutor / Antagonists [...], on the other hand, are often quite clumsy and exaggerated. "

The judgment of Timo Niemeier from dwdl.de, however, was rather negative. "The missing profile of" Beck is back "[...] is probably the biggest problem with the new RTL series. They were too anxious to get everything right and to copy successful elements from other series. So “Beck is back” has become too smooth and predictable. Whether it was a good idea for main actor Bert Tischendorf to leave the ZDF production last trace Berlin for the series is doubtful. "

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Thomas Lückerath: Major order: New seasons for all current RTL series. In: DWDL.de . March 6, 2018, accessed March 6, 2018 .
  2. Series plans from RTL: Three are gone and a comeback , accessed on April 25, 2019
  3. Beck is back! (2017, episodes 1 - 10). In: crew-united.com. Retrieved February 1, 2018 .
  4. Beck is back! (Broadcast dates on RTL). In: fernsehserien.de. Retrieved February 1, 2018 .
  5. Manuel Nunez Sanchez: Can you survive without a jungle camp? "Beck is back!" even debuts in the red. In: quotenmeter.de. January 31, 2018, accessed February 1, 2018 .
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  8. DWDL.de GmbH: "Beck is back": Groundhog Day - DWDL.de .