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DIE.NACHT , earlier Thursday night , is a Tuesday television program for the Austrian Broadcasting Corporation , which aims at an “educated, young audience”. The program started in October 2002 as a Thursday night and was broadcast on ORF one every Thursday from around 10 p.m. until the summer break of 2012 . In September 2012, the series night was given a new slot on Tuesday evening (also from around 10 p.m. on ORF Eins) and has since been marketed as DIE.NACHT .

The program consists of television series and entertainment shows, which change at regular intervals and mostly belong to the comedy genre. Many of the broadcasts are Austrian in-house productions, such as Willkommen Österreich or Science Busters - if you don't know anything, you have to believe everything . These in-house productions alternate with British and US series such as Little Britain or My Name Is Earl .

history

A few years before the Thursday night brand was established, the Thursday evening program with cultural and entertainment programs was programmed on ORF. In 1997 there was a similar format on ORF 2 with the nitebox . However, this fell victim to a program reform at the end of 1997. On ORF 1 (today: ORF eins ), on the other hand, Thursday night from 1998 until the program reform in 2002 was occupied by the cultural and entertainment program kunst -stücke , in which contributions about contemporary entertainment culture were shown, artists were invited to talks and cabaret groups such as Stermann & Grissemann or Projekt X temporarily held fixed broadcasting slots as part of the program - comparable to Polylux on German television. The immediate slot in front of Kunststücke was always occupied by entertainment programs such as MA 2412 , A real Viennese does not go under or Kottan investigates . After the art pieces were canceled in 2002, the Thursday evening on ORF 1 was reprogrammed with their own and purchased entertainment programs and marketed under the title Thursday Night.

Thursday night was broadcast for the first time on October 17, 2002. The program at that time included the comedy show De Luca , the reissue of the retro show Wickie, Slime & Paiper XL, which ran in 2000 , the show without a name and the cooking show by Jamie Oliver and Da Ali G Show . In Austrian film and art circles this replacement for pieces of art was admittedly not very enthusiastic and the new concept was heavily criticized because it did not replace the cultural program of the pieces of art and only little innovation - limited to the development of new ones Broadcasts - was intended. The ORF responded by referring to the new cultural broadcasting slot from Sunday midnight.

The series has been marketed under the new name DIE.NACHT since autumn 2012 and shown on ORF Eins from around 10 p.m. on Tuesdays. In this version, DIE.NACHT went on air for the first time on September 18, 2012. The reason for the change was the broadcast of the UEFA Europa League , which always takes place on Thursdays.

concept

The Thursday night concept applied in 2002 provided for five programs of 25 minutes each. The five programs should change regularly to make room for something new and thus to compensate for the innovation gap in ORF that resulted from the elimination of the art pieces . On the one hand, the programs are aimed at pure entertainment - above all, the bought-in formats such as the Ali G Show, the cooking show by Jamie Oliver or Six Feet Under - are in-house productions - increasingly since the discontinuation of Ciro de Luca's own comedy shows and Really fat - also social and political satire broadcasting slot: Dorfers Donnerstalk , broadcast without a name and Die 4 da .

In 2007, the rigid scheme of five programs of 25 minutes each was abandoned and the program lengths were made more flexible. A rotating concept now stipulated that the self-produced programs such as Dorfers Donnerstalk and Die 4 da should last twice as long, but alternate each week. The then new late-night show Willkommen Österreich (a name allusion to the popular early evening television magazine Willkommen Österreich ) initially lasted around an hour and was then shortened to 45 to 50 minutes.

The concept now looks like that two 50-minute programs (mostly shows) and a 25-minute series are broadcast. In this case, Willkommen Österreich normally represents the second 50-minute broadcast, the other two broadcast slots are re-assigned about monthly.

Charisma

Broadcasting on ORF Eins usually begins on Tuesdays - depending on the length of the previous program - around 10 p.m. after the ten-minute ZIB Flash with two ORF productions (mostly crime series). In the case of major sporting events such as alpine skiing night competitions and international football matches, or in 2008 and 2009 also because of the broadcast of the Vienna Opera Ball (always on the last Thursday in Mardi Gras ), the planned program will be postponed by a week.

In addition to the regular Thursday night, there was also the so-called Thursday summer night in the summer months , during which cabaret programs by Austrian artists were shown.

broadcasts

In-house productions

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Third-party productions

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currently none

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Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b c Bernhard Baumgartner: ORF: Instead of art pieces now comedy. In: Wiener Zeitung . ( Article without date online .)
  2. ↑ The "Thursday night" becomes the "Tuesday night". ( Memento of the original from May 9, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. In: kundendienst.ORF.at ( undated ). Retrieved September 7, 2012.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / kundendienst.orf.at