The game begins!
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Original title | The game begins! - The big show from 3 to 99 |
Country of production | Germany |
original language | German |
Year (s) | 2015–2017, 2020 |
Production company |
Riverside Entertainment |
length | 2015–2017: 150–180, 2020: 90 minutes |
Episodes | 8th |
Broadcasting cycle |
two to three times a year |
genre | Game show |
Director | Frank Hof , Knut Fleischmann , Michael Maier |
Moderation | Johannes B. Kerner |
First broadcast | March 7, 2015 on ZDF |
The game begins! is a German game show that was first broadcast on March 7, 2015 on ZDF . The show, which lasts around three hours, is moderated by Johannes B. Kerner , and Faye Montana led through the show at his side from the second to fourth edition .
concept
In several rounds, prominent candidates played various board games against children. Popular classics as well as new trends were used. The staging of these games was based on the original. At the end of each round, in the first four episodes, the co-host rolled the number of points that the winning team received in each game, a member of the winning team since episode five. Since December 2016, the last four rounds have been duels in which one child competed against a star. It was about double the number of points. In the final game, the teams received the points in the form of playing figures. At the end of the program, the candidates for the winning team were granted their wishes.
In April 2020 there will be a special edition on the occasion of the COVID-19 pandemic . Four prominent teams of two, consisting of a family or a couple, play against each other. In addition to board games, there are also games that are played with household items. The winning team receives 15,000 euros for a good cause.
Co-moderation
- Emma Schweiger (eps. 1)
- Faye Montana (episodes 2 to 4)
expenditure
The winning team for each program is highlighted in green.
episode | date | Team stars | Team children | Show acts / support children | Games |
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1 | 7th Mar 2015 |
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2 | 19 Dec 2015 |
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3 | 19 Mar 2016 |
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4th | Sep 10 2016 |
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5 | Dec 28, 2016 |
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6th | 11th Mar 2017 |
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7th | Dec. 27, 2017 |
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episode | date | Teams | Games | ||
8th | Apr 22, 2020 |
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Odds
episode | date | spectator | Market share | ||
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total | 14 to 49 years | total | 14 to 49 years | ||
1 | 7th Mar 2015 | 4.62 million | 1.25 million | 16.4% | 12.6% |
2 | 19 Dec 2015 | 3.38 million | 0.69 million | 11.4% | 6.7% |
3 | 19 Mar 2016 | 3.80 million | 0.85 million | 13.5% | 9.2% |
4th | Sep 10 2016 | 2.72 million | 0.59 million | 11.4% | 7.6% |
5 | Dec 28, 2016 | 4.33 million | 1.02 million | 14.2% | 9.6% |
6th | 11th Mar 2017 | 3.52 million | 0.81 million | 11.7% | 8.2% |
7th | Dec. 27, 2017 | 3.74 million | 0.89 million | 12.4% | 9.6% |
8th | Apr 22, 2020 | 3.63 million | 0.85 million | 11.4% | 7.6% |
criticism
Antje Hildebrandt from Die Welt judged after the first broadcast that the show concept "didn't sound particularly original even on paper". Kerner had "annoyed the audience with a cocktail of hackneyed phrases (...) and an artificially turned up cheerfulness that literally ingratiated itself with the children". He also treated his co-presenter Emma Schweiger like a “studio palm”: She “stood around on stage as if ordered and not picked up” and “didn't really know what she had lost in the show ".
Frank Lübberding praised the program for the FAZ and considers it “so successful, old-fashioned, because it contradicts everything that the television critics otherwise demand”. He ascribes a participatory factor to the show, which “even the teenagers who otherwise consider everything that parents have in store for suggestions to be boring to be boring” could not avoid.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Faye Montana replaces Emma Schweiger , gala.de, accessed on December 6, 2015
- ↑ Primetime check: Saturday, March 7th, 2015.quotemeter.de , accessed on March 8th, 2015 .
- ↑ Primetime check: Saturday, December 19, 2015.quotemeter.de, accessed on December 20, 2015 .
- ↑ Primetime check: Saturday, March 19, 2016.quotemeter.de, accessed on March 20, 2016 .
- ↑ Primetime check: Saturday, September 10, 2016.quotemeter.de, accessed on September 11, 2016 .
- ↑ Primetime check: Wednesday, December 28, 2016.quotemeter.de, accessed on December 29, 2016 .
- ↑ Primetime check: Saturday, March 11, 2017.quotemeter.de, accessed on March 12, 2017 .
- ↑ Primetime check: Wednesday, December 27, 2017.quotemeter.de, accessed on December 28, 2017 .
- ↑ Primetime check: Wednesday, April 22, 2020.quotemeter.de , accessed on April 23, 2020 .
- ↑ Antje Hildebrandt: Kerner treats Emma Schweiger like a studio palm , welt.de, March 8, 2015, accessed December 6, 2015
- ↑ Frank Lübberding: We just want to play , faz.net, March 8, 2015, accessed on March 7, 2016