The 5 million SKL show

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The 5-million-SKL-Show (until the Euro introduction in 2002 the 10-million-SKL-Show ) was a game show that was first hosted on April 22, 2001 by Günther Jauch . The private broadcaster RTL broadcast a total of fourteen episodes of the show before it had to be taken off the program in 2008 due to legal problems. The SKL nevertheless continued with the show on the Internet until 2009. Between 2010 and 2014 it was replaced by The Show for the Day of Happiness , which continued in 2014 and 2015 under the title The SKL Million Show .

Gameplay

The shows were shown at regular intervals by RTL. It started the game show Millionaire Wanted! - The SKL show from, but both programs overlapped for a short time. Both shows were created through a collaboration between the Süddeutsche Klassenlotterie (SKL) and RTL and were moderated by Günther Jauch. The show Millionaire Wanted! always ended with a profit of one million deutschmarks. For the 10 million SKL show, the profit was increased to ten million D-Marks and the game concept was changed.

A show was broadcast over either three, two or just one evening. The special thing about the game principle was that not the candidate, but celebrities gave the answers. This was also a legal requirement, since in the lottery, unlike a quiz show, only luck can decide the win. At the end of every show there was guaranteed to be a winner. The winnings are still considered to be the highest that has ever been won on German television. The most frequent celebrity guests included Hellmuth Karasek , Hella von Sinnen , Marcel Reif , Anke Engelke , Ottfried Fischer and Barbara Schöneberger .

Advice panel

year Celebrities
2001 April Hellmuth Karasek Marcel Reif Hella out of her mind Fritz Egner Uwe Ochsenknecht
2001 October Hape Kerkeling
2002 May Anke Engelke
2002 December
2003 June Otto Waalkes
2003 December Anke Engelke
2004 June Ottfried Fischer
2004 December Barbara Schöneberger
2005 June
2005 December Anke Engelke Dirk Bach
2006 August
2006 December
2007 July Michael Mittermeier
2007 December Uwe Ochsenknecht
2009 (Internet) Katharina Witt Sonja Zietlow Volker Schmidtmann

Selection of candidates

Thirty SKL players will be drawn as possible candidates. They sit in the audience during the show until one of them is randomly selected as a candidate. For this he already receives € 5,000, which is sure to be safe.

The questions

In the following, he is shown a question to which one of three possible answers is correct. The candidate is not allowed to answer the question himself, but only decides whether to “approve” it or not. If he approves it, one of five celebrity guests will be randomly selected to answer the question. You get € 5,000 for each correct answer. In the event of an incorrect answer, the candidate loses all of his earned money and only receives the € 5,000. However, if he decides not to approve a question, this means abandoning the game and winning the money.

The candidate only has a small influence through three jokers, whereby he can use each one once:

  • The first joker allows the candidate to reroll among the celebrities. But it can happen that the same celebrity is drawn again.
  • The second joker enables all celebrities to coordinate with one another.
  • With the third joker, the candidate can choose a special celebrity. Marcel Reif, for example, was seen as competent for sports issues, while Hellmuth Karasek was not only seen as very reliable for literature. However, this joker has only existed since 2006.

A joker must always be drawn before the celebrity answers the question. So the candidate has to assess whether the celebrity knows the answer or not.

Prospect of five million euros

However, playing the money does not actually serve to receive the sum itself, but to win € 5,000,000. The first candidate in a program can break off with any sum and take a seat “on the chair”. This means that he will win the € 5,000,000 if he is not "driven off the chair" by another candidate who has made more money by the end of the program. One of the attractions of the program is therefore the question of whether a candidate should already take the chair with the sum they have earned or whether they should give further questions. If he chooses more questions, he minimizes the chance of being beaten by a later candidate, but risks losing everything in the event of an incorrect answer.

Charisma

In July 2008 RTL had to cancel the fifteenth show planned for August because the Lower Saxony State Media Authority did not certify the format to be harmless to the State Treaty on Gambling , which came into force on January 1, 2008 . This banned advertising for gambling on television. It has not been conclusively clarified whether the SKL 5 million show was not allowed to be broadcast because of this. The state gambling authority and the SKL see it differently.

The fifteenth show took place on November 15, 2008. As usual with Günther Jauch and five celebrities, but it was not broadcast on television. The sixteenth edition took place on April 27, 2009 and could be seen on the Internet. In this broadcast, 28 of the 30 candidates agreed to share the profit. In the end, the winner only kept two million euros; the remaining three million were divided among the remaining 27 candidates.

From May 4, 2010, The Happiness Day Show was held twice a year as a successor format and broadcast on the Internet. The winner received one million euros. Barbara Schöneberger and Matthias Opdenhövel initially led the show together, while Opdenhövel moderated the second and third issues alone. From episode four, Steven Gätjen took over the moderation. Despite the ban on advertising for public gambling, Das Vierte aired the shows on April 15, November 4, 2011 and April 19, 2012. The Commission for Admission and Supervision of the Media Authorities has forbidden a repetition and future broadcast of the program several times. The last Happiness Day show took place on April 11, 2014.

According to the new State Treaty on Gambling, which has been in effect since July 1, 2012, the SKL show can be shown again on television , marked as a permanent advertising broadcast. Sat.1 made use of this once on October 25, 2014 and broadcast the follow-up The SKL Million Show , which was also moderated by Steven Gätjen. The show on April 29, 2015 was only shown on the Internet again.

criticism

Moderator Günther Jauch sued his former business partner, the Süddeutsche Klassenlotterie (SKL), for payment of 780,000 euros. On February 8, 2012, the trial began before the Cologne district court . As the Kölner Express reported, Jauch accused the lottery of continuing to advertise the 5 million SKL show with his face even after the termination of the joint contract . According to Express, Jauch is said to have collected 1.35 million euros in advertising income from the SKL in 18 months. The show last aired on television in April 2009 and then on the internet due to a change in the gambling law. The lottery wanted to keep the Jauch pictures in a review section on the homepage.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ SKL Show: For the first time not a 5 million winner
  2. ↑ Media guardians again object to the SKL show in the fourth
  3. ↑ Media supervision is again targeting the fourth
  4. ↑ Günther Jauch is suing SKL

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