The post is off!

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Television broadcast
Original title The post is off!
Country of production Germany
original language German
year 1993
length 105 minutes
Episodes 10 in 1 season
Broadcasting
cycle		 weekly
genre Game show
Moderation Rudi Carrell
First broadcast May 9, 1993 on RTL

The post is off! with the subtitle churning was a re-edition of Churning Band with Rudi Carrell . The show took place in cooperation with the Deutsche Bundespost in order to make the five-digit postcodes popular in Germany .

prehistory

With his stake in Van den Ende Produkties BV, Rudi Carrell worked as a producer for private television. This company then announced that they would give him a show in 1993, which ARD thought was unacceptable. At this point in time, according to the director's resolution, no one was allowed to appear on the ARD program and on a private television station at the same time. Carrell tried to introduce his own evening show on RTL . His plans were to present a German version of the French show TV Masqué , which had won the Rose d'Or . However, RTL was not enthusiastic about the project, as the broadcaster had entered into a very expensive exclusive contract with Linda de Mol and therefore wanted to give her preference. Carrell was supposed to take a year off, but he didn't think so and looked around for another show.

Carrell was considering at the churning reissue, especially as the British equivalent at the BBC since 1990, ran again and that Carrell possibilities looked for new games: "It's been 13 years, it has changed a lot, and I have collected so many ideas that I can easily do ten programs. 13 years ago there was no queuing at the ATM, you can make a game out of it. ”There was also a partner, Deutsche Post wanted a show to introduce its new postcodes. But RTL was averse, which led to talks with WDR, which the Post did not like. Finally, the show ran on RTL.

The show

title

They wanted to call the show Churning Band again , which the WDR also approved, but not Radio Bremen - the two broadcasters had produced the original. That's what the show was called The Post Goes! .

procedure

In contrast to the original, the Post went off! only 60 minutes, so there were fewer games. As usual, however, the winner received those of 25 prizes that he was able to list after walking past him on a conveyor belt. Symbolic prices could also be unchanged, meaning that the item on display stood for something else. The cube with a question mark painted on it remained unchanged. While it used to be a price equivalent to a maximum of DM 4,000, it could now even be a car.

Backdrop

The show took place in a pedestrian zone that also had a post office. This applied to all ten issues of the season. The show was produced in Studio Bendestorf .

Assistants

Carrell had three assistants in the show: Carmen Evert, a high school graduate from Hamburg, and the postman Stefan Transfeld, both of whom Carrell noticed at his Herzblatt show . In addition, there was the English comedian Les Bubb.

Contest

In addition to the candidates in the program, the viewers were also able to win. For this purpose, a postcard was attached to the newly published postcode book, which had been distributed free of charge to all households in Germany, on which you had to enter your own new five-digit postcode. The total sum of the prizes was over one million DM.

Time slot

The program ran from May 9, 1993 on ten Sunday evenings from 8:15 p.m. to 9:55 p.m. on RTL; due to the advertising blocks, the actual broadcast time was only 60 minutes. The show was broadcast on tap. Carrell considered a live show for the next season, but it never came back.

success

The first edition had seven million viewers, all subsequent episodes disappointed with under four million viewers in some cases. In contrast, Linda de Mol reached eight million viewers on the same slot. Looking back, Carrell said: “ The post is going off! was a huge mistake. The concept was simply no longer up-to-date, but at the time I thought it could work again. ”Financially, however, the show represented a great gain for Carrell, as he received a fee of 100,000 DM per edition.

swell

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d A life for the show , chapter To new shores
  2. ↑ a b Hamburger Abendblatt dated May 8, 1993
  3. ^ The postcode book; Profit postcard between pages 562 and 563

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