Grenades like us
| Television series | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Grenades like us |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Year (s) | 2009-2010 |
| Production company |
Hurricane television production |
| length | 30 - 60 minutes |
| Episodes | 12 in 1 season |
| Broadcasting cycle |
Tuesdays |
| genre | Comedy |
| Theme music | Black Eyed Peas - Rockin 'To The Beat |
| production | Marc Schubert |
| First broadcast | September 15, 2009 on ProSieben |
| occupation | |
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Granaten wie wir is a comedy show moderated by Max Giermann , which made its debut on German television on ProSieben on September 15, 2009 . Six episodes were shown in autumn 2009, the remaining six episodes already produced were broadcast from September 21, 2010. However, these have been shortened from 60 to 30 minutes.
content
The program is moderated by Max Giermann, parodying a different prominent person in each program . In the first episode, for example, he appeared as the cook Johann Lafer. Other content includes small sketch videos (including what if ... ), in which it is shown, for example, how Stefan Raab would have acted as Jesus , as well as appearances by other stars from television , sport and show business .
| episode | date | parodied moderator | Guests |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | September 15, 2009 | Johann Lafer | Detlef D! Soost , Serdar Somuncu , Backstreet Boys |
| 2 | September 22, 2009 | Dieter Bohlen | Bülent Ceylan , Lorielle London |
| 3 | September 29, 2009 | Stefan Raab | Sonya Kraus , Elton , Olaf Schubert |
| 4th | October 6, 2009 | Tim Mälzer | Otto Waalkes , Johann König , Matthias Schweighöfer , Friedrich Mücke , Tim Mälzer |
| 5 | October 13, 2009 | Kai plum | Guido Cantz , Kai Pflaume , Maike Tatzig , Dellé |
| 6th | October 20, 2009 | Uli Hoeneß | Barbara Schöneberger , Bernhard Hoëcker , Ingo Appelt |
| 7th | September 21, 2010 | Karl Lagerfeld | Buddy Ogün |
| 8th | September 28, 2010 | Christian Rach | Helge Schneider , Dieter Nuhr |
| 9 | October 5, 2010 | Hugo Egon Balder | Hella von Sinnen , Paul Potts , Hugo Egon Balder , |
| 10 | October 12, 2010 | Reinhold Beckmann | Simon Gosejohann , Paul Panzer |
| 11 | October 26, 2010 | Oliver Kahn | Mirja Boes , Culcha Candela |
| 12 | November 2, 2010 | Oliver Geissen | Oliver Pocher , Martin Klempnow |
Show band
Grenades like us is accompanied by a show band that accompanies the appearance of prominent guests and plays during the commercial break. Amaretto Wemke is the musical director of the group . This plays in the show E-Bass . Other members of the band are Chris Erbse , who plays the keyboard , Alex Vesper on drums , guitarist Lutz Kemmerling and Eike Drück , who plays the saxophone and flute .
Audience ratings
At the start of the program, 1.02 million viewers watched, which corresponds to a market share of 5.1%. In the target group, Grenades like us achieved a market share of 9.6% with 870,000 viewers. This meant that the show could not benefit from ProSieben's successful preliminary program. The last episode saw 780,000 people in the target group (8.4% market share) and a total of 900,000 viewers (4.3% market share), which is far below the average ratings of the television station.
Others
- In the first episode, Giermann danced with the Backstreet Boys as Johann Lafer.
- In the fourth episode, Giermann parodied Tim Mälzer, who also appeared in this show himself.
- In the fifth episode, in which Giermann appeared as Kai Pflaume, he played himself. On the one hand he played the real mirror image of his imitator, on the other hand John Travolta; as the latter, he quarreled with Giermann whether this was really Kai Pflaume.
- In the ninth episode, Giermann appeared as Hugo Egon Balder. The real Balder played his (alleged) own brother.
- In the twelfth episode, Oliver Pocher appeared as a stand-up guest. In it he parodied Mario Barth, as which he was also disguised.
DVD release
The DVD for Grenades Like Us was released as a set of two on October 15, 2010 by Sony Music Entertainment.
Web links
- Grenades as we in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ dwdl.de: "Broadcast dates for the remaining 6 episodes of Grenades like us .
- ↑ quotemeter.de: ProSieben: No success for Giermann's grenades
- ↑ quotemeter.de: "Grenades like us" ends very weakly