Late lounge

Television series
Original title	Late Lounge (until 2005) Late Lounge Club (from 2005)
Country of production	Germany
original language	German
Year (s)	1999-2006
Broadcasting cycle	Weekdays (until 2005) Thursdays (from 2005)
genre	Late night
Moderation	Roberto Cappelluti (1999-2006) Jörg Thadeusz (2006-end)
First broadcast	April 1, 1999 on hesse television

Moderation table in Studio 4

"Top international audience"

Jörg Thadeusz, Nokib, Cappelluti and Herl during the last broadcast on December 7, 2006

Late Lounge (motto was late yesterday ) was a TV show that from Monday to Friday from 1999 to 2004 from 22 pm in the television hr- aired. Since 2005 there was only the Late Lounge Club on Thursday. The last live broadcast was on December 7, 2006.

history

The show started on April 1, 1999 and replaced Fröhlich at night with Susanne Fröhlich .

It consisted of an entertaining mix of talk shows , comedy , cult series , feature films and self-produced short films such as the dictionary of foreign words or the film quiz . In addition, a new movie and the record of the week were regularly presented. In 2003 , Late Lounge was nominated for the Adolf Grimme Prize for the "development and implementation of the innovative and original concept of the night rail". Shortly afterwards, Late Lounge's budget was cut massively. Some content, such as the short film on Thursday, was omitted.

In 2004, the new director Helmut Reitze decided to discontinue the program at the end of the year. In a press interview, co-moderator Michael Herl criticized the hr with reference to the decision as a "snoring channel". The Hessischer Rundfunk responded with the immediate dismissal of Herl. At the end of 2004 the program was reduced to the Late Lounge Club (officially “for cost reasons”), which was broadcast on Thursdays until the end of 2006. On December 7, 2006 , the last episode of the Late Lounge ran live on the hr , moderated by Jörg Thadeusz . An attempt by fans of the show to stop this decision was unsuccessful. The connected website www.rettetlatelounge.de collected a few hundred signatures, but did not influence the decision of the hr-television.

Late Lounge saw itself as “the cheapest program on German free TV”. The broadcast was produced in Studio 4 of the radio broadcasting company am Dornbusch with partially copied technology. For fire protection reasons, the audience consisted of only 15 spectators (“the top international audience”). The name tags of the presenter Roberto Cappelluti and his guests were made of Scrabble letters. The editorial team has also been housed in a construction container since the broadcast began .

people

• Roberto Cappelluti
• Michael "Michi" Herl was the counterpoint to Roberto Cappelluti from Tuesdays to Thursdays as a permanent guest with Palatine cosiness.
• Nukubuddin "Nokib" Ahmed comes from Bangladesh and seller of the newspaper Frankfurter Rundschau . During his daily phone calls with his family, he learns the latest jokes from his homeland, which he regularly presented in the Late Lounge .

The studio

Studio 4 is on the ground floor of the studio building, Hessischer Rundfunk, Bertramstrasse 8. In front of the late lounge, other programs such as. B. produced the drawing of the lottery numbers .

Until spring 2003 the show was produced in a basement studio. It is located in the warehouse of the construction department, Building T-South, 1st basement.

Program from 1999-2004

• Mondays: Late Lounge Club
• Tuesdays: Late Lounge Series . A sequence of the following series was shown:
  • Alfred Hitchcock presents
  • Bronk
  • Buck Rogers (1939)
  • Department M
  • The girls from outer space
  • Eric in stress
  • Fawlty Towers
  • Mr. Rossi is looking for happiness
  • Whenever he took pills
  • La Linea
  • Monty Python's Flying Circus
  • Orion space patrol
  • Shaft
  • Steven Spielberg presents: Toonsylvania
  • Decision hour
  • The Munsters
• Wednesdays: Late Lounge Movie
• Thursdays: Late Lounge zapping
• Fridays: Late Lounge Double Feature
• Every first Friday of the month: Late Lounge home cinema . There were trashy shown feature films, with Roberto Cappelluti and Michi Herl (or another person) were displayed in the bottom of the screen, as with his back to the audience, even watched the film and commented (conceptually similar to the science fiction Series Mystery Science Theater 3000 ). This was also referred to as supervised television .

Web links

• Late Lounge in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• latelounge.de ( Memento from February 5, 2006 in the web archive archive.today )
• Michi Herl on the broadcasting policy of HR
• taz article on the discontinuation of the program