Private detectives on duty

Television series
Original title	Private detectives on duty
Country of production	Germany
original language	German
Year (s)	2011-2014
Production company	filmpool film and television production
length	60 (normal episodes; gross) minutes 90 (specials) minutes
Episodes	289 and 7 feature-length specials in 4 seasons ( list )
Broadcasting cycle	working days
Theme music	Kevin Rudolf ft. Lil Wayne - Let it rock
First broadcast	August 15, 2011 on RTL II

Private Detectives in Action is a German television series that was produced from 2011 to 2014 for the German television broadcaster RTL II . The pseudo-docu-soap consists of 4 seasons with a total of 289 episodes and seven specials.

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The focus of the series is the martial arts experienced and former bouncer, detective chief Carsten Stahl . He runs a fictional private detective agency, mostly with employees who are experienced in martial arts. With his investigators, he solves two cases in each episode. Most of them contain fight scenes with aggressive, violent opponents where Stahl's skills are required. The colleagues are put together individually for each case according to their special skills in teams that solve their cases in action-packed investigations.

Although the plot is completely fictional in this series, the documentary camera style suggests to the viewers to be close to the investigation of real cases and to get a realistic insight into the investigative work of private detectives . Perpetrators, victims and other people who are not part of the investigative team are amateur actors.

Detective agency employees

actor	Role name	Rank in the detective agency	Period (years and scale)
Carsten Stahl	Carsten Stahl	Head of the "Stahl" detective agency, chief investigator	2011–2014 (seasons 1–4)
Valentina Sarria	Pamela summer	secretary	2011–2014 (seasons 1–4)
Linda Kelm	Sandra Fuchs	Investigator	2011–2014 (seasons 1–4)
Ralf Riehl	Marc Bartels	Investigator	2011 (season 1)
Robert Lozanoski	Sascha Noveski	Investigator	2011–2014 (seasons 1–4)
Stefan Wolloscheck	Stefan Wolloscheck	Investigator	2011–2014 (seasons 1–4)
Miriam Wolloscheck	Miriam Wolloscheck	Investigator	2011–2014 (seasons 1–4)
Frank Mühlenberg	Michael Falkenberg	Investigator	2011–2014 (seasons 1–4)
Nandino Jerome Javier Poggemann	Nico Hartmann	Investigator	2012–2014 (seasons 2-4)
Giovanna Pepe	Giulia Peroni	Investigator	2012–2014 (seasons 2-4)
Cem Arslan	Cem Arslan	Investigator	2012 (Season 2)
Michaela Kunath	Lisa Kerwitz	Intern	2012 (Season 2)
Philip Niemann	Thomas Berg	Investigator	2012–2014 (seasons 2-4)
Filimena Nedeva	Nina Sassen	Investigator	2012–2013 (seasons 2–3)
Marco Ahr	Marcel Bender	Investigator	2013–2014 (seasons 3–4)
Sebastian van Vrey	Sebastian de Beer	Investigator	2013–2014 (seasons 3–4)
Wiebke Hoffmann	Jana Strehlow	Investigator	2013–2014 (seasons 3–4)
Susanne Dyllong	Sandy Winterfeld	Investigator	2013–2014 (seasons 3–4)
Jakov Maksimovic	Milan Djuric	Investigator	2013–2014 (seasons 3–4)
Denise Burgmann	Cora Reinhardt	Investigator	2013-2014 (season 4)
Corvin Busche	Chris Teuber	Investigator	2013-2014 (season 4)
Ulf Nadrowski	Ulf Hermann	Investigator	2014 (Specials 2–7)
Petra Knieper	Jody Simmons	secretary	2014 (Specials 2–7)
NN	Cati Wolfes	Investigator	2014 (Specials 2–7)

Charisma

After the first season was canceled in autumn 2011 due to bad ratings, the broadcast of the second, from spring 2012, went significantly better. Private detectives on duty had a higher response on the 6 p.m. slot and were moved up to the 5 p.m. slot in August. The repeats of the previous day's broadcast always took place at 1 p.m. During the summer, two episodes ran on Saturday from 6 p.m., with passable success, but from the beginning of September RTL II decided not to broadcast these two episodes either.

The third season, part 1 from October 22, 2012 to November 16, 2012 on air, was broadcast in two parts, as RTL II first wanted to wait for the quotas for the first episodes and then decide whether to move the broadcasting slot. Since the response was okay, it was decided to show the remaining episodes from January 7, 2013 on the same slot.

Due to a restructuring of the lunchtime and afternoon programming at the beginning of November 2012, RTL II moved the repeats to 2 p.m. and showed the previous day's episodes of Berlin - Day & Night - on the broadcasting slot of private detectives in action .

It was also planned to show double episodes of Scripted Reality from the beginning of November from 4 p.m. to 6 p.m., but this change only came about on November 19, 2012.

Furthermore, RTL II shot a 90-minute special episode in which the detectives in Las Vegas investigate. This should be broadcast in the Saturday primetime in autumn 2012, but the decision was made against it and waited for the time being. It was later decided to take a place in Wednesday prime time. The special episode aired on January 2, 2013 at 8:15 pm with a heavy quota. A total of 1.81 million viewers watched, which corresponds to an outstanding 5.4 percent market share of the total audience. In the advertising-relevant target group, RTL II even gained 8.5 percent market share.

On November 19, 2012, it was announced that RTL II will not broadcast double episodes on the previous evening from January 2, 2013 and that the program will run from January 2 to 4 from 4:15 p.m. During this time, the 5 p.m. slot was equipped with a second episode of X-Diaries , before private detectives on duty at 5 p.m. and the new series Cologne 50667 at 6 p.m.

After the termination of The Youth Club - Together we are strong , two episodes in a row were shown again from January 18, 2013. With the start of broadcasting new episodes of X-Diaries on May 13, RTL II will again only show one episode of private detectives on duty at 4 p.m.

In the period from August 26th to August 30th, the fourth season was always shown in double episodes at 4:05 p.m. on RTL II, from September 2nd 2013 only in single episodes.

Season	Episodes	First broadcast
		premiere	final
1	15th	August 15, 2011	September 2, 2011
2	80	February 27, 2012	July 16, 2012
3	99 + a special	October 22, 2012	May 31, 2013
4th	100	August 26, 2013	March 28, 2014
Special offers	5	January 8, 2014	22nd August 2014

Episode list

→ Main article : Episode list

Web links

• Official site of private detectives in action at rtl2.de
• Private detectives on duty at Fernsehserien.de
• Private investigators in use in the Internet Movie Database (English)

Individual evidence

1. ^ The investigators of private detectives in action ( Memento from February 13, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) at pietv.lima-city.d
2. ↑ Robert Lozanoski as Sascha Noveski for private detectives. fpn.de, October 9, 2012, accessed April 1, 2013 .  
3. ↑ Filimena N. Nina Sassen works for private detectives at bild.de.
4. ↑ Sebastian van Vrey
5. ↑ Private detectives on duty in double episodes in the afternoon. quotenmeter.de, November 5, 2012, accessed on November 5, 2012 . 
6. ↑ Special episode of private detectives in action a complete success. dwdl.de, January 3, 2013, accessed January 5, 2013 .  
7. ↑ Everything new on RTL2 from January 2013. dwdl.de, November 19, 2012, accessed on November 21, 2012 . 
8. ↑ RTL II cancels "Der Jugendclub" after four days; Private detectives on duty take over broadcasting slot. wunschliste.de, January 18, 2013, accessed on January 18, 2013 .  
9. ↑ RTL II sends its “private detectives” into the race earlier. Quotemeter.de, July 18, 2013, accessed on July 18, 2013 . 
10. ↑ Private detectives in action ": Start of the third season on October 22nd at 5:00 pm on RTL II . Presseportal.de. December 26th, 2012. Accessed on December 26th, 2012.