Saturday Night Fever - This is how Austria's youth celebrate

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Television broadcast
Original title Saturday Night Fever
Country of production Austria
original language Austrian German
Year (s) 2010–2013, 2018–
length about 50 minutes
Episodes 60+ in 7+ seasons
genre Documentary soap
Theme music Flying Steps - We are electric
idea Ellie Hammernik and Peter Rautek
First broadcast January 12, 2010 on ATV

Saturday Night Fever - This is how Austria's youth celebrate is a reality soap produced by ON-MEDIA on behalf of ATV .

content

The show Saturday Night Fever - How Austria's Youth Celebrates is a reality TV format that accompanies teenagers and young adults at their extended nightly celebrations in localities. The social behavior among each other is shown. Since the sometimes massive alcohol consumption of the celebrants is not always without consequences, the report also illuminates the celebrations from the executive's point of view (season 1). The not always positive attitude of parents towards their children's need for nightly entertainment in discos is also presented. (Season 1)

After the first season, the report increasingly loses its seriousness and objectivity. If in the first season a full name was mentioned in interviews with protagonists or supporting actors and in the subtitle a factual description of the current situation or age / occupation (at the new presentation), these were entirely cynical and often also in the following seasons Replaced harassing paraphrases that always deal with current events in the series in a situation-related manner, often peppered with black humor and ambiguous allusions. Often the actual first names are no longer mentioned, but only nicknames, which, depending on the situation, are sometimes completely reformulated. The spoken voiceover texts that comment on the event are becoming increasingly irrelevant and describe the event with an extremely sarcastic, sometimes even indirectly insulting and ambiguous undertone towards the actors. Serious interviews with legal guardians, executives or security personnel are almost entirely absent from season 2.

The accompanying off-text voice uses a conspicuously elevated vocabulary, which is mostly in complete contrast to the (often primitive and sexist) statements made by the (usually) drunk protagonists, which underlines the image of the participants again.

criticism

The program is viewed very critically, because it shows a very one-sided picture of Austrian young people. The protagonists are portrayed as primitive individuals and harassed for mass entertainment. The youth researcher Bernhard Heinzelmaier described Saturday Night Fever as happy slamming . In addition, Die Presse rated the docu-soap as primitive , unsympathetic and annoying .

“Finally another show for which one can rightly be embarrassed. As a seer and as a sender. As it was said in the off-screen comment: "Hardly spoken, already broken." "

- Christina Böck, Die Presse

Furthermore, there are rumors that producers of the series supply the participants in the docu-soap with alcohol. The allegation that the show encourages alcohol consumption has also been raised several times. The format also has signs that are reminiscent of scripted reality .

Charisma

The first broadcast was shown on January 12, 2010 after The Love Business - Women from the East . The quotas rose from one episode to the next. The show, which was broadcast on March 2, 2010, achieved a market share of 41% among 12 to 29-year-old viewers, well above the average for ATV. Due to the success of the first season, a second was commissioned, which started on May 4, 2010 (between the first and second season ran the third season Teenagers Become Mothers ). The first episode was able to achieve a 7.3% market share in the total audience and was thus below expectations. Only with the following episodes did the reality soap regain momentum, the season high was achieved on June 1, 2010 with 14.3% market share.

After the last episode of season 2, ATV aired a spin-off episode on June 15, 2010 with Saturday Night Fever - The Clique . On July 13 and 20, 2010, the two-part program Saturday Night Fever Special was broadcast.

Between September 7 and November 9, 2010, the third season ran with 9 episodes. The fourth season with 14 episodes ran from January 11, 2011 to March 29, 2011. These were able to maintain the values ​​of the first two seasons.

From September 6, 2011 to October 11, 2011, another offshoot (Saturday Night Fever - Beachparty, Oida!) Was broadcast. In these 6 programs, Molti, Spotzl, Pichla and Eigi spend their vacation in their holiday home with eight girls who have applied to go on vacation with the boys. These issues lasted about 72 minutes (95 minutes in total, with commercial breaks). The second season will initially run from August 26th to September 23rd, 2012 on Sunday, the remaining three episodes on Tuesday evening (September 25th to October 9th, 2012).

From October 18, 2011 to January 10, 2012, the 5th season ran in 11 episodes (December 27, 2011 and January 3, 2012 not broadcast). This now took about 72 minutes (instead of the previous 50 minutes). Season 6 ran from March 13 to May 22, 2012.

The third offshoot has been on the air since October 16, 2012.

International versions

  • The Swiss broadcaster 3+ bought the format rights for Saturday Night Fever and has been broadcasting its own version since autumn 2010 under the name Jung, wild & sexy - digging, drinking, partying with similar success as in Austria.
  • The German broadcaster RTL II also acquired the rights and markets the program under the name Saturday Night - This is how Germany's youth celebrates .
  • The Polish broadcaster TVN broadcast the program under the name "Gorączka sobotniej nocy".

Publications

Chart positions
Explanation of the data
Albums
ATV Saturday Night Vol. 1
  AT 5 05/28/2010 (1 week)
ATV Saturday Night Vol. 2
  AT 10 09/17/2010 (9 weeks)
ATV Saturday Night Vol. 3
  AT 8th 28/01/2011 (9 weeks)
ATV Saturday Night Vol. 4
  AT 15th October 28, 2011 (3 weeks)
ATV Saturday Night Vol. 5
  AT 13 03/30/2012 (2 weeks)

The sampler ATV Saturday Night with songs from the show will be released for the series. Five compilations have been published so far, and more are planned. In addition, the group Molti, Spotzl, Pichla, Eigi , which became known through the show , released a single entitled Vollgas , which was in the charts for two weeks.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Saturday Night Fever - this is how Austrian youth celebrates , Der Standard, January 11, 2010
  2. ↑ Fame from the Vodka Bottle , Der Standard, January 11, 2011
  3. ↑ Saturday Night Fever - This is how Austria's youth celebrate , Die Presse, 16. June 2012
  4. ↑ "It's completely normal for people in the country". In: derStandard.at. February 8, 2011, accessed December 13, 2017 .
  5. ↑ Saturday Night Fever “Beachparty, oida!” - When it starts to hurt. (No longer available online.) In: stadtbekannt.at. Archived from the original on January 2, 2012 ; Retrieved January 9, 2013 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.stadtbekannt.at
  6. ↑ http://www.deinplus.at/media/niveaulos-oder-doch-einfach-unterhaltung
  7. ↑ ATV sells its "teenage mothers" to RTL2. In: DiePresse.com. March 5, 2010, accessed February 27, 2018 .
  8. ↑ http://atv.at/werbung/quoten?index=quoten
  9. ↑ http://atv.at/contentset/1073530-saturday-night-fever-so-feiert-oesterreichs-jugend
  10. ↑ http://atv.at/contentset/2711874-saturday-night-fever-beachparty-again-oida
  11. ↑ http://atv.at/contentset/1904667
  12. ↑ RTL 2 buys "Saturday Night Fever" from ATV. In: derStandard.at. October 5, 2011, accessed December 13, 2017 .
  13. ↑ http://www.fernsehserien.de/saturday-night-so-feiert-deutschlands-jugend
  14. ↑ Charts AT

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