Schmidt & Pocher

Television series
Original title	Schmidt & Pocher
Country of production	Germany
original language	German
Year (s)	2007-2009
Production ; company	Bonito TV
length	60 minutes
Broadcasting ; cycle	Thursdays
genre	Late night show
production	Harald Schmidt
Moderation	Harald Schmidt and Oliver Pocher
First broadcast	October 25, 2007 on Das Erste

Schmidt & Pocher is the name of a late-night show that was broadcast weekly on Thursdays from October 25, 2007 at 10:45 p.m. on Erste . The moderators were Harald Schmidt and Oliver Pocher .

The show was the follow-up format to the late-night show Harald Schmidt , which was broadcast between December 23, 2004 and June 14, 2007 on Erste.

Initially 22 issues of the format were planned. Despite an extension of the duration of the program to May 31, 2009 announced in February 2008, the end of the program for April 2009 was announced in December 2008. The last episode aired on April 16.

concept

In an interview with the radio station 1 Live on October 23, 2007, Oliver Pocher stated that Schmidt & Pocher is a “classic late night show” moderated equally by both presenters, which includes all elements of this format, from the initial monologue to the Moderation from one table to films, guests and occasional musical appearances. In addition, Pocher explained that more and more actions were planned outside the studio, which had become increasingly rare in Schmidt's previous show.

With the change to the presenter duo Schmidt and Pocher, Manuel Andrack , who sat on stage as a sidekick in Schmidt's previous show, was no longer a permanent part of the show. In return, Helmut Zerlett , who had lost his position as band leader when Schmidt switched from Sat.1 to ARD, was brought back to the show. Peter Rütten , who was part of the Harald Schmidt Show team until 2003 , was also there again as the background voice for the feature films. Eckart von Hirschhausen has been a regular guest doctor since October 2007 . As part of the Bayern WG , Matze Knop was regularly seen in his role as Franz Beckenbauer .

In an interview with Spiegel in mid-June 2007, Schmidt explained that he had approached Pocher and originally wanted to broadcast a daily late-night program to him alone and that he wanted to “at most make 30 more [programs per year] as a holiday replacement”, which Pocher refused have. In the interview, Schmidt ruled out a return to the previous format Harald Schmidt after the initially planned 22 episodes of Schmidt & Pocher had expired , but returned to the name and format of the previous show after Schmidt & Pocher had ended in 2009.

In 2012, Andrack and Herbert Feuerstein took stock of Schmidt in a Spiegel interview. Pocher had turned down an invitation to talk. Andrack justified Schmidt's decision to bring Pocher to his desk as an equal partner as follows: "He wanted to sit back and let his young colleagues do the work. He wanted to be the sidekick who gets the cheap laughs and is popular, like Feuerstein and it was me. It worked for exactly three broadcasts. Schmidt cannot withdraw. "

production

Like Harald Schmidt , the show was produced by Bonito TV and the production company Kogel & Schmidt GmbH, which Harald Schmidt runs together with his friend Fred Kogel . Kogel & Schmidt GmbH was also responsible for Pocher's commitment and payment.

Like the previous broadcast, Schmidt & Pocher was recorded in Studio 1 of the Studio 449 studio complex in Cologne-Mülheim . The studio decoration, which was revised compared to Harald Schmidt , was presented for the first time on September 12, 2007 during a press conference by the moderators Harald Schmidt and Oliver Pocher.

criticism

The decision to engage Oliver Pocher was particularly criticized and commented on in the feature sections of various newspapers and magazines. The reason for this was mostly Pocher's previous career, during the course of which he was repeatedly attacked for his activities as a moderator of programs at VIVA and ProSieben and as a Media Markt advertising medium, as well as his lack of humor in the eyes of the critics.

In the first broadcast by Schmidt & Pocher, a device called the “Nazometer” was presented with satirical intent, which - in allusion to the discussion about the statements of the presenter Eva Herman - lights up on apparently National Socialist terms such as motorway , shower , gas stove, etc. should respond. This representation was criticized as tasteless and unbearable by SWR manager Peter Boudgoust and Alfred Möhrle , chairman of the HR broadcasting council, but was defended by Henryk M. Broder .

The show came under repeated criticism after the rapper Reyhan Şahin caused a sensation with obscene remarks on the episode broadcast on April 24, 2008. Şahin had given Pocher a can that supposedly contained her vaginal secretions . After Pocher presented the can to the Norwegian musician Maria Mena after her performance, Schmidt criticized his behavior: "Such a little, lousy guy who, when she receives a cunt secretion, is so small with a hat and then rolls it into a foreign guest, who doesn't understand German. Not cool. Oliver Pocher, he got it the next time. ”Thereupon the MDR and Einsfestival decided not to repeat the episode. MDR director Udo Reiter criticized the issue as a "crash" and the SWR broadcaster Therese Wieland found the interview with the rapper "nauseating".

Range

The first show recorded 2.3 million viewers and thus a market share of 13.4% among all viewers and 13.2% among the 14 to 49 year olds. The reviews were mixed: the time was missing surprising things; and Der Spiegel spoke of an average broadcast that neither disappointed nor thrilled. The Netzeitung, on the other hand, rated the premiere positively and found " Schmidt & Pocher [...] together considerably more fun than the sum of its parts".

The second edition of the late night show, with 1.55 million viewers, was able to reach significantly fewer people than the premiere. The measured market share was 9.7%.

In the press release on the contract extension in February 2008, ARD stated that the market share of the Harald Schmidt program was less than 9 percent, but that Schmidt & Pocher's market share since October 2007 has been double-digit on average. There is an average of 1.5 million viewers per week. In the young target group of 14 to 29 year olds, the market share has increased significantly.