Take me out
| Television series | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Take me out |
| Country of production |
 Germany
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| original language | German |
| Year (s) | since 2013 |
| Production company |
UFA show |
| length | 45 minutes |
| Episodes | 68 in 7 seasons |
| genre | Dating - TV Show , Reality TV |
| Theme music |
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| Moderation | Ralf Schmitz |
| First broadcast | January 12, 2013 on RTL |
Take Me Out ( English “guide me out”, but also “take me out of the game”) is a German dating show that has been broadcast on RTL since January 2013 with ten seasons so far. The show is moderated by Ralf Schmitz . The show is based on the Australian show Taken Out .
concept
Three men are introduced during a broadcast. Everyone tries in three rounds to convince 30 single women of themselves and to reach a date with one of them. The women decide within the three rounds whether they like the man or not. If not, the woman presses a buzzer and is no longer available for a date. After each round, Ralf Schmitz asks some women why they are not interested in the man or are still interested.
If more than two women have not buzzed after the three rounds, the man has to choose two women and can now press the buzzer of surplus women. The man asks the two remaining women a question and, based on the answers, chooses his date. How the dates went - initially in restaurants, later in stretch limousines - will be shown in the next broadcast.
If all women have buzzed before the end of round three, the man has to say goodbye without a date. If only one woman has not given the buzz, she will automatically get the date. Her job is taken by a new single woman.
procedure
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The moderator comes to the stage with a downward-going, glass elevator, the announced “30 single ladies” descend a staircase in pairs and stand behind desks with buzzers. Schmitz hooks up with the last couple and asks the single women a few questions in advance about criteria or experiences when looking for a partner. The first single man, always pictorially announced by Schmitz (e.g. "Here is the fox who wants to steal one of the 30 geese") can now enter the stage by elevator to a song of his choice and state his name and place of residence imagine. With the motto “If he is your man, leave the lamp on. If you express it, you are out. ”Schmitz now gives the command for the first buzzer round. In the second round, a video of the man is shown in which he introduces himself in more detail. In round three, either a second video is shown or the man demonstrates a skill (e.g. from the areas of dancing, making music, sports). Sometimes there is both a second video and a demonstration. If a date has arisen, a camera stays with the couple and records how they leave the stage and exchange their first words. Candidates two and three appear one after the other.
Special
The last episode of the 4th season on March 18, 2017 was broadcast as a Mister Special . The three single men were Mister Süddeutschland 2015 , Mister Nordrhein-Westfalen 2015 and Mister Sachsen-Anhalt 2016 . After the buzz rounds, six, three and one single woman were interested in dating them.
background
The original Australian show Taken Out was adopted as Take Me Out in the UK . The German edition is based on this. The show is available in 32 countries. The Chinese game show If You Are the One was developed as a competing format and is also loosely based on the Taken Out format, but has not been licensed. In Thailand , there is also a version for gay men of If You Are the One, entitled Take Out Guy Thailand.
Broadcasts
The pilot aired on Saturday, January 12, 2013 at 9:15 p.m. The other six episodes of the first season were broadcast for the first time from February 15 to March 22, 2014. Season two was divided into two: for three episodes, the premiere date was exceptionally on Wednesdays from 6 to 20 August 2014, the remaining four episodes ran for the first time from 14 March to 4 April 2015. Seasons three and four, each with seven episodes, were from 13 February to April 2, 2016 and February 4 to March 18, 2017. The six-part fifth season was broadcast from September 23, 2017 to October 28, 2017. Season 6 was on RTL from September 15 and ended on October 27, 2018 with episode 6. The seventh season began on January 5, 2019 with a single early episode. All other episodes were broadcast from February 2 to March 16, 2019. The eighth season ran from September 28 to November 2, 2019 and the ninth season began on January 4, 2020 and ended on March 21 with an anniversary special.
First, on Valentine's Day 2010, Bavarian television broadcast a pilot episode moderated by Florian Weber and then abandoned the format.
Odds
Overall, the ratings were above the RTL average on Saturday evenings. The first season was followed by an average of 2.83 million viewers, which corresponded to a market share of 11.3 percent. The third season reached record highs. With an average of 2.21 million viewers, the fourth season achieved a market share of 11.5 percent of the total audience and thus less than the two previous seasons - one episode, however, had to switch to an unusual broadcasting slot well after midnight.
reception
The show is accused of not bringing two people together in the foreground, but the entertainment factor:
“'Take Me Out' is like inflated TV group speed dating, except that 30 women can give you a basket at the same time. We had already clarified that such coupling shows are only about the show and less about coupling, and that would be fine - if at least the show would work. But it doesn't. (...) 'Take Me Out' is as entertaining as a bunny joke and as necessary as a third nostril. Anyone who sits at home on Saturday evening at 11 p.m. and watches 'Take Me Out' is either writing TV reviews or perhaps should also look around for the right thing on TV. "
Schmitz's moderation was received with mixed reactions:
"The presenter Ralf Schmitz does his best to give the whole thing any entertainment relevance, but also cannot exorcise its 1990s private television charm."
“One actually likes to watch Ralf Schmitz, the rubber ball of the German comedy scene. But in 'Take Me Out' the improv king behaves like an animator on a third-class cruise. Heat the audience with a wave of their arms and shout the rules of the game with them in chorus ('Express yourself, you're out!'). And tears bland jokes. "
Web links
- Take Me Out to the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Take Me Out on RTL
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Formats - Current »Take Me Out. In: UFA Show . Retrieved October 22, 2017 .
- ↑ Take Guy Out Thailand
- ↑ Thailand's gay version of If You Are The One - Take Guy Out
- ↑ Take Me Out. In: Fernsehserien.de , accessed on July 20, 2016 - different scale than the production company
- ↑ Take Me Out. Retrieved January 12, 2019 .
- ↑ https://www.fernsehserien.de/take-me-out-2013/episodenguide/staffel-7/20161
- ↑ Why is the BR hiding the dome show? In: tz.de , February 12, 2010, accessed on February 12, 2017
- ↑ Love at the push of a button: New season of the RTL show “Take Me Out”. In: Focus.de , August 5, 2014, accessed April 3, 2016.
- ↑ "Take me out": Dating show becomes a quota generator! In: TV Movie , accessed April 3, 2016.
- ↑ Record for “Take me out”, 1.5 million less for “DSDS”. In: DWDL.de , February 7, 2016, accessed on April 3, 2016.
- ↑ "Take Me Out" ends on RTL with strong ratings. In: DWDL.de , March 19, 2017, accessed on March 21, 2017.
- ^ Sidney Schering: “Take me out” quota check. In : quotemeter.de . March 27, 2017. Retrieved October 22, 2017 .
- ↑ a b Flirt show "Take Me Out": a step backwards in evolution. Retrieved February 7, 2016 .
- ↑ Review: Take Me Out: Herzblatt auf Speed. Retrieved April 3, 2016 .