Joyn has announced a new comedy format for next year. In “Lip Sync Stories” celebrities will tell the public previously unknown anecdotes from their lives. At the same time, actors and actresses elevate the stories to a visual level, lip-synching with the original soundtrack of the stars.
According to the announcement, the topics of the anecdotes should include a vacation, a home handover or a visit to a nightclub. The celebrities who blab the stories include the TV stars Bernhard Hoëcker (52) and Evelyn Burdecki (34) as well as the internet stars Knossi (36), Heiko and Roman Lochmann (23) and Twenty4Tim (22). Model Alena Gerber (33), entertainer Désirée Nick (66) and stand-up comedian Negah Amiri (29) are also on board. It is not known which actresses and actors will support the nine stars. The first season of the ten-part comedy series will premiere on January 5, 2023. From then on, a new episode will be available every week exclusively on Joyn.
As was also announced on Friday (November 25), another Joyn format will receive a new content orientation: The live event announced for December 29, 2022 as “Kick on Ice” will not take place in this form “for licensing reasons”. aligned, according to a statement. “Joyn respects the IP of the Raab TV format ‘Deutscher Eisfussball Pokal’.” The event will now be rescheduled with a different gameplay and title. This could have an impact on potential participants, it said. At the event in Cologne’s Lanxess Arena, German streamers were supposed to compete against each other in a football tournament and slide across the icy pitch in conventional bowling shoes.
