Joko Winterscheidt and Klaas Heufer-Umlauf played on Tuesday at “Joko
At the beginning, Winterscheidt and Heufer-Umlauf emphasized that they were really connected live. But what actually happens when the transmission breaks down? This is exactly what the two moderators wanted to find out. That’s why the duo had previously called Daniel Rosemann, ProSieben’s broadcaster boss. The two wanted to find out what the emergency plan would look like in the event of a disruption.
There is an emergency program that will be played automatically in an emergency, Rosemann explained to the two. Winterscheidt and Heufer-Umlauf remembered that they had prepared an emergency tape for such a case – but years ago. In the next moment, the two were already standing in the ProSieben broadcast center, where all employees wore masks to protect their identities. The moderators obviously had fun and pressed a few buttons – the picture on the television at home was already rotating.
Finally, the two of them went to the technical room, because Winterscheidt and Heufer-Umlauf wanted to get to the “heart”, where all the live signals converge. As soon as we arrived, the wild pulling out of the cable started. It visibly made the colleague who was with them sweat. “All we want is for the emergency tape to run,” assured Heufer-Umlauf. They were then in front of the right device and only had one thing to do – pull the plug. “Do you want to say something else?” Heufer-Umlauf turned to his colleague Winterscheidt. “We Love to Entertain You,” he replied, laughing.
Heufer-Umlauf already pulled the plug and shortly afterwards the screen went black. “Disturbance. We’ll continue soon” was to be read. But it wasn’t long before the emergency tape actually took over. It was an old parody from “Circus HalliGalli” times – in it the two perform the song “Jožin z bažin”. The whole thing runs twice until the subsequent program “TV total” started as planned. ProSieben’s emergency plan seems to be working.
ProSieben also spoke up: “Yes, it worked, Joko and Klaas. Satisfied? Test passed?” It says on Twitter.
