Audience ratings: ZDF crime and ARD comedy almost on par

A crime thriller and a comedy fought a close race for viewer interest in the ratings competition on Friday evening: the ZDF crime series “Murder Sisters – Crime is a Family Matter” with actresses Lena Dörrie and Caroline Hanke, who appear in the episode “Heroes” in the case investigating a dead soldier reached 3.95 million viewers (market share 16.6 percent).

Close behind was the ARD legal comedy “Objection, Treasure – Among Fathers” with ChrisTine Urruf in the role of lawyer Eva Schatz, which was seen by 3.93 million people (16.5 percent).

Sat.1 attracted 1.52 million people (6.9 percent) to the screen with the singing show “The Voice of Germany”. ProSieben showed the James Bond film “Die Another Day”, which attracted 1.27 million viewers (5.8 percent).

The RTL show “Lego Masters” reached 1.20 million people (5.2 percent) and the Vox documentary soap “Goodbye Deutschland!” 740,000 people (3.2 percent). This was followed by the action film “2 Guns” from RTLzwei, which 710,000 viewers (3.0 percent) tuned in. Behind it was Kabel Eins with the US crime series “NCIS”, which 590,000 people (2.5 percent) saw.