The repetition of a regional crime thriller from the previous year attracted significantly more television viewers on Thursday evening than the controversial football World Cup in Qatar. From 8:15 p.m., 5.9 million viewers (22.3 percent) wanted to see the “Flensburg crime thriller” in the first. The debut episode “Der Tote am Strand” with Katharina Schlothauer and Eugene Boateng ran a year ago.
ZDF broadcast the Brazil-Serbia World Cup game and reached just 5.02 million (19.1 percent). The game ended 2-0 for the South Americans. The RTL reportage magazine “stern TV: Inside supermarket” brought 1.83 million (7.1 percent) into the house. Vox had the science fiction film “Men in Black” with Tommy Lee Jones and Will Smith in the program – 1.06 million (4.1 percent) watched.
The clip show “Unbelievable! Spectacular moments in front of the camera” ran on ProSieben, which 740,000 people (2.9 percent) wanted to watch. 650,000 people (2.5 percent) spent the evening with the Sat.1 docu-soap “112 Notruf Deutschland”. The Kabel-eins ranking show “Germany’s biggest secrets” moved 610,000 men and women (2.4 percent) to tune in. 450,000 viewers (1.8 percent) watched the social report “Hartes Deutschland – Leben im Brennpunkt” on RTLzwei.