ARD’s new Portugal thriller “Lost in Fuseta” achieved decent ratings on Saturday evening. From 8:15 p.m., 4.33 million viewers watched the first part of the film adaptation and accounted for a market share of 18.3 percent. In the second part immediately afterwards from 9.45 p.m. 3.71 million (17.8 percent) stayed tuned.
The ARD thriller is based on the first volume of the successful “Lost in Fuseta” book series by Gil Ribeiro – a pseudonym of the German author Holger Karsten Schmidt, who also wrote the screenplay for the film adaptation. Hamburg detective Leander Lost comes to a fishing village in the Algarve as part of an exchange program. The new colleagues cannot classify his behavior until they realize that they are dealing with an Asperger’s autistic person.
Johannes B. Kerner presented the show “Der Quiz-Champion” on ZDF in front of 3.05 million TV viewers. The market share was 13.8 percent. The RTL show “Because you don’t know what’s happening” with Barbara Schöneberger, Thomas Gottschalk and Günther Jauch turned on 1.62 million (8.8 percent).
Vox stayed below a million viewers with the action film “Transporter 3” (0.91 million/3.9 percent), Sat.1 with the comic action “Ant-Man and the Wasp” (0.84 million/3.7 percent) and ProSieben with the game show “10 years of duel around the world – Joko and Klaas look back” (0.65 million/3.3 percent). RTLzwei with the music series “Pop-Giganten” (0.50 million/2.5 percent) and Kabel eins with the documentary series “The Secret World” (0.47 million/2.1 percent) were only able to do small bits save from the cake.
