Die Harald Schmidt Show

The Harald Schmidt Show is a moderated by Harald Schmidt entertainment show. It was broadcast in the years 1995 to 2003 and from 2011 to 2012 on Sat.1 and 2012-2014 on Sky. The last issue was sent on 13 March 2014.

• 2.1 The Helmut Zerlett band

History

1995-2003

The transmitted daily from Tuesday to Friday from 23:15 clock show was first aired on December 5, 1995 in the early days even on Saturdays and on that day even completely live, instead of the usual in the live -on -tape method. From June 30, 2003 until the beginning of the creative pause on 23 December 2003, the show also ran on Mondays.

Content, based the show on U.S. late-night shows like The Tonight Show or Late Show with David Letterman.

The Harald Schmidt Show was produced from the start in 1995 until 1998, was recorded by Brain Pool in the renovated Capitol in Cologne, which was formerly a cinema. 1998 saw a change of the production company, they separated by Jörg Grabosch and his company Brain pool, own favor by Harald Schmidt's Bonito TV production company. In August 1998, therefore, the studio also followed a studio shift away from the brain pool at the Capitol, called to a new studio Studio 449, Schanzenstraße 39 in Cologne- Mülheim.

Break

On 8 December 2003 Schmidt announced surprising to want to take from the beginning of 2004 a " creative break ". The last show was broadcast on 23 December 2003. There came a Year in Review on 29 December and a special program for the 20th anniversary of Sat.1. (See also: Private television) on 8 January 2004 A direct connection with the dismissal of sat.1 manager Martin Hoffmann was suspected, since Hoffmann is considered a close friend Harald Schmidt. An official reason for the end of the show was never announced. In the follow-up show ( Harald Schmidt in the ARD) Schmidt joked in the first show, he had from 52 weeks of leave, he had to partying. The desk of the consignment is located since the end of the show in the House of History in Bonn.

According to media reports, the budget of the show was last on 100,000 Euros per shipment, of which as a fee to Schmidt and 60,000 euros to 40,000 euros Bonito went directly for production.

Succession

On 17 May 2004 Anke Engelke at the former time slot of the Harald Schmidt Show own late-night show called Anke Late Night, but this was down again in October 2004.

Continued on Sat.1 from 2011-2012

On 13 September 2010, announced that Harald Schmidt 2011, the ARD leaves and returns to Sat.1. There, he hosted from 13 September 2011, two times a week, Tuesdays and Wednesdays at 23:15 clock, his old show, The Harald Schmidt Show. The concept was the same as before, but Schmidt was now no permanent sidekick more to the side. The show from Kogel & Schmidt GmbH was produced in collaboration with Bonito TV. In the first term of exclusively Bonito was responsible. Since 2012, three times a week, even on Thursdays, sent from the Studio 449. For May 3, 2012, the show was set to Sat.1 due to low market shares, as was officially announced on 28 March 2012.

Continued on Sky from 2012-2014

On May 1, it was announced that Sky will take over the broadcast. There were no changes to the format, but the airtime was brought forward to 22:15. Since 4 September 2012, the Harald Schmidt Show ran three times a week ( Tue, Wed, Thu) on Sky, at 22:15 clock on Sky hits, at 23:15 clock on Sky Atlantic HD, a day later in the repeat on Sky Comedy, and was also a time lag also available through the Services Sky Select, Sky Anytime, and on the Internet via Sky Go.

In the first two weeks at Sky has been reported several times on extremely low rates of Harald Schmidt Show 60000-5000 viewers per broadcast, which would correspond to a rate of 0.00% for T.. Sky objected to in a press release, that it was at these low numbers alone to the evaluation of the live broadcast on Sky hits and Sky Atlantic HD by the Association for Consumer Research and Media Control in 250 randomly selected test households and that and with the involvement of all radiations Skydienste and at a range of 3 million subscribers instead, an average number of 175,000 viewers per show had been reached.

Complaints from the audience after the first broadcasts on Sky, there were over the shortened transmission time to around 35 minutes net, maintaining an ( abbreviated) commercial break and after a move to the pay- TV, and broadcast in traditional SD quality, although much of the viewers on Sky 's return to the screen welcomed in principle. The regularly expiring in March 2014 contract not renewed Sky. On March 13, 2014, the last Harald Schmidt Show aired, which was also made ​​at the same time on YouTube for free. As guests once occurred all sidekicks the Sky era.

Protagonists

Among the protagonists of the show since 2011 included, among others:

• Band leader Helmut Zerlett
• Nathalie Licard; German -language voice-over of the intro with a strong French accent. Often also used elsewhere.
• The former WDR newscaster Charly Wagner contributes to 6th Sept. 2012 before with fairy tale classics voice of Mr. joke.
• Pat Murphy; is also the spokesman of many Indicative and Einspieler

Since the beginning of the 17th season in September 2012 Schmidt were changing Sidekicks to:

• Olli Dittrich; the welcome was always carried out by the question "Is Olli Dittrich there yet? "
• Klaas Heufer circulation
• Pierre M. Krause; also presented news from the latest press
• Mirjam Weichselbraun
• Stefanie Beck Stapp
• Judith Richter
• Jürgen Vogel
• Bastian Bielendorfer

Over the years, appeared on the show a number of fictional characters (some production employees ) on. In the early days following figures were, for example, recurring:

• Reporter Kai precious than self-obsessed issue of Kai Ebel, presented by author Peter Rütten
• Mr. Lüdemann as Grandpa Lüdemann or Fatter Teresa
• Postman Letterman (Peter Helf ) brought Schmidt selected viewers post to his desk after the saying " letters teaches us not just anyone, letters teaches us the - Letterman " was launched by the audience at the end.
• Tea, an employee in the costume of a tea bag
• Pam as inclusion of Pamela Anderson in the show, played by German Pamela Double Ina Werner
• Our Ossi, represented by Bernd Zeller, a gag writer of the show
• Horst, who is invisible and acted as a sort of sidekick before Manuel Andrack.
• Li and Wang, two Chinese restaurant owner in the immediate vicinity of the Capitol
• The thick children of Landau

Starring in the Capitol Clan, a parody of the Dynasty and Dallas were among others:

• Woman Asenbaum, Harald Schmidt mother Waltraud Schmidt
• Schmidt Turkish chauffeur Üzgür
• Jörg Grabosch, who was then the real producer Harald Schmidt Show; he played himself
• Maria Merzedes Smeralda de Santiago Escordial, she played the role of Harald Schmidt's girlfriend Inge

With the extract from the Capitol and the move to the Studio 449, these figures were abandoned or at least less frequently. Apart from a few sections such as the comical material creatures Bimmel and Bommel, who brought the viewers the alphabet closer or the fictional CDU politician Dr. Udo Brömme, played by Author Ralf Kabelka, the show happening now was no longer dominant in such characters and Box office movies. Broadcaster contents were now a wide variety of studio actions. As protagonists and interlocutors in front of the camera now occurred

• Manuel Andrack Editorial Director, and from 30 August 2000 as the Sidekick
• Suzana Novinščak, Cue Card Girl (card keeper )
• Sven Olaf Schmidt, prop master " props -Sven " ( he brought Schmidt also be water)

And Helmut Zerlett and Nathalie Licard on. Often also served real employees, which as they themselves were incorporated into the course, as an additional contact person or performer in the actions. Chief author Peter Rütten was speaker of the most Box office movies.

The Helmut Zerlett band

The backing of the show consisted of the following members to 2003:

• Helmut Zerlett - Keyboards and bandleader
• Axel Heil Hecker - Guitar
• Rosko Gee - Bass
• Antoine Fillon - drums
• Jürgen Dahmen - Keyboards
• Thomas Heberer - trumpet
• Mel Collins - saxophone

In addition to Helmut Zerlett Rosko Gee and Mel Collins are still part of the cast.

Process and content

Each show began with Schmidt's five-to ten-minute monologue, a stand-up part, in which he received cynically on background to current affairs. Here sayings established as " A great thing! " And " If you have heard the following sentence from me, ladies and gentlemen: ...".

After the presentation of his band to band leader Helmut Schmidt Zerlett moderated from his desk on. By Talk with invited guests and the musical act in the last third of the show the middle part made ​​with Einspielern, various show acts and studio activities for entertainment. Contents were:

Notable Shows

Harald Schmidt had almost complete freedom with respect to the show design.

For single shipments Schmidt was awarded: For example, a fully produced in French on 28 May 2002 show ( with subtitles only during the initial monologue ), for which he received the German - French Journalism Prize. This show en Francaise in 2002 was repeated about a week later on ARTE with an introduction by Nathalie Licard and integrated subtitles for the entire show.

One consequence Schmidt spent completely on a treadmill and in another he explained during a 45 -minute scene homage to the fictional murder of Helmut Zerlett on. Next he tried in an episode of the testimony of a colleague to verify whether it is actually the audience bored, continually watch a silent moderator in how this was employed for several minutes with nothing more than cracking nuts. On the occasion of a Miles Davis evening he hosted on 22 November 2002, the whole consignment with his back to the audience. Here Schmidt took the jazz musician Davis as a model, which also turned away his jazz trumpet at performances played by the audience. Attention was also the first issue after September 11, 2001.

Although the four-hour broadcast with Anke Engelke, Bastian Pastewka Olli Dittrich and a boat trip on the Rhine from Bingen to Boppard valid on 18 September 2003 as a legendary, it was because of a few lengths of the mission but also criticism. Even Schmidt showed up later dissatisfied with the broadcast process. The idea for the show was taken over from the U.S.. Late -night host Conan O'Brien hosted there the first late night show in the world on a boat, on a Circle Line Boat you drove around Manhattan.