Who's Still Standing?

From the middle - The fastest Quiz World (short: From the middle ) was a German game show from the private Sat.1, in a scheduled four -week test run Monday to Friday from 18:30 in the sender's eve program the clock to 19:15 should be aired, but after three weeks test run has already been ended on July 20 instead of July 27, 2012. As of August 11, 2012, the remaining five episodes were broadcast on Saturdays at 19.15 clock. It was chaired by Daniel Boschmann. The target audience of the broadcast, which was produced by Endemol, was the group of 14 - to 49 -year-olds.

Concept

It is selected a candidate who has the ten opponents in front of him. Before each round, he chooses a new opponent. All players will be briefly presented with name, address and occupation. In a round candidate and the opponent must take turns within 20 seconds to answer a question that is asked by the moderator. The time is already running when the question is asked. Manages the opponent not to answer a question within the time limit, he falls through a trap door and the candidate has an opponent less. After a sign is revealed at the opponent former place, which indicates how much money the candidate for the defeated opponent gets. The sum is always between one and 4,000 euros. Creates the candidate all ten opponents, he gets 50,000 euros. But it is not just the candidate to answer the question within 20 seconds, he has lost and the opponent gets the money already earned by the candidate. So the profit is between one and a maximum of 50,000 euros. The questions are roughly allocated to the area of general knowledge and proverbs or sayings. From the correct answer, the number of letters are given. In addition, some letters are already predefined, similar to a crossword puzzle.

The candidate has a total of three times to leave the possibility of a question to the opponents, if he does not know the answer. The opponents do not have this possibility.

If the candidate has defeated 6 opponents, he can decide whether to stop or continue making. He listens to, he gets the money already earned and a new game begins with another candidate.

Production and broadcasting

The program presentation 2012/13 Sat.1 announced that it will change the evening program. One first ordered 20 episodes of the new quiz show and 15 episodes were broadcast from 2 July to 20 July 2012. July 19, 2012 it was announced that the test program is terminated prematurely after only three weeks because the ratings were lower than the channel average. On July 24, 2012 it was announced that 2012 will be aired on Saturday, the remaining five episodes from August 11 at 19.15 clock and this happened also.

Reception

Criticism

" " From the middle " has only a really big problem: the lack of variety. Only four weeks to record a convincing audiences in a single game, a major challenge will be of - if not an almost impossible. In general, but it sure is one of the few laudable productions Sat.1 let go in recent years to Daytime on viewers. Thus may begrudge those responsible for this mission to land an unexpected success. If you really want long-term success, more innovation and variety in terms of games, however, is essential. "

Ratings

The total audience launched the first episode on July 2, 2012 by From the middle - The fastest quiz in the world with 1.27 million viewers, representing 7.1 percent market share, and in the target group of 14 - to 49 -year-old with 0, 43 million viewers, representing 7.0 percent market share. The ratings were below the transmitter section.