The SWR announced today that, as part of the cost-cutting and reform process, it will no longer continue a quiz show after the next season.
Back in June, SWR announced that it was developing a package of measures to save a total of 70 million euros per year. This amount would be reallocated and increasingly invested in digital offerings. SWR calls this a “savings and reform process”. DIGITAL FERNSEHEN reported on the plans. Now it’s the quiz show “Meister des Alltags” that’s affected. The format has been running on SWR and ARD since 2012. Presenter Florian Weber and a panel of prominent quizzers answered more or less skillfully questions about everyday knowledge. More than 300 episodes have already been broadcast. However, the quiz show will not be discontinued immediately. The last season is currently being produced, after which no more will follow. The number of episodes is expected to increase to a total of 322.
In the previous shows, the quiz teams included Enie van de Meiklokjes, Jess Schöne, Bodo Bach and Antoine Monot, as well as Alice Hoffmann for many years. In announcing the cuts, SWR program director Clemens Bratzler thanked the team of “Meister des Alltags” and Florian Weber “for more than a decade of the best entertainment.” The farewell is painful, but: “in order to make new things possible despite increasing cost pressures, in order to appeal equally to all generations – especially increasingly to people under 50 – we have to focus our entertainment offering and, with a heavy heart, say goodbye to popular linear formats.” The last season of the quiz show “Meister des Alltags” the SWR broadcast weekly on Mondays at 10.30 p.m. from October 14th.
Source: www.digitalfernsehen.de
