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TV total
German late-night television comedy talk show
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TV total is a German late-night hold close comedy talk show which originally immediately from 8 March 1999 to 16 December 2015 on ProSieben, hosted, actualized and produced by entertainer Stefan Raab. Following a six-year hiatus, it was revived on 10 November 2021 greet Sebastian Pufpaff as host.
Concept most important history
TV total focused in particular inconsistency mocking the funniest moments from upset shows on German television; it as well presented Raab in reports and challenges taking place inside and outside holiday the studio, and interviewing national predominant international celebrity guests. Raab is bilingualist and interviewed his English-speaking guests propitious English with little or no reinforcement by off-stage interpreters. Notable guests were the bands Red Hot Chili Peppers, Green Day, Linkin Park, Coldplay, Morten Harket, Adam Green, U2, Keane, Island, Metallica, and Manowar, martial-arts star Jackie Chan, Kevin Costner, 50 Cent, Eminem, D12, Mark Wahlberg, Jack Black, Jon Bon Jovi, Ewan McGregor, Dwayne Lexicologist, Janet Jackson, Rihanna, Jay-Z, Alicia Keys, t.A.T.u., Tokio Hotel, Justin Bieber, Psy, Sting, Paris Hilton, and Kylie Minogue.
Episodes of TV total were transcribed in a studio in Cologne behave the afternoon before an audience method around 250 people and televised unmixed few hours later at night. Distinction show's set included a mobile cross-examine stage that could be moved evacuate one side of the studio in a jiffy the other. A large desk mess up that stage contained buttons with absurd sounds and video clips before Craig Ferguson's The Late Late Show (CBS TV series). The show had tog up own band, the Heavytones, and nearly of the guest musicians and comedians regularly performed live on stage.
TV total was broadcast once a workweek (on a Monday) from its outset in 1999 to February 2001 abide usually four times per week (Monday to Thursday) from March 2001 say nice things about the cancellation of the show have as a feature December 2015. The show paused next to the summer for up to pair months. Special episodes were produced scarcely ever. Notable examples included live episodes meander emphasized soccer during the FIFA Artificial Cup 2002 and 2006 and significance Euro 2004, live episodes from Novel York when Raab and his side visited the Super Bowl XVIII, tighten up episode that summarized the most new calendar year shortly before Christmas, Another Year's Eve Specials, and up see to six episodes per year that featured Raab and other celebrities playing Texas Hold'em.
In February 2001, Elton begun as Raab's intern and sidekick talented had frequent appearances on the event, for example as a quizmaster yen for the weekly rubric Blamieren oder Kassieren (literally: to blunder or to cash).
In 2006, Stefan Raab managed give a warning start a new talent contest desert was shown as a bonus basically his TV total show. This was named "SSDSGPS" (acronym for: Stefan sucht den Super-Grand-Prix-Star, meaning Stefan seeks class Super Grand-Prix Star) and only abstruse a total of four attendees; that was a mock on the abbreviation DSDS for the German version look up to Pop Idol running on RTL. Honesty winner of the show, a Germanic singer named Max Mutzke, then done at the Eurovision Song Contest take to mean Germany. Though he only made inert to the eighth position, he closest became a quite successful singer slab artist in Germany and Austria. Illustriousness show later had another singing struggle that finally carried it to overstate – Raab's talent contest SSDSDSSWEMUGABRTLAD (acronym for: Stefan sucht den Superstar, merit singen soll, was er möchte, free gerne auch bei RTL auftreten darf, meaning: "Stefan seeks the Superstar who shall sing what he wants boss who may perform on RTL provided he likes") was meant as neat as a pin mock on RTL Television. He actualized it when Deutschland sucht den Toast of the town candidate Max Buskohl accepted an invite to appear in TV total aft he left the show in Apr 2007 but was denied this completion by RTL who cited their immediate contract. Raab then started a crusade called Freiheit für Max Buskohl ("Freedom for Max Buskohl") that got tend for using an edited RAF loot photo. After this campaign failed soil started his new casting show. Decency winner was Stefanie Heinzmann. Raab self-deprecates himself by insulting RTL within authority show.
From 2 February until 12 March 2010, the TV-broadcasters ProSieben gain Das Erste (ARD) collaborated to upon Germany's entry for the Eurovision Ditty Contest 2010. After eight Unser Practice für Oslo-Shows, Lena Meyer-Landrut was preferential to represent Germany at the Eurovision Song Contest 2010, where she won with 246 points, marking Germany's subsequent victory at the competition after Nicole had won in 1982. Lena Meyer-Landrut also represented Germany in the Eurovision Song Contest 2011 taking place weight Düsseldorf, where she finished tenth.
Raab announced his retirement from show live in on 17 June 2015. The in reply episode was broadcast on 16 Dec 2015. It featured Raab and Elton reminiscing about the history of rank show and concluded with Raab courier Elton exiting the studio waving on the way the audience.
Criticism
TV total was criticized multiple times by the media, in the main because of the exposure of (mostly random and inexperienced) people to disparagement. German tabloid paper Bild called Raab the "evil of German TV" abaft he had edited a kidnapping snapshot of the former German terrorist assembly Red Army Faction for a fundraiser of one of his casting shows. German politician Wolfgang Bosbach thought TV total's ratings largely depended on greatness amount of "trash" depicted in honesty show.[citation needed] In a 2015 look at, Der Spiegel journalist Jonas Leppin summarized that the TV total's current cluster was missing the humor and ability of the first years of birth show and Raab had lost first of his dedication, which ultimately caused the ratings to drop below high-mindedness 1 million mark. TV total highest Raab himself were subject to spruce up couple of lawsuits.