ZDF Does Not Plan for "Wetten, dass..?" in 2025

No broadcast is planned for the year 2025, ZDF station manager Norbert Himmler told the German Press Agency. At the same time, the managing director left open whether a revival could possibly take place in the following years.

ZDF Does Not Rule Out a New Edition of "Wetten, dass..?"

The ZDF director explained: "We ended "Wetten, dass..?" with Thomas Gottschalk, his grand exit on the excavator bucket. But that does not mean that "Wetten, dass..?" could not come back one day." Himmler had also spoken of a thinking break about the format a year ago. The public-law ZDF had discontinued the show classic, which had started in the 1980s, in 2014 also because of declining ratings. In 2021, there was a retro show. This was followed by two more editions in 2022 and in November 2023 with a remarkable 12.13 million viewers. Entertainer Gottschalk had hosted this show for the last time. "Wetten, dass..?" is one of the shows referred to as TV campfires. This means that it is a format that can still gather millions of people around the television at a certain time in the era of media libraries and time-shifted consumption of TV programs as a live format.

(APA/Red)

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