Overview
- NDR and the ARD-Mediathek announced that Köster will present an initial run of five 45-minute episodes of Das Fifty‑Fifty Quiz starting in early August.
- The format is adapted from the BBC show The Answer Run and centers on a touchscreen “swiper” where teams pick one of two options under time pressure.
- Wrong answers subtract the displayed stake from a team’s personal jackpot, a rule designed to discourage blind guessing and raise strategic decisions.
- The first episode is billed as a heute-show special with guests such as Oliver Welke and Lutz van der Horst and later editions featuring Michael Kessler, Laura Karasek and other German TV figures.
- Köster, who began in satire as a teenager and has been in the heute-show ensemble since 2016, says the new role expands his public reach and used the interviews around the show to argue that younger voters are engaged but worn down by recent crises and a lack of positive political vision.