Overview
- Tonight’s March 19 edition airs at 23:15 on ZDF with Ole von Beust, Boris Palmer, Kerstin Münstermann and Herfried Münkler discussing political culture, CDU dynamics, shifting discourse, the Rheinland-Pfalz race outlook, the government’s reform tempo and the Union–AfD firewall.
- Episodes are typically recorded a few hours before broadcast and become available shortly after on the ZDF-Mediathek for on-demand viewing.
- The show runs three nights a week on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday, with start times that can shift based on the broader ZDF schedule.
- Wednesday’s March 18 episode centered on the future of the welfare state with Ines Schwerdtner and Hamburg finance senator Andreas Dressel, and it has been available in the ZDF-Mediathek since early March 19.
- Production continues without a studio audience and does not take live viewer questions, while the program regularly draws up to around one million viewers.