Overview
- The long-running hidden-camera show launches its 2026 run on ARD in prime time with Barbara Schöneberger hosting.
- Guests for the season opener include Moritz Bleibtreu, Oliver Kalkofe, Sebastian Fitzek, Meltem Kaptan, Eko Fresh and Larissa Marolt.
- One segment features bestselling author Sebastian Fitzek working with the production to prank satirist Oliver Kalkofe.
- Producers scaled the annual output from five episodes to three because of budget pressures.
- First aired in 1980, the show draws smaller ratings than in past decades yet still pops up in pop culture, including recent nods on VOX’s ‘Höhle der Löwen’.