{"id":4275,"date":"2012-10-15T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2012-10-15T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tveurope\/2012\/10\/15\/ratings-roundup-german-prime-time\/"},"modified":"2012-10-15T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2012-10-15T00:00:00","slug":"ratings-roundup-german-prime-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tveurope\/2012\/10\/15\/ratings-roundup-german-prime-time\/","title":{"rendered":"Ratings Roundup: German Prime Time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: small\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana\">PREMIUM: <em>Transporter: The Series<\/em>, RTL&rsquo;s big new co-production with HBO, got off to a solid start in Germany last week.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana\">RTL became the first network worldwide to give viewers a look at the series, based on the <em>Transporter<\/em> movies. The pilot, airing Thursday (October 11), pulled 4.01 million viewers and a share of 12.9 percent. HBO Canada and French channel M6 are also co-producing the show, created by Luc Besson. The debut on RTL pulled 2.04 million viewers aged 14-49 for a share of 17.3 percent in that demo.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana\">The pilot episode on RTL went head-to-head with <em>Criminal Minds<\/em> on Sat.1, which showed two episodes of that series back to back. The first episode trailed <em>Transporter<\/em> with 2.57 million and a share of 8.3 percent. But the second episode of <em>Criminal Minds<\/em> pulled 3.09 million \/ 10.6 percent and beat RTL&rsquo;s long-running original police series <em>Alarm f&uuml;r Cobra<\/em> (3.03 million \/ 10.3 percent).<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana\">The best performing imported series of the week October 7-14 in Germany was <em>CSI: Miami<\/em> on RTL. The episode on Tuesday (October 8) averaged 4.31 million viewers and a share of 13.5 percent, number three overall in prime time. RTL also did pretty well with <em>House<\/em> that evening (3.44 million \/ 11.3 percent).<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana\">ProSieben showed back-to-back U.S. sitcoms in prime time on the same night, airing double episodes of <em>Two &amp; A Half Men<\/em> and <em>The Big Bang Theory<\/em> with a single of <em>2 Broke Girls<\/em> in between. The five programs were remarkably consistent, ranging between 2.07 million viewers and 2.35 million.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana\">Vox had the top U.S. import on Monday with <em>CSI: NY<\/em> (2.65 million \/ 8.2 percent).<\/span><\/span> <span style=\"font-size: small\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana\">Vox also had the top import on Wednesday with <em>The Closer<\/em> (2.19 million\/ 7.6 percent). ProSieben showed <em>Grey&rsquo;s Anatomy<\/em> (1.63 million \/ 5.4 percent), <em>New Girl<\/em> (1.49 million \/ 5.0 percent) and <em>How I Met Your Mother <\/em>(1.55 million \/ 5.9 percent).<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana\">On Friday, Vox again had the top series with <em>CSI: Miami<\/em> (650,000 viewers), far below competing American movies on Sat.1, ProSieben and RTL II, which drew the biggest audience with <em>Miss Congeniality II<\/em> (2.69 million \/ 6.1 percent).<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana\">Kabel Eins had the strongest import on Saturday with <em>NCIS<\/em> (1.73 million \/ 6.5 percent).<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana\">On Sunday (October 14), <em>NCIS<\/em> was also the top import, this time on Sat.1 with 3.21 million \/ 8.6 percent. Sat.1 showed <em>The Mentalist <\/em>next (3.01 million \/ 8.8 percent). The U.S. crime series beat <em>Harry Potter &amp; The Philosopher&rsquo;s Stone <\/em>on RTL but trailed disaster flick <em>2012<\/em> (directed by German Roland Emmerich) on ProSieben (3.79 million \/ 12.0 percent).<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana\">German news channel n-tv set an audience record for itself Sunday with&nbsp; coverage of the Red Bull Stratos skydive. Live coverage of Felix Baumgartner&rsquo;s freefall in the afternoon pulled 2.24 million viewers and a share of 8.8 percent, while the wrap-up in prime time drew over 6 million.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PREMIUM: Transporter: The Series, RTL&rsquo;s big new co-production with HBO, got off to a solid start in Germany last week. RTL became the first network worldwide to give viewers a look at the series, based on the Transporter movies. The pilot, airing Thursday (October 11), pulled 4.01 million viewers and a share of 12.9 percent. &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4275","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","","category-top-stories"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Ratings Roundup: German Prime Time<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Ratings Roundup: German Prime Time. PREMIUM, October 15: Transporter: The Series, RTL\u00e2\u0080\u0099s big new co-production with HBO, got off to a solid start in Germany last week. . 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