Europa League winners against German champions: Many TV viewers didn't want to miss this tasty start to the new Bundesliga season on Friday evening.
From 8:23 p.m., 5.24 million saw Bayern Munich’s 6-1 thrashing of Eintracht Frankfurt live on Sat.1. This corresponded to a market share of 21.7 percent. An hour later, the number of viewers even rose to 6.13 million.
The second most successful program at prime time was an episode of the ZDF crime series "The Public Prosecutor" (4.22 million/17.7 percent), followed by the ARD family film "Room with Barn: The Raccoons Are Losing" with Aglaia Szyszkowitz and Friedrich von Thun , which 2.63 million wanted to see from 8:15 p.m. (11.0 percent).
It was followed by "The Ultimate Chart Show - The Most Successful Summer Party Hits" on RTL (1.28 million/6.4 percent) and the comic book adaptation "The Incredible Hulk" with Edward Norton (0.66 million/2.8 percent ). The "Navy CIS" series on Kabel Eins was watched by 510,000 (2.1 percent) in prime time.
Vox lured with the new edition of the series classic "Magnum P.I." at 8.15 p.m. 550,000 people in front of the television sets (2.3 percent). On RTLzwei, 430,000 watched the comedy "Nachts im Museum 2" with Ben Stiller (1.8 percent).
