Schlag den Raab – The game: More than 30 "Schlag den Raab" games in one box
February/03/2010 | Now the show has its very own game. The "Schlag den Raab" show everyone loves will be available as a Ravensburger party game this March. The company with the famous blue triangle has packed over 30 different games from the TV show into a box fit to rock any party. As many as six players can battle it out in riveting living room duels. The categories, whether "Hochschuss" or "Blamieren oder Kas-sieren", demand everything of their players, including skill, knowl-edge, courage in the face of danger and strong smiling muscles.
"Our star for Oslo": Yvonne Catterfeld, Westernhagen and jury president Raab in the first show on 2 February 2010
January/22/2010 | Music-Germany is getting ready to put its best foot forward. Never before have so many celebrated musicians taken part in the German preliminaries for the Eurovision Song Contest. Jury president Stefan Raab invited Yvonne Catterfeld and Marius Müller-Westernhagen to join him for the first installment of "Our star for Oslo" [Unser Star für Oslo] on 2 February (8:15 pm, ProSieben).
“Beat your Host!” to Air on Hungary"s TV2
October/06/2009 | On October 10, the international smash hit game show “Beat your Host” will premier live on TV2, the ProSiebenSat.1 Group’s channel in Hungary. In the Saturday night prime time show under the title “Sztárral szemben” the contestants will face various celebrities such as the motorcycle racing world champion, Gabor Talmacsi as well the Olympic champion wrestler, Sandor Bardosi. The show will be hosted by Attila Till, one of the most popular faces in Hungarian television. The challenges, studio look and on-air design for the Hungarian version will also be based entirely on the German concept created by RaabTV/BRAINPOOL.
Joint-Venture between BRAINPOOL and Banijay Entertainment
July/02/2009 | The international media group Banijay Entertainment headquartered in Paris is acquiring a 50% stake in BRAINPOOL. Banijay Entertainment was founded in 2008 by TV producer and long-standing Endemol France CEO, Stéphane Courbit, with the aim of developing an international network of independent production companies. As one of Germany"s largest production companies, BRAINPOOL is now joining the ranks of one Russian, one Spanish and four French production companies in the Banijay Entertainment network.
“Beat your Host!” to Air on RTL Croatia
February/16/2009 | At 8 p.m. on Friday, the international smash hit game show “Beat your Host” will premier live on Croatia’s largest commercial TV station, RTL, under the title “Pobijedi Šolu” (“Beat Šola”). Contestants on RTL will face former professional handball player Vlado Šola as the competing host. Presenting host will be Belma Hodžić. Following the German original created by RaabTV/BRAINPOOL, Šola will go 15 rounds against a contestant from the audience. The challenges, studio look and on-air design for the Croatian version will also be based entirely on the German concept.
Stefan Raab"s champion league: Boris Becker, Stefan Effenberg, Wigald Boning and Stefan Kretzschmar are appearing on "Schlag den Star" (Beat the Star)
February/06/2009 | Four shows, four true champions: In addition to Stefan Effenberg, Boris Becker, Stefan Kretzschmar and Wigald Boning, two champion league winners, an Olympics and Wimbledon champion and a marathon runner, are also appearing to compete in one-on-one multi-discipline events against a challenger in Stefan Raab"s new show "Schlag den Star". Former soccer star Stefan Effenberg will kick-off the event on 13 March 2009 at 8:15 pm on ProSieben.
“Beat your Host!” sold to Spain’s Telecinco
February/04/2009 | SevenOne International has sold the international smash hit game show “Beat your Host!” to Telecinco, Spain’s leading commercial channel. The prime time event is coproduced by the original German creator of the show, Raab TV/BRAINPOOL, and will be broadcast this year.
Stefan Raab’s new show: “Beat the Star” on ProSieben
January/18/2009 | Stefan Raab has come up with another new idea for a show to celebrate his 10th anniversary of working with ProSieben. On four Fridays in a row, celebrities including former handball star Stefan Kretzschmar will compete against audience members in a series of events. ProSieben will air the programme each Friday at 8:15 p.m. starting 13 March.
“Beat your Host!” to hit the airwaves in Denmark Today
December/12/2008 | Today, the Danish version of the international smash hit game show “Beat your Host!” launches prime time under the title “Hvem kan slå Joachim og Marianne?” on TV2, Denmark’s biggest privately owned TV station. The winning couple of TV2’s smash hit “Strictly Come Dancing” – olympic bronze medalist Joachim B. Olsen and dancer Marianne Eihilt – is starring as competing hosts.
Start of the fourth season of "Ladykracher" with Anke Engelke
November/12/2008 | Anke Engelke is back! In twelve new episodes (and a one-hour special) of her multiple prize-winning sketch comedy “Ladykracher”, from Friday 7 November 2008 at 10:15 p.m. on Sat. 1, the funniest woman in Germany will again be presenting female characters – funnier, crazier and more far out than ever!
