TV: This is new: Children invent shows for ProSieben

The idea for the brand new primetime show on ProSieben is thanks to an eight-year-old girl. The daughter of a television producer inspired her father to come up with the idea of ​​simply letting children take the reins when it comes to television entertainment. A star then has to implement as perfectly as possible what one of the selected elementary school students has asked him to do – from a fairground show to a blowpipe challenge.

The private broadcaster from Unterföhring was immediately enthusiastic, according to its head chef Hannes Hiller. Hiller hopes TV for the whole Family and is proud that the show is not an import from the USA or the Netherlands, but was created in Munich.

The result is “The Superduper Show,” which will be broadcast on Tuesday (September 17) at 8:15 p.m. on ProSieben and will then also be available on the streaming service Joyn. Presenter Katrin Bauerfeind was so quickly convinced that she says she hasn't read the exact concept to this day and prefers to start filming straight away.

Creatives between 7 and 12 years

Five shows will be presented each evening and will compete against each other. There will be four evenings, always on Tuesdays. And some of the things the inventors, aged between 7 and 12, have come up with are incredibly funny. They were selected at a casting. Their helpers and guinea pigs are Annette Frier, Edin Hasanović, Wigald Boning and Bill and Tom Kaulitz. Their names will not be revealed.

In the cooking show “Ugh?! Does that taste good?” – directed by Edin Hasanović – young chef Paula (10) serves three stars a two-course meal plus a nightcap. One of them is served a completely oversalted starter or a pizza with a huge splash of Tabasco, but is supposed to keep a poker face in this case. Or all three pretend to be victims at the same time, even though only one heart had to be swallowed. A second team has to guess who really had to fight with the food. The child is mercilessly consistent: one bite is not enough, the hellish food has to be eaten up completely.

“We were all keen to start out with great naivety,” says comedian Annette Frier. But dealing with children requires “a certain tact,” she adds. And nerves. Frier's little show sponsor had very precise ideas: the popular actress (“Merz against Merz”) had to slip into a glittery costume and – as a child of the 1980s – roll into the studio on roller skates. The other four celebrities were supposed to do things like blow darts onto a target with a blowpipe, hurl a mini Frisbee with their teeth, or blow a small ball out of their mouths as far as possible.

The best of all children's birthdays

But it gets even weirder: Tom Kaulitz and the idea man Mia (10) let candidates spin the hairstyle (mis)wheel in “Scissors. Stone. Shaved.” And in “My Bowl, Your Bowl” it’s all about convincing animals with culinary delights.

The studio audience decides: who will create “The Superduper Show” of the evening? The reward is a trophy. Despite all the enthusiasm for the TV happening, Bauerfeind does not see the mini-shows that have been implemented so far as a large, full-length 90-minute show. The music formats are probably most suitable for something individual. And yet she raves that the whole thing is “like the children's birthday party that you always wanted to be invited to.”

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