This year's season of "Let's Dance" has recently ended without a live audience. The live finale of "Germany's next top model" also had to get by with applause from the tape and a Heidi Klum (46) only connected via video screen. The corona pandemic is influencing TV production in Germany. Still, viewers don't have to do without replenishment. There will still be new seasons of these shows in 2020.
"Farmer is looking for a woman"
After "Let's Dance" and "GNTM", the stage is clear for farmers looking for love. As usual, the show "The New Peasants" starts the 16th season of the RTL dome show "Bauer sucht Frau". On Whit Monday (June 1st, 7:05 pm, also via TVNow), moderator Inka Bause (51) will present the new farmers. Again there is a woman, horse host and organic farmer Denise (31) from the Höxter district. Innovation due to the corona virus: There will be no barn festival this year. The episodes are then traditionally broadcast in autumn.
"Shopping Queen special"
On June 14th (8:15 pm, VOX) it will be striking, colorful, shrill and wild in "Shopping Queen Spezial – Drag Queens". The motto in Berlin is: "Drag around the world – create a look inspired by the most dazzling metropolises in the world!" Absinthia Absolut from Berlin, Barbie Breakout from Berlin, Pam Pengco from Cologne and Stella deStroy from Berlin face the challenge. Who can convince Guido Maria Kretschmer (55)?
"The Summer House of the Stars" and "The Bachelorette"
Who will succeed Elena Miras (28) and Mike Heiter (28)? The reality TV stars won the RTL show "The Summer House of the Stars – Fight of Celebrity Couples" in 2019. One thing is certain: there will be a new season in 2020. However, the broadcaster is still silent about exactly where the shoot is going and who the participating celebrities are. Discussions include Katzenberger mom Iris Klein and husband Peter, the "Goodbye Germany" emigrants Caro and Andreas Robens, Annemarie Eilfeld and friend Tim Sandt as well as Ballermann singer Almklausi and wife Maritta Krehl. There is also no official broadcast date yet.
RTL also adheres to the "The Bachelorette" format. The equivalent of "The Bachelor" is traditionally broadcast in the summer months. So far, however, there is no specific start date for the new season. It is also still unclear who will succeed Gerda Lewis (27).
"Celebrity Big Brother"
The comeback of "Big Brother" may have flopped on Sat.1, but the celebrity variant was able to score with TV audiences in 2019. An eighth season of "Celebrity Big Brother" is confirmed. The show last started in August, as moderator Jochen Schropp (41) indicated in May at the "Big Brother" final. In 2019 Janine Pink (33) took the victory and the 100,000 euros. So far, nothing is known about possible candidates.
Double pack for "The Masked Singer" and "The Lion's Den"
After the successful spring season of the ProSieben rate show "The Masked Singer", which took place without an audience from episode two due to the corona crisis, the broadcaster has already announced the third round for autumn.
The VOX start-up show "Die Höhle der Löwen" also ran on TV in spring and returns to the screens in autumn. This time with a new lion in the pack: Nico Rosberg (34). The former Formula 1 world champion takes the place of great lion Frank Thelen (44), who has completely said goodbye to the program.
Corona adjustments and delays?
For "Das Supertalent" 2020 will be the 14th round. However, singer Sarah Lombardi (27, "Back to me") will no longer sit on the jury alongside pop titanium Dieter Bohlen (66) and choreographer Bruce Darnell (62). RTL said: "Every year there are changes in the 'Super Talent' jury and therefore there will be a new jury this year too". Due to the corona pandemic, the jury castings are delayed. The broadcaster assumes that "it can begin in late August".
While the British have to do without a new season "Love Island" this year, RTLzwei wants to produce the fourth German season. "We are continuing to work with ITV Studios to prepare for the new episodes in late summer," confirmed Martin Blickhan, Head of Program Communication at RTLzwei, at the beginning of May at the request of the news agency spot on news. Already during the casting, you strictly adhere to the requirements of infection protection. It continues: "As things stand today, production is taking place as announced."
Due to the corona crisis, the duels of the next season of the VOX show "Kitchen Impossible" will largely take place in Germany and the German-speaking countries, as the station recently announced. "Due to the easing that has already come into force and is promised, VOX assumes that filming can be resumed in the next few weeks," it continues. Who challenges Tim Mälzer (49) – and where – is not yet known.