The viewers on Thursday evening were distributed very unequally among the stations: The first with the film "The Bolzano crime thriller: The deadly sin" was far ahead. The South Tyrol thriller with Chiara Schoras reached an average of 7.04 million people, which corresponded to a 24.8 percent market share from 8:15 p.m.

ZDF reached 3.82 million (14.4 percent) on Weiberfastnacht with the carnival show "Kölle Alaaf - The Girl Meeting".

RTL broadcast football: The Uefa Europa League game Bayer 04 Leverkusen – AS Monaco (2: 3) had 2.00 million viewers (7.1 percent) in the first half and 2.61 million (12, 1 percent). Previously, the "RTL Aktuell Spezial" reached 1.30 million (4.6 percent between 8:15 p.m. and 8:35 p.m.) on the refugee summit of the federal and state governments.

An average of 1.73 million viewers saw the start of the 18th season of Heidi Klum's model casting show "Germany's Next Topmodel" (GNTM) on ProSieben. In the total audience, this corresponded to a market share of 7.3 percent from 8:15 p.m.

A year ago, around 300,000 more watched the start, two years ago even around 600,000. ProSieben was nevertheless satisfied, since the market share in the target group of young viewers - 14 to 49 years old - which is considered important - was "a wonderful 19.9 percent".

Behind Klum and ProSieben were Vox and the fantasy film "The Hobbit - The Battle of the Five Armies" (1.23 million/4.9 percent), Kabel eins and the docu-soap "Roadtrip America - Three Top Chefs on Four Wheels" (780,000/2 .9 percent), RTL two and the social reportage "Hartes Deutschland – Leben im Brennpunkt" (770,000/2.8 percent) as well as Sat.1 and the first episode of the British political thriller series "Litvinenko" (570,000/2.0 percent) .