The ARD six-part series "Lauchhammer - Tod in der Lausitz" clearly lost an audience on its second Wednesday. Episodes three and four of the crime mini-series with Mišel Matičević and Odine Johne did not match the results of the previous week. On average, 3.97 million people (15.6 percent from 8:15 p.m.) and 3.34 million (13.2 percent from 9 p.m.) switched on. On the Wednesday before, the prelude still had around 5.7 and 4.9 million viewers.

The winner at prime time from 8.15 p.m. was a prime time episode of "Bares for Rares" on ZDF. The flea show with Horst Lichter reached 4.57 million viewers (18.0 percent).

Behind it were the RTL show "Das Sommerhaus der Stars - Kampf der Promipaare" (1.57 million/6.8 percent), the crime repeat "Wilsberg: Hengstparade" from 2013 on ZDFneo (1.36 million/5.3 percent) , the Sat.1 cooking show "The Taste" (1.22 million/5.6 percent) and the ProSieben comedy show "TV total" (1.12 million/4.4 percent).

The RTLzwei documentary soap "Narumol