On the first TV evening in February, a thriller also won the primetime ratings race on German television. The ZDF film "Marie Brand and the false friends" with Mariele Millowitsch and Hinnerk Schönemann as well as Golo Euler reached an average of 6.86 million viewers on Wednesday from 8.15 p.m., which corresponds to a market share of 24.7 percent.

The DFB Cup game in Erste (1. FSV Mainz - FC Bayern, 0: 4) had an average of 4.71 million viewers (18.4 percent from 8:45 p.m.). RTL reached 2.26 million (8.4 percent) from 8:15 p.m. with “Deutschland sucht den Superstar” (DSDS) and chief judge Dieter Bohlen – episode 6 of 11 casting episodes.

Sat.1 had 1.56 million viewers (6.2 percent) with the show "Das Große Promibacken" and ProSieben had 1.23 million (4.4 percent) with the comedy "TV total". ZDFneo scored with the repeat of the thriller "Wilsberg: Monitor and reward" (1.14 million/4.1 percent). Kabel eins had 850,000 viewers (3.5 percent) with the 20-year-old heroic epic "Last Samurai". The docu-soap "Die Retourenjäger" on RTLzwei watched 530,000 (2.0 percent).