TV presenter Frank Plasberg said goodbye to the ARD talk show "hard but fair" with a high rating. His last host appearance in the round on the topic "Off to the desert - who is looking forward to the World Cup in Qatar?" attracted 3.59 million (13.7 percent) as of 9 p.m. Monday night. Usually, an average of around 2.5 to 3 million had watched the show in the past few months. Louis Klamroth will take over from January.

Previously, 3.94 million (13.9 percent) had read the World Cup-critical report "Thomas Hitzlsperger: Qatar - why?" switched on. The strongest prime-time show, however, was the ZDF drama "So Laut du kann" with Friederike Becht, Nina Gummich and Jan Lennart Krauter, which was watched by 4.69 million (16.9 percent). The thriller revolves around a rape with knockout drops. The victim's girlfriend is looking for the perpetrator in the upper class.

3.45 million (12.7 percent) spent the evening with Inka Bause's dating show "Bauer sucht Frau" on RTL. ZDFneo had the British crime thriller "Inspector Barnaby: Pride, Murder and Prejudice" with Neil Dudgeon, Nick Hendrix and Fiona Dolman in the program and thus addressed 1.60 million (5.7 percent). The Sat.1 dome show "Marriage at First Sight" came to 1.31 million (5.4 percent). Kabel eins broadcast the American action film "Demolition Man" with Sylvester Stallone, Wesley Snipes and Sandra Bullock, 970,000 science fiction fans (3.7 percent) sat in front of the screen.

Vox had the docu-soap "Goodbye Germany! The Emigrants" to offer, which was chosen by 800,000 people (3.3 percent). The US cartoon series "The Simpsons" was shown on ProSieben, which was watched by 480,000 people (1.7 percent) on the screen. The reality series "The Geissens - A terribly glamorous family!" on RTLzwei had 350,000 viewers (1.2 percent).