ZDF Magazin Royale 2020
- Status
- Returning Series
- First Aired
- November 6, 2020
- Last Aired
- March 20, 2026
- Format
- 12 seasons · 174 eps
- Total Runtime
- ~87 hours (30 min/ep)
- Highest Rated Episode
- S8E18 "Makers & Laughers" (★ 9/10)
- Created By
- Jan Böhmermann, Alexander Hesse
- Network
- ZDF
- Where to Stream
- ZDF
What is ZDF Magazin Royale?
ZDF Magazin Royale is a television series first released in 2020. Catalogued under Comedy, Talk.
- Type
- TV series
- Year
- 2020
- Status
- Returning Series
- Episodes
- 174
- Runtime
- 30 minutes
- First aired
- Nov 6, 2020
- Last aired
- Mar 20, 2026
- Original language
- DE
- Origin
- DE
- Networks
- ZDF
- Genres
- Comedy, Talk
- Updated
At a glance
- Rating
- ★ TMDB users: 7.8/10 from 15 votes
- Format
- 12 seasons · 174 episodes
- Episode runtime
- ~30 minutes
- Status
- Returning Series
- Network
- ZDF
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ZDF Magazin Royale is a television series first released in 2020. Catalogued under Comedy, Talk. Produced and broadcast by ZDF. Current status: Returning Series. Spans 12 seasons and 174 tracked episodes.
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“Jan Böhmermann presents socially relevant topics with wit and irony every week.”
- features socially relevant topics
- hosted by Jan Böhmermann
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Watch it if you enjoy late-night satire focused on socially relevant topics.
The series contains satirical comedy and talk content.
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Season 1 · 7 episodes
Open the complete Season 1 guide & lore primer →- E1 The Big Conspiracy! Mytharc Nov 6, 2020
- E2 Volkswagen – The World Car! Core Nov 13, 2020
- E3 Online Gambling in Schleswig-Holstein Core Nov 20, 2020
- E4 Eggs of Steel: Jan Marsalek Core Nov 27, 2020
- E5 Racism in the Police Core Dec 4, 2020
- E6 The Humboldt Forum – Looted Art in Berlin? Mytharc Dec 11, 2020
- E7 Corona Entrepreneur of the Year Mytharc Dec 18, 2020
Season 2 · 14 episodes
Open the complete Season 2 guide & lore primer →- E1 Trump Madness made in Germany Mytharc Jan 29, 2021
- E2 The Truth about Frontex Core Feb 5, 2021
- E3 Influencer Paradise Dubai Core Feb 12, 2021
- E4 The 17 Interior Ministers of the Interior Ministers Core Feb 19, 2021
- E5 Stop & Go on the German Internet Core Feb 26, 2021
- E6 Professional Football despite the Pandemic Core Mar 5, 2021
- E7 How Ischgl became a Corona Cluster Core Mar 12, 2021
- E8 Where should we put our Nuclear Waste? Core Mar 19, 2021
- E9 Nazi Hotspot Dresden – What is the Reason? Core Mar 26, 2021
- E10 The international Sand Crisis Core Apr 9, 2021
- E11 The Lies of the Gossip Press Core Apr 16, 2021
- E12 Clusterfuck Hartz IV Core Apr 23, 2021
- E13 The Problem of the German Film Landscape Mytharc Apr 30, 2021
- E14 Sebastian Kurz and His Turquoise Family Mytharc May 7, 2021
Season 3 · 14 episodes
Open the complete Season 3 guide & lore primer →- E1 How Wikipedia is Politically Influenced Mytharc Sep 3, 2021
- E2 Siri, Sexbots & Robot Vacuum Cleaners Core Sep 10, 2021
- E3 Car first, People second Core Sep 17, 2021
- E4 The Parties' dirty Facebook Tricks Core Sep 24, 2021
- E5 State Funding for AfD Foundation Core Oct 8, 2021
- E6 Profiler - too true to be true Core Oct 15, 2021
- E7 The new Moria Core Oct 22, 2021
- E8 Lifestyle CBD: Expensive Products with no Effect Core Oct 29, 2021
- E9 The Egg Throw of Halle - The Musical Core Nov 5, 2021
- E10 The DVAG Pyramid System Core Nov 12, 2021
- E11 How Cancel Culture is destroying Springer Core Nov 19, 2021
- E12 The Greens: Betrayal of their own Ideals Core Nov 26, 2021
- E13 Driving without a Ticket: A Crime since 1935 Mytharc Dec 3, 2021
- E14 How Facebook is destroying Democracies Worldwide Mytharc Dec 10, 2021
Season 4 · 16 episodes
Open the complete Season 4 guide & lore primer →- E1 We need Global Vaccine Distribution Mytharc Jan 28, 2022
- E2 The Problem with Psychotherapy Places Core Feb 4, 2022
- E3 Who is Peter Thiel? Core Feb 11, 2022
- E4 The Problem with German Culture of Remembrance Core Feb 18, 2022
- E5 What's Happening here? - Putin's War in Europe Core Mar 4, 2022
- E6 Porn on the Internet Core Mar 11, 2022
- E7 Direction of Frustration: Deutsche Bahn Core Mar 18, 2022
- E8 The Godfather of Schlager Core Mar 25, 2022
- E9 The Power of Viktor Orbán Core Apr 1, 2022
- E10 Look like you're on Instagram Core Apr 8, 2022
- E11 Clemens Tönnies – Born to Slaughter Core Apr 22, 2022
- E12 Putin's Puppets in Germany Core Apr 29, 2022
- E13 Fynn Kliemann: Building Shit (DIY) Core May 6, 2022
- E14 What Germany thinks about Opinion Research Core May 13, 2022
- E15 Deportations, Oligarch Money and Poison Gas Mytharc May 20, 2022
- E16 404: police not found Mytharc May 27, 2022
Season 5 · 15 episodes
Open the complete Season 5 guide & lore primer →- E1 Germans and their Water: It's complicated Mytharc Sep 2, 2022
- E2 Animal Diseases, man-made Core Sep 9, 2022
- E3 In-game purchases – Fake Currency, Real Overdraft Core Sep 16, 2022
- E4 Satellites: Toys of Billionaires Core Sep 23, 2022
- E5 Bye Bundestag: Politicians looking for a Job Core Sep 30, 2022
- E6 Cyberclown Security Risk Core Oct 7, 2022
- E7 How noble is Wine really? Core Oct 14, 2022
- E8 There's a Party Core Oct 21, 2022
- E9 Pssst! The NSU Files Core Oct 28, 2022
- E10 A Broadcast for Everyone? Core Nov 4, 2022
- E11 Player Agent Business Model Core Nov 11, 2022
- E12 People, Learning, Dancing, Money Core Nov 18, 2022
- E13 The Lindner-Lehfeldt Complex Core Nov 25, 2022
- E14 Transphobia is a Trend Mytharc Dec 2, 2022
- E15 Welcome to the Welcome Authority Mytharc Dec 9, 2022
Season 6 · 18 episodes
Open the complete Season 6 guide & lore primer →- E1 Save Yourself (If you can afford it) Mytharc Feb 3, 2023
- E2 Orangutans – Endangered Champions Core Feb 10, 2023
- E3 Christian Schmidt – What’s on? Core Feb 17, 2023
- E4 Money-back-guarantee Core Feb 24, 2023
- E5 Iran's most brutal Guard Active in Germany Core Mar 3, 2023
- E6 Dignity, Piety and chic Urns Core Mar 10, 2023
- E7 World Records for sale! Core Mar 17, 2023
- E8 Nuhr in "Zweiten" Core Mar 24, 2023
- E9 Free at the top Core Mar 31, 2023
- E10 Strolling between Concrete and Nail Boards Core Apr 14, 2023
- E11 Fear Space on Four Wheels Core Apr 21, 2023
- E12 The big ZDF Magazine Live Show Core Apr 28, 2023
- E13 The USA, our Weapons and Us Core May 5, 2023
- E14 From Great Britain with Love Core May 12, 2023
- E15 Efficient and Discreet: The ICMPD Core May 19, 2023
- E16 Under false Flags Core May 26, 2023
- E17 Twitter: With Freedom to Ruin Mytharc Jun 2, 2023
- E18 With Fantasy Fees to the Event Empire Mytharc Jun 9, 2023
Season 7 · 15 episodes
Open the complete Season 7 guide & lore primer →- E1 Speech is Silver, Right-wingers Hoard Gold Mytharc Sep 1, 2023
- E2 Speaking of the Devil Core Sep 8, 2023
- E3 Why Germans should love Liechtenstein Core Sep 15, 2023
- E4 Advertising on our own Behalf (for Germany) Core Sep 22, 2023
- E5 Crime Scene Group Chat: What Police Officers find funny Core Sep 29, 2023
- E6 What the Police have to do with the NSU 2.0 Core Oct 6, 2023
- E7 Bundestag Travel Agency Core Oct 20, 2023
- E8 Hands off my Kidney Mytharc Oct 27, 2023
- E9 Bee vs. Bark Beetle Core Nov 3, 2023
- E10 More Nutrition – Harmless Hype? Core Nov 10, 2023
- E11 Turn it up! Core Nov 17, 2023
- E12 Cancel with Lawsuits Core Nov 24, 2023
- E13 Safe Space for Men in Germany: Marriage Core Dec 1, 2023
- E14 LinkedIn: Business, Digging, Bullshit Mytharc Dec 8, 2023
- E15 How Germany talks about the Middle East War Mytharc Dec 15, 2023
Season 8 · 18 episodes
Open the complete Season 8 guide & lore primer →- E1 Tank & Rast: Quasi-Monopoly without Competition Mytharc Jan 26, 2024
- E2 Crime Scene Flower Pot Core Feb 2, 2024
- E3 The FPÖ and its People's Chancellor Core Feb 16, 2024
- E4 The AfD's TikTok Star Core Feb 23, 2024
- E5 Hunting: Nature Conservation or the Desire to Shoot? Core Mar 1, 2024
- E6 Everything for a Beautiful Smile Core Mar 8, 2024
- E7 Böhmermann's Borderline Cases of Justice Core Mar 15, 2024
- E8 Living like God in Hesse Core Mar 22, 2024
- E9 A Corpse in Olaf Scholz's Basement Core Apr 5, 2024
- E10 The Boomers of the Street Core Apr 12, 2024
- E11 This Secret makes us Sick Core Apr 19, 2024
- E12 The German Failure in the Hanau Attack Mytharc Apr 26, 2024
- E13 Real Dangers of False Science Core May 3, 2024
- E14 How dangerous is the Genius Cult? Core May 10, 2024
- E15 Smoking for the Bin: Disposable Vapes Core May 17, 2024
- E16 AI at the EU's External Borders: The smart Dystopia Core May 24, 2024
- E17 Top, the Sports Bet is valid Mytharc May 31, 2024
- E18 Makers & Laughers Mytharc Jun 7, 2024
Season 9 · 15 episodes
Open the complete Season 9 guide & lore primer →- E1 Chronically ill, but Nobody believes You Mytharc Aug 30, 2024
- E2 Why we can’t live with or without Dust Core Sep 6, 2024
- E3 Cloudy with a Chance of Product Placement Core Sep 13, 2024
- E4 Endangered Species: Local Journalism Core Sep 20, 2024
- E5 Gaming Communities: The last apolitical Place on Earth Core Sep 27, 2024
- E6 Gaming, Scrolling, Swiping – Trapped in the Net Core Oct 4, 2024
- E7 The Ghost Office in Bismarckwald Core Oct 11, 2024
- E8 TOP SECRET: What Former Intelligence Chiefs do in Retirement Core Oct 18, 2024
- E9 The Second-hand Business and its dark Sides Core Oct 25, 2024
- E10 Show your Backbone! Core Nov 8, 2024
- E11 The Multi-Million Dollar Business with Refugee Accommodation Core Nov 15, 2024
- E12 The Final Fight – Why City Kids can’t park and Village Kids can’t listen Core Nov 22, 2024
- E13 The Last Swipe: Are Dating Apps on the Verge of Extinction? Core Nov 29, 2024
- E14 Nius: Where Rights get a Platform Mytharc Dec 6, 2024
- E15 How Exclusion is sold as Inclusion Mytharc Dec 13, 2024
Season 10 · 18 episodes
Open the complete Season 10 guide & lore primer →- E1 What Rights sell us as Freedom Mytharc Feb 7, 2025
- E2 Dance of the Sect Core Feb 14, 2025
- E3 Election Campaign on the Internet - Microtargeting 2.0 Core Feb 21, 2025
- E4 Politics and Media and the Mood in the Country Core Feb 28, 2025
- E5 Together against Loneliness! Core Mar 7, 2025
- E6 Medical Influencers: Diagnosis of Self-Promotion Core Mar 14, 2025
- E7 Anyone who wants German Children for Germany Core Mar 21, 2025
- E8 Who is the Security Risk here? Core Mar 28, 2025
- E9 René Benko: Power, Corruption, Billion-Dollar Bankruptcy Core Apr 4, 2025
- E10 Long prepared for Emergencies: Poland Core Apr 11, 2025
- E11 Germany - An experience Core Apr 25, 2025
- E12 And with us the flood: Flood protection in Germany Core May 2, 2025
- E13 Right-wing YouTubers: The front line of the AfD Core May 9, 2025
- E14 An ode to the cycle Core May 16, 2025
- E15 Two rooms/kitchen/money Core May 23, 2025
- E16 Homophobia – In the name of children? Core May 30, 2025
- E17 Greenland: Hot or Not? Mytharc Jun 6, 2025
- E18 Eisern Ehrenfeld Tour 2025 Mytharc Jun 13, 2025
Season 11 · 16 episodes
Open the complete Season 11 guide & lore primer →- E1 What comes to the right and left? Mytharc Aug 29, 2025
- E2 Violence against women in Germany Core Sep 5, 2025
- E3 42.195 km: A medal for pushing others aside Core Sep 12, 2025
- E4 Fack Ju Hitla Core Sep 19, 2025
- E5 Kimmel, Kirk, and children's books: Is the USA transforming into an autocracy? Core Sep 26, 2025
- E6 How rich men buy opinions Core Oct 10, 2025
- E7 Oysters for Future Core Oct 17, 2025
- E8 ZDF Magazin Royale presents: International Comedy Union Core Oct 24, 2025
- E9 Help, the police are coming! Core Oct 31, 2025
- E10 1000 ways not to bite the dust Core Nov 7, 2025
- E11 Germany's most beautiful tax havens Core Nov 14, 2025
- E12 Your body, my choice Core Nov 21, 2025
- E13 AI chatbots: Sycophancy, lies, persistence Core Nov 28, 2025
- E14 Russia's hybrid war in Germany Core Dec 5, 2025
- E15 The dangers of nitrous oxide Mytharc Dec 12, 2025
- E16 Not being killed is enough help. Mytharc Dec 19, 2025
Season 12 · 13 episodes
Open the complete Season 12 guide & lore primer →- E1 Absolute rule with a fun factor Mytharc Feb 27, 2026
- E2 Welcome to the Epstein Rabbit Hole Core Mar 6, 2026
- E3 International law: Yes, no, maybe Core Mar 13, 2026
- E4 Moneymaxing on prescription Core Mar 20, 2026
- E5 Masquerade ball in the dark field Core Mar 27, 2026
- E6 ZDF Magazin Royale presents: ZMR on Location – The Eifel Is Quaking Core Apr 10, 2026
- E7 Christian Ulmen's many lawyers Core Apr 17, 2026
- E8 Who trains the police? Core Apr 24, 2026
- E9 The Taliban in the Federal Office Core May 1, 2026
- E10 Grundi-Gate: Exploitation Made in Germany Core May 8, 2026
- E11 Political influence on public service broadcasting Core May 15, 2026
- E12 Ten Years of the "Rundfunk-Tanzorchester Ehrenfeld" Mytharc May 22, 2026
- E13 ZDF Magazine on Location – The Demolition of the Colonius Mytharc May 29, 2026
Frequently asked questions
Who hosts ZDF Magazin Royale?
Jan Böhmermann hosts the program.
When does the show air?
The show airs every Friday.
What network broadcasts the show?
The show broadcasts on ZDF.
What is the genre of the show?
The show is a late-night satire combining comedy and talk.
What kind of topics are featured?
The show presents socially relevant topics paired with wit and irony.
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