Ulla Kock am Brink
Self - Host
Overview
Die Lotto-Show (1998) follows characters drawn into a defining reality crisis, where private motives collide with public stakes. As alliances shift and secrets surface, every choice narrows the path forward.
Seasons
- Status
- Canceled
- Seasons
- 4 seasons
- Episodes
- 18 episodes
- First aired
- Aug 29, 1998
Cast
Reviews
2 min readNumbered balls, then bed
I've never played the lottery. Not once. I have stood in line behind someone who has.
Cash on the counter. The machine coughing up a slip as if it were a winning hand. Small faith in a process that does not know your name.
latestnetflix.com's read is that Die Lotto-Show, the 1998 German game show Ulla Kock am Brink hosted on RTL, took that pause and stretched it across a late-night slot.
After the news. After the soaps. Strangers pinning a night on numbered balls in a glass cage.
Decades later, that flickering screen still feels leftover.
The format is almost not a format. German television in the late 1990s was thick with game shows. RTL liked high-stakes prizes and a host who could keep a room friendly, the polish Kock am Brink had already shown on Die 100.000 Mark Show.
Other programs chased the spectacle of competition. Die Lotto-Show sat in the other temperature. Waiting. The draw is controlled mess.
Numbers tumble. Her voice stays level. For a few minutes a lot of people share a dumb, sincere question.
Buzz & Rumors
Public reportsShe walked off RTL's money show for ARD's lottery. WDR still cancelled her.
Die Lotto-Show did not belong to RTL. The live rumor mill still files Ulla Kock am Brink under the commercial channel because she had just come off Die 100.000 Mark Show. Tagesspiegel, on 6 December 2000, put the move in one sentence. She started at Cologne's RTL, then switched to ARD for the lottery night. Premiere was 29 August 1998 on Das Erste. German Wikipedia and fernsehserien.latestnetflix.com's take is that de both clock the run at 18 Saturday editions, 1998 to 2001, two hours a night, six a year.TMDB lists her as host on all 18. 
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The format copied Saturday Lotto on purpose. Deutscher Lotto- und Totoblock was the partner. Forty-nine candidates, the 6 aus 49 echo, then six finalists, then one million D-Mark for the night's winner. The contestants themselves did not play skill games. "TopJobber" from a named trade played for them. In the last round the six threw three sealed balls into a pot and drew until someone recovered their own three. Home viewers could phone in for up to 100,000 DM. The prize pool, fernsehserien.de repeats from the Fernsehlexikon, came from unclaimed lottery wins, mostly Spiel 77 slips people never bothered to check. ,
Bottrop, overruns, and Carrell's snarl.
Every edition went out live from Bottrop. The voice-over was Andreas Hoffmann-Sinnhuber, the same throat RTL used on the 20:15 slot for Die 100.000 Mark Show. Guest nights pulled Bryan Ferry, Phil Collins, Xavier Naidoo, and Mariah Carey. TMDB's extra cards add Joey Kelly, Maite Kelly, Mick Hucknall, Dolly Buster, Ottfried Fischer, and Johannes B. Kerner. From 2000 the six finalists were drawn before air, Wikipedia says, because the regular slot kept overrunning. Rudi Carrell's jab, preserved on fernsehserien.de, was that the show only had "some ratings because Ulla Kock am Brink overruns by 40 minutes, until nothing else is on the other channels." , ,
Four to five million, then the 18th night.
Tagesspiegel printed the WDR statement. The show would end on schedule after the 18th edition in May 2001. Average audience sat at four to five million, "only moderate" next to other Saturday entertainment. Reports of the axe had been floating. WDR had denied them. Winfried Bonk, WDR entertainment and the new ARD entertainment coordinator, still called it successful, then said entertainment on television had changed in two and a half years and that new concepts had to follow. The West-Lotto event tie would continue. Kock am Brink, 39 in that piece, was already hosting ZDF's Ca$h on the side.
No on-set feud made the papers. The gossip is the channel hop, the Bottrop overruns, Carrell's quote, and a public-broadcaster Saturday that never quite beat the slot. Eighteen nights, one million D-Mark, then off. , ,
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