The show saw a brief revival starting on 20 May 2011, but only eight episodes were broadcast before it was cancelled due to low ratings and bad press.
It bears similarities to formats such as Not the Nine O'Clock News and Saturday Night Live.
The title of the show is a play on Die Deutsche Wochenschau (a wartime cinema newsreel) and Germany's most prestigious TV news program, Tagesschau.
Ingolf Lück has occasionally described the show as a modern version of Rudis Tagesshow [de], a news parody show broadcast on ARD and hosted by Rudi Carrell from 1981 until 1987.
[2] The original cast consisted of Ingolf Lück, Anke Engelke, Marco Rima and Bastian Pastewka.