Die Oliver Pocher Show

During the first season, Pocher's father Gerard frequently appeared on the show as a sidekick.

Instead both of them attract disappointingly few viewers - long contract periods protect them from cancellations.

However, there have been significant changes on the concept of the show: the typical late night desk was replaced by a couch, the band by a female DJ, Pocher's father by two nasty baby puppets who acted as sidekicks for several months.

The show is still undercutting the low quotas and shares of cheap comedy reruns which currently fill most earlier time slots on SAT.1's Friday evening.

The so-called Fun Freitag is famous for his series of spectacular failures - Pocher's former show partner and German late night legend Harald Schmidt warned him about that in several interviews.