Bombastic Casting Shows

We have more than enough casting shows in Germany, including:

• Deutschland sucht den Superstar
• Supertalent
• Der Bachelor
• The Voice of Germany
• The Voice Kids
• The Taste
• Germany's Next Topmodel, etc.

By now most people who watch these shows only watch them to make fun of them on social media sites like Twitter.

So now, last Thursday was the Germany's Next Topmodel final.

The viewing figures wouldn't have been exactly good because on Thursdays the social media people are normally busy watching and making fun of Frauentausch.

But this time it was different. 

At around 9:25pm the GNTM final was suddenly interrupted because of 'malfunctions'. The TV broadcaster started broadcasting the movie 'Blind Side' and suddenly everyone was watching the film. Because everyone wanted to know when the show would continue.

Only a few minutes later there was a rumour on Twitter that the show had been cancelled because of a bomb threat (and as it turned out later the rumour was true, the bomb not.)

Until then I had not known that we have so many stupid puns with the word 'bomb' in German. The atmosphere was 'bombastic', the show was interrupted because a 'calorie bomb' had been found,... or the detection dogs couldn't find the bomb because they were distracted by all those bones in the hall.

Then yesterday was the DSDS final. The show was so boring that after only 15 minutes the first people started calling for another bomb threat...