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Alexander Hold to Return to TV This Year

His comeback mixes entertainment and politics with filming scheduled in the Bavarian Landtag recess so he says his parliamentary duties will be unchanged.

Overview

  • Sat.1 has confirmed new episodes of Richter Alexander Hold will air this year and says production is already underway.
  • Filmpool Entertainment began shooting in August at Bavaria Studios and the production has circulated at least one promotional photo of Hold in the judge’s robe.
  • The broadcaster commissioned both daytime/early-evening episodes and a separate primetime special, but it has not given exact broadcast dates.
  • Hold, who is vice president of the Bavarian Landtag and a Freie Wähler member, calls the TV work a “Ferienjob” and says filming during the sitzungsfreie Zeit will not affect his parliamentary role.
  • The revival follows a wider trend of early-2000s TV judges returning to German screens and taps a familiar format that previously ran from 2001 to 2013 with roughly 2,038 staged cases.