Overview

• ZDF will air episode 2135 on Thursday, 9 October at 23:15 with a simultaneous livestream, following a same-day recording reported by NRZ.
• The guest list features Christian Dürr on rebuilding the FDP after its election setback and positioning as a “radical center,” Marc Felix Serrao on the party’s relevance and a more appealing liberalism, Sascha Lobo on the need for a liberal force and hybrid threats in cyberspace, and Ulrike Franke on recent European drone incidents and countermeasures.
• NRZ notes ZDF typically publishes the lineup in the afternoon, whereas earlier listings had not yet provided topics or guests for the 9 October broadcast.
• The 8 October episode examined US politics under President Trump and European security, including drone risks, with Omid Nouripour, Ulrike Franke, Elmar Theveßen, Kirk Junker and Annett Meiritz.
• That 8 October program is available to stream in the ZDF-Mediathek from 9 October at 01:00, alongside other archived episodes.