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RTL Pauses Princess Charming After Five Seasons

RTL offered no detailed reasons for the pause, leaving the door open to a future return.

Overview

  • Producer Yvonne Plume announced the decision on LinkedIn in late August 2026 and RTL confirmed to DWDL.de that no new season is currently planned.
  • The announcement comes while the format is newly nominated for the Deutscher Fernsehpreis in the category Best Reality Show, underlining its recent cultural recognition.
  • The show's fifth season, broadcast in summer 2025, concluded without a traditional finale and has remained a topic of public discussion since then.
  • For production company Seapoint the pause adds to commercial setbacks, because the company will also lose the production contract for Let's Dance to BBC Studios from 2028.
  • The decision reduces immediate visibility for a high-profile queer dating format and could affect how broadcasters commission niche reality shows, with a future comeback left possible but unspecified.