Tatort-Spickzettel
A Tatort viewer companion that gives a 90-second 'before you watch' dossier on every new episode — who's the guest Kommissar this week, what's the case setup, did you miss last week's twist.
Casual Tatort viewers in Germany who watch monthly and want to actually follow what's happening
- Sunday-evening push: 'Tonight in your region: X & Y in Episode Z, premise in one sentence'
- Cast wiki in your pocket — Kommissar pairings by ARD regional window
- 'Where were we?' recap of last episode with spoiler-free fallback
- Map view of all 16 Tatort regions and which episode aired last per region
Tatort viewership skews casual — the show runs 365 nights a year across regions, and recent episodes (cited in the source article's 'Tatort' cast list) keep driving cast-and-episode search.
Statista reports ~8.55M average viewers per Tatort in 2024, with Münster episodes exceeding 11M; weekly episodic cadence with 1,200+ episodes creates predictable demand for catch-up content.Krimireihe Tatort: Daten & Fakten - Statista ↗The big 'Tatort' review: Münster dominates the 2025 season - MSN ↗
Long-running 'Zum Tatort Gezwungen' podcast (weekly since 2014, every Tatort covered) is post-watch adjacent, while ARD Mediathek and fernsehserien.de provide raw listings — but no dedicated '90-second pre-watch dossier' product surfaced.Folgenverzeichnis | Zum Tatort Gezwungen ↗Tatort Episodenguide - fernsehserien.de ↗
Tatort content is freely available via ARD Mediathek and fernsehserien.de app; existing Tatort podcast operates without confirmed paid model, and casual monthly viewers are notoriously price-sensitive for free-broadcast content.Tatort | Videos und neue Folgen online | ARD Mediathek ↗Folgenverzeichnis | Zum Tatort Gezwungen ↗
Tatort has aired weekly since 1970 with 1,200+ episodes and an institutional cult status in German prime-time; AGF 2024 confirms it still tops TV hit lists, indicating near-perpetual content supply.TV-Bilanz 2024: Live-Sport, Tatort und ein Comeback ↗Krimireihe Tatort: Daten & Fakten - Statista ↗
Episode metadata, cast lists and prior-episode summaries are publicly available via ARD, WDR and fernsehserien.de, and the 90-second dossier format is template-driven and trivially LLM-generatable.Tatort Episodenguide - fernsehserien.de ↗Tatort - Tatort - Fernsehen - WDR ↗