My New Best Friend - German Adaptation

German Adaptation

In the German adaption of the show, "Mein neuer Freund", former MTV-VJ Christian Ulmen plays Marc Wootton's part. Some of the characters played by Ulmen are exactly the same as in "My new best friend":

• "Veith" ("Stevie")
• "Jürgen" ("Gary")
• "Marcel" ("Simon")
• "Alexander von Eich" ("Sasha")

Other characters are:

• "Uwe", a childish nerd with lots of allergies, similar to "Daniel"
• "Martina", who used to be "Martin" in his earlier life. The male candidate has to tell his friends and family, that Martina has been his best buddy in old school days and that he fell in love with him/her, after Martin turned into Martina
• "Collin", an American-German schizo freak who constantly wants to contact aliens
• "Ecke", a pot smoking good-for-nothing
• "Knut", a singer-songwriter-entertainer-painter (who really has no idea of any of these things), hates to wash himself and loves corny jokes

The audience ratings were low so "ProSieben" (the TV station) dropped the show after having broadcast only one episode. But a devoted fan community emerging from the internet addressed a petition in order to bring "Mein neuer Freund" back on the screen - and succeeded. It was the first time in German TV that such a thing happened.