Programme Overview
Description
Based on the series created by L. Benasuly Productions, Dana Pollig and Udi Kagan for Keshet 12 and Cellcom, Messiah is a scripted situation comedy centering on a one-hit-wonder stuck in his 90s moment of success, now running his mother’s former restaurant, with dreams of relaunching his music career and climbing back to the top of the charts.
In Keshet Germany’s 8x30' adaptation Messiah Superstar for ProSiebenSat.1's streaming platform JOYN, the 5th of July 1995 is the most important day in Thomas Janowski's life. It's the day his Eurodance anthem XTC outperformed Culture Beat’s Mr. Vain and reached the top of the German charts.
Suddenly everything seems possible: Money. Fame. A big career. Thomas – played by Florian Lukas (From Hilde with Love, Die Wespe) - has achieved his dreams. He's a star. He is Messiah.
Now, 29 years later, Messiah is still here, but he is no longer on stage at Top of the Pops. Instead, he’s performing in his own themed restaurant in Berlin, singing his one and only hit single - more than once every evening, in front of a handful of customers... and his mother. Taunted by the success of his former peers – in his mind, still his rivals – he hatches plot after plot to try to climb his way back into the headlines.
Messiah Superstar is written by Sebastian Colley (Kroymann, How to Sell Drugs Online (Fast)) and directed by Felix Stienz (Merz Gegen Merz, Unter Freunden stirbt man nicht (You Don’t Die Among Friends)).