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unusual facts about Acht


Alan Carr: Chatty Man

In Belgium it is shown on Acht also on a weekly basis and also a few weeks behind the original broadcast in the UK.


Belgian media

In Flanders, VRT channels (Eén, Canvas and Ketnet/OP12) had a combined market share of 42.0% in 2012, VMMa channels (VTM, 2BE, Vitaya and vtmKzoom) 28.8%, SBS Belgium channels (VIER and VIJF) 10.5% and Concentra (Acht) 0,5%.

Copper Hills High School

In the 2006-2007 school year, the Chamber Orchestra attended a tour of San Diego, California, playing Handel's Concerto Grosso 1 as well as Paul Hindemith's Acht Stuke.

Károly Kernstok

Gergely Barki, Evelyn Benesch, Zoltán Rockenbauer: Die Acht. Ungarns Highway in die Moderne. Wien: Deutscher Kunstverlag, 2012.

Mein Herz brennt

The opening line of the song's intro and chorus ('"Nun, liebe Kinder, gebt fein Acht. Ich habe euch etwas mitgebracht" 'Now, dear children, pay attention. I have brought something for you') is taken from the 1950s German children's TV show Das Sandmännchen (The Little Sandman).

Schnitt Acht

Following several 12-inch singles, Schnitt Acht (alternately spelled SCHNITT Acht!) released their first album Subhuman Minds in 1990.

The Generation Gap

Despite its title, The Generation Game (which originally ran in the United Kingdom from 1971-1981 and hosted by Bruce Forsyth) was based on a 1969 Dutch show entitled Een van de acht ("One of the Eight"), which in turn used a stunt-based format much like that of Beat the Clock and Truth or Consequences.

Will Vesper

He rose to early fame as the editor of several anthologies of German poetry of a ‘spiritual’ kind, including Der deutsche Psalter and two volumes of Die Ernte aus acht Jahrhunderten deutscher Lyrik, and for his retelling of the Tristan and Isolde and Parzifal stories, all of which sold in tens of thousands before 1914.


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