 Unlike other countries' versions of "Candid Camera", it remains very popular, with seven million viewers on a Saturday evening; almost 25% of the market.It has been going strong since 1980.The 1990s saw female comedians appearing in more prominent roles; whereas actresses such as Evelyn Hamann in the '70s or Iris Berben in the '80s usually played a main character's wife or girlfriend, now women such as Esther Schweins, Tanja Schumann, Anke Engelke and Hella von Sinnen made a name for themselves in more independent roles, although still mostly as part of larger casts.