2006 in German television

Events

• 26 February - Michael Knopf wins the sixth season of Big Brother Germany.
• 9 March - Texas Lightning are selected to represent Germany at the 2006 Eurovision Song Contest with their song "No No Never". They are selected to be the fifty-first German Eurovision entry during Der deutsche Vorentscheid 2006 – 50 Jahre Grand Prix held at the Deutsches Schauspielhaus in Hamburg.
• 18 March - Tobias Regner wins the third season of Deutschland sucht den Superstar.
• 21 May - Unser Charly actor Wayne Carpendale and his partner Isabel Edvardsson win the first season of Let's Dance.

Debuts

Domestic

• 3 April - Let's Dance
• 29 October - ''''

International

• 10 February - Pet Alien
• 3 May - American Dad!
• 8 May - Postman Pat
• 19 October - ''Bones''

Military Television Debuts

BFBS

• ''Muffin the Mule''

Television shows

1950s

• ''Tagesschau''

1960s

• ''heute''

1970s

• ''Tagesthemen''

1980s

• Wetten, dass..?
• ''Lindenstraße''

1990s

• Gute Zeiten, schlechte Zeiten
• Marienhof
• Unter uns
• Verbotene Liebe
• Schloss Einstein
• In aller Freundschaft
• ''Wer wird Millionär?''

2000s

• Big Brother Germany
• ''Deutschland sucht den Superstar''