European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - December 25, 1993, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Is amps div Casey a rehearsing Wolfgang Hoffmann Hopes this routine wins a future Mann o Mann ,Man from the cover Pool. The Guy who can do it All a he ends up the Man among men. The setting for Mann o Afan an hour Long show that starts at 10 . Get every other saturday and opens a news season Jan. 8 a is a night club Complete with stage runway attractive women and a tue does show master. A big role in Mann o Mann is played by the women audience which decides who is that nights top Man. The women vote from their tables via tiny computers. The numbers shoot Over to the show s models who then whittle away at the 10 men throwing the losers in the water until one remains. A when the men get Clumsy the Mother instinct is awakened in the women and they help them carry on even though the men might feel foolish and inept a said Dob Rokyens the new director of the show. The saturday night show started in 1q92 and has since won an audience of 4.5 million viewers in Germany alone. Mann o Mann is carried on the Astra satellite system which hits 45 million Homes in Europe. As for the american military Afan o Man cover Story Thomas Hoff Nan practices his striptease number in front of Eva Henning a costume design Assis Tatt flows into 13,000 Cable systems plugged into base housing in Germany in addition to reaching gis watching of base Cable and satellite throughout Europe. A we draw More viewers than its direct Competition the popular saturday night sports program on Public television a which is quite a feat Quot Gupta said. The show is filmed in Advance 12 shows at a time in the info studios in Monheim which is out in the Boondocks near Disseldorf. According to Gupta British television is working on a version tentatively called o boy other interested parties Are the Spanish French greeks swedes and finns but there have been no nibbles from the United states so far. A Grundy worldwide of new York a prestigious distributor of television rights is confident they can find a stateside producer because they said there Isnit anything like it in the u.s.,�?� Gupta said. The Mann Ohsann studio audience is All female. Some 250 women arrive on their own. Others zip in from All Over the Republic by Way of travel agents. The women arrive hours before Showtime. They Are dined and wined before they flow onto the set which resembles a disco nightclub. ,. By then the women Are rip roaring to go and can really get raucous a said a technical assistant on the set. But they Are also the driving Force behind the  the atmosphere created by the women can reach pop concert decibels. They stand on chairs and to btes shouting encouragement to the men going through their paces. Some even lose control and leap fully clothed into the swimming Pool on one Side of the club. Audience enthusiasm is so great that some contestants receive love letters As a result of being on the show. Quoting statistics Gupta said More women watch the show on television than men of 100 viewers 54 Are women. It comes As no Surprise that a Quarter of the youth Ages 14 to 19 who spend their saturday nights watching television catch Mann o Mann. The show has a silly fraternity club adolescence about it and Page 4 sunday december 26, 1993