A New York police officer is supposed to help set up a civilian police force in "Schatten der Murder" (ZDF) in divided Berlin. In "Papa auf Wolke 7" (Das Erste) an autistic weather researcher struggles with family problems.
8:15 p.m., ZDF, Shadow of the Murderers – Shadowplay, crime series
The New York police officer Max McLaughlin (Taylor Kitsch) traveled to the divided city of Berlin in 1946 to help set up a civilian police force based on the American model. Max reports to Tom Franklin (Michael C. Hall), the US Vice Consul in Berlin, whose seductive British wife Claire (Tuppence Middleton) is immediately drawn to Max. On the German side, he works with Chief Inspector Elsie Garten (Nina Hoss), whose husband is interned in a Russian POW camp.
8:15 p.m., Das Erste, Papa on Cloud 7, tragic comedy
For Klemens Kurz (Oliver Mommsen) there is nothing more fascinating than clouds. The autistic meteorologist can predict rain to within ten minutes. When his boss, Dr. Mendel (Ruth Reinecke) offers a research job in Spitsbergen, Norway, the scientist does not hesitate long. His two pubescent children Nelli (Rieke Seja) and Carlo (Alessandro Schuster) have just as little desire for the Arctic as Grandpa Arthur (Peter Franke). To prevent the move, they forge a plan: If Dad falls in love, he would have an unbeatable reason to stay.
8:15 p.m., Tele 5, The Alibi, Drama
Two days before the moon landing, the well-known US Senator Ted Kennedy (Jason Clarke) drives his car off a bridge into the abyss after a party on the island of Chappaquiddick. Kennedy survived the fall into the water, the young campaign campaigner Mary Jo Kopechne (Kate Mara) drowns in the passenger seat. Kennedy doesn't report the accident until ten hours later. What really happened on July 18, 1969?
8:15 p.m., RTLzwei, London Has Fallen, action thriller
After the enigmatic death of the British Prime Minister, the heads of Western civilization gather in London to mourn the state. As are their opponents. Probably the best protected burial in the world quickly turns into a deadly gauntlet. Hundreds of terrorists unleash a hellish inferno in the British capital – five heads of state die in the process. The robust bodyguard Mike Banning (Gerard Butler) saves the life of US President Benjamin Asher (Aaron Eckhart) only in a very short time and flees with him immediately to the London underground.
8:15 p.m., arte, the good cop – only the dead don't talk, crime thriller
Chief Inspector Milan Filipovic (Edin Hasanovic) is so desperate about the murder of his girlfriend that he says goodbye to the police force. On his last day at work, he and his colleague Fredo Schulz (Armin Rohde) are called to the airport, where customs have placed a so-called swallower with over a kilo of cocaine in her body. On the way to the station, the woman urgently needs to go to the toilet. The stop at the rest stop becomes a deadly trap for Milan: a man who has apparently followed them from the airport shoots him in cold blood, knocks Fredo down and escapes with the woman.