In “Dünentod – A North Sea Crime” (RTL), a mentally unstable woman finds herself at the center of a murder case. On ZDF, Sebastian Lege exposes tricks of the fast food industry. In addition, investigator Sarah Kohr (ZDFneo) has to save a Chinese billionaire.
8:15 p.m., RTL, Dünentod – A North Sea crime thriller: The woman on the beach, crime thriller
In the idyllic town of Werlesiel, the motorized paraglider Willem Leefmann is discovered dead in the dunes. During the investigation it turns out that numerous villagers had a motive for his murder. The mentally unstable Sabine Petersen (Berit Vander), who is shunned by the community, becomes the focus of the case. The investigators uncover a dark secret that lies buried deep in the dunes and is the key to the current case – but this begins a nerve-wracking race against time.
8:15 p.m., ZDF, ZDFbesseresser: The truth about McDonald’s & Co., food report series
McDonald’s, Burger King and Subway – Sebastian Lege shows what’s really in burgers, shakes and sandwiches. Burger King advertises grilled meat over an open fire, but the only thing behind it is an efficient machine. Subway’s teriyaki sandwich has little to do with the Asian classic. And McDonald’s milkshake is made primarily from water. Fast food companies are criticized for their high-calorie food and produce an enormous amount of packaging waste every year. Employee rights and hygiene deficiencies are other topics that the film deals with.
8:15 p.m., kabel eins, The Golden Compass, Fantasy
Lyra (Dakota Blue Richards) is exposed to experimental theology from an early age. One day, when she overhears a lecture by her uncle Lord Asriel (Daniel Craig), she unknowingly becomes the heroine of a legendary mystery: the lecture is about a small particle called Dust, which is said to be able to connect different worlds. Lyra is suddenly part of a world full of legendary creatures north of the Arctic Circle, in which a golden compass seems to play a central role.
8:15 p.m., ZDFneo, Sarah Kohr – Schutzbefohlen, thriller
It is no coincidence that Sarah Kohr (Lisa Maria Potthoff) intervenes when a life-threatening attack on the Chinese businessman Mian Chen (Vu Dinh) in Hamburg completely overwhelms his bodyguards. Sarah knows who the attacker is and is already looking for the man. The perpetrator is Henning Lanz (Sebastian Blomberg), a former colleague from Sarah’s past as a bodyguard at the State Criminal Police Office who has gone into hiding.
8:15 p.m., 3Sat, The Diplomat: Bad game, crime thriller
In a Prague hospital, a severely abused German tourist (Anna-Lena Schwing) is fighting for her life; she is in a coma. The 17-year-old girl’s parents and brother, who have traveled from Germany, are horrified that the German ambassador in Prague, Karla Lorenz (Natalia Wörner), is ensuring that the police let the main suspect go. By pointing out the diplomatic immunity of 18-year-old Philippe (Johannes Meister), the son of the French ambassador Claude Beaumont (Jean-Yves Berteloot), Karla tops the unlawful interrogation of the high school graduate.