TV tips: bizarre murder in "Beside the Track"

TV tips
Bizarre murder in "Beside the Track"

"Next to the track: close your eyes": Inspector Anna Bartholomé (Marie Leuenberger) and psychiatrist Joe Jessen (Ulrich Noethen) have to do with a new corpse.

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In "Beside the Track" (ZDF) the psychiatrist Jessen is confronted with a bizarre double murder. The monster "Godzilla" is up to mischief on kabel eins and there are new episodes of "Undercover Boss" on RTL.

8:15 p.m., ZDF, Next to the track: close your eyes, thriller

Psychiatrist Joe Jessen (Ulrich Noethen) is overjoyed: After years of separation from his wife Nora (Petra van de Voort), she invites him to go to the North Sea with him and his daughter Lotte (Lilly Liefers) for a few weeks. Fittingly, Vincent Ruiz (Jürgen Maurer) asks him to take a look at an unsolved case very close, in Husum. But first Joe got a gruesome picture in an old farmhouse. The victims are mother and daughter. A bible lies open on the floor, a painted pentagram on the wall.

8:15 p.m., cable one, Godzilla, monster action

Lieutenant Ford Brody (Aaron Taylor-Johnson) works as a bomb defuser in the US Army. When a prehistoric monster awakens in the Philippines, Ford is called up to a special task force of the military, which is supposed to lure the prehistoric beast into the open sea and then kill it with an atomic bomb. But the planned maneuver fails.

8:15 p.m., The First, The Secret Life of the Red Deer, Documentary

He is considered the "king of the woods". The red deer – a myth. He has often been filmed, mostly as a roaring, roaring rutting stag that fights for females in autumn. But how the species ticks for the rest of the year is often overlooked. Red deer are not boring ruminants: hidden cameras at wallows or other rendezvous places give unusual and rare insights into the secret life of the animals.

8:15 p.m., RTL, Undercover Boss, Schwindelsoap

At the start of the anniversary episodes, Tanja Larisch, managing director of E.ON Energie Dialog GmbH, faces the TV experiment. The top manager of the electricity and gas provider wants to drive the energy transition and bring green energy to customers. To do this, she installs solar systems on roofs, works with high-voltage cables in the substation or advises customers in the service center – and often reaches its limits in the process.

10:15 p.m., ZDF, Sicario, Thriller

Arizona, near the Mexican border. During a hostage rescue, the FBI found 42 corpses stowed in plastic bags in an abandoned house in the desert. The wanted hostages weren't in the house, two FBI people are killed. Kate Macer (Emily Blunt) was part of the task force. A short time later she is brought into his team by Matt Graver (Josh Brolin), the head of a special unit of the US government. Graver is reportedly fighting drug smuggling across the border. His people include the opaque lawyer Alejandro (Benicio Del Toro).

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