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Hunt for a phantom in “Polizeiruf 110”
“Police call 110: On the Saale bright beach”: The commissioners Henry Koitzsch (Peter Kurth, left) and Michael Lehmann (Peter Schneider) crime scene
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In “Polizeiruf 110” (Das Erste) a telephone data campaign is supposed to shed light on a mysterious murder case. A bachelorette party gets out of hand in “Girls’ Night Out” (RTL). Tom Hiddleston also hunts the giant ape “Kong” (ProSieben).
8:15 p.m., Das Erste, Police Call 110: At the Saale hellem Strande, crime thriller
Detective Chief Inspector Henry Koitzsch (Peter Kurth) and Detective Inspector Michael Lehmann (Peter Schneider) don’t know what to do next: three months ago Uwe Baude was lying dead in the entrance of his house, murdered by stitches in the abdomen and lungs. There are no signs of a motive, the perpetrator disappeared into the night without a trace. There is no evidence, no one has seen anything. What exactly happened that night in front of Uwe Baude’s house? A large-scale radio cell evaluation should help. People who telephoned in the vicinity of the crime scene on the night of the murder will be summoned.
8:15 p.m., RTL, Girls’ Night Out, comedy
Friends Jess (Scarlett Johansson), Blair (Zoe Kravitz), Alice (Jillian Bell) and Frankie (Ilana Glazer) have a hen party. When a male stripper accidentally dies, events roll over. The young women have to dispose of a corpse. And to top it all off, the “real” stripper suddenly appears at the door. Who was the man they killed?
8:15 p.m., Sat.1, class reunion 1.0, comedy
An invitation to the 30-year class reunion brings the lives of the three friends Thomas (Til Schweiger), Andreas (Milan Peschel) and Nils (Samuel Finzi) upset – in the midst of different life crises, the mid-forties want to revive the good old days and prove to themselves that they are still a long way from being old. Will that work out?
8:15 p.m., ProSieben, Kong: Skull Island, monster adventure
An expedition team (Tom Hiddleston, Brie Larson, John Goodman, Samuel L. Jackson, among others) sets out into the depths of the South Pacific, to the unexplored “Skull Island”. As the helicopters approach the island, one by one they are brought down by a huge monkey. But Kong is not the only gigantic prehistoric monster that has its home in this pristine paradise.
8:15 p.m., RTLzwei, chappie, sci-fi action
To make Johannesburg safer, the South African police have successfully used police robots. The young project leader Deon Wilson (Dev Patel) is celebrated for his achievement, but he wants more. He is working on an artificial intelligence for robot systems. He does not get permission from his boss for this, so he simply steals a discarded police robot to test his latest invention on it. But then Deon and the robot are kidnapped by a gang of juvenile punks. The leaders name the battered robot “Chappie” and want to abuse it for illegal purposes.