"One like Erika" (The First) shows the fate of the ski world champion Erika Schinegger, who became Erik. On ZDF, Markus Lanz looks back with guests on the Corona year 2020. Ben Stiller is out and about "At night in the museum" on kabel eins.
8:15 pm, The First, One like Erika, Drama
Erika Schinegger (Markus Freistätter) has always been something special. At the time of her birth, the midwife looks a moment longer than usual before announcing a "girl". The father (Gerhard Liebmann), a farmer in Carinthia, is disappointed, he was looking forward to a son. The mother (Birgit Melcher) is happy to have a healthy child. Erika soon feels that something is wrong with her. But nobody else notices. Erika becomes an avid skier. She drives wilder and faster than all the other girls and is accepted into the national team.
8:15 p.m., ZDF, Markus Lanz – The year 2020, ZDF
Markus Lanz looks back on the year together with guests who had to master special situations around the COVID-19 pandemic. He speaks to politicians who have courageously led people through the crisis. With virologists, the new "stars", and with celebrities who describe how badly they were affected by the lockdown. Musicians and artists whose concerts, tours, exhibitions and events have been canceled and who have been robbed of their work base by the corona pandemic also have their say.
8:15 p.m., cable one, at night in the museum, fantasy comedy
Larry Daley (Ben Stiller) is an unemployed unlucky person and daydreamer. But to be able to see his son regularly, he needs a permanent job. When one day he got a job as a night watchman in the Natural History Museum in New York, he was dreading the drowsy task, but he was ready to take everything on himself for his son. The supposed sleeper turns out to be an absolute challenge. Because an ancient Egyptian magic awakens all the figures and exhibits to night life.
8:15 p.m., arte, 4 kings, drama
Lara (Jella Haase), Alex (Paula Beer), Timo (Jannis Niewöhner) and Fedja (Moritz Leu), four young people, spend Christmas in adolescent psychiatry for different reasons: because they got stuck on drugs, their aggression is not under control injured themselves or been the victim of violence. They are severely traumatized and deeply disappointed in their families. The unconventional psychiatrist Dr. Wolff (Clemens Schick) is at their side. He sees their strengths in all fours and trusts them more than they trust themselves.
8:15 p.m., ZDFneo, Wilsberg: The kidnapping
A client of Alex (Ina Paule Klink) is found dead after an appointment. Alex then disappeared without a trace. At Overbeck, she is now the main suspect in a murder case. However, Wilsberg (Leonard Lansink) and Ekki (Oliver Korittke) believe that Alex has been kidnapped. The only trace they have is an Indian figure. Alex had received this as a present from her client and passed it on to Wilsberg – and he sold it to a second-hand dealer. As soon as the two friends start looking, a second corpse falls at Ekki's feet – out of the window of an apartment building.