The biopic “No Time for Assholes” (ZDF) shows a lesser-known side of star chef Horst Lichter. In “Polizeiruf 110” (Das Erste) an eccentric musician is suspected of murder. And Justin Timberlake fights in “In Time” (RTL) against a murderous time dictatorship.
8:15 p.m., ZDF, Horst Lichter – No time for assholes, drama
What makes a person happy? When Horst Lichters (Oliver Stokowski) mother Margret (Barbara Nüsse) fell seriously ill in 2014, he gave his life a new direction. Horst and his wife Nada (Chiara Schoras) immediately set off for their old home, to Rommerskirchen near Düsseldorf. It is a journey into one’s own childhood that shows a hitherto lesser known Horst Lichter.
8:15 p.m., Das Erste, Polizeiruf 110: None of us, crime thriller
Tito (Alexandru Cirneala), owner of the MIAU music club, was murdered during a live concert. The well-known musician Jo Mennecke (Bela B. Felsenheimer), who ordered the king (Anneke Kim Sarnau) and Bukow (Charly Hübner) together with Ms. Dora and the team bus to the Revier, was suspect. The two have their hands full with the musician’s starry airs. But Bukow is plagued by other worries: his old opponent Subocek (Aleksandar Jovanovic) is back in Rostock and is blackmailing him.
8:15 p.m., RTL, In Time – your time is running out, sci-fi action
In the world of the future one can buy additional years of life. However, the worker Will (Justin Timberlake) lacks the necessary change and so he has to work hard every hour. But he’s lucky: the rich suicide Henry gives him his entire lifetime. When Will is accused of helping Henry’s death, he takes the banker’s daughter Sylvia (Amanda Seyfried) hostage and runs away.
8:15 p.m., ProSieben, Thor: Decision day, comic action
Thor (Chris Hemsworth) is held as a prisoner in a remote world and has to fight as a gladiator for the entertainment of the people. He meets an old friend. Together they must try to leave Sakaar to return to Asgard and stop the power-hungry Hela (Cate Blanchett), Thor’s sister. This wants to initiate Ragnarok, the destruction of the planet.
8:15 p.m., Sat.1, Fack Ju Göhte, comedy
Actually, ex-prison Zeki (Elyas M’Barek) wants to make a good life for himself after his release: All he has to do is get the money from the bank robbery that was buried on a construction site. The new gym of the Goethe Comprehensive School is now there. Zeki sees only one way to get the money: He can be hired as a substitute teacher without further ado – and of all things, he has to take on the dreaded class 10b. But his rather ruthless (teaching) methods prove to be an ideal means of gaining respect.