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TV tips on Saturday
“Do you understand fun?”: The Ehrlich Brothers provide magical moments.
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8:15 p.m., the first, you understand fun?, show
Barbara Schöneberger presents a new edition of the big Saturday evening show live from Berlin. The program again includes a lot of fun films with the hidden camera – and of course some celebrities are fooled or used as decoys. As a show act, Barbara Schöneberger welcomes the magician duo Ehrlich Brothers, who will present a spectacular illusion performance.
8:15 p.m., ZDF, Wendland: Stiller and the ghosts of the past, thriller
Jakob Stiller (Ulrich Noethen) is an investigator at the LKA Hamburg and has written his first crime novel. That was his undoing. Because Stiller wrote about an unsuccessful operation in which a woman died and nobody was held accountable. One of his superiors recognizes himself in the novel, and his colleagues see Stiller as a polluter. He is transferred to the Wendland, to the Dahlow office. Stiller has hardly arrived in the small town when the local organic farm owner is found dead.
8:15 p.m., Sat.1, The Martian – Save Mark Watney, sci-fi survival adventure
A dangerous sandstorm arises during a space mission to explore the planet Mars. When the mission is aborted, astronaut Mark Watney (Matt Damon) is seriously injured and separated from his comrade while unconscious. While everyone believes he is dead, Watney struggles to survive alone in space. He has to survive four years before the next mission to Mars starts, which is his only hope.
8:15 p.m., ProSieben, The Masked Singer, music show
Ten stars from all walks of life appear in oversized, elaborate costumes that make them completely unrecognizable. One can only speculate about the identity of the prominent undercover singers. Viewers vote for their favourites. At the end of the show, the secret is revealed for the masked celebrity with the fewest votes: Which star is hiding under the mask?
8:15 p.m., VOX, The Day the Earth Stood Still, sci-fi drama
Strange spheres are appearing all over the world, causing unrest and panic around the world. With them appears Klaatu (Keanu Reeves), representative of a powerful alliance of alien planets that have been watching Earth and humanity for quite some time. The US government hastily puts together a team of scientists to solve the mystery of the apparitions and to be able to face a possible threat. Among them is the biologist Helen (Jennifer Connelly), who gradually understands the full extent of Klaatu’s mission as “Friend of the Earth”.