Overview
- The long-running Tatort season resumes on Sunday, 13 September 2026 with the Hannover episode airing on Das Erste at 20:15 and available in the ARD-Mediathek for registered users from 11 September.
- The premiere, titled König in Gelb, stars Maria Furtwängler as Charlotte Lindholm and is set in a fictional dementia village where the reliability of memory is central to the investigation.
- ARD announced a formal change to distribution that allows registered Mediathek users to watch new Tatort and Polizeiruf 110 episodes from the Friday before the Sunday TV broadcast.
- The unusually long 19-week summer pause drew public frustration in surveys and media reports, and ARD defended the break as an exceptional planning decision that does not signal fewer episodes going forward.
- Production for the episode included an original opera recorded with the NDR Vokalensemble and Capella St. Crucis Hannover, and actor Andreas Lust worked with the Hamburger Alzheimer Gesellschaft and a younger-dementia self-help group to inform his portrayal.