Premieres on
BBC Entertainment this October, 2011:
AccusedPremiere date: Sunday, 2 October 2011 at 20h00
Each episode of this crime anthology is about an ordinary person who ends up in the dock. But should they be there? Are they innocent or guilty or somewhere in-between?
The series stars Doctor Who's
Christopher Eccleston.
For more about it, see:
TVSA's Accused Mini-Site
Five DaughtersPremiere date: Monday, 3 October 2011 at 20h00
A three-episode series about the five victims of the Ipswich prostitute serial murders by the Suffolk Strangler in late 2006, and how the crimes affected their families.
For more about the series, see:
TVSA's Five Daughters Mini-Site
Who Wants to be a Millionaire CelebrityPremiere date: Tuesday, 4 October 2011 at 19h10
New episodes air Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays at 19h10
Chris Tarrant returns to present a special celebrity series of Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?
The famous contestants on the series Piers Morgan and his politician partner Ann Widdicombe, comedian Stephen Fry, chef Nigella Lawson and journalists Jennie Bond and Michael Buerk.
Life of Riley 2Premiere date: Friday, 7 October 2011 at 17h00
Season 2 of the sitcom about a recently married couple - both of whom have been married before - and revolving around their dysfunctional family.
For more about the season, see:
TVSA's Life of Riley 2 Show Page
Top Gear 17Premiere date: Wednesday, 12 October 2011 at 20h00
The season kicks off with the legendary Jaguar E-type’s 50th birthday, and Jeremy celebrates it in style with live music, fighter planes, and some Royal Marines.
There’s also a trip to Italy, where Richard, James and Jeremy negotiate baffling Italian towns and take part in a scavenger hunt to find the world’s best hatchback - will it be the Citroen DS Racing, the Fiat 500C Abarth or the Renaultsport Clio Cup?
Then while Jeremy and Richard look at some second hand bargains, it’s off to the United States for James May, who tests the tough new Range Rover Evoque in Death Valley, and chauffeurs an international celebrity across glamorous Las Vegas.
For more about the season, see:
TVSA's Top Gear 17 Show Page
Come Dine With Me South AfricaPremiere date: Wednesday, 12 October 2011 at 21h00
Local version of the popular cookery show in which amateur chefs attempt to wow each other with their culinary and hospitality skills in order to win a R10,000 in prizes.
For more about it, see:
TVSA's Come Dine With Me South Africa Mini-Site
New Tricks 6Premiere date: Monday, 24 October 2011 at 20h10
Thereafter new episodes air on Mondays at 20h00
Detective Superintendent Sandra Pullman and her unconventional team of ex detectives - Jack Halford, Brian Lane and Gerry Standing - reinvestigate more unsolved murders and cold cases with their characteristic conflicts over procedure and rules.
Blackmail, conspiracy and cover-ups face the team when they reopen cases involving the suspected suicide of a witness to an air crash outside an American military base, the suspicious death of a drug addict in rehab, a pleasure cruiser disaster on the Thames, the murder of a film producer, the disappearance of a young political activist and her boyfriend, and the death of a timeshare magnate.
Rev.Premiere date: Tuesday, 25 October 2011 at 21h00 (double bill)
New episodes air weekly, in half-hour double bills
A comedy series that centres round Reverend Adam Smallbone. He's a Church of England Vicar, newly promoted from a sleepy rural parish to the busy, inner-city world of St Saviour's in Hackney, East London - a world he has no experience of.
Alex - Adam's long-suffering wife - does her best to support him, but she's got her own career as a solicitor to worry about and she's no one's idea of a conventional vicar's wife.
Anybody can and does come into St Saviour's including scheming MPs trying to educate their children on the cheap and heavy drinking, unemployable lost souls.
Total Wipeout 4Premiere date: Sunday, 30 October 2011 at 18h00
Richard Hammond presents a new season of the game show.
For more about the series, see:
TVSA's Total Wipeout Mini-Site
Garrow's LawPremiere date: Sunday, 30 October 2011 at 19h00
Garrow's Law is set in the Old Bailey of Georgian London against a backdrop of corruption and social injustice and is based on real legal cases from the late 18th century.
In an age where the defence counsel acted in a minority of cases, the young William Garrow championed the underdog and pioneered the rigorous cross-examination of prosecution witnesses that paved the way for our fairer legal system of today.
Each episode begins with the investigation of a case sourced from the Old Bailey archives of the day, from rape and murder to high treason and corruption, and follows Garrow and his associate Southouse working to uncover the truth or fight for justice.
BBC Entertainment is on DStv, channel 120.