Eating with My Ex
Channel: SABC3
TX Time: 19h30
Genre: Reality
This reality show features real-life exes squaring off for a post-match analysis over one final dinner.
Eating with My Ex gets to tag along as these former couples dissect their dissent, asking awkward questions and looking for closure.
In these no holds barred conversations across a restaurant table, honest chat, bitter recrimination and even some impressive flirting go down.
Some are seeking explanations; others are hoping to rekindle the romance.
Will food bring them back together, or will it deepen the divide between them?
In the series premiere: Part-time model Niall wants to confront his childhood sweetheart Chloe over her hooking up with his friend when they were "on a break". Can he forgive her?
Jodie is ready to settle down with the right man. Is her ex Jason Mr Right? Or does he love his rapper alter ego 'Sharpie Major' more?
Exes Steph and Scearcia have never dealt with their issues. Can they finally be honest for the first time?
In the second episode of the weekly double bill: Savanna and Courtney had a fiery relationship. Now, Savanna wants to know if Courtney ever cheated. Will Courtney tell the truth?
Lydia's mum isn't happy with the way Jake treated her daughter. Jake wants to give it another shot but can Lydia put her mum's opinion aside and try again?
Luke was left heart-broken after Lewis unexpectedly didn't come back from a lad's holiday. Will Lewis finally reveal why he stayed in Zante?
Die Flinkste Familie
Channel: VIA (DStv 147)
TX Time: 18h00
Genre: Game Show, Afrikaans
It's test time! Die Flinkste Familie is a game show that will have you harking back to your school days.
Beer Adriaanse hosts this light-hearted show that sees two families competing against one another in a series of trivia questions, with physical and mental challenges.
In each episode, two families go head to head in a living room-style studio, where they must duke it out through a series of trivia-based and enjoyable challenges.
It's not about the cash prize, it's about the boasting rights, as these families prepare to show off.
The Nile: 5000 Years of History
Channel: Curiosity Channel (DStv 185)
TX Time: 20h00
Genre: Documentary Series, History, Factual, Travel
For 5,000 years Egypt has been shaped by one thing more than any other: the River Nile.
For historian Bettany Hughes, this is the journey of a lifetime, as she sets off on a 900-mile adventure up the Nile, from its mouth to Egypt's southern border.
Travelling on her own traditional Dahabiya boat, Bettany journeys almost 1,000 miles from Cairo to the Aswan Dam on the mighty Nile, stopping off at the most iconic and dazzling sites along the way.
Bettany takes in the famous pyramids, great temples and new discoveries - which show that without the Nile, there would have been no Ancient Egypt.
MasterChef Australia 12
Channel: M-Net (DStv 101)
TX Time: 18h00
Genre: Reality Competition, Food
The battle is on to find the most promising, undiscovered culinary talent in Australia, as ambitious kitchen enthusiasts take on demanding challenges in their bid to prove they have what it takes to become Australian MasterChef.
This season, new judges Jock Zonfrillo, Melissa Leong and Andy Allen will take the helm of the show that celebrates food and the love of food.
Jock, Melissa and Andy will be joined in the MasterChef Australia kitchen by a delicious assortment of the world's best chefs including Gordon Ramsay, Heston Blumenthal and Curtis Stone.
And in 2020, the traditional MasterChef Australia recipe will boast some new ingredients when the best of the best from the past 11 seasons return to the kitchen in MasterChef Australia – "Back to Win".
In the Season 12 premiere, "Immunity Challenge Part 1": Up for grabs tonight is this season's only immunity pin and joining them all week is chef extraordinaire, Gordon Ramsay.
TVSA Show Page: MasterChef Australia 12
Celebrity Family Feud 3
Channel: eExtra (Openview 105 / DStv 195 / StarSat 489)
TX Time: 16h00
Genre: Game Show
Celebrity Family Feud, a spin-off celebrity version of the game show Family Feud, returns for a third season.
The 10-episode season features celebrity families and their immediate family members or their extended TV families, competing against each other to have fun and win money for charity.
Hosted by Steve Harvey, the show pits celebrities and their families against each other in a contest to name the most popular responses to survey-type questions posed to 100 people.
In each episode the celebrity teams will be made up of a celebrity captain with four relatives or friends playing along.
The winning celebrity team will be given a chance to win up to $25,000 to donate to a charity of their choice.
For the first time, members from host Steve Harvey's family will also join in the fun.
In the Season 3 premiere: The celebrity families competing to win cash for their charities feature the families and friends of singer/songwriter Kelly Clarkson; and comedian, writer, producer and actress Amy Schumer.
In a separate game, family members from Australian conservationist and Dancing with the Stars 21 Mirrorball winner, Bindi Irwin, will take on the family of actress Chrissy Metz, best known for her TV role in This Is Us.
Traffic Cops 8
Channel: Discovery Family (DStv 136 / StarSat 222)
TX Time: 21h00
Genre: Docu-Reality
With hazardous high-speed chases and dangerous drivers, the traffic cops' pursuit skills are tested to the max every day.
Episodes find them tackling cases like a convicted drug dealer leading officers on a 140 mile per hour chase down the A1, one the UK's busiest motorways.
In the Season 8 premiere, "Prying Eyes": The traffic cops in Cardiff get a little help from snoopers trying to call time on a suspected drink-driver, but it's the Rolling Stone lookalike motorist who gets the last laugh.
Elsewhere in South Wales there are prying eyes of a different kind, CCTV cameras, which see lawbreakers at work.
Musiekpaniek 2
Channel: VIA (DStv 147)
TX Time: 20h30
Genre: Game Show, Music, Afrikaans
A fun-filled game show in which a local musician and their superfans join the presenter in studio to test their music trivia knowledge.
Watch as a local musician and a super-fan vie to see whose musical knowledge will hit the highest notes.
The show is hosted by radio and TV presenter Carla Mackenzie, who is also a former Proteas hockey player.
Country Ever After
Channel: Netflix South Africa
TX Time: 10h00 (all episodes)
Genre: Docu-Reality, Music
NOTE: we highlighted this show in September, but the title was delayed. Back then it was called "Country-ish".
Follows country singer Coffey Anderson and his hip-hop dancer wife Criscilla as they raise their children and navigate their opposite country vs. city perspectives of life and parenting.
They've amassed a large social following with videos reaching more than 50-million people who fell in love with their family.
Relatable — and at the same time filled with one-of-a-kind humour and heart - each half hour episode highlights their unique personalities as they navigate everyday life in a far-from-the-country locale: Los Angeles.
Coffey competed on Nashville Star and Criscilla danced with Snoop Dogg, Rihanna and Britney Spears.
MasterChef USA 4
Channel: eReality (Openview 108)
TX Time: 19h00
Genre: Reality Competition, Food
Chef Gordon Ramsay, restaurateur Joe Bastianich and acclaimed chef Graham Elliot return to the MasterChef judging panel.
More hopefuls than ever before auditioned at MasterChef's open casting calls in Boston, Chicago, Cleveland, Dallas, Los Angeles, Miami, Minneapolis, Nashville, New York, Portland and San Diego, to prove they have what it takes to make a mark on the culinary world.
Only one hopeful will join Season 3 winner Christine Ha, the first-ever blind contestant; Season 2 winner Jennifer Behm; and Season 1 winner Whitney Miller in the elite group of MasterChef titleholders.
The best home cooks in America were flown to Los Angeles to present their signature dishes to the judges and the chance to compete for the coveted title of MasterChef, a cookbook deal and the $250,000 grand prize.
This season will feature contestants representing 26 states from all walks of life, including an archaeologist, a high school gym teacher, a former pro-football player, a biochemist, a student, a firefighter, a paralegal and a delivery driver - all with the hopes of turning their culinary dreams into reality.
In the Season 4 premiere: The hopefuls will prepare their signature dishes and present them to the MasterChef judging panel: Ramsay, Bastianich and Elliot.
The judges will taste for flavour, creativity and presentation.
In order to earn a coveted white apron and move to the next round, the home cooks must have an immense passion for food and be determined to win.
Above all, they must convince the judges that they have the potential to out-cook all their rivals.