Rooted
Channel: S3
TX Time: 18h30
Genre: Nature, Documentary Series
Award-winning natural history film team Dereck and Beverly Joubert take us on an remarkable journey, revealing five of Southern Africa's most iconic trees.
The series also follows the unique repertoire of animals, insects, birds and environmental elements that have created their own roots, in and around these majestic shelters.
The documentary is narrated by actress Fiona Ramsay (Lioness).
Memoirs of Acacia
Across the dunes of the Kalahari, a towering, 200-year-old tree extends its branches to the heavens.
This camel thorn Acacia is a secret refuge for those in the know. Colonies of sociable weavers use its branches for their oversized nests.
Oryx, kudu, and other herbivores feed on her ripened pods, helping soften the seeds for germination.
As the rainy season descends, its branches become draped with golden flowers, a magnet for pollinating insects.
For many, the Acacia is a 'tree of life.' It's a relationship as old as the Kalahari itself.
Sweet Seduction
In the northeast corner of Botswana, the rainy season is months away.
The sausage tree offers a beguiling oasis for wildlife - from birds and insects, to much larger mammals like elephants -all reeling from the dry conditions.
Then, as the rains descend, brilliant red flowers bloom and entice parrots, squirrels and sunbirds to help with pollination.
Summer allows the sausage tree to live up to its name, delivering massive, sausage-shaped fruit, a nutritious feast and a cornerstone of life in this exotic ecosystem.
The Giant
In the misty and lush tropical forest surrounding South Africa's Soutpansberg Mountains, a 600-year-old outeniqua yellowwood tree reigns supreme.
It's 115 feet tall, and a source of food and shelter for an array of plants and animals.
Crowned eagles construct massive nests in her fold, and Samango monkeys take refuge in her branches.
As if it wasn't unique enough, this ancient, endangered tree has no flowers, instead reproducing through male and female cones - a marvel of the natural world, and a true South African treasure.
Rock Splitter
The Namaqua rock fig is known as the rock splitter.
It's not just a testament to its ability to withstand the dry conditions, but a literal tribute to its powerful root system, which extends 200 feet into the Earth in search of water.
Besides the army of wildlife who rely on it for survival, the rock splitter has a unique relationship with its own species of miniature wasp that help pollinate its tiny flowers.
As temperatures soar each passing year, this ultimate survivor reaches deeper to squeeze every drop of water from the parched land.
The Hollow Heart
Located on the Malilangwe Game Reserve in southern Zimbabwe, this 800-year-old baobab is a remarkable tree containing its own ecosystem.
Capable of withstanding extreme drought by storing water in its hollow trunk, it draws a multitude of wildlife, from elephants who strip its bark in search of food, to vultures that nest on its branches.
Remarkably, it also has another gift: a velvety fruit packed with an astonishing cocktail of nutrients.
To witness the baobab is to be awed by the natural forces that produced it.
The Goldbergs 4
Channel: e.tv
TX Time: 19h30
Genre: Comedy
Before there were parenting blogs, trophies for showing up and peanut allergies, there was a simpler time called the '80s.
For geeky young Adam, these were his wonder years, and he faced them armed with a video camera to capture all the crazy.
The Goldbergs are a loving family like any other - just with more yelling.
Mom Beverly is a classic "smother," an overbearing, overprotective matriarch who rules this brood with 100% authority and zero sense of boundaries.
Dad Murray is gruff, sometimes oblivious but with good intentions.
Sister Erica is 17, popular, terrifying and not one to mess with.
Barry is 16, an overly emotional teen with mad rap skills.
Adam is the youngest, a camera-wielding future director with a love of all things "nerdy."
In the Season 4 premiere, "Breakfast Club": Adam works on his new persona for the first day of high school that he hopes will up his coolness level.
Meanwhile, Beverly gets her teaching certification to become a substitute teacher.
But when she is demoted to sub-janitor, she sends the Goldberg kids to a Saturday detention, but it is Principal Ball who must oversee the kids.
Later, Murray arrives and takes over where he gives an important lesson.