Showville 2 SABC2
TX Time: 16h00
Genre: Variety, Reality Competition
The series brings the glamour and glitz of television to the small, remote and often overlooked dorpies across South Africa, offering ordinary citizens their 15 minutes of fame as they showcase their talents in front of the camera.
Hosted this season by Lorcia Cooper and Morena Sefatsa (replacing Rob van Vuuren and Bontle Modiselle), the series travels to small towns for a three-day audition.
Towns featured this season include Mossel Bay, Queenstown, Plettenberg Bay, Grahamstown, Graaff-Reinet, Cradock and Port Alfred.
TVSA Show Page: Showville 2
The Taste 2
Channel: eExtra (OpenView HD 105 / DStv 195)
TX Time: 18h00
Genre: Reality Competition, Food
The Taste is open to everyone - from home cooks to professional chefs - in an effort to find some of America's most naturally gifted cooks.
The series features no-holds barred Chef Anthony Bourdain, British food star Nigella Lawson, expert chef/author Ludo Lefebvre, and joining The Taste this season, Chef, author and restaurateur Marcus Samuelsson.
These four stars of the culinary world will compete, mentoring a team of four contestants apiece as they vie to create the best tasting dishes in a state of the art kitchen.
America The Beautiful: Wild South West 3
Channel: Nat Geo Wild (DStv 182 / StarSat 221)
TX Time: 18h00
Genre: Wildlife, Nature, Documentary Series
It's hot. Dang hot. Prepare for the daily struggle of life in America's expansive desert country.
For many creatures in the Wild South West, survival means being both tough and creative.
From the fur-clad bears on the treeless mountain tops of Big Bend National Park, to the 20-million bats that pour out of Bracken Cave every night to form the largest concentrations of mammals on the planet - Wild South West delivers a surprise twist at every turn.
Long Lost Family 6
Channel: ITV Choice (DStv 123)
TX Time: 18h00
Genre: Reality
From an adoption in a developing country in the 1980s, to the shocking world of Magdalene Laundries in 1960s Ireland, to using the newest family finding tool of DNA testing, the series explores new territory and tackles some of the most difficult social history of family separation through compelling and touching personal stories.
Across seven new episodes the programme scours the globe, traveling from New Zealand and Australia, to South America and Switzerland, as well as the length and breadth of the UK.
Davina and Nicky track down and reunite family members, some of whom have been tirelessly searching for years, others who have spent their whole lives not even knowing that their relatives exist.
The Voice 13
The Voice 13
Channel: Vuzu (DStv 116)
TX Time: 18h00
Genre: Reality Competition, Music
In the season premiere, the competition is fierce, the talent is exceptional and the surprises abound as coaches Miley Cyrus, Jennifer Hudson, Adam Levine and Blake Shelton all vie to discover and coach the next singing phenomenon from the country's best vocalists in the blind auditions.
The vocalists compete to be selected by one of the coaches and fight for a chance to win the title of "The Voice".
Contestants in the first blind auditions include a drag artist with a smoky rendition of Otis Redding's Try a Little Tenderness, a Youtube star whose channel went viral of videos featuring him and his four-year-old daughter, and a cancer survivor and widow who takes on Radioactive Soul.
Breaking Homicide
Channel: IDx (DStv 171 / StarSat 223)
TX Time: 21h00
Genre: True Crime, Documentary Series
Former Rhode Island Police Detective Derrick Levasseur and forensic psychologist Kris Mohandie bring closure to desperate families as they investigate 'cold' murder cases.
In each episode they will apply their investigatory skills to re-examine original clues and chase down new ones in an effort to solve the case once and for all.
From a serial killer haunting Honolulu that has never been caught, to the sadistic assault and murder of a girl from Levasseur's hometown in Rhode Island, each case is still open without any convictions.
Brooklyn Nine-Nine 2
Channel: SABC3
TX Time: 18h02
Genre: Comedy
Brooklyn Nine-Nine is an American television sitcom created by Dan Goor and Michael Schur which follows an immature New York City Police Department detective and his relationship with his strict new, no-nonsense captain, who tells him that he must grow up and "respect the badge".
In the Season 5 premiere, "Undercover": Jake's undercover FBI operation ends in a successful sting, until he learns one mobster has gotten away.
As Jake enlists Charles' help to track him down, Holt tests the squad's patience with practice drills.
TVSA Show Page: Brooklyn Nine-Nine 2
Twist of Fate 2
Channel: Zee World (DStv 166)
TX Time: 20h00
Genre: Telenovela, Soapie
After a near fatal accident Abhi loses his memory of the past, having no recollection of Pragya and their marriage that they desperately fought for. He forgets about their relationship altogether.
Pragya is urged to stay away from Abhi as any sudden flood of emotions could send him back into a coma however, when she gets thrown out of the Mehra house, Pragya learns of Aliya's plan to exploit Anhi's memory loss and use him for their own benefit.
Fate allows the destined couple to re-enter each other's lives but will Pragya remain a stranger to Abhi or will their journey of love begin all over again?
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