Cooked with Cannabis
Channel: Netflix South Africa
TX Time: 10h00 (all episodes)
Genre: Food, Reality Competition
Chefs compete to get the hosts and special guests high on elevated cannabis cuisine with their artful use of leafy herb, THC infusions and CBD sauces.
Long gone are the days of pot brownies and marijuana cookies.
Today, the top chefs around the USA and around the world are creating cannabis-infused culinary masterpieces.
Here lies the most fun-filled, fascinating and mouth-watering cooking competition series that gives a whole new meaning to the word "baked."
Along Came Love
Channel: FOX Life (DStv 126)
TX Time: 15h50
Genre: Telenovela
Along Came Love follows the beautiful Luciana who, after being deported, returns to the USA to reunite with the only family she has left: her mother and brother.
After arriving at the vineyard where both have worked for many years, she meets David the landowner and finds something unexpected: love.
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The Mallorca Files
Channel: BBC Brit (DStv 120)
TX Time: 20h00
Genre: Police Procedural, Drama
Set amongst the vibrant international community of the Spanish island, The Mallorca Files centres around Detective Miranda Blake - an introvert who is used to living by the rules - and her German counterpart Max Winter, whose approach to policing is based on gut-instinct, with little interest in process.
Their dynamic - sometimes in sync, but mostly not - sets the rich humour and playful tone of the series, which marks a return to the police caper.
The Mallorca Files plays out against the backdrop of sun-drenched locations and glamourous lifestyle of the Balearic island few Brits get to see.
In the series premiere, "Honour Amongst Thieves": British police officer DC Miranda Blake is in Palma de Mallorca to escort a known criminal turned supergrass, Niall Taylor, back to the UK.
When things don't go according to plan her world is turned on its head, and she decides to conduct her own investigation in order to track down the truth.
Reluctantly paired with wise-cracking German detective Max Winter by local police chief Ines Villegas, the two work through Niall's gang, winding up at Niall's wake and meeting meeting Niall's daughter Claire and ex-wife Stella.
But with a rising body count and the subsequent disappearance of Claire, things look like they're getting out of hand.
When Miranda and Max spot a vital clue, a frantic car chase ensues, and the killer is at last revealed. But when Max finds himself in difficulty, Miranda is left with a dilemma: save Max or let the killer go?
Back in Palma, Miranda has to explain events to her senior officer, Abbey Parker, which leads to a life-changing decision.
I Can Make You a Supermodel
Channel: Lifetime (DStv 131)
TX Time: 20h05
Genre: Reality Competition, Reality Makeover, Fashion
Follows model manager Paul Fisher and his team of experts as they scour the high streets of Newcastle, Glasgow, Leeds and Edinburgh to discover the next British supermodel.
As a top agent who has represented some of the world's most successful models, including Naomi Campbell and Carla Bruni, Paul has talent for finding the superstars of the future.
In each episode, Paul and his team hit the streets looking for British girls with that fashion superstar potential.
The select few who make the grade are given a transformational model makeover and test shoot.
The girls with the most promise are put forward to some of the world's biggest fashion brands, where a lucky few will secure professional modelling jobs.
Paul's expert team includes model Jen Dawson, photographer Ruby Tindall and personal assistant Sophie McMullan.
Secrets at the Hotel
Channel: FOX Life (DStv 126)
TX Time: 16h40
Genre: Telenovela
A young man of humble origins travels to the Gran Hotel on outskirts of the San Cristóbal Tlaxico village to visit his sister Cristina who works as the floor supervisor.
There, Julio discovers that more than a month after being dismissed for allegedly stealing from the hotel, she has disappeared from everyone's memory.
He decides to stay on as a waiter to investigate her disappearance but does not expect the love, mystery, death and betrayal that follow.
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The Last Dance
Channel: Netflix South Africa
TX Time: 10h00 (all episodes)
Genre: Documentary Series, Sport
The series chronicles one of the greatest icons and most successful teams in sports history, Michael Jordan and the 1990s Chicago Bulls, and features never-before-seen footage from the 1997-98 season as the team pursued its sixth NBA championship in eight years.
In the fall of 1997, Michael Jordan, Bulls owner Jerry Reinsdorf and head coach Phil Jackson agreed to let an NBA Entertainment film crew follow the team all season long.
The result would be a remarkable portrait of an iconic player and a celebrated team – a portrait only now being revealed, more than two decades later, in The Last Dance.
As the series weaves its way through the tumultuous 1997-98 season, you will be transported back to how it all began – from Jordan's childhood roots, the Bulls' dire circumstances before Jordan's arrival and how the team was built after drafting Jordan in 1984, to the struggles that eventually led to the team's first NBA championship.
As the series takes the audience through the Bulls' first five championships, experience the off-court challenges, struggles and triumphs that were a part of the culture-shifting phenomenon created by Jordan and the Bulls.
It's an unlikely scenario that serves as a fascinating backdrop for the inside tale of the 1998 championship run, with extensive profiles of Jordan's key teammates including Scottie Pippen, Dennis Rodman and Steve Kerr, head coach Phil Jackson, and featuring dozens of current-day interviews with rivals and luminaries from basketball and beyond.
All throughout, the tension and conflict that defined that final championship run are very much on display.
Shadows from the Past
Channel: FOX Life (DStv 126)
TX Time: 17h30
Genre: Telenovela
Two rival families living in the village of Santa Lucía, the Mendozas and the Alococers, are involved in a whirlwind of passion, pain, and revenge.
Severiano Mendoza and Candela Santana are a rich and powerful couple who live at the ranch, "Las Ánimas", along with their young son, Cristóbal.
Roberta and Raymundo Alcocer have a daughter named Alonza.
However, they do not enjoy the same luxuries as the Mendoza family, which causes frustration and resentment in Roberta as nothing is enough to fill the inferiority complex that follows her like a shadow.
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Alaska Animal Rescue
Channel: Nat Geo Wild (DStv 182)
TX Time: 18h00
Genre: Wildlife, Docu-Reality
This series follows wildlife heroes from three renowned conservation centres as they respond to animals in need.
Whether caring for a stranded sea lion, an orphaned lynx or an injured eagle, these are the people on the front lines, willing to do whatever it takes to rescue and preserve Alaska's wildlife.
The Alaska SeaLife Center in Seward monitors the state's 6,640 miles of coastline, helping a diverse range of marine life, including walruses, whales, otters and octopuses.
Alaska Raptor Center in Sitka specialises in the state's airborne animals, like bald eagles, owls and other birds of prey.
And the Alaska Wildlife Conservation Center in Portage takes on the biggest and most iconic land animals, including bears, wolves and bison.
These dedicated first responders, veterinarians and animal caretakers work hands on - day in and day out - through dangerous terrain and unforgiving climates to rescue and rehabilitate these animals to make sure this wild state stays wild.
In the series premiere, "Fly Like an Eagle": With an orphaned newborn sea otter pup, a young bald eaglet that's fallen from its nest, and rescued foxes preparing for a habitat upgrade, nobody's getting much rest.
America's Funniest Home Videos 27
Channel: FOX (DStv 125)
TX Time: 17h25
Genre: Clip Show, Comedy
Now hosted by Alfonso Ribeiro, this series has been running since 1989 and is one of the longest running non-scripted shows in the world.
With over 800 episodes having been compiled to date, America's Funniest Home Videos features home-made videos sent in by viewers.
From practical jokes and home improvement plans gone awry, to animal mishaps and just flat-out strange behaviour, this show pulls out all the stops to present everyday people caught on tape in their most embarrassing moments.
In the Season 27 premiere, "Hilarious Face Swaps and a Hip-Hop Mama": Clips include a teenager recovering from dental surgery who is convinced her nurse was Hilary Clinton, a woman in labour trying to distract herself by dancing hip hop in the delivery room, a boy trying to return his neighbor's wind-blown garbage can, a hover board music montage, and some face-swapping videos.
Road to Destiny
Channel: FOX Life (DStv 126)
TX Time: 18h20
Genre: Telenovela
Luisa Fernanda Pérez, a beautiful, 18-year-old student, has two passions: mastering the violin and gardening, a skill she inherited from her father, Pedro, the former groundskeeper of the wealthy Altamirano family's estate.
A chance encounter with destiny alters her life when she is injured in a car accident caused by Luis (her biological father), a playboy lawyer.
In the process, Luisa falls for his stepson, Carlos, the attractive, young doctor who treats her in hospital.
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Half & Half 3
Channel: 1Magic (DStv 103)
TX Time: 17h30
Genre: Comedy
Sitcom set in San Francisco, about the lives of fictional half-sisters who have only one thing in common: their father.
Growing up separately, these two virtual strangers suddenly become neighbours in the same apartment building and experience the challenges of sisterhood for the first time.
In the Season 3 premiere, "The Big My Little Pony Episode": Still upset that her father bought Dee Dee a horse when they were kids, Mona buys herself a horse on the internet.
Mona returns from a Hawaiian vacation and clears the air with Spencer. They reaffirm their decision to just be friends.
TVSA Show Page: Half & Half 3
The Midnight Gospel
Channel: Netflix South Africa
TX Time: 10h00 (all episodes)
Genre: Animation, Comedy
The Midnight Gospel is the story of Clancy, a spacecaster with a malfunctioning multiverse simulator who leaves the comfort of his extra-dimensional home on the Chromatic Ribbon to interview beings living in other worlds.
Traversing trippy worlds inside his universe simulator, Clancy explores existential questions about life, death and everything in between.