Almost Family
Channel: M-Net (DStv 101)
TX Time: 20h30
Genre: Drama, Comedy-Drama
Based on the Australian series Sisters, this is the story of an unusual family formed through extreme odds.
Exploring such hot-button issues as identity, human connection and what it truly means to be a family, this unconventional dramedy taps directly into the zeitgeist, harnessing the emotional complications that new generations of IVF-bred children all face.
Only child Julia Bechley (Brittany Snow) finds her life turned upside down when her father, Leon Bechley (Timothy Hutton), reveals that - over the course of his prize-winning career as a pioneering fertility doctor - he used his own sperm to conceive upwards of a hundred children.
Reeling from this explosive revelation, Julia discovers two new sisters – her former best friend, Edie Palmer (Megalyn Echikunwoke) and an ex-Olympic athlete, Roxy Doyle (Emily Osment).
As these three young women begin to embrace their new reality, Julia must figure out what life is like without Leon by her side; Edie comes to grips with her burgeoning sexuality, as her marriage falters; and Roxy faces adulthood out of the spotlight.
Against all odds, the three women will attempt to form an untraditional bond as sisters, even as they must welcome a tidal wave of new siblings into their rapidly expanding family.
Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. 7
Channel: M-Net City (DStv 115)
TX Time: 18h20
Genre: Superhero, Sci-Fi, Comedy-Drama
Final season!
In the Season 7 premiere, "The New Deal": Coulson and the Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. are thrust backward in time and stranded in 1931 New York City.
With the all-new Zephyr set to time-jump at any moment, the team must hurry to find out exactly what happened.
If they fail, it would mean disaster for the past, present and future of the world.
In the second episode of the weekly double bill, "Know Your Onions": With the identity of the timeline-unraveling "thread" revealed, the team's mission to protect him at all costs leads each agent to question their own values.
Is preserving the future of the world as they know it worth the destruction they could prevent?
Broke
Channel: M-Net (DStv 101)
TX Time: 18h30
Genre: Comedy
Comedy about a single suburban mother who's shocked when her estranged sister, her sister's outrageously wealthy, big-hearted, Latin husband and her husband's fiercely loyal assistant land on her doorstep in need of a place to live after the couple's money dries up.
Though class differences may separate the women, and the size of the house and the number of people living in it will test the limits of hospitality, the bond of extended family might be exactly what they need.
Lincoln Rhyme: Hunt for the Bone Collector
Channel: M-Net City (DStv 115)
TX Time: 20h00
Genre: Drama
Inspired by the best-selling book The Bone Collector, former NYPD detective and forensic genius Lincoln Rhyme was at the top of his game until a serious accident at the hands of a notorious serial killer forces him out of the field.
When Amelia Sachs, an intuitive young officer who's got her own gift for profiling, finds herself hot on the killer's trail, Rhyme in turn finds a partner for this new game of cat and mouse.
As the unlikely detective duo joins forces to crack the city's most confounding cases, they must also race to take down the enigmatic "Bone Collector" who brought them together.
In the series premiere, "Pilot": Three years after the Bone Collector ended his career, Detective Lincoln Rhyme teams with NYPD officer Amelia Sachs to investigate a series of murders that suggest the killer's return and an unlikely team is born.
In the second episode of the weekly double bill, "God Complex": Lincoln and Amelia join forces to find a killer inspired by Greek mythology who is live-streaming murders.
Meanwhile, the Bone Collector prepares a terrifying gift to celebrate Lincoln's return to work with his new partner.
Wildest: Islands
Channel: Curiosity Channel (DStv 185)
TX Time: 19h00
Genre: Wildlife, Nature, Documentary
Islands can be home to the most extreme examples of life, as nature evolves in the most dramatic way.
Sometimes isolated for hundreds of thousands of years, pockets of individuals adapt to survive, fuelling a rapid and continuous development of new species.
Some of the Zanzibar archipelago's bizarre creatures have developed to an enormous size.
The world's largest crab scales trees in search of coconuts, and clouds of giant bats fill the skies at dusk.
Under the cover of darkness, giant leatherback turtles visit Trinidad's beaches to lay their eggs.
Dominica's volcanic heritage gives it fertile soils, making the island rich in flowering plants.
Situated 1,000km west of Ecuador, the Galapagos archipelago has been so little exposed to humans, it allowed Charles Darwin to study and rethink the laws of nature.
This is a celebration of these spectacular island locations, and the people and wildlife who call them home.
Outlander 5
Channel: M-Net City (DStv 115)
TX Time: 21h40
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi, Adventure, Fantasy
Season 5 finds the Frasers fighting for their family and the home they have forged on Fraser's Ridge.
Jamie must find a way to defend all that he has created in America, and to protect those who look to him for leadership and protection - while hiding his personal relationship with Murtagh Fitzgibbons, the man whom Governor William Tryon has ordered him to hunt down and kill.
With her family together at last, Claire Fraser must use her modern medical knowledge and foresight to prevent them from being ripped apart once again.
However, while focusing on protecting others, she risks losing sight of what it means to protect herself.
Meanwhile, Brianna Fraser and Roger MacKenzie have been reunited, but the spectre of Stephen Bonnet still haunts them.
Roger strives to find his place - as well as Jamie's respect - in this new and dangerous time.
The Frasers must come together, navigating the many perils that they foresee - and those they can't.