Being Serena
Channel: SABC3
TX Time: 21h00
Genre: Docu-Reality, Sport
Documentary series chronicling tennis icon Serena Williams at a pivotal moment in her personal and professional life.
Being Serena provides unprecedented access to Williams during her pregnancy, new motherhood and marriage, while documenting her journey back to supremacy on the court.
The intimate first-person show delves into her landmark career, family life and expanding role as a businesswoman and investor in the worlds of tech, fashion, fitness and philanthropy.
The Wedding Coach
Channel: Netflix South Africa
TX Time: 10h00 (all episodes)
Genre: Reality
Former bride and forever comedian Jamie Lee shares her irreverent yet practical tips and tricks for wedding planning with struggling lovebirds.
Bridesmaids and in-laws and mason jars, oh my!
Weddings are a beautiful cause for celebration, but despite what the bridal magazines say, planning one is far from a party.
After barely making it down the aisle of her own wedding, comedian Jamie Lee is on a mission to help couples survive the stressful, and sometimes ridiculous, expectations of "Big Bridal".
With a different comedian "plus one" by her side each episode, Jamie intervenes before and on the wedding day, serving up her real-talk perspective on the Bridal Industry and squashing the couple's drama to help them focus on the big picture.
Shay'iround
Channel: SABC1
TX Time: 18h00
Genre: Travel
A travel show that celebrates the beauty of relationships amongst friends, colleagues or siblings while exploring South Africa and basking in all its beauty.
With the guidance of the host, the show follows a group of people with a special bond, who explore and travel through South Africa and enjoy the things it has to offer.
The series is presented by Zola Zeelovin.
Becoming...
Channel: Mzansi Magic (DStv 161)
TX Time: 20h00
Genre: Reality
Becoming gives a first-person account of the journey that transgender South Africans have to go through in the process of changing their gender to the one they identify with.
While many South Africans often have to endure the challenges that come with changing one's gender on their own, the process usually affects their family and friends as well.
Becoming... will follow the lives of four trans people – Gina Sokoyi, Ramazan Ngobese, Yaya Mavundla and Gugu Kumalo - as they face many obstacles and find ways to overcome them.
The show will, without judgment, delve deeper into the psyche of being a transgender person, as well as the barriers they need to overcome in order to live as their true selves.
The show will reveal all aspects of gender transformation – from taking a closer look at the psychological impact and gender dysmorphia, to hormonal changes and the emotional impact on each individual.
In the series premiere, emotions run high for members of the cast and crew on the set of Becoming... as they remember and later pay tribute to Gina Sokoyi, one of the four transgenders, who passed away in 2020 while the show was being shot.
A resident of Welkom in the Free State, Gina worked as a junior lecturer at the Central University of Technology in her town, and she was studying towards her Master's degree in Language Practice.
Monsters & Myths
Channel: Curiosity Channel (DStv 185)
TX Time: 20h00
Genre: Documentary
Monsters have always been part of our nightmares and fairytales.
But where do they come from? What is true about them and what belongs to the realm of fiction?
Together with scientists, the makers of this film explore the myth of dragons hunt in Texas for traces of the "chupacabra".
Secrets of the Zoo 3
Channel: Nat Geo Wild (DStv 182 / StarSat 221)
TX Time: 18h00
Genre: Wildlife, Docu-Reality
Secrets of The Zoo goes behind the scenes at The Columbus Zoo with over 2,000 employees, 10,000 animals and 6,000 veterinary cases each year.
Follow along for all the dramatic, heartwarming and often hilarious stories and find out what it takes to create a loving and healthy landscape for the animals who call The Columbus Zoo and Aquarium home.
In the Season 3 premiere, "A Cheetah's Greatest Race": A cheetah fights for its life against a mysterious and debilitating illness, and an elephant is artificially inseminated.
Nisboere 6
Channel: VIA (DStv 147)
TX Time: 19h30
Genre: Documentary Series, Advertiser-Funded, Afrikaans
Meet farmers who cultivate interesting crops such as lavender, olives and exotic mushrooms, as well as breeders of miniature horses in this agriculture-focused series.
The show visits farmers across South Africa to shine the spotlight on their dynamic farms, niche crops and products.
Specialisation is the key word, and the clever cultivation and cultivation of niche products is the focus of the sixth season.
On the Brink
Channel: SABC3
TX Time: 20h30
Genre: Documentary
Seattle's Central District was the largest enclave of African Americans in the Pacific Northwest.
The once-thriving community now finds its very existence threatened by change, which is tearing apart the social fabric of their neighbourhood.
With few African Americans left in the Central District, can they overcome the course of change before their community and its rich history vanish?
On the Brink tells a universal story of a struggle to hold on to a sense of community in the face of change, and finding hope in a time of despair.
This is a Robbery: The World's Biggest Art Heist
Channel: Netflix South Africa
TX Time: 10h00
Genre: Documentary Series, True Crime
In 1990, two men dressed as cops con their way into a Boston museum and steal a fortune in art.
It was the biggest art heist in history: Over St. Patrick's Day weekend in 1990, legendary works by Rembrandt, Vermeer and others worth over half a billion dollars today were stolen from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston.
This four-part documentary series from director Colin Barnicle covers the leads, dead ends, lucky breaks and speculations that characterised the investigation of this still unsolved mystery.
Take a deep dive into this daring and notorious crime.