The X Factor: The Band
Channel: SABC2
TX Time: 18h30
Genre: Reality Competition, Music
This spin-off series follows up-and-coming girl and boy bands who compete to be crowned Britain's new pop sensation, with Simon Cowell and Nicole Scherzinger returning as judges.
Successful bands from the X Factor franchise in the UK include One Direction, Little Mix and Fifth Harmony.
In total, acts discovered by The X Factor have sold more than 400-million records globally to date.
Now with The X Factor: The Band, the show is bidding to create the next big girl or boyband, in just a matter of weeks.
Simon and Nicole will be joined by a host of music industry stars, including Leona Lewis and Ella Eyre as well as super-producer Naughty Boy.
Host Dermot O'Leary also returns to oversee proceedings - and give his legendary hugs to those auditioning.
The X Factor: The Band goes back to basics in the music business, starting with hopefuls auditioning in Simon's office at Sony HQ in London where they try out in front of Simon, Nicole as well as a panel of advisors.
Those who make it through this stage then face the next big challenge – arena auditions in front of thousands in Birmingham.
Simon and Nicole are joined for this stage by guest judge Leona Lewis, who returns to the show she won in 2006.
The judges will also again be joined by the music industry experts, who – as well as Carla, Naughty, Eddie and Fred also include Ella Eyre, who won a Brit award with Rudimental in 2014 for single Waiting All Night.
It will be here that both the boy and girl band will be created by the judges – before the two groups go head-to-head in a live final to battle to win the prize of a record contract.
Ancient Aliens Meets William Shatner
Channel: HISTORY (DStv 186)
TX Time: 20h15
Genre: Documentary, Special
In this two-hour special, Shatner will bring thought-provoking questions to the leading experts of the show.
Ancient Astronaut theorists Giorgio Tsoukalos, Erich von Däniken, David Childress, William Henry and Linda Moulton Howe will be joined by former British Ministry of Defense investigator Nick Pope, rocket scientist Dr. Travis Taylor, theoretical physicist Dr. Michio Kaku, and religious history experts Rabbi Ariel Bar Tzadok and Reverend Michael Carter.
They will explore everything from human origins to groundbreaking archaeological finds, new understandings of the cosmos and the profound possibility that we are not alone in the universe.