Great Escapes with Morgan Freeman
Channel: HISTORY (DStv 186)
TX Time: 20h15
Genre: Documentary Series, Docu-Drama, History
Hosted and executive produced by the Academy Award-winning actor, this eight one-hour episode series reveals in detail history's greatest escapes from some of the most notorious prisons in the world.
Famous jailbreaks are the stuff of legend as their true stories are often untold.
Now, with dramatic recreations, dynamic storytelling and cutting-edge visual effects, escapes from infamous prisons like Alcatraz will come to life in graphic detail.
Hosted by Freeman, each episode will unearth every step of an inmate's meticulous plan, the escape route and the intense manhunt that immediately followed.
Episodes will feature escapes from prisons ranging from Alcatraz, Clinton Correctional Facility in Dannemora, NY, the HM Maze Prison in Northern Ireland, to the Brushy Mountain State Penitentiary in Tennessee and more.
In the series premiere, "Alcatraz": Four men conspire to break out of one of the most notorious prisons in American history.
Three make it to the water's edge... but what happened to them when they left the island remains a mystery to this day.
The Murder of Marianne Vaatstra
Channel: Investigation Discovery (DStv 171 / StarSat 223)
TX Time: 21h00
Genre: True Crime, Documentary
Friesland 1999.
When the lifeless body of Marianne Vaatstra is found in a meadow, it appears that she has been raped and murdered.
A large police force is immediately called in to hunt down the killer.
When, after years of intensive detective work, the police were unable to come closer to a solution, Peter R. de Vries and the Vaatstra family joined forces.
As a result the murderer is found almost immediately... 13 years after Marianne's death.
Restaurant: Impossible 18
Channel: Food Network (DStv 175)
TX Time: 19h00
Genre: Reality Makeover, Food, Reality
Turning around a failing restaurant is a daunting challenge under the best of circumstances. Attempting to do it in just two days with only $10,000 may be impossible.
But Chef Robert Irvine is ready to take on the challenge. He'll use a little MacGyver and a lot of muscle to rescue these desperate places from complete collapse.
Can one man, in two days, with just $10,000, turn the tide of a failing restaurant, and pave the road to a successful future?
Find out as Robert Irvine takes on Restaurant: Impossible.
In the Season 18 premiere, "A Friendship in Peril": Robert Irvine has to save more than a restaurant at J's in Waveland, Mississippi.
Owners Louis and Jeff are months from losing everything, including their friendship of 40 years.
Robert has to teach them how to run a restaurant and help mend their relationship if they're going to have any chance of saving their business and their lifelong friendship.
Young Sheldon 5
Channel: M-Net (DStv 101)
TX Time: 19h00
Genre: Comedy
For young Sheldon Cooper, it isn't easy growing up in East Texas.
Being a once-in-a-generation mind capable of advanced mathematics and science isn't always helpful in a land where church and football are king.
And while the vulnerable, gifted and somewhat naïve Sheldon deals with the world, his very normal family must find a way to deal with him.
In the Season 5 premiere, "One Bad Night and Chaos of Selfish Desires": Sheldon and Missy both run away from home, and Mary gets upsetting news about George Sr.