Murder in Provence
Channel: BritBox
TX Time: 00h01
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Police Procedural
Set among the sun-kissed hills of Aix-en-Provence, this sumptuous mystery series stars Roger Allam as chief magistrate Antoine Verlaque who, with his romantic partner, criminal psychology professor Marine Bonnet (Nancy Carroll), sets out to solve a series of mysterious murders among the upper classes.
Adapted from ML Longworth's novels, Murder in Provence explores the dark underbelly of a seemingly idyllic town in the south of France.
Antoine is an urbane sophisticate with an English grandmother, and a wealthy Parisian background from which he's more or less estranged.
He understands wine, food and art.
He's an excellent, natural cook, and his apartment is a hymn to well ordered, civilised living.
Restaurants are one of the great joys in his life.
Marine suspects all this is a way of transcending a privileged, yet loveless and chaotic childhood.
He points out that there are worse ways of dealing with it.
Marine, too, loves good food – but only if someone else is cooking it.
She can't tell one wine from another, and doesn't care, as long as it's delicious.
She has a chic, slightly boho charm (her parents were broke, leftie academics) and marks her students' essays in bed - often Antoine's - wearing glasses and pyjamas, her hair pinned up with a biro.
Left to her own devices, she mostly microwaves ready meals from Picard (A French Frozen food store – slightly upmarket - but still a frozen food store).
Sometimes, after a couple of days with Antoine, she just longs for fish fingers in her own kitchen.
Her apartment is in a permanent state of flux: half-finished décor, the result of brief enthusiasms for this colour or that.
Books piled up everywhere, a shower which falls off the wall every other day.
But it's her bolt hole, and she's ceased noticing its flaws (needless to say, Antoine hasn't).
In the series premiere, "Murder in the Rue Dumas": Antoine and Marine put their weekend getaway plans on hold when there's a murder at the local university.
The team question professors and students to distinguish professional jealousies from motives to kill, but the further they delve the more crimes they uncover.
Thai Cave Rescue
Channel: Netflix South Africa
TX Time: 10h00 (all episodes)
Genre: Miniseries, Drama
A Thai youth soccer team and their assistant coach are trapped within Tham Luang Cave, prompting a global rescue effort.
Inspired by the incredible news that captivated the world, Thai Cave Rescue tells the untold stories of the Thai youth soccer team and their coach who got trapped in one of the most dangerous cave systems on Earth.
It also reveals the extraordinary efforts by their families, the people of Thailand, and volunteers from all over the world as they work together to fight against both nature and time to save the team.
The Ipcress File
Channel: M-Net (DStv 101)
TX Time: 22h00
Genre: Thriller, Drama
Based on the Len Deighton novel, this atmospheric drama stars Joe Cole (Peaky Blinders) as iconic British spy Harry Palmer alongside Lucy Boynton (Murder on the Orient Express) and Tom Hollander (The Night Manager).
The Ipcress File was Len Deighton's first spy novel introducing the iconic British spy Harry Palmer and set against the backdrop of Cold War Europe.
To date the novel has sold 10-million copies worldwide since it was first published in 1962.
The twist-laden spy thriller offers a tense tale of abducted scientists, brainwashing, inter-departmental rivalry, treason and a possibly unwise romance.
1962. At the height of the Cold War, ex-soldier and convicted thief Harry Palmer is recruited to an unorthodox British spy unit whose boss, Dalby (Hollander), wants his help to retrieve a missing scientist.
Working alongside cool, ambitious agent Jean (Boynton), Harry's journey will take him to the wrong side of Berlin, the risky hedonism of Beirut and the blinding light of a Pacific H-bomb test - before one step too many lands him an unwitting role in a violent political conspiracy.
In the series premiere: Berlin, 1962. Enterprising British corporal Harry Palmer gets rich smuggling stolen goods to the east until the handcuffs snap shut.
Back in London, unorthodox spymaster Dalby is ordered to retrieve a missing nuclear physicist.
Sharp observation by his cool, ambitious agent Jean reveals a link to the incarcerated Palmer who is swiftly enlisted to bring back the boffin.
The Kardashians 2
Channel: Disney+
TX Time: 00h01
Genre: Docu-Reality
Cameras return to capture the ever-changing lives of Kris, Kourtney, Kim, Khloé, Kendall and Kylie.
The family welcomes you back to stand with them through their biggest triumphs and struggles.
From fiery romances and life-changing milestones to unimaginable successes, the family bond remains unbreakable as they navigate their public and private lives for the world to see.
P-Valley 2
Channel: Me (DStv 115)
TX Time: 22h00
Genre: Drama
Down deep in the Mississippi Delta lies an oasis of grit and glitter in a rough patch of human existence where beauty can be hard to find.
This southern-fried, hour-long drama tells the kaleidoscopic story of a little-strip-club-that-could and the big characters who come through its doors.
These include the hopeful, the lost, the broken, the ballers, the beautiful and the damned.
Trap music meets film noir in this lyrical and atmospheric series that dares to ask what happens when small-town folk dream beyond the boundaries of the Piggly Wiggly and the pawnshop.
Season 2 reveals a whole new Pynk as it struggles to remain open during a pandemic, a battle for the throne, and the possibility of some new blood shaking up the locker room.
When darkness descends upon Chucalissa, errybody and they mama must fight tooth and talon to survive.
While some take flight to perilous new heights, others dig in their stilettos and stand their ground no matter the cost.
Back at The Pynk, Autumn and Uncle Clifford grapple for the throne as new blood shakes up the locker room.
Meanwhile, with the casino's fate hanging in the balance, the local political machine kicks into overdrive.
In these unprecedented times, death and danger lurk around every corner.
The Dreamlife of Georgie Stone
Channel: Netflix South Africa
TX Time: 10h00
Genre: Documentary
Sharing her journey from child to teen activist, Georgie Stone looks back at her life and historic fight for transgender rights in this documentary.
Spanning 19 years, the documentary reveals the memories of Georgie, an Australian transgender teen, as she helps change laws, affirms her gender, finds her voice and emerges into adulthood.