Die Vertroueling
Channel: eExtra (Openview 105 / StarSat 489)
TX Time: 21h30
Genre: Telenovela, Afrikaans
Marashli is an ex-soldier who has left the special forces to open up a second-hand bookstore and spend more time with his sick daughter, Zelis.
His life changes when he saves Mahur Turel's life, when she accidentally gets herself into trouble.
From now on the destiny of these two will be eternally interwoven.
Mahur is the precious daughter of Aziz Turel, one of the most powerful businessmen in Turkey.
She gets into trouble because of a photo she takes which puts her life in constant danger.
But her fearless persona is almost impossible to contain... at least by anyone other than Marashli, who is now employed to keep Mahur safe as her personal bodyguard.
Mahur is a workaholic who has withdrawn from life after the untimely death of her mother.
She watches the videos her late mother recorded for her to fill the emotional void in her life.
The veil of mystery behind her family starts to unfold around the same time Marashli is hired to be her bodyguard.
She will start to discover the real and dark intentions of the ones who are closest to her.
On this journey, Marashli will become her closest ally, the person whom she trusts the most, and her lover.
That is until she finds out who Marashli really is...
The original Turkish title of the series is Marasli (The Trusted).
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Power Book IV: Force
Channel: 1Magic (DStv 103)
TX Time: 22h00
Genre: Drama
Power Book IV: Force centres on fan-favourite character Tommy Egan, played by Joseph Sikora, after he cuts ties and puts New York in his rearview mirror for good.
As Tommy leaves New York after losing Ghost, LaKeisha and the only city he's ever known, he makes a quick detour to close an old wound that's been haunting him for decades.
What was supposed to be a quick stop turns into a labyrinth of family secrets and lies Tommy thought were long buried.
One step leads to another and Tommy quickly finds himself in Chicago's drug game, inserting himself between the city's two biggest crews.
In a city divided by race, Tommy straddles the line, ultimately becoming the lynchpin that not only unites them - but holds the power to watch them crumble.
As the first season unfolds at breakneck speed, Tommy uses his outsider status to his advantage, breaking all the local rules and rewriting them on his quest to become the biggest drug dealer in Chicago.
In the series premiere, "A Short Fuse and a Long Memory": On his journey to LA, Tommy stops in Chicago, only to discover shocking news about his family.
Tommy must decide whether he is going to force his skeletons back in the closet, or put down roots in the Windy City.
Die Groot Afskud
Channel: VIA (DStv 147)
TX Time: 20h00
Genre: Reality Competition, Reality, Afrikaans
Six participants, each looking for a complete overhaul, are divided into two teams of three each.
With the help of a fitness coach, psychologist and dietician (the coaches), they embark on their journey to shed their extra kilos.
It is an emotional journey that lies ahead for the participants.
The show takes a 360-degree approach and that is why there are three coaches – they complement one another.
Participants are monitored and weighed bi-weekly at a special facility ("afskudhuis") in Cape Town.
The rest of the time the cameras follow the coaches as they visit the participants in their hometowns.
The teams compete for a cash prize of R300,000, and the team who sheds the most kilos during the six months goes home with the prize.
Every second week, there is also a challenge at the afskudhuis, where teams compete for an encouragement prize, for example gift vouchers to help them on their journey.
The show is presented by Vanes-Mari du Toit.
War Gamers
Channel: Curiosity Channel (DStv 185)
TX Time: 21h00
Genre: Documentary Series, History
World War II. The Battle of the Atlantic.
Admiral Karl Dönitz, head of the Nazi's U-boat fleet, brings Britain to the brink of starvation by sinking their merchant ships.
His U-boats strike without warning and disappear immediately. Dönitz's deadly tactics are mystifying.
If the vital transatlantic shipping route is cut off, Britain will be forced to surrender, and the Allies will lose their last foothold in Western Europe.
The Royal Navy must find a way to defeat Dönitz, so they turn to retired war gamer Gilbert Roberts.
Roberts is set a daunting task – to use war gaming to decipher Dönitz's tactics and find a way to sink the U-boats.
To do this, he needs a team, but the navy can't spare any men.
He is forced to turn to a group of women from the Women's Royal Navy Service (WRNS), popularly known as the Wrens.
With Jean Laidlaw, one of Britain's first female chartered accountants, and a small team of bright young women, Roberts acts out naval battles and war game scenarios on a linoleum floor using chalk and wooden model ships.
By putting themselves into the minds of the U-boat captains, Laidlaw and the Wrens decipher Dönitz's tactics and turn the tables on the U-boats, developing countertactics to destroy them.
Their work enabled the Allies to turn the tide of the war, outthink the U-boats and defeat Nazi Germany.
The Wrens were some of the greatest war gamers of their generation, but their legacy has been ignored.
Now the story of these forgotten war gamers can be told.
In the series premiere, "The Mastermind": Following capture in World War 1, German U-boat Commander, Karl Dönitz, spends his exile developing 'Wolfpack tactics', hoping one day to return to the fight against the Royal Navy.
Under the growing threat of another European conflict, Royal Navy commander Gilbert Roberts devises wargames of his own but his career is cut short when he contracts tuberculosis.
With the rise of Adolf Hitler to power, Germany reconstitutes its U-boat force, now commanded by a man returned from exile, Karl Dönitz.
In Britain, the woman who will frustrate his strategies prepares a group of bright girls for a naval career.
Amongst them, Jean Laidlaw, who will become one of the greatest wargamers of her generation.
When World War 2 breaks out, The Royal Navy must act before Dönitz's top U-boat commanders starve the country into submission.