Pamela, A Love Story
Channel: Netflix South Africa
TX Time: 10h00
Genre: Documentary
In her own words, through personal video and diaries, Pamela Anderson shares the story of her rise to fame, rocky romances and infamous sex tape scandal.
An intimate and humanizing portrait of one of the world's most famous blonde bombshells, the documentary follows the trajectory of Pamela's life and career from small town girl to international sex symbol, actress, activist and doting mother.
Massive Engineering Mistakes 3
Channel: HISTORY (DStv 186)
TX Time: 20h15
Genre: Science, Technology, Documentary Series
Humans have been building for more than 10,000 years.
We're engineering experts, yet every year tales emerge of construction calamities from all over the world.
From the extraordinary to the ridiculous, this series uncovers the epic fails and near misses engineers would rather not talk about.
A skyscraper with a killer secret, a crumbling cathedral and a bridge with a balance problem all make the hitlist of barely believable building blunders.
And let's not forget the original engineering fail, the Leaning Tower of Pisa.
Who knew over-enthusiastic engineers trying to right the tower nearly destroyed it just 30 years ago?
With access to design teams, eye witnesses and a panel of experts, we analyse what went wrong with each building blunder, investigate why they went undiscovered and reveal how on Earth engineers are trying to fix them.
This season, we investigate the tragic collapse of a New Orleans hotel, how design flaws forced a rebuild of a tourist attraction in Melbourne and how the Royal Air Force raced to save a failing dam and the town below it.
In the Season 3 premiere: In Minneapolis, what caused a freeway bridge to suddenly collapse?
In Denmark, a railway tragedy reveals a Europe-wide safety flaw.
In Iowa, a battle between Mother Nature and engineering triggers a dam collapse.
Live at the Apollo 11
Channel: BBC UKTV (DStv 134)
TX Time: 21h00
Genre: Variety, Comedy
At the forefront of its genre, the roll call of stand-ups who have performed in front of the famous Live at the Apollo lights plays out like a who's who of comedic royalty, and this season is no different.
Each episode sees a national (and sometimes international) stand-up both compering and performing, before introducing two of the best established and up-coming stand-ups to the stage.
In the Season 11 premiere: Everyone's favourite 'Chatty Man' Alan Carr is your host as he introduces two of comedy's biggest stars - the fabulously funny Francesca Martinez and rising comedy star Nish Kumar.
Cunk on Earth
Channel: Netflix South Africa
TX Time: 10h00 (all episodes)
Genre: Mockumentary
Philomena Cunk is here to show how far humanity has come — or not — in this witty mockumentary tracing the history of civilisation.
In this deeply profound and important mockumentary series from Charlie Brooker (Black Mirror), Philomena Cunk (Diane Morgan) tells the entire story of human civilisation from prehistoric times to the present day, covering all the main bits of history, science, culture and religion.
So this really is the last documentary you ever need to watch.
Along the way, Philomena asks experts hard-hitting questions about humanity's progress, and stands on or near impressive old ruins and inside museums, before the shot cuts away to some archive of the bits that don't exist anymore or were too expensive to film at.
In the opening episode Cunk travels the world, heading down caves and up mountains in her search for mankind's first moments.
With the help of a variety of experts she explains how the earliest societies were formed: from the easier ones to spell like Rome and Greece, to the ones that are harder to spell, like Egypt and Mesopotamia.