7 Toughest Days
Channel: National Geographic Channel (DStv 181 / StarSat 220)
TX Time: 21h00
Genre: Adventure, Documentary Series
Between steep mountain ranges, dense rainforests, stark deserts and other spaces, the Earth is home to inconceivably inhospitable environments, where survival is challenging for any creature.
In this series, adventurer Dwayne Fields takes on the planet's most hostile environments during the most challenging times - a "deadly window" when epic natural forces combine.
In 7 Toughest Days, Fields has just seven days to guide himself and his camera operator to the safety of civilization, overcoming epic physical and psychological challenges that lie in his path.
Venturing across Gabon, Oman and Kyrgyzstan, he will face nature's might as epic natural forces combine with supersized external threats.
Gabon
Dwayne takes on the deadly rainforests and rivers of Gabon.
Avoiding raging waterfalls, snakes and crocodiles, he encounters the Baka tribe, who direct him to an underground cave system that he hopes will help him reach his extraction point.
Getting out of the impenetrable jungle helps him cover more ground on his journey, but the caves bring new and unexpected dangers.
Oman
Dwayne has just seven days to cross the arid Omani desert in a desperate quest for water.
Starting from the coast, he heads inland to a high plateau.
There, a vast underground sinkhole leads him to an oasis where he can recharge before his final challenge.
A seemingly endless sea of sand dunes stretching for hundreds of miles.
In this desolate wilderness, a Bedouin tribe awaits to rescue him.
Kyrgyzstan
Dwayne is in Kyrgyzstan in winter, where temperatures reach minus 40, blizzards set in for weeks and avalanches are a constant threat.
He must descend the 5000-metre-high peaks of the Tien Shan mountain range, survive nights in deep crevasses, and cross a vast windswept valley to reach a seasonal encampment of nomads before the last leaves for winter.
Born in Jamaica, Dwayne moved to the United Kingdom at the age of six.
His formative years were wrapped up in a world of street gangs in inner London.
However, after an attempted shooting, he decided to change his life forever and escape into nature.
He set himself on the first of many wilderness challenges: walking over 400 miles to the magnetic North Pole.
Dwayne became the second Black man ever to reach the Pole after Matthew Henson in 1909 and is committed to inspiring other young people to follow in his footsteps.
Royal Autopsy
Channel: HISTORY (DStv 186)
TX Time: 20h15
Genre: Documentary Series, History, Docu-Drama
Royal Autopsy investigates the cause of death of two of Britain's most famous monarchs: Queen Elizabeth I and King Charles II, in an entirely new way.
Professor Alice Roberts will bring together a blend of historical and medical expertise and by using contemporaneous accounts and documents piece together how and why these monarchs died.
Each investigation follows an autopsy conducted by Home Office pathologist Dr. Brett Lockyer which will use a unique combination of prosthetic bodies to reveal how each of the monarchs perished.
Further forensic analysis and toxicology testing is used to determine whether there is any evidence of foul play in each case.
Professor Alice Roberts will then take her findings to the world's leading medicolegal experts and constitutional historians to determine how each ailment and affliction might have impacted either monarch's reign in their later years and in the run-up to their deaths.
Using eyewitness accounts sourced from the time of their deaths, the final dying days of these historic figures are brought to life in vivid detail with scripted dramatic scenes.
Based on the evidence from their unique in-depth investigations, Professor Roberts and Dr. Lockyer will reveal what they believe really killed King Charles II and Queen Elizabeth I, over 300 years ago.
Project Runway 18
Channel: eReality (Openview 108)
TX Time: 17h00
Genre: Reality Competition, Fashion
Sixteen new hopefuls are ready to take the runway by storm and make fashion history.
Host Karlie Kloss is back, along with Christian Siriano as the mentor and returning judges Nina Garcia, Brandon Maxwell and Elaine Welteroth, to decide who has what it takes to make it in this industry.
Each 90-minute episode will feature the return of some fan-favourite elements, including the "Siriano Save," in which Christian has the opportunity to bring one eliminated designer back into the competition; and the pièce de résistance: a chance to present a final collection at New York Fashion Week.
Gotham remains a main character for this fashion adventure for challenge reveals and runway shows with iconic locations such as the famous TWA Hotel at JFK, The Vessel at Hudson Yards, and Bergdorf Goodman.
In addition, the series continues to shine a light on the evolution of fashion and inclusion by featuring a variety of sexual preferences, racial backgrounds and ages including a nonbinary model and a trans model, a "Dreamer," and the oldest designer ever to compete on Project Runway.
Challenging fashion norms, the designers are tasked with creating functional outfits for Olympians and Paralympians, as well as turning donated garments from Goodwill of NY into high fashion wear.
In the Season 18 premiere, "Blast Off": The competition begins with some twists right out of the airport gate.
With luggage still in tow, the designers are greeted at the TWA Hotel at JFK airport ready to take flight with their first challenge: to create an innovative look inspired by humanity's continued push into space exploration.
In a Runway first, these unfamiliar designers have to pair up and collaborate to make cohesive pieces that blow away the judges or they are out.
Fans will also get a chance to own a piece of the designer creations when they vote on the outfits they like best.