Encounters
Channel: Netflix South Africa
TX Time: 10h00 (all episodes)
Genre: Documentary Series
Mass UFO sightings from the last 50 years fuel a global mystery in this docuseries featuring eyewitness accounts, expert interviews and new evidence.
Explosive new revelations from military whistleblowers of alien encounters, UFOs and clandestine Pentagon programs, as well as coverage from major news sources, have breathed a fresh urgency into a topic that, for decades, we've relegated to the realm of conspiracy.
Encounters is a four-part series that travels the globe to explore four extraordinary true stories of encounters with otherworldly phenomena.
Each cinematic and deeply-researched episode tells a single story: strange lights in the sky over small-town Texas; submersible space crafts haunting a coastal Welsh village; an alien encounter with schoolchildren in Zimbabwe; and non-human intelligence reportedly interfering with a nuclear power plant in Japan.
As told from the perspective of firsthand experiencers – in the places where the sightings occurred – and guided by cutting-edge scientists and military personnel, the series goes beyond the science to highlight the profoundly human impact of these encounters on lives, families, and communities.
A timely and timeless cosmic detective story, what will be revealed from this puzzle of seemingly unrelated encounters across different places, times, and cultures is a set of uncanny similarities, and one astonishing truth: extraterrestrial encounters are global, awe-inspiring, and unlike anything we've ever imagined.
Power Book II: Ghost 3
Channel: 1Magic (DStv 103)
TX Time: 22h00
Genre: Drama
Season 3 takes off in dramatic form with brand new twists, turns and murder as Tariq, Brayden and the Tejada family are grieving the death of Zeke.
However, they won't get much time as a new set of problems and questions arise.
This season is flashier, juicer and sexier, with even more family drama, betrayals and surprising new alliances.
Monet finds herself at a crossroads with her family, Brayden is forced to choose between his birth family and chosen family, and Tariq is leveling up this season.
The season kicks off with Tariq determined to get his trust, get back to his family, and get out of the game for good.
The emergence of a ruthless new connect interrupts Tariq's plans to reunite with Tasha and Yaz and puts him, Brayden and Effie back into business with the Tejadas as they're challenged to move more weight than ever before.
When Brayden brings Tariq in as an intern at his family's hedge fund Weston Holdings, the drug business expands beyond Stansfield and the streets onto Wall Street, while Tariq is also shown an alternate, legitimate path to success.
Monet, set ablaze by the death of her son Zeke, is willing to pay a hefty price to avenge her firstborn and keep the rest of her children - and the business - in line as she works closely with Davis MacLean to solve Zeke's murder and keep the feds off her trail.
Business is booming when a staggering reveal forces Tariq to reckon with a betrayal from those closest to him... and a R.I.C.O. investigation mounting into the entire drug enterprise, pulling Tariq deeper into the business and even closer to the legacy of his father.
In the Season 3 premiere, "Your Perception, Your Reality": A new semester at Stansfield means a fresh start for Tariq.
Meanwhile, Brayden is learning the ropes at Weston Holdings, under his uncle Lucas.
Also, Monet grieves the loss of Zeke, while Cane searches for a new connect.
Running Wild with Bear Grylls: The Challenge 2
Channel: National Geographic Channel (DStv 181 / StarSat 220)
TX Time: 21h00
Genre: Reality, Adventure
Part survival series, part talk show, in which the most famous survival expert on the planet takes high profile talent on a transformative adventure in the wilderness.
Bear is gearing up for a new season of thrill-seeking, bug-eating adventures.
Continuing to push superstars' comfort levels, Bear and his guests will venture from the highest peaks of Scotland to unforgiving terrain in Wyoming for more ultimate, life-changing challenges and adventures.
Guests this season include comedian and actor Russell Brand; actor Bradley Cooper; actor Benedict Cumberbatch; actor, rapper, writer and producer Daveed Diggs; actress, singer, author and producer Cynthia Erivo; actor Troy Kostur; actress Tatiana Maslany; and singer-songwriter Rita Ora.
This season, guests will continue to be tested both physically and mentally beyond their limits - like Bradley Cooper spending a night hanging off the side of a cliff, Cynthia Erivo traversing a freezing waterfall, and Troy Kotsur battling raging rivers as Bear's first deaf guest.
Bear teaches each celebrity a key set of survival skills they will then have to master on their own under a high-intensity moment to earn their extraction from the wilderness.
Fears will be conquered, and limits will be tested.
In the Season 2 premiere, "Troy Kotsur in the Scottish Highlands": Bear takes his first deaf guest, Academy Award-winning actor Troy Kotsur, on an adventure in the Scottish Highlands.
Bear and Troy must find a new way to communicate as they push themselves to the limits, traversing perilously steep mountains and raging rivers, but it's the silence that builds their strongest bond.
This Fool 2
Channel: Disney+
TX Time: 00h01
Genre: Comedy
Inspired by the life and stand-up of star and co-creator Chris Estrada, This Fool is an irreverent, cinematic half-hour comedy set in working class South Los Angeles.
The show centres around Julio Lopez, a 30-year-old who still lives at home, has been dating his girlfriend on and off since high school and finds any excuse to avoid dealing with his own problems.
Julio works at Hugs Not Thugs, a gang rehabilitation non-profit, where he butts heads with his older cousin Luis, an ex-gang member who just got out of prison and moved in with Julio and his family.
After Julio's job and love life blew up at the end of last season, this season new roommates Julio and Luis embark on finding new careers and romances with the help of Minister Payne, Chef Percy and other former Huggers.
In the Season 2 premiere, "The Rooster": The presence of a rooster crowing at all hours of the day threatens to cause a riot on Luis' block.