Superfan
Channel: S3
TX Time: 18h00
Genre: Game Show, Music, Reality Competition
Superfan is a one-hour unscripted series that features six music superstars as they each crown their biggest fan.
Sure, you say you know all about your favourite music star, but are you a Superfan?
This is the ultimate fan-based competition, in which contestants vie to prove who knows the most about a favourite performer.
These aspiring superfans will also live a dream by getting to personally engage one-on-one with their idol.
A game show meets music spectacle with the winners claiming social media bragging rights as well as a huge music-based prize packaged by their favourite artist.
The musical artists are Kelsea Ballerini, Gloria Estefan, Little Big Town, LL COOL J, Pitbull and Shania Twain.
Bad Influence: The Dark Side of Kidfluencing
Channel: Netflix South Africa
TX Time: 10h00 (all episodes)
Genre: Documentary Series
In this eye-opening documentary exposé, teens and parents reveal disturbing accounts of abuse and exploitation within the world of child influencers.
Billions of views. Millions of dollars. Hundreds of accusations.
This docuseries explores the shadowy world of child influencers, honing in on the disturbing allegations of abuse surrounding popular internet celebrity Piper Rockelle and her momager Tiffany Smith.
Piper Rockelle is a massively popular YouTuber who rose to Internet stardom staging elaborate pranks, competing in absurd challenges, and making soapy "crush content" with her Squad of carefully cast "friends".
Bad Influence goes behind the glitz and glamour to reveal Piper's former Squad mates' harrowing stories of exploitation, cult-like manipulation and abuse at the hands of Piper's momager, Tiffany Smith.
Through their stories, this three-part series exposes the dark realities of social media fame and the fight to protect the next generation of creators from exploitation.
Trafficked: Underworlds with Mariana van Zeller
Channel: Disney+
TX Time: 00h01
Genre: Documentary Series
Award-winning journalist Mariana van Zeller explores the inner workings of the most dangerous black markets on the planet.
In each episode, she investigates a different underworld — from the trade in body parts and hired assassins to sextortion and the smuggling of brides — to meet the players, learn the business, and better understand the world's multitrillion-dollar shadow economy.
In the series premiere, "Counterfeiting": Mariana journeys deep inside the Peruvian underworld to meet the gangster craftsmen who make the world's finest counterfeit money.
Podcast and Chill
Channel: Mzansi Wethu (DStv 163)
TX Time: 17h30
Genre: Talk Show
Hosted by Macgyver "MacG" Mukwevho, Sol Phenduka and the "Ghost Lady."
The show offers candid conversations on entertainment, pop culture and current events, often featuring celebrity interviews.
In the series premiere: Moshe Ndiki joins the team to share his journey, from his big break to navigating the dating scene and embracing fatherhood.
Celebrity Race Across the World
Channel: BBC UKTV (DStv 134)
TX Time: 19h00
Genre: Reality Competition
Four celebs, 24 countries, zero VIP treatment.
With no phones or flights allowed, famous faces and family pairs must get from Africa to the Arctic – by any means necessary.
Race Across the World is back with another instalment, with celebrities taking on the challenge of the format for the first time.
Four famous faces will leave behind their lives of luxury to embark upon an epic 10,000km race from Africa to the Arctic.
They must ditch their reliance on luxury travel, smartphones and credit cards, and learn to travel on a limited budget.
They will face the same hardships, twists and turns as the regular series, but will enjoy the same rewards that the thrill of the race has to offer.
The only support the celebrities will have is their travelling partner – a trusted family member.
Taking on the race are McFly drummer, Harry Judd and his mum, Emma; British racing driver and pundit Billy Monger with his sister, Bonny; singer-songwriter Mel Blatt and her mum, Helene; and broadcaster Alex Beresford with his dad, Noel.
Ice Road Rescue 8
Channel: Disney+
TX Time: 00h01
Genre: Reality, Docu-Reality
Ice Road Rescue portrays a group of tow truck rescue workers.
When winter hits Norway the transport roads turn into treacherous bobsleigh tracks and every day the rescuers fight to keep this routes open by rescuing heavy trailers stuck in the mountain terrain.
Winter storms, avalanches and lack of daylight through the winter season are just some of the challenges they have to face, working close to the polar circle.
Extreme winter conditions that often make them risk their lives.
This winter, it’s game on as the ice road bosses lead their teams into battle, in a business where only the toughest survive.
In the Season 8 premiere, "Head Into Danger": When a truck crashes into a snowbank in the mountains, Thord and rookie Terje must put their lives at risk to save its valuable cargo.