Black Mirror 7
Channel: Netflix South Africa
TX Time: 10h00 (all episodes)
Genre: Sci-Fi, Drama, Technology
Black Mirror is an anthology series that taps into our collective unease with the modern world, with each stand-alone episode a sharp, suspenseful tale exploring themes of contemporary techno-paranoia leading to an unforgettable - and sometimes unsettling - conclusion.
Without questioning it, technology has transformed all aspects of our lives; in every home; on every desk; in every palm - a plasma screen; a monitor; a Smartphone - a Black Mirror reflecting our 21st Century existence back at us.
One of the upcoming episodes will be a sequel to the Season 4 opener, USS Callister, in which a video game programmer invents a simulated reality where he's captain of a spacecraft, his co-workers are his crew, and the sci-fi adventures they embark on take a decidedly sinister turn.
The six episodes are as follows:
Common People
When a medical emergency leaves schoolteacher Amanda fighting for her life, desperate husband Mike signs her up for Rivermind, a high-tech system that will keep her alive - but at a cost.
Bête Noire
Maria is a high-flying development executive at a chocolate company.
Everything is going well for her until someone she hasn't seen since school - a woman named Verity - shows up for a focus group tasting session.
It could be the chance for a heartfelt reunion, except there's something very odd about Verity, and Maria seems to be the only person who notices.
Hotel Reverie
Hollywood A-list actor Brandy Friday is thrown into an unusually immersive high-tech remake of a vintage romantic movie.
She's got to stick to the script if she ever wants to make it home.
Plaything
An eccentric loner named Cameron, who harbors an obsession with a mysterious 1990s video game, is arrested in connection with a grisly cold case - and his interrogation soon goes to places the police weren't expecting.
Eulogy
An innovative system that enables users to literally step into photographic memories of the past leads a lonely man to re-examine a heartbreaking period in his life.
USS Callister: Into Infinity
Robert Daly is dead, but the crew of the USS Callister - led by Captain Nanette Cole - find that their problems are just beginning.
Murder in Mayfair
Channel: S3
TX Time: 22h00
Genre: True Crime, Documentary
In 2008, 23-year-old Norwegian student Martine Vik Magnussen was killed after a night out in Mayfair.
Hours after her death, the only suspect in the case, Farouk Abdulhak, the son of one of Yemen's richest and most powerful men, fled the UK to Yemen.
Nawal Al-Maghafi seeks answers to what happened to Martine and uncovers how money, political power and Yemeni law protected Farouk once he had absconded to Yemen, which has no extradition treaty with the UK.
Diddy: The Making of a Bad Boy
Channel: M-Net (DStv 101)
TX Time: 22h00
Genre: True Crime, Documentary, Music
From his childhood to becoming a mogul, this raw look at Sean Combs' journey through exclusive footage and candid interviews explores his rise, controversies and the man behind the music.
The special features an exclusive interview with singer/songwriter/producer Al B. Sure! as he speaks out for the first time about Diddy's relationship with Kim Porter, as well as interviews with his childhood friend, his former bodyguard, and a Making the Band winner.
The 90-minute documentary special tells the story of Sean Combs' early years and his decades-long transformation to Puffy and then to Diddy, with crucial insight into the forces that shaped the man and may have made him a monster.
There are interviews with some of those who've known Diddy best - including his childhood friend, his former bodyguard, and a Making the Band winner.
The special also includes exclusive, never-before-seen footage of Diddy partying, at home and in the studio.
Andrew Tate: Icon or Toxic? A Faking It Special
Channel: Investigation Discovery (DStv 171 / StarSat 223)
TX Time: 21h00
Genre: Documentary, Special
Role model to millions of young men or dangerous misogynist who peddles hate?
As the world's most controversial influencer faces allegations of sex crimes in Britain and Romania, experts pinpoint the hidden clues that reveal the real Andrew Tate.
Against the Wall Podcast with Skeem GP
Channel: Mzansi Wethu (DStv 163)
TX Time: 17h30
Genre: Talk Show
It's all about unfiltered prison stories, resilience and survival, a journey towards rehabilitation, reintegration back into society, leadership and active citizenship.
In the series premiere: Themba Lukhele Nzimande sits with Israel Matseke Zulu for an insightful and captivating conversation.
They delve into Israel's remarkable journey and personal reflections.
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Hoarding: Buried Alive 5
Channel: Discovery Channel (DStv 121)
TX Time: 21h55
Genre: Reality
The show returns for a fifth season, revealing the heartbreaking yet astonishing stories of extreme hoarders.
Each episode examines hoarders as they struggle to regain control of their uncontrollable behaviour.
This emotional attachment to objects is a debilitating condition that knows no demographic and if left untreated can destroy lives and break up families.
Challenged by expert therapists and professional organisers, the hoarders attempt to reclaim their lives and relieve the distress.
In the Season 5 premiere, "Somewhere in My Pile": Beverly's clutter has filled up her entire home and her three beloved dogs have helped make the space completely unlivable.
In the second episode of the weekly double bill, "Full of Rats": Property investors get more than they bargained for when the house they purchased is occupied by hoarder Michelle.
Can she get rid of her hoard and a rat infestation?
North of North
Channel: Netflix South Africa
TX Time: 10h00 (all episodes)
Genre: Comedy
An optimistic young woman embarks on a journey to reinvent herself in her tiny Arctic hometown, where everyone knows each other's business.
The young Inuk woman wants to build a new future for herself after a spontaneous and extremely public exit from her marriage.
It won't be easy in a small Arctic town where everybody knows your business.
In the series premiere, "Top of the World": Feeling stuck in her life in her tiny Arctic community, Siaja decides it's time to shake things up during the annual Spring Festival, but her plans are derailed by personal upheavals.
The Haunted
Channel: Travel Channel (DStv 179)
TX Time: 22h05
Genre: Supernatural, Paranormal, Docu-Reality
Tales of ghosts and supernatural beings haunt the dreams of children and inspire peculiar horror films and books, but what if you found yourself trapped in the middle of your own ghost story?
What if your home had been the scene of a terrifying fire 100 years ago or if your basement had been used for violent and deadly experiments?
What if you discovered unexplainable bloody handprints on the walls around your baby's crib?
And, what if you didn't know these things had happened, but the animals around you did?
Welcome to the eerie world of The Haunted.
The Haunted takes an intimate look at stories of people whose animals act as mediaries to the afterworld.
Often the subjects of the most intense paranormal hauntings, animals are commonly believed to be more sensitive to spirits than people.
Think of them as canaries in the paranormal coalmines. But when spirits afflict pets, the animals aren't the only victims.
Owners also fall prey to paranormal activity and often will stop at nothing to rid their homes and pets of paranormal spirits.
When the hauntings become too intense, paranormal investigation teams are called in to examine and record the eerie and unexplainable events.
The team members are experienced paranormal sleuths who study each haunting in order to make sense of and understand the strange smells, sights, sounds and behaviours.
Investigators record voices and photograph odd presences using equipment ranging from ghost boxes to Electro Magnetic Field readers, which record sounds and capture ghostly images so shocking they are hard to believe.
Episodes of The Haunted include intense tales of bizarre behaviour, records of disturbing disappearances and unexpected deaths.
One frightening investigation leads a family to an exorcism in a desperate attempt to abolish the evil demons that afflict them and their family dog.
In another harrowing tale, after months of mysterious behaviour from the family dog, a mother and father discover unexplainable blood smeared on the wall in their infant's room.
What do you believe? And what would you do?
Death in Paradise 12
Channel: BBC UKTV (DStv 134)
TX Time: 20h00
Genre: Drama, Mystery
DI Neville Parker and his team solve a series of murders on the island of Saint Marie.
The new season kicks off with the mysterious death of a celebrity astronomer and a change of job for Darlene.
We also meet a bunch of Preppers digging in for the apocalypse on a Saint Marie hillside, when the end comes dramatically early for one of them.
An impossible killing on a boat takes the team to a beautiful beach under threat, and an apparently straightforward domestic murder twists into what could be Neville's greatest ever challenge...
Meanwhile, is romance blossoming for Neville?