The Hunting Party
Channel: M-Net (DStv 101)
TX Time: 20h00
Genre: Police Procedural, Drama
A high-concept crime procedural about a small team of investigators who are assembled to track down and capture the most dangerous killers the US has ever seen, all of whom have just escaped from a top secret prison that's not supposed to exist.
When a secret prison suffers a mysterious explosion that allows the nation's most violent serial killers to escape, a former profiler is thrust back into a thrilling game of cat and mouse.
Alongside a team of soldiers, spies and special agents, she has no choice but to track down and recapture these dangerous criminals... before they kill again.
In the series premiere, "Richard Harris": When a massive explosion at a top secret prison known as the Pit allows notorious serial killer Richard Harris to escape, disgraced FBI agent Bex Henderson is called back into action to hunt him down before he kills again.
Murder Among Friends 2
Channel: Real Time (DStv 155)
TX Time: 22h30
Genre: True Crime, Documentary Series, Docu-Drama
Most killers act alone, but there's another type of murder that happens less frequently yet with no less horror.
That's when people decide to kill as a group.
Finding the truth becomes its own sort of puzzle when you have a murder among friends.
In the Season 2 premiere, "Date with Dystiny": When firefighters extinguish a California brush fire, they unexpectedly ignite a twisted murder mystery - rife with forced prostitution, burning jealousy and an almost unthinkable murder mastermind.
Beat Bobby Flay 38
Channel: Food Network (DStv 175)
TX Time: 16h05
Genre: Food, Reality Competition
Two talented cooks go head-to-head in an epic cooking battle, with the winner then taking on celebrity chef and restauranteur Bobby Flay in this culinary competition series.
Each episode, the contestants must impress the guest judges with their cooking, and the one who does the best gets the opportunity to face the master, Bobby Flay.
To give them a fighting chance against such an experienced and successful chef, the contestant chooses what recipe they and Bobby make, before the judges decide whose was best.
In the Season 38 premiere, "Always in Fashion": Eddie Jackson and model Gigi Hadid give Bobby fashion advice while chefs Maya Erickson and Jason Smith prove they're pastry pros.
In the second episode of the weekly double bill, "Branzin-GO!": Michael Symon and writer Christina Perez hype up chefs Saba Wahid Duffy and Juan Carlos Aparicio to Bobby as they duke it out with a fishy ingredient.
Pointless 27
Channel: BBC Brit (DStv 120)
TX Time: 18h00
Genre: Quiz Show, Game Show
Hosted by Alexander Armstrong and Richard Osman, Pointless is a quiz show in which teams of two contestants have to score as few points as possible by finding obscure but correct answers to questions.
Before the show, each question has already been posed to 100 people who have 100 seconds to give as many correct answers as they can think of.
The less commonly known answers are the ones the contestants are looking for as they are worth the least points, whereas incorrect answers are awarded the full 100 points.
A 'Pointless' answer is one which none of the 100 people gave.
The couple that makes it through to the third and final round has the chance to win the jackpot of £1,000, which rolls over each episode if the finalists don't find a pointless answer.
Gold Rush: White Water 8
Channel: Discovery Channel (DStv 121)
TX Time: 20h00
Genre: Docu-Reality
Last year, Dustin Hurt's crew struck a 6-ounce, $70K nugget - the biggest in Gold Rush history.
This season, he's risking everything for more. It's all or nothing - a gamble that could make them millions or end their mining careers forever.
In the Season 8 premiere, "Chasing Waterfalls": Dustin and his loyal crew head deep into the remote Alaskan wilderness on their most ambitious, difficult and dangerous season ever, as they risk their lives in the raging creeks of Alaska searching for a life-changing pile of gold nuggets.
MasterChef: The Professionals 14
Channel: BBC UKTV (DStv 134)
TX Time: 18h00
Genre: Food, Reality Competition
As the hospitality industry faces another year of unprecedented challenges, MasterChef: The Professionals showcases the range of culinary talent across the next generation of chefs in the UK.
Chefs Marcus Wareing and Monica Galetti preside over the cooking competition alongside judge Gregg Wallace.
In the Season 14 premiere: In tonight's first heat, the first four professional chefs arrive to make their mark in the MasterChef kitchen and to stake their claim to the coveted trophy.
With their reputations on the line, their knowledge and experience are tested as they face the infamous Skills Test.
Marcus challenges two chefs to prepare the British classic bangers and mash, served with a beer and onion gravy, in just 20 minutes.
This seemingly simple dish has the potential to trip up the chefs, as small details are key to its success.
The other two chefs take on Monica's test: monkfish with a pea and bacon ragout.
This dish is all about timing and holding your nerve under pressure.
Hoarders: Family Secrets
Channel: SABC2
TX Time: 19h30
Genre: Reality
Hoarders: Family Secrets follows people who obsessively hoard as they embark on the biggest transformations of their lives and reveal their secret hoards to loved ones for the first time.
The series kicks off with a special focusing on two complex cases - a Massachusetts family and a relapsed hoarder on the brink of being jailed - and featuring the show's first-ever live intervention.
The episode will also feature the story of a second hoarder who faces jail time if he doesn't pass a final city inspection.
In the series premiere, "Joyce and Kimberly": Two women are at a major crossroads in their lives due to hoarding.
Joyce's husband is ready to break up their 38-year marriage if she doesn't clean up; Kimberly is facing eviction if she doesn't address her hoard.
Grand Designs 18
Channel: The Home Channel (DStv 176 / Openview 113)
TX Time: 13h00
Genre: Home Improvement
Kevin McCloud is back with more extraordinary architecture as he follows the emotional highs and lows of the brave men and women who are risking it all to build the home of their dreams.
Full of awe-inspiring and jaw-dropping builds, the new season includes a radical barn renovation for a remarkable young couple defying illness, an ex-soldier building a giant subterranean extension, and a pioneering couple defying logic to create the UK's first self-heating house.
In the Season 18 premiere, "South West London": Not many of us would even think about building their new home within a cemetery, but that's precisely the madcap mission former army captain Justin sets out on.
He's spent a whopping £1.8-million pounds on an abandoned Neo-Gothic cemetery keeper's lodge and adjoining ex-council toilet block in South West London.
Justin's vision is to restore the lodge but demolish the ugly toilet blocks and replace them with an enormous luxury ground floor extension, with added moat and giant basement with a swimming pool – all just metres from the nearest grave.
He'll build the house, for himself and his five year old son, in just one year and for no more than £1.6 million. At least that's the plan.
With some builder's quotes coming in at a crazy £4-million, the project hits delays right from the off.
When tortuous demolition and excavation finally start, incredibly Justin decides his basement needs to be even bigger so extends the excavation directly underneath the heavy stone-built Gothic lodge, adding hugely to the engineering costs and schedule.
With challenges coming thick and fast, including a global pandemic, remarkably Justin refuses to compromise even as the budget spirals out of control.