NCIS: Origins
Channel: M-Net (DStv 101)
TX Time: 20h00
Genre: Drama, Police Procedural
NCIS: Origins is the newest chapter in the NCIS franchise, exploring Gibbs' early years.
Narrated by Mark Harmon who played Gibbs in the original series, the new series begins in 1991, years prior to the events of NCIS, and follows a young Leroy Jethro Gibbs.
In the series, Gibbs (played by Austin Stowell) starts his career as a newly-minted special agent at the fledgling NIS Camp Pendleton office where he forges his place on a gritty, ragtag team led by NCIS legend Mike Franks.
Pompeii's Secret Underworld
Channel: BBC Earth (DStv 184)
TX Time: 19h00
Genre: Documentary Series, History, Factual
New archaeological finds in Pompeii are revealing that the city, hailed as a sophisticated jewel of the Roman Empire, hid a very dark side.
As the evidence unfolds, a much more complex picture of the fated city comes into view.
For over two centuries, archaeologists have hailed Pompeii as a sophisticated city at the heart of an advanced ancient civilization.
But a series of new excavations is painting a much more complex picture of the city tragically buried by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 CE.
Archaeologists retrace the mysterious path of Pompeii's history, from the revolt led by the gladiator Spartacus to the riot of 59 AD, and uncover what the city was like in the years leading up to its destruction.
Tires 2
Channel: Netflix South Africa
TX Time: 10h00 (all episodes)
Genre: Comedy
At his father's auto shop, a hapless manager strives to improve customer service and drive profits while keeping his troublemaking cousin in line.
Will, the nervous and unqualified heir to an auto repair chain, attempts to turn his father's business around despite constant torture from his cousin and now employee, Shane.
This season, after the unexpected success of their big marketing idea, Will and Shane rush to grow personally and professionally without fully realizing the cost of doing business.
Survivor 47
Channel: M-Net (DStv 101)
TX Time: 18h00
Genre: Reality Competition
Stranded in the beautiful islands of Fiji, 18 determined new castaways will be divided into three tribes of six and forced to form a new society as they adapt to their physical and social surroundings.
The mental and physical challenges force players to choose between personal risk and reward, while still navigating the complex social game and attempting to forge alliances to last another day.
The participants will be divided into three tribes of six and face a twist-packed season from the moment they step on the beach.
The moral dilemmas and extreme situations will test even the strongest competitor, and the mental and physical challenges require players to constantly fine-tune their strategies to survive another day.
The players competing on the 47th season - including a flight school owner, an ER doctor and an AI research assistant - are fans from diverse backgrounds and bring fresh perspectives to this new era of the game.
And in the end, only one will remain to claim the title of Sole Survivor and win the $1-million prize.
In the Season 47 premiere, "One Glorious and Perfect Episode Part 1": Eighteen new castaways will be abandoned on the breathtaking islands of Fiji, where they must learn to adapt or they will be voted out.
Tribes must quickly pick up the pieces in the first challenge of the season to earn a pot, machete and flint.
Then, two castaways are chosen to go on a journey to find the X that marks the spot.
Nile Rodgers: How to Make It in the Music Business
Channel: S3
TX Time: 22h00
Genre: Documentary Series, Music
Nile shares a lifetime of experience on how to make it in the music business.
Using his songs as a guide, he explains the secrets of his success, his longevity and how he's stayed relevant.
In the series premiere: Nile reveals the moment when, as a teenager, he first picked up a guitar, and why he has never looked back.
He tells how his musical talent led him to become a highly successful session musician before following his dream to write his own music with Bernard Edwards for Chic.
Nile tells the story of how he and Bernard, young and broke, surreptitiously sneaked into a recording studio at night to record what became Chic's first hit, Everybody Dance.
Nile plays this song for us and we see him and Chic in concert playing it too - along with lots of their greatest hits.
The film uncovers the source of inspiration for many of Nile's songs - being turned away from Studio 54 led him to write Le Freak, while others, including Lost in Music, have their roots in Nile's troubled and difficult childhood, and how he hears music all the time - a subject he speaks about candidly.
Producer Mark Ronson and Duran Duran keyboard player Nick Rhodes describe Nile's use of complex chord patterns and his unique guitar-playing style.
While Kathy Sledge of Sister Sledge reveals the joyous and exacting way Nile worked with them to produce their internationally successful album We Are Family and the hit single He's the Greatest Dancer.
Throughout the film Nile demonstrates, in a series of short masterclasses, how he writes and develops his music.
Australian Survivor 4
Channel: eReality (Openview 108)
TX Time: 20h00
Genre: Reality Competition
A group of 24 contestants must fend for themselves after being marooned while competing in physical and mental challenges.
In the Season 4 premiere: The contestants travel by ship to the tropical island of Samoa.
They discuss their backgrounds, what sets them apart, and their strategies for the competition.
Also, a race takes place to collect supplies before they begin the game.
Midsomer Murders 20
Channel: BBC UKTV (DStv 134)
TX Time: 19h00
Genre: Drama, Police Procedural, Mystery
Celebrating its 20th anniversary season, the long-running mystery series proves once again that country lanes can be every bit as perilous as city streets.
This time round, the detective duo investigate when someone is found boiled to death in a vat at a brewery that was once an abbey.
When a butterfly collector is found dead, having been forced to suffer the same fate as his numerous specimens, Barnaby and Winter search for the perpetrator, before the duo must separate fact from fiction after a former supermodel is murdered at a village comic convention.
Ginny & Georgia 3
Channel: Netflix South Africa
TX Time: 10h00 (all episodes)
Genre: Comedy-Drama
Free-spirited Georgia and her two kids, Ginny and Austin, move north in search of a fresh start but find that the road to new beginnings can be bumpy.
How do you live with the knowledge that your mother is a murderer?
That's what Ginny is going to have to figure out.
Burdened with the new understanding that Kenny - her step-dad - didn't die of natural causes, now Ginny must deal with the fact that Georgia not only killed, she killed to protect Ginny.
Georgia on the other hand would much prefer that the past be left in the past, after all, she's got a wedding to plan.
But the funny thing about Georgia's past is that it never stays buried for long...
This season Georgia has just been arrested for murder during her wedding - ruining her fairy tale ending and putting the spotlight on the Millers like never before.
It's always been Ginny and Georgia against the world, but the world has never come for them quite like this.
Now, Ginny needs to see where she stands when push comes to shove – is the two of them against the world something Ginny really wants to sign up for?
False Glory
Channel: M-Net (DStv 101)
TX Time: 22h00
Genre: True Crime, Documentary Series
Audacious cheating scandals. Fake matches. Rogue agents.
False Glory is a three-part documentary series that delves into those moments when sporting figures did the unthinkable for personal gain.
In 1999, 21-year-old Fika Motsoeneng came ninth in the 90km Comrades Marathon from Pietermaritzburg to Durban – because he'd swapped with his brother halfway.
In 2010, Togo's national soccer team traveled 3,500 miles to play in an exhibition game against Bahrain – but the Togolese authorities knew nothing of the match.
Many children in Cote d'Ivoire grow up wanting to be the next Didier Drogba – but for four Ivorian boys and their coach, a move to Italy on the promise of footballing glory quickly changed from a dream to a nightmare.
The Marathon Brothers
When an unknown athlete defies the odds to finish in the top ten in the Comrades Marathon, the celebrations turn to suspicion as the race becomes one of the most audacious cheating scandals.
Match Fixing
Togo's national soccer team travelled to play against Bahrain in 2011, but the Togolese authorities knew nothing of the match. The bogus game had been set up by a man who claimed to have rigged more than 80 matches worldwide.
Baby Footballers
Great players in football have made the journey from the African continent to the top tier of European football. What happens when unscrupulous businessmen take advantage of the dreams of young players?