Doc
Channel: M-Net (DStv 101)
TX Time: 19h00
Genre: Drama, Medical Drama
Medical drama starring Molly Parker as the hard-charging, brilliant Dr Amy Larsen, Chief of Internal and Family Medicine at Westside Hospital in Minneapolis.
After a car accident, Dr Larsen wakes up in 2024 with no memory of the past eight years and has to rebuild everything – including her family, her world view, her relationships and her career – from where she was in 2016.
Dr Larsen awakens from her accident with no recollection of patients she's treated, colleagues she's crossed, the soulmate she divorced, the man she now loves or the tragedy that caused her to push everyone away.
She can rely only on her estranged 17-year-old daughter, whom she remembers as a 9-year-old, and a handful of devoted friends, as she struggles to continue practicing medicine, despite having lost nearly a decade of knowledge and experience.
Doc is based on an Italian TV series called Doc - Nelle tue mani (translated as Doc - In Your Hands) – but at its heart, it's based on the true story of Italian doctor Pierdante Piccioni, who lost 12 years of memories after a car accident in 2013.
He awoke from his coma believing it was 2001 and had to rediscover his identity, including not recognising his wife Maria and dealing with the fact that his sons, Filippo and Tommaso, were now adults.
He'd also forgotten his medical education and had to confront the fact that he had a bad reputation.
To understand who he was, Piccioni read over 65,000 emails he'd either sent or received.
Hell on Earth: WWII
Channel: HISTORY (DStv 186)
TX Time: 21h05
Genre: Documentary Series, History
World War II was 67 months of violent struggle for those on the front lines, but there were more civilian victims than military, more victims among the victors than the vanquished.
It was such a violent war that it demanded the coining of a new word, genocide. It was a time when there was "Hell on Earth".
The figures are stark and almost impossible to comprehend: military deaths estimated between 21-25 million, civilian deaths between 50-55 million.
The greatest manmade event in history was also the most lethal, taking far more lives away from the battlefield than on it.
Hell on Earth tells the story of The Second World War from a perspective that recognises these overwhelming facts: war as a human experience.
The narrative begins not with the German invasion of Poland, but two years earlier, when Japan invaded China.
The war in Europe joined in 1939 and, in 1941 with Pearl Harbor and the sweeping Japanese offensive, the war became global.
The series' eight episodes advance through the chronology and the first episode ends with Churchill's words, "The battle of France is over".
Episode 2 takes us to the German invasion of the Soviet Union, Episode 3 to Pearl Harbor, 4 to the turning points in 1942, then 5 to Stalingrad, 6 to the Second Front, 7 to the end of the war in Europe and finally, the aftermath.
Hell on Earth uses international resources to tell this story from a global perspective.
More than 70 eminent international experts contribute insights and opinions in interviews conducted around the world.
These interview contributors include noted authorities in the fields of military history, political history, social history and well-known general historians of the war.
In the series premiere, "We Are At War": Mussolini joins Hitler in his fight against the Allies, while Winston Churchill is appointed British Prime Minister on the day of the Blitzkrieg, the German invasion of France.
In the second episode of the Monday-Thursday double bill, "Shall We Go On": Germany continues to build its empire in Europe, occupying Poland, Czechoslovakia, Austria, Luxembourg, Norway, Denmark, The Netherlands and Belgium.