MobLand
Channel: M-Net (DStv 101)
TX Time: 21h00
Genre: Drama
From Day of the Jackal creator Ronan Bennett comes the London crime family drama MobLand, based on the series Ray Donovan and starring Helen Mirren, Tom Hardy and Pierce Brosnan.
The Harrigans are an Irish, London-based crime family who find themselves in a battle with the Stevensons that could end both syndicates - and their lives.
Harry Da Souza (Hardy) is a street-smart and formidable fixer employed by the Harrigan family to navigate and mitigate the escalating conflict threatening their empire.
As loyalties collide Harry is tasked with protecting the Harrigans' interests and preventing an all-out gang war.
MobLand is co-executive produced and co-directed by Guy Ritchie, with his signature grit, swagger and snappy dialogue.
Brosnan stars as Harrigan family patriarch Conrad, alongside his darkly dangerous wife Maeve (Mirren), with Paddy Considine as Kevin Harrigan, the family's second son.
Wonders of Volcanoes
Channel: BBC Earth (DStv 184)
TX Time: 20h00
Genre: Nature, Documentary Series
Embark on a journey from Etna to Vesuvius and witness one of Earth's most fearsome natural wonders.
Both dazzling and destructive, volcanoes have fascinated and frightened us for millennia.
The mythical home of the gods, these mountains of fire can bury cities and trigger tsunamis, yet they also hold hidden treasures and create fertile soils.
Dara Ó Briain marvels at Italy's lava fountains, drinks wines grown on volcanic slopes, meets the people who call volcanoes home and learns how volcanoes have defined the country's fortunes and impacted its culture for centuries.
He also asks whether something that holds the key to so much of our understanding of the world could also be the greatest threat to it.
The Brokenwood Mysteries 3
Channel: BBC Brit (DStv 120)
TX Time: 20h00
Genre: Police Procedural, Drama, Mystery
The Brokenwood Mysteries comprises two-hour murder mystery stories set in a seemingly quiet country town where the town's newest resident, Detective Senior Sergeant Mike Shepherd, finds that murder lurks in even the most homely location.
Each telefeature in the series is a standalone story which sees the show's two lead police officers trying to solve a murder case.
In the Season 3 premiere, "The Black Widower": When the wife of a local tourist trap business owner is discovered dead, the other local tourism operators are not particularly sad about her demise.
Her cause of death is revealed to be from New Zealand's only native venomous spider - the Katipo.
But how could one spider administer 10 times the lethal dose?