Happy Face
Channel: M-Net (DStv 101)
TX Time: 22h00
Genre: Drama, Miniseries
Happy Face is inspired by the true-life story of Melissa G. Moore and is based on her podcast of the same name and her autobiography Shattered Silence.
At 15, Moore discovered that her beloved father was the prolific serial killer known as the Happy Face Killer.
As an adult, she has changed her name and guarded her secret while her father has been serving life in prison.
Jumping off from Moore's true-life story, this series follows Melissa (Annaleigh Ashford) and her incarcerated father, known as the Happy Face Killer (Dennis Quaid).
After decades of no contact, he finally finds a way to force himself back into his daughter's life.
In a race against the clock, Melissa must find out if an innocent man is going to be put to death for a crime her father committed.
Throughout, she discovers the impact her father had on his victims' families and must face a reckoning of her own identity.
In the series premiere, "The Confession": Hazel receives a strange birthday card that ultimately forces her mother, Melissa, to face the dark truth of her past.
Magda Louw 3
Channel: kykNET (DStv 144)
TX Time: 20h00
Genre: Mockumentary, Comedy, Afrikaans
Magda and her husband Erhard are participating in a reality series.
A camera crew follows them to document their day-to-day lives - with a few unexpected twists and turns...
Magda is played by Desiré Gardner, Hannes van Wyk plays her husband Erhard, and Cintaine Schutte and Bennie Fourie play their children, Gertrude and Baltus.
Gershwin Mias is the cameraman Shaun, who follows the Louws around.
Also featured in Season 3 are Bennie Fourie as Baltus, Cindy Swanepoel as Gertrude and André Weideman as Dr Havenga.
Magda once again finds herself in situations she could never have foreseen.
There are a few shocking revelations from the past, a host of familiar faces and one or two new ones.
Every dog has its day on set – quite literally, in the case of Magda and Erhard's new puppy, Genis.
In the Season 3 premiere: Magda and Erhard find themselves once again at a turning point in life they didn't expect.
The bittersweet reality sinks in while Magda has to learn patience.
TVSA Show Page: Magda Louw 3
Coco Chanel: Unbuttoned
Channel: S3
TX Time: 18h00
Genre: Documentary
The definitive portrait of Gabrielle 'Coco' Chanel, the original influencer whose iconic designs – the little black dress, the jersey separates, the costume pearls, the tweed suit and Chanel No 5 perfume – remain symbols of luxury, style, sexuality and power in the 21st century.
Coco was the designer who started a revolution inspired by her own trailblazing and radical appetite for independence.
She liberated women from heavy, corseted clothes, giving them freedom to work, move and celebrate themselves.
In a male-dominated world, she was rewarded with unrivalled wealth, recognition and celebrity, counting everyone from Winston Churchill to Cecil Beaton as friends.
But despite her triumph, Coco remained an enigma.
Until her death in 1971 at the age of 87, she veiled the truth of her poor childhood growing up in an orphanage, her early years as a kept mistress and her sense of being a perpetual outsider.
She indulged in complex affairs with men, including - allegedly - the married composer Stravinsky, a grand duke who had fled revolutionary Russia and the wealthy Duke of Westminster, who left her for a younger woman.
A wartime romance with a German agent led to accusations of Nazi collaboration and Coco's exile from France for nearly a decade.
This documentary weaves together the truth of the woman and her work in the closest we have to her own words, based on a series of intimate interviews with her biographer Paul Morand, and voiced by Braveheart actress Sophie Marceau.
It includes exclusive interviews with:
- Coco's long-time assistant Lilou Marquand,
- Coco's muse of the 60s Jackie Rogers,
- current Chanel muse Caroline de Maigret,
- hip-hop stylist Misa Hylton, and
- supermodel Jerry Hall and daughter Georgia.
Coco is revealed by women who knew her and continue to live and wear her vision.
This is the culturally defining exploration of a legend whose work reflects the story of the 20th century.
Millionaire Murders
Channel: CBS Justice (DStv 170 / StarSat 222)
TX Time: 20h00
Genre: True Crime, Documentary Series
Greed, jealousy, revenge, lust and anger.
All motives for murder, but when there's cash involved the stakes are even higher.
In each episode of this series, a new case is revealed that collides the world's wealthiest people with the most gruesome of murders.
Filmed in luxurious style, investigators, family, friends and experts - all supported by personal and police archives – will take us on a gripping journey, with twists and turns that reveal how having it all could leave you with nothing.
In the series premiere: In 2011, British reclusive millionaire William Saunderson-Smith was murdered by Mydlarz, Bugajewski and Rymar.
The trio beat him, hoping to force him to reveal where his money was hidden and were convicted of murder.
Mean Girl Murders 3
Channel: Investigation Discovery (DStv 171 / StarSat 223)
TX Time: 21h00
Genre: True Crime, Documentary Series, Docu-Drama
Mean Girl Murders returns for an all-new season diving into more real-life mysteries that explore the dark side of female connections and rivalry.
Over the course of each one-hour episode, Season 3 will unpack the layers around the key emotions and dynamics within female relationships at the centre of a deadly mystery.
Building off last season, Mean Girl Murders will continue to delve into how these intricate dynamics turning toxic can sometimes lead to shocking acts of violence.
In the Season 3 premiere, "Full Throttle Murder": In 2021, with the clubs all locked down for COVID, young women in Northern California flock to an underground car scene called a sideshow.
When 19-year-old Leilani Beauchamp starts turning heads, things go from fast and furious to deadly.