Trainwreck: P.I. Moms
Channel: Netflix South Africa
TX Time: 10h00
Genre: Documentary
This tell-all documentary investigates an early 2000s reality show about private eye moms and the drug scandal that sabotaged the series and its stars.
In 2010, Lifetime Channel commissions a reality TV series about a private investigation agency staffed by soccer moms.
Everyone is convinced they have the next big hit on their hands, until the production crew starts to notice something is off.
The moms' investigations keep falling apart, leading to allegations of sabotage.
At the same time, a mysterious informant accuses the agency's boss of running an illegal drug operation on the side, abetted by a corrupt cop.
For both the TV series and the criminals dealing drugs, it is only a matter of time before things fall disastrously apart.
Lost Ships of WWII
Channel: National Geographic Channel (DStv 181 / StarSat 220)
TX Time: 21h00
Genre: Documentary Series, Factual
Rob Kraft and his team aboard the research vessel Petrel are in search of the most iconic ships of WW2.
Using some of the world's most high-tech camera equipment, their spectacular discoveries can now be seen for the first time in almost 80 years.
USS Indianapolis: Abandoned at Sea
Just weeks before WW2 ends, USS Indianapolis is violently sunk and 900 men go in the water - but no one searches for them.
For days they fight off exposure and shark attacks and it ends up being the worst disaster at sea in US Naval history.
USS Ward: America's First Shot
Undersea explorers aboard the research vessel Petrel detect a wreck off the coast of the Philippines that fits the profile of an American destroyer.
Could it be the wreck of the USS Ward, the ship that fired America's first shot of WW2 at Pearl Harbor?
Lady Lex: Queen of the Coral Sea
The USS Lexington birthed naval aviation and was victorious in the first carrier-to-carrier battle during WWII.
Hours later she erupted in flames due to enemy fire.
Eighty years later, Petrel hopes to spot the wreck and storied planes that went down with her.
USS Hornet: America Strikes Back
The Petrel team searches for the American aircraft carrier USS Hornet.
The Doolittle Raid was launched off her deck to avenge Pearl Harbor.
But six months later, the ship's life is cut short when the Hornet sails into a hornet's nest of Japanese ships.
USS Juneau: Brothers in Arms
What happened aboard the USS Juneau would inspire the film Saving Private Ryan.
Five brothers were lost, but not all perished when the ship went down. At least one brother was among scores of men stranded at sea for eight horrifying days.
Iron Bottom Sound: Graveyard of the Pacific
In one night, over 1,000 Allied sailors died when four cruisers went down in flames.
They rest in a graveyard littered with so many ships that it has become known as Iron Bottom Sound.
Petrel undertakes a 'needle in the haystack' search to find the 4 ships.
Titan of the Rising Sun
Rob Kraft is hunting for Musashi, the biggest battleship ever built and considered to be unsinkable by the Japanese.
How did the US Navy sink this 'indestructible' ship? And why did she end up in 10,000 pieces on the seafloor?
USS Johnston: America's Deepest Loss
When research vessel Petrel picks up what they believe to be the debris trail of the USS Johnston, they are about 8,000 feet deeper than the Titanic wreck.
A manned submersible is deployed, but will it put eyes on the deepest shipwreck in the world?