Fatal Destination
Channel: Investigation Discovery (DStv 171 / StarSat 223)
TX Time: 21h00
Genre: True Crime, Documentary Series
Jessica Biel serves as narrator and executive producer for this series exploring the dark side of paradise.
Idyllic getaways unravel into haunting mysteries exposing the sinister secrets lurking beneath sunlit shores, mountain retreats and bustling boardwalks.
Each story unfolds through first-person accounts of friends, family, locals, journalists and law enforcement, who unpack the chilling tales of deception, violence and tragedy in exotic locales where being a tourist is anything but a vacation.
Each episode plunges into the sinister side of leisure and reveals how dreams of escape can have dire consequences.
Episodes include:
- a couple's romantic trip to Vermont that ends in a camper turned crime scene,
- a spring breaker's disappearance that sparks a decade-long search,
- and a luxury boat found mysteriously adrift with no crew.
In the series premiere, "Baja Noir": A lavish getaway to Mexico becomes the setting for a haunting crime when Jake Merendino is found brutally murdered.
Drawn to Rosarito, Mexico with dreams of a coastal retreat, he enters a world of opulence and hidden motives.
What begins as a celebration of luxury unravels into a chilling tale of manipulation, dark secrets and shattered trust.
A mysterious handwritten note and damning evidence point to the tangled web of relationships surrounding him, as investigators piece together the shocking truth behind his final day.
Prue Leith's Cotswold Kitchen
Channel: BBC Lifestyle (DStv 174)
TX Time: 20h00
Genre: Food, Reality
Join the restaurateur, author and Great British Baking Show judge as she welcomes guests into her Cotswold kitchen, sharing cherished recipes, tips and handy culinary hacks.
Each episode is a culinary adventure celebrating food, friendship and fun.
In the series premiere, "Sandi Toksvig": History buff Sandi cooks two recipes from the 1920s - ham and egg pie followed by meatless sausage.
Husband John makes his signature yogurt, and Prue shows how to transform the breakfast staple into a dinner party dessert with a bit of imagination.
Jim Jefferies: Two Limb Policy
Channel: Netflix South Africa
TX Time: 10h00
Genre: Comedy, Special
Comedian Jim Jefferies unleashes his thoughts on tiny mustaches, straight-guy struggles and why acting doesn't count as a real job.
He also man-splains precisely why lesbian marriages have the highest divorce rate, heterosexual marriages are in a close second and gay marriages have the lowest divorce rate of all.
Hint: women.
My Life Is Murder
Channel: BBC Brit (DStv 120)
TX Time: 20h00
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Comedy-Drama
Irreverent mystery of the week series, featuring fearless and unapologetic Alexa Crowe (Lucy Lawless) whose unique skills and insights into the darker quirks of human nature allow her to provoke, comfort and push the right buttons as she unravels the truth behind the most baffling of crimes.
A brilliant, charismatic and ever-so-slightly scruffy ex-homicide detective, Alexa has built her life around her career. And she's good at it. Really good.
Alexa has always been the sort of investigator who can't leave an injustice alone. An unsolved murder is like an irritating pebble in her shoe.
So, she becomes a particularly vocal pebble for everyone else until she can solve the case and bring justice to the victim.
Cue former colleague and long-time friend Detective Inspector Kieran Hussey, who quickly realises it would only be a matter of time until Alexa started sticking her nose into cases that intrigued her.
He might as well get the benefit of her talent on some of his trickier cases so he brings her back to "consult". A favour for a friend, if you will.
But just why did Alexa leave the force? Well, it's kind of a fascinating story, although one of the few Alexa doesn't like telling.
Lone Star Law 2
Channel: Real Time (DStv 155)
TX Time: 23h20
Genre: Reality
Lone Star Law is back for a new season, following Texas Game Wardens as they preserve and protect the natural resources of Texas.
The game wardens patrol the largest state in the lower 48 by truck, boat and plane, searching for lost hunters, rescuing injured bald eagles, investigating wildlife trafficking, recovering drowning victims, catching illegal night hunters, and more.
From wrestling alligators in the east and checking commercial fishermen in the Gulf, to catching poachers taking more than their fair share of dove, deer, pronghorn and duck, they're always on the move.
In the Season 2 premiere, "Gator vs. Game Warden": Texas Game Wardens patrol the inland waterways and the Gulf of Mexico and a nuisance alligator gets too close for comfort.
Also, illegal fish lead to multiple citations and a suburban squirrel hunter gets caught trespassing.
Meanwhile, wardens race to free an injured deer.