Alien: Earth
Channel: Disney+
TX Time: 10h00
Genre: Sci-Fi, Horror
Alien: Earth is a science fiction horror series created by Noah Hawley (Fargo), based on the Alien franchise.
It serves as a prequel set two years before the events of the original 1979 film Alien.
Set in a time when boundaries between human, machine and alien are breaking down, this series blends psychological suspense, survival horror and speculative sci-fi.
Expect complex questions about identity, evolution and what happens when technology and biology blur beyond recognition.
When the mysterious deep space research vessel USCSS Maginot crash-lands on Earth, Wendy and a ragtag group of tactical soldiers make a fateful discovery that puts them face-to-face with the planet's greatest threat.
In the year 2120, the Earth is governed by five corporations: Prodigy, Weyland-Yutani, Lynch, Dynamic and Threshold.
In this Corporate Era, cyborgs (humans with both biological and artificial parts) and synthetics (humanoid robots with artificial intelligence) exist alongside humans.
But the game is changed when the wunderkind Founder and CEO of Prodigy Corporation unlocks a new technological advancement: hybrids (humanoid robots infused with human consciousness).
The first hybrid prototype named Wendy marks a new dawn in the race for immortality.
After Weyland-Yutani's spaceship collides into Prodigy City, Wendy and the other hybrids encounter mysterious life forms more terrifying than anyone could have ever imagined.
And now, Wendy has gone dark. Her final transmission? A set of chilling coordinates... here, on Earth.
After the crash of the USCSS Maginot, strange ecosystems are mutating. Creatures are evolving.
And humanity might not be at the top of the food chain anymore...
Songs from the Hole
Channel: Netflix South Africa
TX Time: 10h00
Genre: Documentary, Music
Sentenced to life in prison at 15, musician JJ'88 finds hope by writing songs during solitary confinement in this award-winning documentary visual album.
At 15, he took a life. Three days later, his brother's life was taken.
A moving chronicle of forgiveness, family and the transformative power of art, Songs from the Hole weaves music and mixed-media storytelling into an innovative documentary visual album.
Through clear-eyed narration and lyrical journal entries, incarcerated musician James "JJ'88" Jacobs reveals his innermost struggles as a person who has both committed and experienced violent harm.
While serving a double-life prison sentence, he searches for healing and peace as he comes of age in this documentary-musical odyssey composed behind bars.
In a unique creative process director Contessa Gayles collaborated with protagonist/writer JJ'88 and producer/music producer richie reseda to interweave the collective storytelling of the film's non-fiction participants, with imagined memories, dreams and spiritual dialogues set to JJ'88's original music.
The result is a powerful mix of truth-telling and dreaming that reveal the potential for healing and liberation within us all.
In the Eye of the Storm 2
Channel: Discovery Channel (DStv 121)
TX Time: 21h00
Genre: Clip Show, Nature, Reality
Anchored by crowdsourced first-person storytelling and footage, In the Eye of the Storm chronicles the second-by-second stories of recent severe weather disasters through the eyes of ordinary people who survived them and managed to capture it on camera.
From this year's devasting wildfires in Los Angeles to twin twisters in Iowa that proved to be the most powerful ever recorded and the apocalyptic flooding in Appalachia that swept entire towns off the map, each episode reveals the chaos and terrifying impact of natural disasters as they occurred in real time during the most destructive year for storms in modern history.
In the Season 2 premiere, "Shark Storm": An extraordinary series of shark encounters along America's Gulf Coast captured through a mosaic of eyewitness videos and interviews.
This episode brings you unparalleled access to the action as events unfold in real time, as experienced firsthand by survivors, rescuers and the local community.
Love Is Blind: UK 2
Channel: Netflix South Africa
TX Time: 10h00 (all episodes)
Genre: Dating Game Show, Reality
UK and Ireland-based singles who want to be loved for who they are have signed up for a less-conventional approach to modern dating, and will choose someone to marry without ever meeting them.
Over several weeks, the newly-engaged couples will move in together, plan their wedding and find out if their physical connection matches their strong emotional bond developed in the Pods.
When their wedding day arrives, will real-world realities and external factors push them apart, or will they marry the person they fell blindly in love with?
Hosted by Emma and Matt Willis, this series will uncover whether looks, race or age do matter, or if love really is blind.