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New on TV today: Tuesday 16 September 2025

Written by Shows Editor from the blog New Shows and Seasons on 16 Sep 2025
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The Last Rhinos: A New Hope

Channel: Disney+
TX Time: 10h00
Genre: Wildlife, Documentary

The Last Rhinos: A New Hope

Photographer Ami Vitale follows a global effort to save the northern white rhinoceros from extinction.

With only two surviving females, a team of scientists races to create the world's first surrogate rhino pregnancy.

The fate of the species now rests in the hands of the teams who are devoted to saving it in this hopeful, urgent film.

NOTE: the special also airs on National Geographic and Nat Geo Wild on Monday 22 September.
 

Surgeons: A Matter of Life or Death

Channel: BBC Earth (DStv 184)
TX Time: 21h00
Genre: Docu-Reality

Surgeons: A Matter of Life or Death

This series tells the stories of remarkable life-saving operations at one of Britain's biggest hospitals, filmed close up with extraordinary stories of surgical skill.

Every surgery starts with a cut. One sharp incision – splitting skin, fat and muscle.

From this moment, there is no return, no pause and no room for anything other than the job. Cut the skin, explore the tissue, fix the problem.

In the heightened world of the operating theatre, the world slows down for the UK's top surgeons as they work to save lives.

Each second is counted, every movement is recorded, every millilitre of blood tracked. Nothing can slip. Concentration is king.

Welcome to the most extraordinary place in the hospital. The four walls where lives change and bones crack, where hearts are opened and broken.

Surgeons: A Matter of Life or Death brings us remarkable access at one of Britain's biggest hospitals – the University Hospitals Birmingham.

Featuring three life-saving procedures per episode, the series provides an unrivalled perspective to the challenges and split-second decisions that staff face on a daily basis.

Going behind closed doors in one of its 73 theatres, this series has access to some of the most groundbreaking surgical procedures being performed in the UK.

Inside these walls, we watch as a patient's face is peeled back and an entire bottom jaw is removed along with teeth and tongue.

We are witness to the some of the most cutting edge treatments available – where hot chemo washes are poured straight into a patient's open abdomen on the operating table.

Along these corridors, we watch as staff rush a new liver to transplant to a patient suffering with a rarely seen disease.

Each episode is visceral, delivering a perspective on life-saving that reflects the reality experienced by doctors and surgeons across the NHS - all in the pursuit of delivering groundbreaking cures to its patients.
 

Restaurant: Impossible 7

Channel: eReality (Openview 108)
TX Time: 21h35
Genre: Reality Makeover, Food, Reality

Restaurant: Impossible 7

Turning around a failing restaurant is a daunting challenge under the best of circumstances. Attempting to do it in just two days with only $10,000 may be impossible.

But Chef Robert Irvine is ready to take on the challenge. He'll use a little MacGyver and a lot of muscle to rescue these desperate places from complete collapse.

Can one man, in two days, with just $10,000, turn the tide of a failing restaurant, and pave the road to a successful future?

Find out as Robert Irvine takes on Restaurant: Impossible.

In the Season 7 premiere, "Bring Mama Back": After seven years of successfully running the St. Louis landmark Mama Campisi's Restaurant, owners Andrea and Lance were blindsided by employee theft.

Two years later, business is spiraling and Chef Robert Irvine has just two days to address trust issues, frozen food in the kitchen and finances that aren't adding up if there's any chance of restoring this restaurant to its former glory.
 

Futurama 13

Channel: Disney+
TX Time: 10h00 (all episodes)
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Sci-Fi

Futurama 13

The series follows Philip J. Fry (Billy West), a New York City pizza delivery boy, who accidentally freezes himself in 1999 and gets defrosted in the year 3000.

In this astonishing New New York, he befriends hard-drinking robot Bender (John DiMaggio), and falls in love with cyclops Leela (Katey Sagal).

The trio find work at the Planet Express Delivery Company, founded by Fry's doddering descendant, Professor Hubert Farnsworth.

Together with accountant Hermes Conrad, assistant Amy Wong, and alien lobster Dr. John Zoidberg, they embark on thrilling adventures that take them to every corner of the universe.

The 2023 revival of Futurama continues in 2025 with 10 all-new episodes (all of which are available at once).

This season Bender is rampaging out of control and a volcano is about to explode.

Fry confronts a rival for Leela's love and Dr. Zoidberg is rising up to heaven?

The excitement might be too much! You've been warned...
 

Guy's Grocery Games 5

Channel: eReality (Openview 108)
TX Time: 19h00
Genre: Reality Competition, Food

Guy's Grocery Games 5

Guy Fieri sends four talented chefs running through the aisles in a high-stakes, high skills, grocery store cooking competition.

From students to grannies to celebrities, the competition is always fierce.

Each episode sees the chefs hit by real-world challenges like finding workarounds when all the essential ingredients are suddenly "out-of-stock," or having to create a masterpiece when they can only cook with "5 items or less" or on a $10 budget.

In the end, the food does the talking, as the last chef standing has the chance to make some serious cash.

In the Season 5 premiere, "Bold Tastes and Big Laughs": It's a night of memorable characters and mouthwatering food in the market.

Chefs have to spellcheck the ingredients for breakfast when Guy Fieri plays ABC.

Next, competitors keep their eye on the ounces when they're forced to weigh their steakhouse dinner.

Then, the last two chefs mix luxury ingredients with low-priced fare in a funny and unforgettable finale.
 

Defending Europe

Channel: Disney+
TX Time: 10h00
Genre: Documentary Series

Defending Europe

Defending Europe explores the incredible strategies, weapons and structures different European countries have used to defend and protect their territory through the ages.

Covering over 1,000 years of history, it shows how these often-forgotten stories and sites played a pivotal role in creating the countries and borders of the Europe we know today.

Each episode focuses on a different country and delves into the critical moments when each nation's survival was threatened, investigating how defensive sites kept that country safe, forged and defined its national borders and built the character and identity of its people.

Experts explore the engineering and impressive scale of the defensive fortifications, weapons and strategies that were developed to defend borders and track how these tactics evolved to counter new threats and technologies.

The series covers more than two millennia of history and features locations that tie into some of the biggest names and moments in European history, from the Roman Empire to Hitler's conquest of Europe.

Medieval kings and queens and Napoleon Bonaparte are also among the figures chronicled in the show.

In the series premiere, "Finland": How a small Finnish force beat the Red Army in the Second World War, and how Finns are preparing for war now, with nuclear bunkers and urban warfare.

 

Actors in this post: Billy West, John DiMaggio, Katey Sagal, Guy Fieri

Channels in this post: Disney+, BBC Earth, eReality



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