Dikker as Water
Channel: kykNET & kie (DStv 145)
TX Time: 20h00
Genre: Telenovela, Afrikaans
The story of a young woman who falls in love with a charming man from a conservative family.
The values of this family clash harshly with those of her modern mother, causing great strife for all involved.
Doga, who is studying to become a dentist, has a relationship with the attractive Fatih, a businessman who works in his family's successful enterprise.
Doga's mother, Kivilcim, cherishes great expectations for her daughter, but when Doga becomes pregnant, several lives are upended.
Fatih believes the pregnancy is a gift from above, but Kivilcim thinks it will ruin Doga's life.
Doga and Fatih decide to marry, and Kivilcim must make peace with it.
She must also accept that her daughter's new in-laws are devoutly religious and extremely conservative – everything she is not.
Kivilcim believes the marriage is doomed from the start, and Doga and Fatih come to the realisation that love might not be enough to bridge deep cultural divides.
A complex love story follows with two families who in time come to realise that there are indeed values they share.
The main characters are:
Kivilcim (voiced by Sanli Jooste) is the manager at a high school and was divorced from her daughters' father five years ago.
Doga (Reze-Tiana Wessels) is Kivilcim's eldest daughter. She puts her dentistry studies on hold when she becomes pregnant and marries Fatih.
Fatih (Roberto Kyle) is the son of Abdullah and Pembe and works for the successful family business. He is respected and hardworking.
Abdullah (Jakkie Groenewald) is head of the family business and a dedicated family man. He and Pembe have two other children besides Fatih, Mustafa and Nursema.
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Pembe (Ilse Klink), her husband and children are her entire life. Although her marriage to Abdullah was an arranged marriage, she is happy and content with her life.
Sönmez (Mariëtte Engelen) is Kivilcim's mother and Doga and Cimen's grandmother. Sönmez lives with them in the same house.
Cimen (Anré Bouguenon) is Kivilcim's youngest daughter and Doga's sister. The two sisters have a close relationship.
Ömer (Duncan Johnson) is Abdullah's brother. He is a successful businessman who runs the international arm of the family enterprise. He married Sema under pressure, and they have a son, Metehan. Ömer has been trying to divorce Sema for three years, but she refuses.
Metehan (Reginald Hufkie) is Ömer and Sema's son and a pupil at the school where Kivilcim is the manager.
The original Turkish title of the series is Kizilcik Serbeti, also known as Cranberry Sorbet in English.
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Killing Hitler
Channel: National Geographic Channel (DStv 181 / StarSat 220)
TX Time: 20h30
Genre: Documentary Series, History, Docu-Drama
Killing Hitler reveals the stories of those who attempted to assassinate Adolf Hitler, featuring new scientific evidence, rare archive, and in-depth analysis.
The series combines personal tales of bravery with the suspense of assassination attempts, detailing the devices and plans used, the motives and mindsets of the would-be assassins, and how Hitler and his security responded.
Through scientific reconstruction, we accurately recreate and test the devices used in the attempts to kill Hitler and the top Nazis.
We reconstruct controlled explosions using the same materials and detonate them filmed on high-speed camera technology at dedicated scientific establishments.
Episode 1: The Lone Wolves
Experts reveal, in-depth, the lone wolf assassination attempts on Adolf Hitler.
The stories of Georg Elser and Maurice Bavaud show just how close these dedicated individuals got to killing Hitler with detailed scientific and dramatic recreations and rare archive.
Yet, piercing Hitler's sophisticated security system would need a new breed of assassins.
Episode 2: The Rise of The Resistance
From the Lone Wolves to the organised resistance movements in Poland and Czechoslovakia, the successful assassination of Hitler's right hand man, Reinhard Heydrich, in 1942 gave the resistance the impetus it needed to get more organised within Germany.
Hans Oster, Deputy Chief of Intelligence and right-hand man to Hitler was to become the surprising organiser of the Resistance - he was the ideal mole, a ringmaster orchestrating numerous attempts on Hitler.
The Fall of Stalingrad provides a key to the opportunity to kill Hitler - he is at his weakest point.
Senior German officers plot to kill Hitler through daring clandestine operations such as the Plane or Brandy Bomb attempt to blow Hitler out of the sky on a flight to the Russian Front, this was swiftly followed by the Suicide Vest attempt and the Blond Bomber attempt in November 1943.
We show through controlled explosion testing and slow-motion filming, how Fabien von Schlabrendorff and Henning von Tresckow's ingenious brandy bomb would have killed Hitler in March 1943, if their knowledge of bomb fuses had been better.
Episode 3: Killers From Within
By now Hitler's Bloodhounds, the secret police and investigators, are hot on the heels of the resistance, some resistors are caught and tortured, and others are executed by the guillotine or hung on meat hooks in the notorious Plotzensee prison in Berlin.
We follow the buildup to the 20 July Plot in 1944 and investigate in detail the location of the bombing attempt on Hitler at the Wolf's Lair in Eastern Prussia.
The last-minute change from the concrete bunker to a wooden cabin for Stauffenberg's meeting with Hitler was to have a significant effect on the power of the bomb used.
We show that if Claus von Stauffenberg had the explosives he originally intended, had met Hitler in the concrete bunker as planned and his briefcase containing his bomb had not been moved 10 cms from where he placed it, Hitler would have died on July 20 1944, and millions of lives would have been saved.
Splinter Cell: Deathwatch
Channel: Netflix South Africa
TX Time: 09h00 (all episodes)
Genre: Animation, Action
In this first ever adaptation of the stealth video game franchise Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell, legendary agent Sam Fisher is drawn back into the field when a wounded young operative seeks his help.
In the shadowy world of espionage, Sam Fisher is a rumour and a legend.
Pulled back into action, he must help a new recruit unravel a global conspiracy.
The Rookie 7
Channel: M-Net (DStv 101)
TX Time: 19h00
Genre: Drama, Police Procedural
John Nolan, the oldest rookie in the LAPD, has used his life experience, determination and sense of humour to keep up with rookies 20 years his junior.
Nolan is continually put to the test by a host of new challenges, romantic relationships and deadly criminals, as he looks to figure out what kind of cop he ultimately wants to be.
In the Season 7 premiere, "The Shot": Now recovering from a gunshot wound and feeling the effects of his age, John and the team welcome two new rookies and continue the hunt for two dangerous inmates with very personal vendettas following their prison escape.
Ice Road Rescue 10
Channel: National Geographic Channel (DStv 181)
TX Time: 19h40
Genre: Reality, Docu-Reality
Ice Road Rescue portrays a group of tow truck rescue workers.
When winter hits Norway the transport roads turn into treacherous bobsleigh tracks and every day the rescuers fight to keep the routes open by rescuing heavy trailers stuck in the mountain terrain.
Winter storms, avalanches and lack of daylight through the winter season are just some of the challenges they have to face, working close to the polar circle.
Extreme winter conditions that often make them risk their lives.
This winter, it's game on as the ice road bosses lead their teams into battle, in a business where only the toughest survive.
In the Season 10 premiere, "Better Together": When Thord and Bjoern team up for a big truck rescue, they disagree on the best approach. Up north Ole Henrik has a lot to prove.
Death in Paradise 9
Channel: S3
TX Time: 21h00
Genre: Drama, Mystery
The murder mystery series returns for a ninth season, featuring more captivating mysteries and fiendishly clever murders against the backdrop of the exotic and picturesque Caribbean island of Saint Marie - with a brand-new detective at the helm.
The new fish-out-of-water is Detective Inspector Neville Parker (Ralf Little), who is reluctantly dispatched to Saint Marie to investigate the suspicious death of a woman from his hometown of Manchester.
Blending colourful Caribbean vibes and British humour, this season's murders will keep you guessing "whodunit" at every twist and turn...
In the Season 9 premiere: New Year's Eve celebrations are cut short when a masked man stabs a woman in her own home.
Jack and the team must uncover the identity of the mystery murderer before they strike again.
Evil Lives Here: The Killer Speaks
Channel: Real Time (DStv 155)
TX Time: 22h30
Genre: True Crime, Reality
Evil hides in the shadows. It lies and deceives... and it may be lurking inside your own home.
Evil Lives Here: The Killer Speaks offers unprecedented insight into the mind of a killer.
From the team behind ID's series Evil Lives Here, which offers a platform for survivors of terrifying crimes to share their stories, this series also goes inside individuals' emotional accounts of some of the most shocking acts of violence and takes their stories a step further by going behind prison walls to speak with the killer themselves.
The result is a chilling conversation unlike anything seen before, exploring the years leading to the crime and the hell the perpetrators put their own loved ones through.
Evil Lives Here: The Killer Speaks asks questions the killers have never been asked before, resulting in powerful, disturbing and contentious encounters.
In the series premiere, "Body in a Barrel": A young woman, Michelle, revisits her father's brutal, horrific act of violence that changed her entire world and pushes for her father to hold himself accountable for his crimes.