Pluribus
Channel: Apple TV
TX Time: 10h00
Genre: Sci-Fi, Comedy-Drama, Drama
This unusual science fiction drama hails from writer and director Vince Gilligan, the creator of Breaking Bad and co-creator of Better Call Saul, starring Rhea Seehorn, who earned two Emmy nominations for her performance in Better Call Saul.
Picked up in a two-season order, Pluribus is a genre-bending original in which the most miserable person on Earth must save the world from happiness.
Set in Albuquerque, New Mexico, the series follows author Carol Sturka, who seems to be the only person immune to an unexplained virus that transforms the world's population into content and optimistic citizens.
As You Stood By
Channel: Netflix South Africa
TX Time: 10h00 (all episodes)
Genre: K-Drama, Thriller
Two women - trapped in a reality so suffocating that only death seems to offer an escape - make the fateful choice to kill, only to be swept up in a series of unexpected events.
When two women plot to end an abusive marriage through murder, an unexpected visitor arrives - threatening to shatter everything they've planned.
Based on Hideo Okuda's novel Naomi & Kanako, the series presents a striking story of two women who come together in the face of violence and trauma to save each other.
Eun-su is a competent VIP luxury handler working at a department store, yet she harbours trauma from her childhood, having helplessly witnessed her father's violence towards her mother.
Meanwhile, Hui-su is Eun-su's best friend.
Once a promising writer of children's books, she finds herself trapped by her husband's violent grip on her freedom and life.
When Eun-su learns of Hui-su's dire situation, the two friends resort to a drastic measure out of desperation: to kill Hui-su's husband once and for all.
Love+War
Channel: Disney+
TX Time: 10h00
Genre: Documentary
Pulitzer Prize-winning Lynsey Addario has risked her life to capture the stark realities of war - from the Middle East and Afghanistan to Ukraine.
From National Geographic Documentary Films, Love+War chronicles Addario's ascent in the male-dominated world of conflict photography.
But her work is dangerous.
She's been kidnapped twice while on assignment in war zones - a cost she must wrestle with each time she leaves her husband and two sons to go on assignment.
Behind the camera, Addario is torn between her unwavering commitment to the essential work of journalism and the powerful, competing demands of motherhood, grappling with what it truly means to follow your calling when it threatens everything you love.
Christmas Cookie Challenge 8
Channel: Food Network (DStv 175)
TX Time: 17h00
Genre: Reality Competition, Food
Christmas Cookie Challenge is back with a season-long celebration of the magic of the North Pole.
Hosts Eddie Jackson and Ree Drummond welcome the nation's top cookie artisans to showcase their baking and decorating talents in a festive showdown.
Each episode features two exciting challenges that explore different aspects of the North Pole, including one inspired by the beloved classic movie The Polar Express.
This season raises the stakes even higher, as every first-round winner will receive an incredible prize.
When the glitter settles each week, only the most successful cookie creator walks away with a $10,000 prize.
In the Season 8 premiere, "Finding Santa": Ree and Eddie invite four clever cookie makers into the workshop to put their spins on the North Pole's favourite interactive puzzle game, "Where's Santa?".
Ree and Eddie bust out their magnifying glasses to find Santa among all the distractions and red herrings on these richly detailed decorated cookies.
The cookie maker who hides Santa in plain sight will be finding the exit, while Ree and Eddie will reveal an advantage in the next round for this stealthy challenge winner.
For their final challenge, the remaining three cookie makers create delectable 3D cookie displays showing Santa's favourite North Pole spots, like his beloved burger joint.
They'll have to include some of Santa's favourite burger toppings in their cookies: bacon, pineapple rings, mustard or cheddar.
Whoever creates the most spectacular versions of Santa's stomping grounds will sleigh ride home with $10,000 and the Golden Ornament.
The Curse of Skinwalker Ranch 6
Channel: HISTORY (DStv 186)
TX Time: 19h25
Genre: Reality
Revelations of epic proportions are on the horizon as Season 6 of The Curse of Skinwalker Ranch takes flight.
After years of witnessing strange and unsettling phenomena across the mysterious 512-acre property in northeastern Utah, landowner Brandon Fugal and his team - led by principal investigator Erik Bard and astrophysicist Dr. Travis Taylor - will implement their boldest strategies yet to uncover the cause of the unexplainable high strangeness.
For more than two centuries, Native Americans, bewildered homesteaders and even government investigators have suggested that intelligent entities of otherworldly origin may inhabit or visit the ranch.
In Season 6, the team will reveal shocking new clues - both high in the sky and deep underground - that suggest the legends and rumours may be true.
Over the past few years, the team has detected bizarre energy spikes across the ranch, including a signal at a frequency of 1.6 GHz that may represent a form of communication.
These signals will not only persist in Season 6, but the team will be stunned to discover that someone - or something - is even cloning signals they themselves have broadcast during experiments.
Numerous animal mutilations have occurred on the ranch in recent years.
Incredibly, the carcass of what is believed to be a prehistoric dire wolf was discovered in 2023.
This season, while working closely with biologist Ben Woodruff, the team will encounter more strange animal injuries and uncover eerie evidence that mysterious predators may, in fact, be lurking on the property.
The infamous hotspot known as The Triangle will remain a centrepiece of the team's experiments and shocking revelations this year.
In past investigations, the Triangle has been the site of numerous UAP encounters, inexplicable equipment malfunctions and possible evidence of interdimensional portals.
In Season 6, the team will finally identify a massive, invisible phenomenon that encompasses the Triangle - and much of the property - which may be the key to unlocking the entire mystery.
While answers have been elusive above ground, the team will also make incredible discoveries deep within the sandstone mesa that borders the property's northern edge.
Here, they are working to complete two boreholes up through the mesa's summit, where ground-penetrating radar has previously detected a massive object and several smaller anomalies buried within.
Over the past three years, the team has recovered metal fragments that appear similar in design to protective coatings found on man-made spacecraft.
What they discover this year may possess a technological makeup unknown to mankind.
For decades, people have wondered whether Skinwalker Ranch holds the key to answering one of humanity's most profound questions: Are we alone in the universe?
What Brandon and the team uncover in Season 6 may finally provide a definitive answer.
Jesus Killer: The Jimmy Maketta Story
Channel: eReality (Openview 108)
TX Time: 21h40
Genre: True Crime, Documentary
Jimmy Maketta terrorised a small farming community in Cape Town for months in 2005, killing the husbands and raping the wives.
Many of the victims could only name him as the "Jesus Killer" because he had a tattoo of Jesus across his chest.
Farm workers feared for their lives and gathered together in the evenings for fear of being the Jesus killer's next victim.
The police did not take the killings seriously until the killer started leaving messages and maps about where to find the next body.
When police finally captured Maketta they discovered that his reign of terror had lasted more than a year.
In that time he is accused of killing more than 16 people and raping 19 women.