Dracula
Channel: BBC UKTV (DStv 134)
TX Time: 21h00
Genre: Horror, Fantasy, Miniseries
Transylvania, 1897: terror awaits. The blood-drinking count has set his sights and teeth on London.
A spine-tingling reimagining of the classic, from the creators of Sherlock.
The Count Dracula legend transforms with new tales that flesh out the vampire's gory crimes - and bring his vulnerability to light.
Featuring Claes Bang as the titular character, these three feature-length episodes introduce the world to Dracula, the vampire who made evil sexy, set in Transylvania in 1897.
The blood-drinking Count is drawing up his plans to get to Victorian London, and be warned: the dead travel fast.
In the series premiere, "The Rules of the Beast": It's 1897 and St Mary's Convent, Budapest plays host to a desiccated husk of a human being, Jonathan Harker; an English lawyer with a strange and unsettling story to tell.
Listening in is the kind and inquisitive Sister Agatha, a nun with a more-than-ordinary-interest in the creatures of the night.
Invited to Transylvania to meet the reclusive Count Dracula, Harker finds himself trapped in an ancient, terrifying castle, a maze of mouldering corridors and vaults: a prison without locks.
It soon becomes clear that he and his client are the only things living in the echoing halls of the moulding pile: and that the Count himself isn't living at all.
In fact, Dracula is a 400-hundred year old vampire who has grown weary of his own exhausted country and has set his sights on the new world.
As the shadows lengthen and Harker's account unfolds it becomes clear that the remorseless vampire may have unfinished business with his erstwhile guest...
Boyzone: Life, Death & Boybands
Channel: M-Net (DStv 101)
TX Time: 22h00
Genre: Documentary Series, Music
They were one of the most successful and iconic boybands of all time – but behind-the-scenes, conflict and rivalry, betrayal and tragedy led to their falling apart.
Now, 30 years on, all four remaining members - Ronan Keating, Keith Duffy, Shane Lynch and Michael 'Mikey' Graham, as well as their estranged manager, Louis Walsh – reveal the truth of what really happened, the extraordinary highs of their meteoric rise to fame, and the huge costs that being in a boyband had on each of them.
Boyzone: Life, Death & Boybands examines the key events that shaped the band, including the intense tabloid intrusion in 90s Britain, which forced Stephen Gately to come out and, after a sensational comeback in 2007, the devastating tragedy of Stephen's death.
With raw and candid honesty, the band members confront the strained relationships between them in exclusive interviews, revealing their personal experiences in a band that sold over 25-million records worldwide.
Strictly Come Dancing Christmas Special 2024
Channel: BBC Brit (DStv 120)
TX Time: 18h30
Genre: Reality Competition, Special
The Strictly Come Dancing Christmas special is back.
As the Ballroom is once again transformed into a magical winter wonderland, the celebrities behind the all-star advent calendar doors this year are ready to go.
Expect festive cheer, jingle bells, mistletoe madness, bedazzling baubles and six celebrities all sleighing their way to Elstree in a bid to be crowned the Strictly Christmas Champion 2024.
Plus, Emma Bunton will perform a very special rendition of the classic Spice Girls song, 2 Become 1.
The cast is as follows:
Comedian, podcaster and author
Josh Widdicombe is dancing with Karen Hauer.
Drag artist, model and presenter
Tayce is dancing with Kai Widdrington.
Presenter, podcaster, DJ and fitness expert
Vogue Williams is dancing with Gorka Márquez.
Gladiator and Olympian
Harry Aikines-Aryeetey is dancing with Nancy Xu.
Actress
Tamzin Outhwaite is dancing with Nikita Kuzmin.
Racing driver and TV presenter
Billy Monger is dancing with Nadiya Bychkova.
Death in Paradise Christmas Special 2021
Channel: S3
TX Time: 21h00
Genre: Drama, Special
As Saint Marie prepares from Christmas, complete with Commissioner Patterson in full Santa costume, trouble is brewing for DI Neville Parker.
Following on from his attempt to tell Florence how he feels about her at the end of the last season, he is still trying, although Florence leaving the island for Christmas to be with her family doesn't help.
But before Neville can head home to Manchester to be with his family, death strikes the island.
Philip Carlton, a wealthy shipping magnate, is found dead on the beach near his house, apparently a suicide from a self-inflicted gunshot wound.
Everything points to suicide apart from two things – why had the body been moved after death, and, moreover, why had a Christmas card, with the message "Philip Carlton Was Murdered" been sent to a complete stranger in the UK?
The team is short-handed, but luckily a familiar face is back on the island...