Een Keer om die Son 2
Channel: kykNET (DStv 144)
TX Time: 20h00
Genre: Drama, Afrikaans
The second season kicks off on New Year's Day, but this time not all of the Van Wyks are together to celebrate.
Life has taken its course, and each faces their own challenges – not only on the first day of the year, but for the rest of the year as well.
These challenges range from finding acceptance and embracing second chances, addiction and life-changing medical issues, to each person's search for their place within the family circle.
Jacques Bessenger returns as Dr Ruan van Wyk, a neurologist who sometimes places his work ahead of other priorities.
Jana Kruger is Lani van Wyk, who died in the first season and whose death left more questions than answers. Lani returns in flashbacks this season.
Ruan and Lani's children are Markus (Liam Bosman), Leandri (Alma van Heerden) and Sophia (Klara van Zyl).
In Season 2, each faces an obstacle in their path.
Albert Maritz plays Sebastian, the retired professor of entomology; and Joanie Combrink is Elma, the Van Wyk matriarch who was diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease in Season 1.
In Season 1, Amé (Donnalee Roberts), Ruan's younger sister, saw her marriage crumble, and in Season 2, she finds her feet as an independent and ambitious woman.
But will she find love again?
A new character in Season 2 is Erika du Randt (played by Cindy Swanepoel), a social worker whose career is her first and only love.
Other returning characters include:
- Sebastian and Elma's good friends Salie and Jan Wessels (Susanne Beyers and Pierre van Pletzen),
- Markus's dance partner, Charlie (Simone Neethling),
- Leandri's boyfriend, Xavier (Alex van Dyk),
- Lani's father, Trevor de Kock (Deon Lotz),
- nurse Karen (Isadora Verwey),
- and Charl Boshoff (Ivan Botha), Amé's colleague.
Heinrich Wentzel appears as Elijah Smith, whose path crosses with Leandri's in an unusual way.
In the Season 2 premiere: It's two years after Lani's death.
Ruan is the head of the hospital, Amé is in Tokyo, Markus is blossoming as a dancer, Leandri is pursuing her dream of becoming a doctor, Sophia is keeping the house running and Sebastian and Elma's camping adventure is coming to an end.
TVSA Show Page: Een Keer om die Son 2
Star Search
Channel: Netflix South Africa
TX Time: 03h45 (live)
Genre: Talent Show, Reality Competition, Music, Variety
The new and reimagined series draws on the rich legacy of Star Search, which helped launch the careers of global icons like Beyoncé, Justin Timberlake, Christina Aguilera, Britney Spears, Dave Chappelle, Adam Sandler and many others.
Off the air for 20 years, the show returns as a nostalgic yet fresh entry in the talent competition space - ready to captivate both longtime fans and a new generation.
The talent is bigger, the stakes are higher, and the format is more interactive than ever.
Each episode will spotlight the best up-and-coming performers across numerous categories - music, dance, variety, comedy, magic and juniors - as they compete head to head for their shot at stardom.
With an arced competition structure and weekly eliminations with real-time global voting, the series builds dramatic momentum, making every live episode an unmissable event.
Hosted by Anthony Anderson, the judges are Jelly Roll, Sarah Michelle Gellar and Chrissy Teigen.
Sout van die Aarde
Channel: e.tv
TX Time: 16h30
Genre: Telenovela, Afrikaans
An Afrikaans-dubbed Turkish novela which revolves around cousins Taner, Ramazan and Veysel, who want to build an aeroplane with limited resources.
Taner has a long-standing love for engineer Dilek, whose return reopens old feelings.
Set in the village of Gedelli, the series title references a mountain legend.
It's said that a rock falls from the Mountain of Hearts each time a lover's heart breaks.
In the series premiere: Taner's sweetheart left long ago, but he can't forget her.
He works on a new plane with his cousins Wessel and Ramazan, but will their first flight take off?
The original Turkish title of the series is Gönül Dagi.
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Into the Jungle with Ed Stafford
Channel: TLC Entertainment (DStv 135)
TX Time: 20h00
Genre: Docu-Reality, Adventure
In this six-part documentary series, world-renowned explorer and former British Army captain Ed Stafford sets up an extreme survival school that will put struggling modern dads and their children through some of the toughest outdoor challenges on the planet.
Ed Stafford believes that modern British dads are in trouble.
They're becoming too soft, too comfortable, and too risk-averse - they've lost touch with their purpose as male role models.
Ed passionately believes that his job as a father is to push, test and challenge his family in whatever way he can - to strengthen them, and turn them into better people.
It's why this year Ed has decided to leave Britain behind and take his wife Laura and their three young children to live in the jungle in Costa Rica.
But they won't be going alone...
Ed's plan is to establish an extreme wilderness adventure school, based on programs he has been part of in the UK, helping struggling modern dads - and their kids - by putting them both through some of the toughest outdoor experiences on the planet.
By stripping all the distractions of the 21st century away, Ed thinks his wilderness camp can help them discover what it really means to be a dad.
In this series, we're following the first ever cohort to go through Ed's wilderness survival camp.
Over the course of several weeks a group of ordinary, struggling, out-of-their-comfort-zone British dads - each bringing one of their kids with them - will live in the heart of the Central American jungle.
They have to:
- sleep in home-made shelters,
- catch and cook their own food,
- dig toilets,
- build fires,
- and dodge spiders, snakes and scorpions while dealing with boiling heat, biting insects and sky-high humidity.
But that isn't all.
As they battle to cope with the extremes of everyday life, in each episode they'll also have to tackle a wilderness challenge specially designed by Ed to test both their individual characters and their relationships with one another.
Whether they are jumping from towering mountain gorges or fighting the rip-tide in homemade dug out canoes, trekking through pitch-black night in the jungle or being stranded in the wilderness and left to fend for themselves - each challenge will test them in ways they've never experienced before.
Because in Ed's view, traditional qualities of risk-taking, resilience and adventure are crucial to children's development - but that in modern society these qualities are dangerously threatened.
Whether through fear, ignorance, or a lack of role models, British blokes are losing touch with the qualities that make them useful - and that while they're glued to social media updates, true crime podcasts and diet plans, their core values are being lost forever.
In the series premiere: Ed challenges the dads to navigate their way through dense jungle to find their kids.
To reach them, the dads must take an eye-watering leap of faith from a 25-foot-high cliff into deep waters below.
WWE: Unreal 2
Channel: Netflix South Africa
TX Time: 10h00 (all episodes)
Genre: Reality, Docu-Reality, Sport
Wild plot twists. Larger-than-life personae. And a whole lot of drama.
Go behind the scenes with the biggest Superstars and back into the writer's room on the road to SummerSlam for Season 2 of WWE: Unreal.