Maigret
Channel: Universal TV (DStv 117)
TX Time: 20h00
Genre: Drama, Miniseries
The first contemporary television adaptation of Georges Simenon's beloved novels about the streetwise Parisian Chief Inspector Jules Maigret.
Starring Benjamin Wainwright, this six-episode series contains a close-ended story in each two-hour block.
Chief Inspector Jules Maigret, the invention of former crime reporter turned prolific author Georges Simenon, inhabits a vividly realised Paris not often seen on camera that takes us from the glitzy upper-class world of luxury hotels and mansions to local bourgeois bistros and bars and the underground haunts of the professionally criminal.
Patrick Harbinson's adaptation reframes Maigret as an unconventional young detective with something to prove the Police Judiciaire, relentless in his investigations, chasing and a matchless knowledge of Paris and its inhabitants.
Faithfully and lovingly married to Madame Maigret, Maigret heads the elite police unit known as La Crim, responsible for investigating all serious crime in and around Paris.
He's an unusual detective – empathetic to perpetrators and indifferent to hierarchy and authority.
Newly-appointed Chief Inspector of the Brigade Criminelle of the Police Judiciaire, the elite investigative unit of the Paris Police – Maigret works with a team of maverick but loyal detectives who are known as Les Maigrets.
His safe place is his home, with his wife, Louise.
However, his childhood home still lingers in his dreams with its beauty, its sadness and its unresolved issues.
The series opens with Maigret & the Lazy Burglar, in which Maigret tracks down the brutal killers of a skilled burglar while taking down a team responsible for daring bank heists that have plagued Paris.
Maigret's Failure is the second two-hour block, in which Maigret tries and fails to protect Ferdinand Fumal, one of the richest men in France, from the death threats against him.
The first season ends with Maigret Comes Home, in which Maigret must draw out the murderer of the young heir to a wealthy perfume family, while at the same time investigating the death of Sophie, the Countess of Saint-Fiacre, the village which is his childhood home.
Face 2 Face 3
Channel: Mzansi Wethu (DStv 163)
TX Time: 18h30
Genre: Reality
What do you do when your cheating partner won't change their ways, but you still want to salvage the relationship?
Iin Face 2 Face, hurt lovers sit down with their partners and the other party in the hopes of resolving things.
Season 3 features new host Sipho 'Alphi' Mkhwanazi.
Each episode features conversations that delve deep into the issues behind the affair, hopefully leaving those involved in a better place at the end of it.
Without ambushing anyone, Face 2 Face gives partners the chance to confront their cheating loves in a safe environment, and the "other person" in their relationship will also be present for a three-way dinner date that unpacks the reasons behind the affair.
The goal is not to expose the adulterers or catch them in the act – the show explores the infidelity from all sides: the person being cheated on, the one doing the cheating and the one being cheated with.
Bridgerton 4: Part 1
Channel: Netflix South Africa
TX Time: 10h00 (all episodes)
Genre: Period Drama
The fourth season of Bridgerton turns its focus to bohemian second son Benedict.
Despite his elder and younger brothers both being happily married, Benedict is loath to settle down - until he meets a captivating Lady in Silver at his mother's masquerade ball.
Bohemian second son Benedict Bridgerton refuses to settle down, despite pleas to the contrary from matriarch Lady Violet Bridgerton.
Until — at Violet's masquerade ball, Benedict is awestruck by a masked, mysterious Lady in Silver.
With the reluctant help of his sister Eloise, Benedict sets out in society to uncover the young lady's identity.
But in fact, his heart's desire is not in society at all — she is a resourceful maid called Sophie Baek, working for the formidable Lady of the house, Araminta Gun.
When fate brings Benedict and Sophie back together, Benedict wrestles between the reality of his affection for this intriguing maid and the fantasy of the Lady in Silver — unaware that they are the same person.
Will Benedict's inability to see these women as one in the same derail the undeniable spark between him and Sophie?
And can love truly conquer anything — even a cross-class connection forbidden by society?
Inspiring Benedict's journey are the marriages of his siblings — including Francesca to John Stirling and Colin to Penelope, who faces new challenges as a now public gossip columnist.