Pimville
Channel: SABC2
TX Time: 21h00
Genre: Telenovela
Pimville is a South African telenovela set in the heart of Soweto which follows the lives of various characters as they navigate complex relationships, secrets and power struggles.
From reformed hustlers to strong matriarchs, each character brings their own story to the table.
The series shines a light on the pulse of township life where dreams collide with reality, secrets unravel and family bonds are tested.
Gail Mabalane stars as Phello Mohapi, a strong-willed woman navigating love, betrayal and survival.
Matli Mohapeloa plays Phello's partner Mmusi, who is torn between power, loyalty and truth.
Kenneth Tumagole (played by Thapelo Mokoena) is a respected community leader facing moral tests and ambition and his wife Naledi (played by Keke Mphuthi) fights to protect her family and legacy.
Other characters include Vusi "Jobe" Sithole (Mondli Makhoba), a reformed hustler trying to rebuild his life; and Zinzi Sithole (Michelle Mosalakae), Jobe's partner, who has a quiet strength shaped by years of hardship.
Also in the cast is Clementine Mosimane who plays Mme Mathapelo, the wise matriarch who guards traditions and secrets.
Other featured cast members include:
Fulu Mugovhani as Rofhiwa "Rofhi" Ndou - a vibrant spirit caught in the crossfire between love and loyalty.
Jesse Suntele as MJ - a rising musician whose dreams are threatened by temptation and betrayal.
Eve Rasimeni as Mo'Gurl - a bold, street-smart friend whose humour conceals a bruised heart.
Sipho Ndlovu as Somfana "Demethi" Mazibuko - a charismatic figure whose actions ripple through the community.
Mandla Gaduka as Quincy - a local hustler whose moral compass points in unexpected directions.
Thabo Malema as Jones - a loyal companion who proves that friendship can be both a gift and a curse.
Lillian Dube as Rakgadi wa Friestata - a beloved elder whose wit, heart and humour define the soul of Pimville.
In the series premiere: Detective Sergeant Pheello chases a case that refuses to stay buried, but the deeper she digs, the more entangled her world becomes.
Pimville is produced by Bakwena Productions.
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Interior Design Masters 4
Channel: The Home Channel (DStv 176)
TX Time: 15h00
Genre: Reality Competition, Home Improvement, Reality Makeover
Interior Design Masters, hosted by Alan Carr, sees 10 talented, new designers all looking for their big break in the fast-paced world of commercial interior design.
They will be competing to win a career-defining contract with one of UK's top hotels.
Design expert and former editor of Elle Decoration, Michelle Ogundehin, returns as the series judge.
Each week, the designers will be set a new challenge, crisscrossing Britain to take on the interiors of luxury apartments, hotels, school common rooms, shops, shepherd's huts, cafes, luxury holiday lodges and bars.
Their skill and expertise will hopefully create design magic to impress the discerning judges.
Michelle is joined every week by a different guest expert, on hand to offer their advice and appraisal.
In the Season 4 premiere: Ten budding interior designers compete in a makeover challenge.
Michelle tasks them with transforming five luxury apartments in London's Elephant and Castle.
They work in pairs, with one designer in charge of the open-plan kitchen-living room, while the other transforms the bedrooms.
Each apartment must be targeted towards a different type of tenant, from young couples to older residents.
Finished designs must show cohesion between the teammates' schemes and clever use of sustainable materials.
With just two days, £1800 and a team of tradespeople to help, the designers begin turning these blank canvases into fresh new takes on urban living.
Northwoods Survival 2
Channel: National Geographic Channel (DStv 181 / StarSat 220)
TX Time: 18h50
Genre: Docu-Reality
Northwoods Survival follows a diverse group of young Canadians as they embark on a challenging four-season mission: to build a life in the vast and unforgiving Canadian wilderness.
The series takes you on an adventure through some of the country's most remote and rugged landscapes as these aspiring homesteaders face the harsh realities of living off the land and strive to not just survive - but to thrive in these wild places, they now call home.
In the Season 2 premiere, "Here We Go Again": Margot, Matty, Billy, Emilie and Gilbert negotiate some pre-winter challenges as they continue to improve their northern homesteads.
The Curious Case of... 2
Channel: Investigation Discovery (DStv 171 / StarSat 223)
TX Time: 21h00
Genre: True Crime, Documentary Series
Featuring legal analyst Beth Karas, The Curious Case of... will dive into some of the most shocking true crime cases and unbelievable scandals.
Led by Karas, with her extensive legal expertise and insight, each story will uncover deceit, greed and manipulation and offer key access to shocking, first-hand accounts - proving the truth is much more chilling than fiction.
Season 2 will feature eight new episodes tackling bizarre, stranger-than-fiction cases filled with twists, turns and shocking revelations through unprecedented first-hand accounts.
The new season will venture even deeper into inconceivably shocking true crime stories that are filled with deception, obsession and the unbelievable.
The show will continue to dive into the unique and strange, from unbelievable scandals involving a con-woman who faked multiple illnesses, a high school principal obsessed with hypnosis, and a Tourette's epidemic that took over a small community in upstate New York, to the criminally twisted; a mysterious murder plot and a skincare professional mired in a twisted harassment campaign that lands her in jail.
Led by Karas, each episode will uncover deceit, greed, and manipulation and prove the truth is much stranger than fiction.
In the Season 2 premiere, "Death by Detox?": This episode unpacks Dr. Robert O. Young, a former college tennis star and a descendant of Brigham Young, who lands on the national bestseller list for his ph Miracle book series, which pushes an alkaline diet, the tentpole of which is an avocado-based green smoothie, that grows in popularity.
Suddenly, Young's business is booming - he's selling books like hot cakes, he creates his own holistic supplements, and his roster of wealthy, high-profile clients grows.
But despite his success and popularity, Young is no Doctor and his "miracle" cure has left broken hearts and devastated families in his wake.
Eintlek Let's Connect
Channel: SABC2
TX Time: 16h30
Genre: Talk Show
Hosted by Penny Lebyane and Fran-Rico Lucas, this daily talk show invites guests such as Gail Mabalane, Zakes Bantwini, Somizi Mhlongo, Buffalo Souljah, Siv Ngesi and Jonathan Boynton-Lee to be part of the conversation as they tackle everyday topics.
This show dives straight into the heart of topical subjects blending trending topics, uplifting and inspirational stories, deep, meaningful conversations and heartwarming, in-depth feel-good features .
With everyday South African stories taking centre stage, the show also features audience giveaways.
The show will travel around South Africa, engaging with current events, celebrating local culture and showcasing the country's best: its people, energy and resilience.
The show aims to bring warmth, excitement, laughter, reflection and a sense of belonging.
Whether you are looking for inspiration, a good laugh, a thoughtful chat, or just that warm, fuzzy feeling, Eintlek Let's Connect aims to be an inclusive, energising companion designed for everyone.
Extreme Car Hoarders 2
Channel: Discovery Family (DStv 136)
TX Time: 17h35
Genre: Reality, Motoring
Every year finding unrestored classic American cars is becoming a thing of the past.
But there's a secret treasure trove of automotive relics that still exists: Car Hoards - the last frontier of the American Classic Car.
Now, hot rod guru, Rick Dore and WWE superstar Chuck Palumbo are out to rebuild legendary cars and help car hoarders thin out their stockpiles of classic cars.
Each episode of Extreme Car Hoarders features Dore and Palumbo helping car hoarders by offering them a deal: pick one dream car from their overcrowded car collection to rebuild while covering the costs of the remake by parting with and selling other cars and car parts from their massive hoard.
Every hoard is a surprise, a treasure hunt, and Dore and Palumbo don't always know what they're getting into.
Junky hoards mean tight budgets and tight deadlines which is unknown in the custom car world.
The pressure is on and they don't always get along, but together they have a passion for cars that touches these hoarders' lives, changing them forever.
Dore, a classic car legend known for his vivid imagination, has been in the custom car building game for more than two decades.
He's been inducted into numerous automotive halls of fame and his one-of-a-kind creations regularly grace the covers and pages of hot rod magazines, including Rod & Custom, Rodder's Journal and Custom Rodder.
A Dore creation, The Black Pearl, won every category in its class at the 2014 Grand National Roadster Show.
Palumbo, the 6'6" athlete and wrestling superstar holds numerous world wrestling titles, including two WWE Tag team titles and four WCW World Tag Team titles.
He left WWE in 2008 to pursue his passion for cars and motorcycles.
As a longtime hot rod purist, Palumbo is in it to win it.
In the Season 2 premiere, "The Almond Lord": The team squares off against its toughest hoarder yet, an almond farmer looking to restore a 1936 Ford Coupe.
In the second episode of the weekly double bill, "Bird Up": Rick and Chuck restore a 1957 Thunderbird for a Vietnam vet in the mountains.
The vet is looking to reconcile his relationship with the car's original owner - his father.
Naked and Afraid
Channel: Travel Channel (DStv 179)
TX Time: 14h20
Genre: Reality
What happens when you put a man and a woman - sans clothes - in one of the most remote areas of the world?
Discovery takes "survival of the fittest" to the next level with Naked and Afraid, where each week, a new pair of complete and total strangers - one man and one woman - will find themselves stranded in and, quite literally, exposed to one of the world's most extreme weather environments.
This duo will be left high and dry with no food, no water... and no clothes.
They must survive on their own for a full 21 days, with nothing but one personal item each and the knowledge that the only prize is their pride and sense of accomplishment.
In Naked and Afraid, these brazen and bold couples will get acquainted with each other - and their new surroundings - very quickly, forcing them to question and test everything they may think they know about their acquired survival skills and instincts.
Will the nude castaways have the brains and brawn to endure the harsh conditions?
Or will the challenges prove to be overbare-ing?
Watch as each couple battles the elements, each other and their own inner weakness to see who will triumph over the terrain or fail under the force of nature.
Critter Fixers: Country Vets 5
Channel: Nat Geo Wild (DStv 182 / StarSat 221)
TX Time: 18h00
Genre: Wildlife, Docu-Reality
One hundred miles south of Atlanta, Dr. Hodges and Dr. Ferguson are two longtime friends who own and operate Critter Fixer Veterinary Hospital.
Together with their loving staff, Drs. Hodges and Ferguson treat and care for more than 20,000 patients.
Between emergency visits to the office and farm calls throughout rural Georgia – the Critter Fixers are constantly bombarded with unique cases only seen in the country.
For docs Hodges and Ferguson there's no case too strange, no location too country.
The family at Critter Fixer does it all.
In the Season 5 premiere, "That's a Moray!": The Docs at Critter Fixer perform a C-section on an egg-bound snake, attempt to remove a tumor from a moray eel and treat a grounded parakeet.
Not Home
Channel: SABC2
TX Time: 20h00
Genre: Documentary Series
Not Home is a documentary series which questions the plight of foreign nationals living in South Africa.
Some people believe they should be treated with more dignity and fairness; others believe they should not be here in the first place.
Matter of Time
Channel: Netflix South Africa
TX Time: 10h00
Genre: Documentary, Music
Eddie Vedder's soul-stirring Seattle benefit concert fuels this documentary about the race to cure the rare genetic disorder epidermolysis bullosa (EB).
Fueled by the raw energy of Vedder's 2023 solo performances in Seattle and driven by the determination of patients, families and scientists, the film captures a growing global movement to cure EB and transform how rare diseases are treated.
Matter of Time is more than a concert film - it's a story of defiance, innovation and progress led by EB Research Partnership, whose bold, results-driven approach is proving that rare disease isn't just treatable - it's curable.
With an original score and intimate interviews from across the movement, Matter of Time shows what's possible when urgency, community and hope collide.
Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives
Channel: Travel Channel (DStv 179)
TX Time: 13h30
Genre: Food, Reality, Travel
Guy Fieri knows a thing or two about hearty, flavoursome food, and in this series he travels across America - and beyond - in search of the best "greasy spoon" eateries.
These diners, drive-ins and dives have been doing it right for decades, and these days they're booming again.
Run by a whole new generation of owners, these joints serve up delicious home-made food and Guy is hitting the road to check them out.
Whether it's a shack on the side of the highway or a sports bar in Vegas, Guy samples their best dishes and chats to the locals who are regulars in these iconic regional restaurants.
From a Jamaican joint serving fried chicken to an Ottawa eatery's 400-year-old cod cake recipe, these are the kind of places that make America great.
In the series premiere, "Classics": Guy rolls out for some classic American grub...
He discovers the secret recipe of the "cabrito" burger at a gourmet roadside shack in Tarpley, Texas; flipping the perfect over-easy egg in a Kansas diner; and stumbling upon a Mediterranean mecca on the long desert highway between Los Angeles and Las Vegas.
In the second episode of the weekday double bill, "That's Italian": Guy finds great Italian food in places you'd never expect.
These include the Tennessee drive-in where they make their own meat sauce and bring the pasta to your car; the 1940s New York Diner, shipped to Texas, that's serving east coast Italian sausage peppers; and the bar in a Las Vegas strip mall where they make the best Stromboli Guy's ever had.
House Hunters International 197
Channel: Real Time (DStv 155)
TX Time: 15h50
Genre: Reality
This spin-off of House Hunters goes around the globe.
Home hunters and their realtors check out all sorts of architectural styles and work through the quirks of buying real estate in other countries.
Each episode follows house hunters as they view three potential homes, receive guidance from an estate agent and choose the digs of their dreams, where we revisit them a few weeks later.
In the Season 197 premiere, "A New Beginning in Germany": Former best friends reconnect and marry, and embark on their first international move together to Kaiserslautern, Germany.
She's used to a nomadic lifestyle and wants German charm, but he prefers something modern with an easy commute to his new job.
In the second episode of the weekday double bill, "Making Friends in Mexico City": A Detroit native with a remote job embraces her wanderlust and moves to Mexico City.
She's looking for personal connections, artistic outlets and an apartment with good vibes, but finding the right space in her desired neighbourhood may be out of reach.