Ugliest House In America 7
Channel: HGTV (DStv 177)
TX Time: 21h00
Genre: Reality, Home Improvement, Reality Makeover
Hosted by Retta, known for her roles in Parks and Recreation, the new season will showcase tours of 15 properties nominated by homeowners who believe their design-challenged home is among the worst in the country.
During the season, Retta will share her hot takes and reviews of each horrendous property, commenting on wacky layouts, clashing designs and severely outdated styles.
Based on its ugly appearance, poor functionality and surprising design choices, one house will be deemed the "ugliest house in America" by HGTV..
The network will award its homeowners $150,000 renovation completed by Alison Victoria.
In each episode, Retta will tour three homes where she shares her unfiltered reactions to all sorts of hair-raising designs.
These include decades old wall-to-wall pink carpeting, elaborate bathroom tiles and chandeliers, homes with multiple non-functioning kitchens and tanks designed to house baby alligators.
Throughout the season, Retta will see the best of the worst across the US and help a lucky homeowner transform their unsightly house into a stunner.
In the end, the home deemed "the ugliest" will be transformed from a beast into a beauty.
In the Season 7 premiere, "Great Plains, Greater Ugly": Retta begins her quest to find ugly as three homes in the Great Plains region vie for a $150,000 makeover by designer Alison Victoria.
It's between a house with off-the-wall decor, a home that looks like a dog, and a house with light switches galore.
Homecoming
Channel: Mzansi Magic (DStv 161)
TX Time: 21h00
Genre: Telenovela
Telenovela which revolves around Zethu, a woman fresh off losing everything in the big city who is forced back to the rural village she fled.
But home is not what it used to be, and neither is she.
Set in the rural town of Bergville, KwaZulu-Natal, Homecoming follows Zethu Hlongwane (Mpume "Six" Nyamane), a straight-A medical graduate hoping to become one of the country's few Black female surgeons.
But when things don't turn out how she had hoped, with no job or placement, she is forced to return to the village she left behind.
There, Zethu finds herself at the crossroads of two worlds, that of western medicine and traditional healing when she meets Sifiso Kubheka (Thembinkosi Mthembu).
Sifiso is a police officer by day and a traditional healer by night, challenging everything she thought she knew about love, healing and home.
The cast also includes Sipho Manzini as Zenzo, Amahle Khumalo as MaNgcobo, Khombi Phetla as Matron Mnisi, Mpilo Mbatha as Shobane and Khayalethu Xaba as Vusi.
Homecoming is produced by Tshedza Pictures.
In the series premiere: As the young doctor Zethu arrives back home, unemployed but too afraid to tell the village, her modern thinking instantly clashes with culture when she finds her younger sister involved in a practice she despises.
In the second episode of the weekdays double bill: As Zethu carries the secret that could shatter everything, Sifiso sees everything except the thing that matters the most.
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Revealed! Cast and story details for Mzansi Wethu's new telenovela Homecoming
TVSA Show Page: Homecoming