Legends
Channel: Netflix South Africa
TX Time: 10h00 (all episodes)
Genre: Thriller, Drama, Period Drama
As drugs flood the streets of '90s Britain, a team of civil servants is thrust undercover to topple the gangs behind it.
Inspired by an untold true story.
In the early 1990s, Her Majesty's Customs and Excise was losing its battle with illegal drug smuggling across Britain's borders.
The solution was extraordinary. In a top-secret operation, a small team of Customs employees were sent undercover.
Their task - to infiltrate Britain's most dangerous drug gangs. But these were not trained spies.
They were normal men and women, plucked from ordinary lives around the UK, put through a basic training regime and tasked with building new identities in the criminal underworld.
These identities were called Legends.
Pompeii: Life in a Roman Town
Channel: BBC Earth (DStv 184)
TX Time: 19h00
Genre: Documentary Series, History
Pompeii is the world's most incredibly preserved Roman city.
Now, historians Dan Snow and Doctor Kate Lister take us into this extraordinary time capsule to reveal what it would really have been like to live there.
Pompeii: Life in a Roman Town takes you on a fascinating journey into the daily lives of ancient Romans, exploring the preserved town of Pompeii like never before.
Dan and Kate reveal what it was really like to live in this extraordinary time capsule – from what people ate, how they worked and entertained themselves, to the weird punishments for lawbreakers.
With special access to both the streets and underground ruins, Dan and Kate immerse themselves in Roman life, bathing, feasting and dressing like the elite.
In the series premiere: Dan and Kate discover how the Romans earned a living.
From slave to aristocrat, everybody in Pompeii was on the lookout for the next chance to take a step up in the world.
Trans Am
Channel: Discovery Family (DStv 136)
TX Time: 18h25
Genre: Motoring, Docu-Reality
In 1977, the world watched the Trans Am race across the silver screen in the series Knight Rider, and a new generation of car lovers was born.
For years, American muscle cars ruled the road, but that time came to an end... but the story doesn't end there.
Entrepreneurial brothers Scott and Tod Warmack risked everything they had to acquire the exclusive rights to the Trans Am brand to pioneer a new-era of the American muscle car.
Together, the Warmack brothers embark on a forward-looking journey, fueled by nostalgia, to restore and recreate an American staple while forging a reputation in the competitive automotive industry.
For decades, no other muscle car ruled the roads like the Trans Am.
So when the automotive icon fell into oblivion, car savants Scott and Tod Warmack risked everything to acquire the rights in an attempt to resurrect the legendary brand from extinction.
Now, builder Scott and businessman Tod are giving the greenlight to the Trans Am legacy by restoring old muscle cars and building new ones to breathe life back into American muscle and put the beloved car back on the pavement.
Operating out of production-facilities Trans Am Depot and Trans Am Worldwide, the brothers and their team of talented car savants re-engineer and meticulously craft classic icons from the inside out.
The team will uncover existing bodies and build new ones to house some of the baddest engines and equipment to satisfy auto-aficionados across the country.
The Warmack vision is larger than life and there are few boundaries that can't be pushed, but can a few guys from the panhandle of Florida pull off the restoration of a lifetime?
In the series premiere, "The Bandit is Back": Scott restores a 1978 Bandit, but gets held up by problematic T-tops.
Meanwhile, Tod pushes his team to deliver two brand new Trans Ams to an eccentric Florida couple.
To Catch a Smuggler 10
Channel: National Geographic Channel (DStv 181)
TX Time: 18h50
Genre: Documentary Series
124-million people enter the USA through the nation's airports each year.
It's a nonstop human tidal wave and hidden amongst them are an endless stream of contraband and ill intentions.
Defending the borders are the vigilant men and women of the Department of Homeland Security, whose agencies make up a three-tiered defence of America's airports.
Using every tool available to them, DHS will stop at nothing to catch a smuggler.
In the Season 10 premiere, "The Pill-Packing Pilot": Air and Marine Operations chases a smuggling vessel tossing bales of cocaine overboard in Puerto Rico.
CBP seizes hydrocodone pills from a pilot at the Fort Lauderdale Airport and looted antiquities in Atlanta.
World's Most Scenic Railway Journeys
Channel: BBC UKTV (DStv 134)
TX Time: 19h00
Genre: Travel
It's the ultimate rail pass to the most breathtaking places on Earth.
Narrated by award-winning British actor Bill Nighy, The World's Most Scenic Railway Journeys is an unforgettable ride through some of the most spectacular landscapes on Earth.
From New Zealand, Sri Lanka and the sweeping Scottish Highlands, to a Mexican odyssey, an Arctic expedition and a luxurious African safari, it's a breathtaking adventure.
Rolling past snow-capped peaks, fairytale castles and breathtaking natural wonders, meet the engineers who keep these trains running and the many characters who work, travel and live along these exotic and far-flung routes.
And while an airplane is certainly the quickest route to any destination, nothing compares to an epic train expedition where it's always the journey that counts.
House Hunters International 139
Channel: Travel Channel (DStv 179)
TX Time: 06h00
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 139 premiere, "Flying Into Fareham": A pair of veteran travelers decide to leave the United States and permanently move to Fareham, England, after landing a job with the UK's air traffic control systems.
The couple soon learns visiting a new country isn't the same as living there.