Making Life on Earth: Attenborough's Greatest Adventure
Channel: BBC Earth (DStv 184)
TX Time: 20h00
Genre: Wildlife, Nature, Documentary
In 1976, production began on David Attenborough's Life on Earth. No-one had ever attempted a natural history series on this scale before.
This is the remarkable story behind one of the BBC's most famous wildlife blockbusters.
A three-year, hair-raising odyssey around the world, travelling to 40 countries, across a million miles, and filming over 600 species.
Making Life on Earth: Attenborough's Greatest Adventure goes behind-the-scenes on this groundbreaking landmark series, featuring exclusive interviews with David Attenborough and other members of the original crew.
With fascinating insights, they reveal the highs and lows of filming the series during a truly exciting moment in television history, when global jet travel and colour filming were still in their infancy.
Along the way, the crew encountered multiple challenges, including a coup in the Comoros, being shot at in Rwanda and threats from Saddam Hussein's army in Iraq.
Broadcast in 1979 and watched by 500-million people worldwide, it confirmed David's reputation as the most successful and influential wildlife filmmaker of our time.
His astonishing encounter with gorillas in the mountains of Rwanda for this series is frequently voted one of the top TV moments of all time.
The Crash
Channel: Netflix South Africa
TX Time: 10h00
Genre: True Crime, Documentary
A teen slams her car into a building, killing her boyfriend and his friend.
What seems like a tragic accident becomes a murder case in this documentary.
A car carrying three young adults slams into a brick building at 100 miles per hour in Strongsville, Ohio, leaving two lives lost and one sole survivor.
The driver, 17-year-old Mackenzie Shirilla, was driving her boyfriend, Dom, and his friend, Davion, home from a party when the unthinkable happened.
But as detectives comb through the wreckage, what first appears to be a tragic accident begins to look like a calculated crime scene.
The Crash takes a deep dive into the volatile relationship at the centre, examining the shifting narratives of that fateful night to explore where a fatal mistake ends and cold-blooded murder begins.
Rivals 2
Channel: Disney+
TX Time: 10h00
Genre: Drama, Period Drama, Miniseries
Set against the backdrop of the drama, excess and shocking antics of the power-grabbing social elite of 1980s England, Rivals delves headfirst into the ruthless world of independent television in 1986.
The original eight-part blockbuster is based on the iconic novel by Dame Jilly Cooper – part of her Rutshire Chronicles series, which is packed full of romantic entanglements, dastardly deals, sex and wit.
In Season 2, the battle for the Central South West television franchise reaches a fever pitch as the war between Corinium and Venturer enters a dangerous new phase.
More ruthless than ever, Tony Baddingham is determined to dismantle his rivals piece-by-piece, weaponising scandal and manipulating those closest to him to maintain his grip on power.
Amidst the hedonistic glamour of '80s excess, the personal lives of our Rutshire heroes spiral into chaos.
Marriages fracture under the weight of ambition, illicit affairs threaten to shatter families, and long-buried secrets ignite with explosive consequences.
As rivalries push everyone to the brink, loyalties are tested and hearts are broken in the pursuit of victory.
But what is the true cost of war?
The WONDERfools
Channel: Netflix South Africa
TX Time: 10h00 (all episodes)
Genre: K-Drama, Comedy, Sci-Fi
A goofy group of townies stumbles into superpowers and fights rising evil as doomsday panic grows in this wild, turn-of-the-century action comedy.
Set in 1999, The WONDERfools is an adventure comedy series about a group of neighbourhood misfits who unexpectedly gain superpowers and must band together to take on villains threatening world peace.
Welcome to Wrexham 5
Channel: Disney+
TX Time: 10h00
Genre: Docu-Reality, Sport
Rob McElhenney (It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia) and Ryan Reynolds (Deadpool) navigate running the 3rd oldest professional football club in the world.
Welcome to Wrexham is a docuseries tracking the dreams and worries of Wrexham, a working-class city in North Wales, UK, as two Hollywood stars guide the future of their historic Club.
In 2020, Rob and Ryan teamed up to purchase the 5th tier Red Dragons in the hopes of turning the Club into an underdog story the whole world could root for.
The world took notice and the club achieved back-to-back promotions to bring the Reds into the English Football League's League One for the first time in 20 years.
Season 5 chronicles Wrexham AFC's quest for promotion to the Premier League on the heels of three consecutive promotions, a feat that has never been achieved in English Football League history.
In the Season 5 premiere, "The Heart of Wrexham": In a tough new league with a mostly new squad, Wrexham fans and co-chairmen Rob Mac and Ryan Reynolds try to keep focus on what makes Wrexham, Wrexham.
Tucci in Italy 2
Channel: Disney+
TX Time: 10h00
Genre: Travel, Food, Lifestyle, Docu-Reality
The Italian peninsula is a battleground for the proud and passionate culinary traditions of rival regions.
Stanley Tucci is visiting 10 of the most distinctive to discover how food can unlock what makes them so special.
In each episode, who he meets, what he eats and what he learns will all lead to the creation of a meal that captures that region's very essence.
From overlooked regions to fiercely debated food origins, Tucci in Italy returns for a second season.
Revealing a deeper, more personal journey, Stanley returns to his beloved Italy, visiting five new regions - Naples and Campania, Sicily, Le Marche, Sardinia and Veneto - to trace the link between Italy's historical landscape and its culinary traditions, where the ritual of the shared meal remains the ultimate expression of its people.
In Season 2, Tucci visits new regions, including Le Marche, a lesser-known destination he's never featured before.
Located in central Italy along the Adriatic coast, the region's rich culinary delights have largely escaped the attention of international tourists.
In Campania and its famed capital, Naples, he celebrates a once-forgotten vine grape; and in Veneto, he deliciously wades into the passionate culinary debate over the origins of tiramisu.
Stanley also explores two very different Islands: Sardinia, where he looks into the relationship between food and longevity; and Sicily, where multicultural history has left a delicious mark on its food.
Lisa Ann Walter: It Was an Accident
Channel: Disney+
TX Time: 10h00
Genre: Comedy, Special
Lisa Ann Walter's debut comedy special takes on feral Gen-Xers, self-loathing and navigating a backsliding America, via the no-filter lens of a grown-ass woman who has been paying attention.