100 Cooks
Channel: Food Network (DStv 175)
TX Time: 19h00
Genre: Reality Competition, Food
Hosted by actor, television host and former pro football player Terry Crews, the series welcomes 100 of the USA's best home cooks to run through an epic seven-week culinary gauntlet.
99 cooks will be eliminated and only one is named America's best home cook and wins as much as $250,000.
From firefighters and college students to corporate lawyers and stay-at-home moms and dads, these competitors are from all walks of life and share a passion and talent for food.
In each episode, competitors are selected at random by a lottery ball "Cook Mixer" to come to the floor after the "Challenge Mixer" dictates what food-themed battle they will face.
Each round is judged by top culinary content creator Nick DiGiovanni and Food Network all-star Alex Guarnaschelli, who will determine who stays in the competition each week and who is sent home.
Challenges include fast-paced food trivia contests, a spicy weeknight dinner battle, a bake sale bake-off and a one-pot dinner competition.
In the season finale, the final eight home cooks work to impress the judges over the course of three challenges: breakfast, lunch and dinner.
In the end, only one will stand alone at the top of the food world and take home the life-changing cash prize.
In the series premiere, "Give It 100": Terry Crews welcomes 100 of the best home cooks in America to the food world's most unpredictable cooking competition.
In this episode, over 50 cooks compete in five different challenges to impress the judges.
The challenges include best noodle dish battle, a rotisserie chicken face-off, an egg challenge and best party bite competition.
More than 20 cooks will be sent home and the remaining amateur chefs will continue to compete for a life-changing amount of money.
Black Widow
Channel: M-Net (DStv 101)
TX Time: 21h00
Genre: True Crime, Documentary Series, Docu-Drama
This new three-part true crime documentary series follows the decade-long police investigation into Dena Thompson, who became better known as The Black Widow.
Over a period of 20 years, she carried out a sustained campaign of fraud, deception, bigamy and murder, using Lonely Hearts columns to lure a succession of husbands and dozens of lovers into her life.
Once she got them under her spell, she was able to coerce them into giving up their life's savings, their homes, their families and their freedom, based on her bizarre but convincing stories.
Things later elevated to murder.
Dena was finally caught in 2003 and convicted for her crimes, but has since been released from prison, and her victims are still struggling to understand what happened to them.
The series includes first-hand testimony from those affected, with exclusive access to her first husband – who ended up homeless believing he was on the run from the mafia.
Cyril Chauquet Wild Catch
Channel: BBC Earth (DStv 184)
TX Time: 18h10
Genre: Wildlife, Docu-Reality
Legendary and passionate adventurer Cyril Chauquet and his team of fearless filmmakers embark on their most dangerous quest yet.
Previously they've confronted some of the most hostile regions on the planet, facing down giant, air-breathing monster fish and venomous short-tailed river stingray.
In this new high-adrenaline and action-packed series, the team set out to uncover some of the planet's most mysterious - and dangerous - giant fish.
Their mission?
To prove that these elusive apex predators still exist while enabling world-leading biologists and researchers to protect their habitats for future generations.
They risk man-eating caiman, illegal poachers and treacherous rapids in remote corners of the Earth.
Join this incredible band on a tense and adrenaline-fuelled adventure full of sharp moments and intense danger as they strive to protect these astonishing giants forever.
Italia '90: Four Weeks that Changed the World
Channel: eReality (Openview 108)
TX Time: 19h00
Genre: Documentary Series, Sport
Discover the definitive story of the World Cup that forever changed football, with edge-of-the-seat drama on the pitch against the momentous historical shifts that were happening beyond it.
The docuseries covers a tournament like no other: the 1990 Italian World Cup.
From exploring the end of Maradona's career to the commercialization of the game and the geopolitics of new football nations, this series has it all, as well as interviews with icons such as Paul Gascoigne.
Episode 1
It's the eve of Italia '90. With a reputation for hooliganism, all eyes are on the England fans. But how did it come to this?
A look back at Thatcher's '80s and football's darkest years.
Episode 2
As the England team progress through the rounds, their fate is in the balance on and off the pitch, with undercover British police hiding in plain sight.
Episode 3
As players and fans head for the Italian mainland, can World in Motion, Platt's goal and Gazza's tears change English football's reputation and help the beautiful game?
Georgie & Mandy's First Marriage 2
Channel: M-Net (DStv 101)
TX Time: 18h00
Genre: Comedy
Georgie & Mandy's First Marriage, the sequel to Young Sheldon, follows Georgie (Montana Jordan) and Mandy (Emily Osment) as they raise their young family in Texas while navigating the challenges of adulthood, parenting and marriage.
In the Season 2 premiere, "A Tie Breaker and a Huge Mistake": Tensions rise in the tire store when new co-owners Georgie and Ruben realize they can't agree on anything, and Jim struggles to find his purpose now that he's retired.
In the second episode of the weekly double bill, "Fan Mail and Old-Timey Organ Music": Georgie's upset when Mandy's new role as weekend weather girl gets her more attention from the men in town.
Meanwhile, Connor turns to Jim for help when he's asked to play the organ at the high school baseball game.