Hidden Beneath the Cities
Channel: National Geographic Channel (DStv 181 / StarSat 220)
TX Time: 20h30
Genre: Documentary Series
Hidden Beneath the Cities uncovers the extraordinary worlds lying just below modern urban centres.
Beneath the streets of stone, soil and concrete exist hidden realms shaped by survival, ritual and imagination.
Each story reveals ingenuity, resilience and mystery, proving every city conceals a hidden world waiting to be discovered.
In the series premiere, "Underground Cities and Secret Chambers": In Turkey, archaeologists uncover an underground city, stretching across tunnels and chambers carved thousands of years ago.
In England, workmen stumble upon a mysterious chamber filled with religious carvings.
Beneath Italy, a wine cellar excavation reveals a subterranean complex.
And in Iran, archaeologists map a massive subterranean tunnel network.
Agnee, Regtig!
Channel: VIA (DStv 147)
TX Time: 21h00
Genre: Talk Show, Afrikaans
Anita Lloyd and Candice Bester of Real Housewives van die Wynlande have their own vodcast and now it's coming to TV.
In each episode they talk about all the things that irk or intrigue them.
The American Experiment
Channel: Netflix South Africa
TX Time: 10h00 (all episodes)
Genre: Documentary Series, History
Life. Liberty. The pursuit of happiness. This sweeping historical documentary series traces how the ideals of America's founders gave rise to a nation.
As the United States approaches its 250th anniversary, this five-part documentary series reexamines the improbable achievement that was the nation's founding, and the radical question at the centre of the revolution: Can a people govern themselves?
It presents bipartisan, wide-ranging and deeply informed conversations about the origins and future of American democracy and features an extraordinary range of voices including:
- former vice presidents and cabinet officials,
- current and former members of Congress,
- a former Supreme Court justice,
- leading historians,
- tribal chiefs,
- military experts,
- and thought leaders across the political spectrum.
The series tracks the years leading up to the Revolution through the drafting of the Constitution and the first American presidency.
It explores how a nation built on an untested idea has continued to wrestle with the foundational contradictions of slavery, liberty, individual power and minority representation.
It also examines how American democracy has been built, challenged and reimagined over the course of two and a half centuries.
Cinematic in scope, the series reveals how the debates that defined the country's founding era still shape the United States.
It poses a pivotal question at a moment of profound division: Can this extraordinary experiment endure?