Chopped Castaways
Channel: Food Network (DStv 175)
TX Time: 16h05
Genre: Reality Competition, Food, Reality
Chopped Castaways is the most extreme evolution of Food Network's series Chopped.
Hosted by Ted Allen, the eight-episode series strands 12 elite chefs on a remote island, where survival skills are just as critical as culinary talent.
Battling the elements across two grueling cooking rounds each week, competitors must build a working kitchen from basic supplies, earn their signature Chopped ingredient baskets through intense physical challenges, and cook entirely over open fire.
Culinary heavyweights Gabe Bertaccini, Maneet Chauhan and Marcus Samuelsson serve as judges throughout the competition, offering guidance while deciding who advances - and who is chopped.
The season begins as a team competition before dissolving into an individual battle, raising the stakes as the chefs fight to outlast their rivals and claim the $100,000 grand prize.
Only the most resilient, strategic and adaptive chef will survive island life and the pressure of the competition.
Each episode opens with survival-driven physical challenges - such as archery, spearfishing, diving in the ocean and digging in the sand - to secure ingredients for round one.
In the series premiere, "Welcome to the Island": Twelve chefs are split into teams on a remote island and must create three-course meals with no electricity.
In round one, a venomous threat in the basket tests their nerve; the lowest-performing chefs are sent to the Gauntlet for a head-to-head battle.
A Toxic Love Story
Channel: Netflix South Africa
TX Time: 10h00
Genre: True Crime, Documentary
A string of threatening emails escalates into a revenge plot involving a newly married US marshal and his ex-girlfriend in this true crime documentary.
In a glamorous California suburb, a young woman's arrest for a violent fantasy plot against her ex-boyfriend's new wife becomes a sensational scandal, but the truth remains hidden behind a sophisticated web of deception.
As the investigation peels back layers of betrayal, it becomes unclear who is the true victim and who is the villain in a game where everyone is playing a part.