Ancient Greece by Train
Channel: BBC Earth (DStv 184)
TX Time: 19h00
Genre: Travel, History, Documentary Series
The Ancient Greeks helped create democracy, art, science and medicine and continue to have an influence on our modern lives.
Professor Alice Roberts travels across Greece and into modern-day Türkiye, tracing the remarkable legacy of one of history's greatest civilisations.
Along the way, she uncovers the stories, ideas and innovations that continue to shape the modern world.
This is the third chapter in her railway journeys going back in time following her previous adventures probing the stories and history of Ancient Egypt and the Ottomans.
From learning about Alexander the Great in Thessaloniki to exploring the origins of theatre in Athens and visiting legendary sites including Delphi, Ephesus and Troy, Alice reveals how Ancient Greece transformed politics, philosophy, art and culture forever.
They looked at the big philosophical questions that we still struggle with today.
Yet, they have a pagan system with incredible myths and stories of gods and goddesses that have no evidential basis.
Alice challenges and confronts the experts about these as well as trying to get to the bottom of the famous stories and storytellers like did Homer really exist and is the story of the battle of Troy in The Iliad false?
Alice begins her journey in Thessaloniki and takes a train down the Aegean Coast stopping at daw-dropping sites like Vergina and Delphi, before exploring Athens and Corinth.
Swapping trains for boats she learns about ancient life in the Cyclades, before heading to Turkey, where Ancient Greece culture once dominated the Aegean coast there.
Wat 'n Ma Moet Weet 2
Channel: VIA (DStv 147)
TX Time: 20h00
Genre: Talk Show, Afrikaans, Advertiser-Funded
Young mother Efraine van Heerden taps into famous moms and experts to learn more about motherhood and all the adventures that come with it.
Makeup artist and Op my eish! contestant (2021) Efraine du Toit recently became a mother again.
She returns for a second season of Wat 'n Ma Moet Weet (What a Mom Should Know), a talk show in which celebrity mothers speak openly and honestly about the challenges, surprises and reality of motherhood.
The series creates space for conversations without a perfect-mother filter and reminds you that every mother's experience is different.
The Gentlemen 2
Channel: Netflix South Africa
TX Time: 10h00 (all episodes)
Genre: Comedy-Drama, Action
When aristocratic Eddie inherits the family estate, he discovers that it's home to an enormous weed empire — and its proprietors aren't going anywhere.
Guy Ritchie's The Gentlemen sees Eddie Horniman (Theo James) unexpectedly inherit his father's sizeable country estate - only to discover it's part of a cannabis empire.
Moreover, a host of unsavoury characters from Britain's criminal underworld want a piece of the operation.
Determined to extricate his family from their clutches, Eddie tries to play the gangsters at their own game.
However, as he gets sucked into the world of criminality, he begins to find a taste for it.
In Season 2 it's been one year since Eddie and Susie joined forces to work together in Bobby's empire overseas.
As they drive to expand their enterprise, the decisions Bobby is making seem to be increasingly unsound.
Now Eddie and Susie must decide whether to take action or risk losing it all, but unfettered ambition never ends well...
The Brokenwood Mysteries 10
Channel: BBC Brit (DStv 120)
TX Time: 20h00
Genre: Police Procedural, Drama, Mystery
The Brokenwood Mysteries comprises two-hour murder mystery stories set in a seemingly quiet country town where the town's newest resident, Detective Senior Sergeant Mike Shepherd, finds that murder lurks in even the most homely location.
Each telefeature in the series is a standalone story which sees the show's two lead police officers trying to solve a murder case.
In the Season 10 premiere, "Brokenwood-o-saurus": After dinosaur fossils are discovered in the foothills of Brokenwood, the town buzzes about the potential boost for tourism.
But when a palaeontologist turns up dead, the future doesn't look so rosy.
Chad Powers 2
Channel: Disney+
TX Time: 10h00
Genre: Comedy
Eight years after an unforgivable mistake nukes his promising college football career, hotshot quarterback Russ Holliday tries to resurrect his dreams by disguising himself as Chad Powers - a talented oddball who walks on to the struggling South Georgia Catfish.
Legendary quarterback Peyton Manning is an executive producer on the show.
In Season 2 Chad is a superstar on the field but his odd behaviour off it has everyone suspicious - especially Coach Hudson and Gerry.
The walls are closing in on Russ's lie, and if he and Danny want Chad to survive the regular season and lead the Catfish to the College Football Playoff, the only person who can help them is the last person who wants to: Ricky.