Crew Girl
Channel: Netflix South Africa
TX Time: 10h00 (all episodes)
Genre: Drama
After a humiliating family scandal derails her life, sixteen-year-old Teagan Tao was a rising star in single sculls rowing but is forced to start over at an elite prep school.
When she discovers there's no girls' team, she becomes the coxswain of the dysfunctional all-boys crew to get back on the water.
As she fights to win the team over, she goes head-to-head with the team's arrogant captain, and finds unexpected chemistry with the team's underrated and overlooked would-be MVP.
Thrust into a world of old money and brutal competition, Teagan must find a way to lead a team that doesn't want her and somehow bring them together.
As she juggles her own rowing ambitions, the demands of the boys' crew, and her family's escalating complications, she also finds herself unexpectedly caught in the orbit of the team's two most competitive rivals: the arrogant team captain, Josh Regis, and the quiet but intensely driven townie, Cam Dillinger.
Silent Witness 27
Channel: S3
TX Time: 20h30
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Police Procedural
Dr Nikki Alexander (Emilia Fox) and Jack Hodgson (David Caves) return to the Lyell Centre to investigate five exciting and distinctive cases told across 10 episodes.
In Season 27, Nikki, Jack Hodgson and their dedicated team must help the police solve some of their most chilling cases yet.
These include:
- a body found in an abandoned church which sparks fears that a serial killer has resurfaced after 20 years,
- a death that terrorises a university campus where no one is safe,
- and a mummified corpse is uncovered - seemingly forgotten by everyone.
Also, multiple bodies are found entombed beneath a train station in a makeshift mass grave, and the Lyell is infiltrated by a malevolent force.
As the team use their expertise to unlock the truth, they are tested to their very limits.
Gabriel seeks advice from Jack in an unexpected way, and lets down his guard at work with devastating results.
Velvy tries to do the right thing by his family, but at great cost to himself.
Cara navigates London student life, making friends and enemies along the way.
She impresses Jack when she undertakes work experience at the Lyell, and is forced to intervene when she makes a shocking discovery about Velvy.
Nikki and Jack deal with one of the most difficult cases of their career and their relationship becomes stronger than ever.
In the Season 27 premiere, "Effective Range - Part 1": Nikki and Jack investigate a murder bearing all the hallmarks of a notorious serial killer.
When Nikki meets Charles Beck, the pathologist who conducted the original post-mortems, she discovers his wife was the suspected fifth victim of the serial killer.
But nobody believes him when he claims he knows where to find her body.
Ons Gesels Gesondheid
Channel: VIA (DStv 147)
TX Time: 18h00
Genre: Lifestyle, Talk Show, Afrikaans, Advertiser-Funded
Ons Gesels Gesondheid (We Talk Health) is a series about modern medicine, informed choices and the road to better health.
Four people share their inspiring stories of diagnosis, treatment and recovery.
Kabous Meiring chats with patients and radiologists about fibroids, retinoblastoma, kidney cancer and preventative health screenings.
Chef Yolani Abrahams wraps up each episode with a sponsored apple dish and healthy lifestyle tips.
The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives 5
Channel: Disney+
TX Time: 10h00
Genre: Docu-Reality
After two wild years, #MomTok is hotter than hell, but will friendships and dreams go up in flames?
Taylor returns from The Bachelorette with unfinished business, an old temptation and the pressure of life in the public eye.
Whitney debuts on Broadway in New York City as tensions back home chase her.
Back in Utah, the limits of loyalty are tested as fame, secrets and backlash threaten #MomTok - with every blowup making headlines.
As the heat threatens to burn the sisterhood, have they finally flown too close to the sun?
With rumours spiraling and the public demanding answers, the sisterhood starts to crack and #MomTok must decide what - and who - it's willing to sacrifice.
Joanna Lumley's India
Channel: S3
TX Time: 21h30
Genre: Travel, Documentary Series
A year older than Independent India itself, actress Joanna Lumley travels back to the country of her birth and celebrates the great nation that it is today.
Travelling 5,000 miles, Joanna visits remote locations as well as the bustling cities across the country to see some of India's most beautiful natural landscapes and age old traditions.
Not only does Joanna meet incredible people during her journey, but she also gets the opportunity to reunite with an old friend and explore the history of her family who lived in India for several generations.
Exploring India's beauty, culture and history, her journey takes her on an exploration of India's past, present and future.
She experiences the mind-blowing mix of industry, imagination and humanity that the world's largest democracy has to offer.
Episode 1
Joanna travels from the very south of the country to the foothills of the Himalayas.
Episode 2
Joanna begins her journey in Mumbai, and then travels through Gujarat and exotic Rajasthan.
Episode 3
Joanna explores Rajasthan, her birthplace Kashmir and meets the Dalai Lama.
Dorpie-Doenlys 3
Channel: VIA (DStv 147)
TX Time: 20h30
Genre: Travel, Docu-Reality, Afrikaans
Taking over the Dorpie-Doenlys reins from Sean van Noordwyk (the show was formerly known as Platteland Toe), Bobby van Jaarsveld will be popping into small towns – some well-known, others less so – guiding you on a remarkable voyage of discovery to uncover hidden gems that few people knew existed.
Sometimes historical in nature, other times packed with thrilling adventures, all whipped together with plenty of good old-fashioned road-trip chats.
It's time to tour South Africa with Bobby and start seeing those towns on his list through fresh eyes.
Beat Bobby Flay 21
Channel: Real Time (DStv 155)
TX Time: 12h55
Genre: Food, Reality Competition
Two talented cooks go head-to-head in an epic cooking battle, with the winner then taking on celebrity chef and restauranteur Bobby Flay in this culinary competition series.
Each episode, the contestants must impress the guest judges with their cooking, and the one who does the best gets the opportunity to face the master, Bobby Flay.
To give them a fighting chance against such an experienced and successful chef, the contestant chooses what recipe they and Bobby make, before the judges decide whose was best.
In the Season 21 premiere, "Use Your Noodle": The chips are all in when world-traveled chef Philippe Haddad meets New York's Chef Melissa O'Donnell.
It's up to Scott Conant and Geoffrey Zakarian to place their bets on the chef who they think can beat Bobby Flay.
In the second episode of the weekday quadruple-bill, "Seeing Stars": Food Network Star alums Alex McCoy and Jay Ducote are in the house to outshine Bobby Flay.
Food Network Star winner Damaris Phillips teams up with Chef Richard Blais to ensure that Bobby's star burns out.