Saving our planet is more than just recycling your rubbish, and in the special programme The Earthshot Prize: Repairing Our Planet, Prince William, Sir David Attenborough and other members of the The Earthshot Prize Council come together to discuss major challenges facing Earth and how we can solve them. It’s brilliant educational family viewing.
TV and radio host Rian van Heerden makes his debut as host of the game show Wie Word ’n Miljoenêr? on kykNET (DStv channel 144) and adventures and danger are on the radar in British period drama The North Water on M-Net (DStv channel 101).
New kids’ show Drama Club will keep the little ones thoroughly entertained. The made-for-TV-movie Ke Kopa Le Divorceng on Mzansi Magic (DStv channel 161) will give viewers a new perspective on a marriage and the pressures it can endure.
The Earthshot Prize: Repairing Our Planet
Season 1 / Episodes 1-5 / Watch on October 24
/ Discovery Channel (DStv channel 121) / 16h25.
Over the course of five episodes (airing
back-to-back) Prince William, Sir David Attenborough, and members of The
Earthshot Prize Council – including Japanese engineer and ex ISS-astronaut
Naoko Yamazaki – highlight solutions that prize finalists have devised to solve
five major challenges facing the planet.
Who Wants To Be A Millionaire
Season 1 / Episode 1 / Watch from
Wednesday, October 27 / kykNET (DStv channel 144) / 20h00
The biggest quiz show in the world, Who Wants To Be A Millionaire, returns
to South African television – but this time in Afrikaans! Contestants must
answer general knowledge questions correctly to win R1 million in cash. The
show is presented by popular radio and TV presenter Rian van Heerden, who will
keep the contestants on their toes!
The North Water
Season 1 / Episode 1 / Watch from October 28
/ M-Net (DStv channel 101) / 22h30
In the mid-1800s, Patrick Sumner (Jack
O’Connell) joins The Volunteer as a ship’s surgeon for an Arctic whaling trip
where he enters a battle of wits with the ship’s psychopathic harpooner, Drax
(Colin Farrell). Filmed in the Arctic Circle – the furthest north a scripted
production has ever filmed.
Songbird
October 24, 2021
Movie / M-Net (DStv channel 101) / 20h05
In this dystopian sci-fi thriller, bike
courier Nico Price (Riverdale’s KJ Apa) – who’s immune to the mutated COVID-23
virus – races to save his young love, Sara Garcia (Sofia Carson), after the
“sanitation department” arrives to take her to a concentration camp because
she’s tested positive for COVID-23. Produced by Michael Bay.
Minki
October 25, 2021
Season 10 / Episode 1 / VIA (DStv channel
147) / 20h00
Model and TV personality Minki van der
Westhuizen is back with a new season of her talk show, and this time she chats
to Pierre Greeff, lead singer of Afrikaans pop group Die Heuwels Fantasties,
and surprises him with a special message from a fellow singer – one Pierre idolises.
License To Kill
October 25, 2021
Season 1 / Episode 1 / CBS Justice (DStv
channel 170) / 20h00
Plastic surgeon Dr Terry Dubrow from the
series Botched presents shocking true-crime cases of doctors, nurses and
medical professionals who abused, confused, and killed their patients. As well
as investigating the psychology of medical people who kill, this series
explores the practical difficulties of catching someone who has the knowledge
needed to cover their tracks.
Drama Club
October 25 2021
Season 1 / Episode 1 / Nickelodeon (DStv channel
305) / 18h50
Live action tween mockumentary. A group of
friends from the Tookus Middle School Drama Club get a new student director
called Mack (Telci Huynh). Mack is excited to take on the school’s new musical,
Minnesota, but as soon as they start rehearsals, their choreographer suffers a
painful injury and they realise they will need some help.
Op
Seer Se Spoor
October 26, 2021
Season 3 / Episode 1 / kykNET & kie
(DStv channel 145) / 20h00
Kuier magazine’s features editor, Ernusta
Maralack – who has seen a lot in her career as a journalist – revisits the
scenes of the most brutal murders in the Western Cape and talks to the families
who were left behind. In S3, the parole system is in the spotlight, along with
a body dump area in Mitchells Plain, and farm murders.
Wheeler Dealers
October 26, 2021
Season 17 / Episode 1 / Discovery Channel
(DStv channel 121) / 20h00
Mechanic Marc "Elvis" Priestley
and car dealer Mike Brewer search for, restore and flip iconic cars. This
season, they’re back in the UK, looking for a 1965 Mk 1 Austin Mini 850, a TVR
Griffith 430, a Fiat Coupe 20 valve Turbo nicknamed the “baby Ferrari”, and a
1963 Bedford CA Dormobile.
The Beasts Of Halloween
October 27, 2021
Special / Curiosity Channel (DStv channel
185) / 20h00
Superstition and tradition all over the
world have singled out certain animals like black cats, wolves, bats, toads and
spiders to symbolise the scary and supernatural during Halloween. Now find out
where these associations come from in this 2020 spooky season documentary. Part
of Curiosity’s Wildlife Wednesdays.
NCIS
October 28, 2021
Season 18 / Episode 1 & 2 / M-Net (DStv
channel 101) / 19h30 & 20h30
Special Agent Gibbs (Mark Harmon) and his
team of naval investigators are back for a new season that kicks off with a
bang as the team investigate the whereabouts of a missing body, and Gibbs helps
his friend and former FBI agent Fornell to track down the leader of a drug ring
that supplied drugs to Fornell’s daughter.
In Pursuit With John Walsh
October 28, 2021
Season 3 / Episode 1 / ID (DStv channel
171) / 21h00
John Walsh and his team are on a mission to
find missing people, whether they’re lost kids or fugitives from justice. This
season he hunts down two men suspected of killing their girlfriends – Brian
Ontiveros and Carlos Torres – along with child predator and sex offender Bill
Brockbrader.
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