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Sunday, November 7, 2021

DSTV HIGHLIGHTS: NOVEMBER 5-11


(Renée Zellweger as Judy Garland in “Judy”)

There’s never a dull week on DStv, and this week they unveil their latest local gem, Showmax’s first ever telenovela The Wife. Each Thursday from November 11, three brand-new episodes of this intriguing show will become available and audiences are bound to be hooked from the start.

Moja Love (DStv channel 157) spoils viewers with a new series called Lenyalo Lethata in which couples in crisis get help, and a new season of Single And Mingle will have viewers in stitches as participants go on blind dates.

TV’s most iconic fictional serial killer Dexter is back in a brand-new mini-series called Dexter: New Blood. He now lives under a new identity and is trying to keep his serial killing ways under control…

The Oscar winning movie Judy transforms actress Renée Zellweger into the iconic actress and singer Judy Garland, and Survivor Australia: All Stars will bring nail-biting intensity to the weekdays.

Let DStv bring you the entertainment magic!


 (Right: Michael C Hall stars in “Dexter: New Blood”)

Dexter: New Blood

Season 1 / Episode 1 / Watch from November 8 / M-Net (DStv channel 101) / 21h30

Serial killer who hunts serial killers and forensic technician Dexter Morgan (Michael C Hall) returns in this 10-episode mini-series. Dexter has a new fake name and a new life in a rural small-town where he works at a hunting and fishing shop while raising his son, Harrison. While his “Dark Passenger” is under control, new events will test his grip.

 

Judy

November 7

Movie / M-Net Movies 1 (DStv channel 104) / 20h00

Biographical film based on the final years in the life of actress and singer Judy Garland (Renée Zellweger), during the time when she relocated to Britain. The film explores her abusive childhood and teenage years in Hollywood, and the roots of her addiction issues.

 

(Left: Carey Mulligan stars in “Promising Young Woman”)

Promising Young Woman

November 7

Movie / M-Net (DStv channel 101) / 20:30

In this dark comic thriller, 30-year-old Cassie (Carey Mulligan) plots her revenge against the man who raped her best friend but never paid the consequences, along with teaching the people who let him get away with it a lesson.

   

Murdertown

November 10

Season 3 / Episode 1 / Lifetime (DStv channel 131) / 21h00

Explore some of Britain’s darkest murder locations. This season host Anita Rani visits Milton Keynes, Wakefield, Wigan, Wishaw, Southampton, Oxford, Lichfield, Leicester, Bath and Whitby on the trail of cases like the murders of Rachel Manning, Wendy Speakes, Zoe Nelson and Louise Sellers. Find out how their killers were eventually found and tried.

 

My Life Is Murder

November 11

Season 2 / Episode 1 / Universal TV (DStv channel 117) / 20h00

Private investigator Alexa Crowe (Lucy Lawless) and Madison (Ebony Vagulans) are on the case after a woman supposedly shoots a stranger in Auckland, New Zealand. And Alexa’s professional and private lives collide when she’s asked to investigate a drag queen’s death (look out for RuPaul’s Drag Race queens Kita Mean and Elektra Shock)