(Above: Prince William, The Duke of Cambridge, and Prince Harry, The Duke of Sussex)
National Geographic (DStv channel 181) is back with a second season of their epic docu-drama series The Hot Zone: Anthrax, starring Daniel Dae Kim as Special Agent Ryder, who’s in charge of catching the culprit behind the 2001 Anthrax attacks on U.S. soil shortly after the September 9/11 attacks on New York.
A second season of the relationship reality show Mina Nawe House will keep viewers tweeting on a Saturday night, and don’t miss out on the brand-new home video series The Funny Thing About, hosted by Cedric The Entertainer.
The jingling of bells grows louder by the day, and Christmas movies could be just what you need to embrace the festive spirit. Don’t miss Fatman (with Mel Gibson as Santa Claus), Snowed Inn Christmas, Deliver by Christmas and many more.
DStv has it all this festive season, so take a moment to choose joy!
The Hot Zone: Anthrax
December 5 Season 2 at 21h00
Watch from / National Geographic (DStv
channel 181) / double bill / Historical drama
Just days after 9/11, an anonymous sender
targeted journalists and politicians in the United States by sending deadly
anthrax through the U.S. postal system. FBI agent and microbiologist Matthew
Ryker (Daniel Dae Kim) tries to find a pattern to the attacks while U.S. Army
microbiologist Bruce Edward Ivins (Tony Goldwyn) starts cracking under the
pressure.
The Funny Thing About
Season 1 / Episode 1 / Watch from Monday, December
6 / Comedy Central (DStv channel 122) / 22h00
Hosted by Cedric The Entertainer, this
series showcases the next generation of viral home videos in the age of social
distancing. Each episode celebrates the latest home videos that reflect the
creativity, humour and humanity that emerged during the coronavirus pandemic.
Movie / Universal TV (DStv channel 117) /
15h00
When her family's diner, The Starlight
Café, is slated for demolition, a lawyer named Annie (Kimberley Sustad) makes a
deal with the heir to a development firm, William Holt
(Paul Campbell), to spare it just before Christmas. But William really does
need a lawyer to appease his father after he makes some expensive mistakes.
Fatman
December 5, 2021
Movie / M-Net (DStv channel 101) / 20h05
Chris Cringle’s (Mel Gibson) gift business
is slowly going under because modern kids are so rotten. But he’ll need to
check his naughty list twice when the U.S. Military comes to him with an offer
to build components for a new jet fighter plane, and a spoilt child hires
hitman Jonathan Miller (Walton Goggins) to murder Chris.
Succession
December 6, 2021
Season 3 / Episode 7 / Showmax
In the latest episode of this cut-throat drama
series, Kendall Roy’s extravagant birthday party celebration turns dramatic as
things go utterly wrong. Starring Brian Cox, Sarah Snook, Kieran Culkin and
Alana Ruck.
No Man’s Land
Movie / Showmax
When a vigilante border patrol turns fatal,
a man flees on horseback to Mexico, seeking forgiveness from the victim’s
father. Starring Esmaralda Pimentel, Jake Allyn,
Sandra Zellweger, Frank Lopez and Frank Grillo.
Gomora
December 7, 2021
Season 2 / Episode 162 / Mondays-Fridays /
Mzansi Magic (DStv channel 161) / 19h30
MaZet struggles to deal with being in a
wheelchair in new episodes of this local telenovela. Zodwa, Teddy and Sibongile
prepare for a burial, and Sbonga insists that Tshiamo must not help MaZet.
Attack On Pearl Harbor: Minute By Minute
December 7, 2021.
Season 1 / Episode 1 / National Geographic
(DStv channel 181) / 21h00
On the 80th anniversary of the attack on
Pearl Harbour, this three-part documentary uses underwater dive footage to take
us inside the sunken wrecks, and inside the day of the attack. Survivors from
both sides tell their stories, including a 103-year-old Japanese torpedo
bomber, and a sailor from the USS Arizona.
UFOs: Secret Alien Technology
December 8, 2021
Doccie / History (DStv channel 186) / 21h05
In the 70 years since the famed Roswell UFO
crash, there is a long history of allegations involving alien phenomena and
supposed government cover-ups. This special takes a hard look at the most
famous – and the lesser known – UFO reports that some believe have been
deliberately hidden from the public.
The Princes and The Press
(See pic above)
December 8, 2021
Doccie / M-Net (DStv channel 101) / 19h30
& 20h30
Using over 80 hours of interview footage
gathered from journalists assigned to cover royal affairs, the BBC’s Media
Editor Amol Rajan spotlights contrasting approaches in the media’s approaches
to The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, and The Duke and
Duchess of Sussex
The River
Season 4 / Episode 219 / Mondays-Fridays /
1Magic (DStv channel 103) / 20h00
In new episodes of this thrilling local
telenovela, Cobra starts to feel like he has everything under control, but did
he speak too soon? Elsewhere, the Dikanas celebrate a joyous occasion, while
the community of Refilwe fights to be heard.
The Pembrokeshire Murders
December 9, 2021
Season 1 / Episode 1 / Thursdays / M-Net
(DStv channel 101) / 22h30
Detective Superintendent Steve Wilkins
(Luke Evans) and his colleagues reveal how Pembrokeshire's most notorious cold
cases, the Coastal Path Murders, were reinvestigated and solved thanks to
technological advances, and the long arm of the law finally reached the serial
killer, John Cooper (Keith Allen).
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