(Above: The stars of “And Just Like That”)
It’s the Holly Jolly Christmas season on DStv this week, but instead of snow, mistletoe and cold, DStv is preparing for a sunny African Christmas with sizzling local and international content!
Make way for Carrie, Charlotte and Miranda as the Sex and The City divas make their TV comeback in HBO’s And Just Like That… series, which will take over M-Net (DStv channel 101) from Monday, December 13. It’s a must-watch for fans of Sarah Jessica Parker and the Sex and The City series, which has new oomph and some new friends.
We love it local and DStv delivers with Christmas movie Season’s Feelings, and the queen of talk Ellen DeGeneres is at it again with her Ellen’s 12 Days of Giveaways.
A new season of Ancient Aliens, and the UFOs: The White House Files will keep those who believe in the beyond well-entertained, and who can resist even more Christmas joy with festive movies A Husband for Christmas and Heart Of The Holidays?
Here are some of the highlights
And Just Like That…
Season 1 / Episodes 1 & 2 / Watch from
Monday, December 13 / M-Net (DStv channel 101) / 20h30 / double bill
Sex and The City’s divas return in this 10-episode series revival. Carrie (Sarah
Jessica Parker), Charlotte (Kristin Davis) and Miranda (Cynthia Nixon) navigate
friendship and life in their 50s, while Carrie continues to give her views on
the modern dating scene. Nicole Ari Parker joins the cast as documentary maker
Lisa Todd Wexley.
Season’s Feelings
Movie / Watch from Saturday, December 11 /
M-Net (DStv channel 101) / 21h30
SAFTA-winner Jozua Malherbe teams up with
Wonderlus producer Zandré Coetzer for an original holiday comedy that follows a
group of outsiders as they travel to a Christmas party. Starring Natalie
Robbie, Zandile Lujabe and Kiroshan Naidoo.
Ellen’s 12 Days of Giveaways
Season 19 / Episode 34 / Watch from
Thursday, December 16 / ME (DStv channel 115) / 16h00
Ellen DeGeneres is bringing her celebrity
friends into the studio to help her give away hordes of loot for 12 days during
the countdown to Christmas. And each day, 1 lucky person will win 1 of every
single thing that Ellen has given away in that episode. Prepare for people to
go Oprah giveaway-style crazy.
WEEK HIGHLIGHTS
UFOS: The White House Files
Season 1 / Episode 3 / History (DStv
channel 186) / 21h05
Is there a conspiracy of silence about alien encounters? This three-part series covers everything from the military and law enforcement’s alleged top-secret UFO encounter files, to claims that mankind’s technological leaps are based on alien technology, to the US Presidents’ supposed encounters with UFOs, including presidents Eisenhower, Nixon, Carter and Reagan.
A Husband For Christmas
December 11, 2021
Movie / Universal TV (DStv channel 117) /
15h00
Two graphic designers, Brooke (Vivica A.
Fox) and Roger (Rico Ross), whose companies have just merged, agree to a
marriage of convenience. It allows Brooke to get one over on her sister, who’s
just announced her engagement to Brooke’s ex. But what started as a lie slowly
transforms into true love.
Ancient Aliens
December 11, 2021
Season 13 / Episode 2 / History (DStv
channel 186) / 19h25
Ancient alien theorists ask, as we are
preparing to colonise space, whether we are simply returning to our
extra-terrestrial past. And what will mankind be like as we step onto strange
new planets? The series also revisits Erich von Däniken’s book Chariots of
The Gods.
My Kitchen Rules South Africa
December 12, 2021
Season 3 / Episode 13 / M-Net (DStv channel
101) / 18h00
The season finale sees the three remaining
contestant pairs – Retha and Tshepi, Karen and Tenille, and Izak and Wessel –
invite judges J’Something and David Higgs into their
spaces for one last epic dinner display. The guest judges are going to be
picky, picky, picky!
Heart of The Holidays
December 12, 2021
Movie / Universal TV (DStv channel 117) /
15h00
When a job transfer falls through leaving
her temporarily unemployed, stockbroker Sam (Vanessa Lengies) is forced to
return to her family’s home in upstate New York for the Christmas holidays. But
staying in town also sets her up to run into her high school sweetheart, Noah
(Corey Sevier) – the guy she left behind to chase her career.
FBI
Season 3 / Episode 1 / Mondays-Fridays / ME
(DStv channel 115) / 18h00
Maggie returns from her undercover work,
but she and OA aren’t necessarily going to click back into place as easily as
they would have assumed, thanks to Maggie’s romance on the side with her undercover
agent lover. And the team investigates a mass shooting perpetrated by a white
nationalist organisation.
Inside The Mind
December 14, 2021
Doccie / Episode 1 / M-Net (DStv channel
101) / 22h30
The first episode of this two-part documentary on unusual public figures focuses on global singing sensation Michael Jackson. Psychiatrist Dr. Bob Johnson explores the life forces and experiences that shaped Michael’s personality from childhood onwards. Michael lived life large in the spotlight but was intensely secretive. Who was behind the mask?
(Right: Pierre van Pletzen stars in “Brompot”)
Movie / kykNET (DStv channel 144) / 21hssss00
Grumpy old man Bert Spies (Pierre van Pletzen) is taken aback when his doctor
hands him an unusual prescription: To start enjoying life more, he must be
kinder. Desperate to turn his life around, Bert slowly realises how much better
he feels when he uses his mouth for smiling at the people around him instead of
complaining to or about them.
Diana: The Interview That Shocked the World
December 16, 2021
Doccie / M-Net (DStv channel 101) / 19h30
Over 22 million people watched Panorama
reporter Martin Bashir’s explosive interview with Diana, Princess of Wales, as
she spoke about what really happened inside her marriage to Prince Charles, and
how life inside the royal family and public spotlight affected her mental
health. Now find out how the interview happened at all.
Tina
December 16, 2021
Doccie / M-Net (DStv channel 101) at 20h45
This brand-new two-hour documentary takes
us inside the life and career of soul survivor, recording artist and performer
Tina Turner, revealing how she escaped a number of life’s traps to become a
global phenomenon in the 1980s. Tina speaks for herself in interviews, along
with Angela Bassett (who played Tina numerous times onscreen) and Oprah
Winfrey, and there’s a wealth of archive material, too.
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