(Above: Jamie Dornan & Emily Blunt in “Wild Mountain Thyme”)
It’s the month of love, and time to fall in love with the amazing content that is coming to DStv this week.
Nature lovers are in for a treat with Sir David Attenborough’s latest doccie The Green Planet on BBC Earth (DStv Channel 184), which uses the latest camera technology and scientific research to show us our planet through the “eyes” of plants. Journalist Mariana Van Zeller is also in the hot zone, setting up connections with the criminal underworld in a new season of Trafficked with Mariana Van Zeller. You’ll also get an eye-opening perspective on a little-explored topic when the Showmax original series Sex In Afrikaans delves into what our neighbours are doing behind closed doors. And it’s here! The second season of hit local drama series The Wife also starts on Showmax this week.
A crossover episode kicks things off for the international drama Station 19 and its sister series Grey’s Anatomy on M-Net (DStv Channel 101).
The Green Planet
Season 1 / Episode 1 / Watch from February 13
/ BBC Earth (DStv Channel 184) / 16h00
Backed by 26 years of new research, Sir
David Attenborough shows us what specialist cameras can reveal about how plants
grow, survive and reproduce. From deserts, tropical jungles and underwater
worlds to seasonal lands and urban environments, this is Planet Earth from the
perspective of plants.
Trafficked with Mariana Van Zeller
Season 2 / Episode 1 / Watch from Thursday,
February 17 / National Geographic (DStv Channel 181) / 21h00
Journalist Mariana Van Zeller calls on
local journalists and activists to help her to tap into the world’s most
illicit smuggling pipelines, from source to destination. She investigates
everyone from romance scammers and deadly plastic surgery mills, to white
supremacist organisations training American extremists in the Ukraine.
BRAND-NEW
Station 19
Season 5 / Episode 1 / Watch from Monday, February
14 / M-Net (DStv Channel 101) / 19h30
The series skips ahead a year to a
pandemic-free future, but we’ll get flashbacks, like the fallout from Carina
and Maya’s wedding. Episode 1 is a crossover with episode 1 of Grey’s
Anatomy Season 18, (on Monday, February 14). Sullivan goes viral as “Fire
Daddy”, and Andy is transferred to Station 23.
Grey’s Anatomy
Season 18 / Episode 1 / Watch from Monday, February
14 / M-Net (DStv Channel 101) / 20h30
Meredith celebrates recovering from COVID
and gets a job offer that would see her split her time between Seattle and
Minnesota. Teddy and Owen tie the knot, and Jo adjusts to being a single mom.
Addison and Meredith remember Derek together and Addison meets Derek’s children
for the first time.
THIS WEEK:
The Masked Singer
From February 11, 2022
Season 6 / Episode 1 & 2 / M-Net (DStv
Channel 101) / 19h30 & 20h30 / double bills
The costumes, the masks and the mystery are
back as a new batch of celebs participate in this singing competition where
judges Robin Thicke, Jenna McCarthy, Ken Jeong and Nicole Scherzinger must
guess the identity of the singer behind the voice, the flamboyant costumes
(including the show’s first human costume: a baby) and above all, the mask.
Spirit Untamed
February 12
Movie / M-Net (DStv Channel 101) / 16h00
Animated sequel to the 2002 horse film, Spirit:
Stallion of The Cimarron. Shortly after moving to a small town, rebellious
Lucky Prescott befriends Spirit the wild stallion, and she and her friends must
come up with a way to defend Spirit and his herd from a mean horse wrangler.
United We Fall
Season 1 / Episode 1 / M-Net (DStv Channel
101) / 18h00
Sitcom about the pitfalls of modern
parenting. Jo (Christina Vidal Mitchell) and her husband Bill’s (Will Sasso)
household is turned upside down when Bill’s judgemental mom, Sandy (Jane
Curtin), moves in with them and has loud opinions about how they’re raising
their children – as do both sides of their family.
Celebrity Game Night
Season 3 / Episode 1 / E! Entertainment
(DStv Channel 124) / 20h00
SAFTA award-winning smash Celebrity Game
Night brings us new celebrity guests and some familiar favourites trying
absurd games under the eye of super-host Anele Mdoda and team captains Jason
Goliath and Ayanda Thabethe. There are new games, new celebrities and even a
brand-new extension to the Celebrity Game Night set.
Wild Mountain Thyme
February 13
Movie / M-Net (DStv Channel 101) / 20h05
Romantic comedy-drama. Irish dad Tony
Reilly (Christopher Walken) threatens to leave the farm to his American nephew,
Adam (Jon Hamm), unless his 30-something son, Anthony (Jamie Dornan), seals the
deal with the woman next door, Rosemary (Emily Blunt).
(Cast of “Father Brown”)
Father Brown
February 14
Season 9 / Episode 1 / BBC Brit (DStv
Channel 120) / 20h00
It’s 1953 in the charming English
countryside, but there’s been a murder at the local holiday camp, and an
assassination at Lady Felicia’s posh New Year Masked Ball marks the series’
100th episode! Clergyman sleuth Father Brown is on the case, but newcomer to
the parish, the evil Lord Hawthorne, is trying to chase him off.
Home Inspector Joe
February 14
Season 1 / Episode 1 / HGTV (DStv Channel
177) / 21h00
Home Inspector Joe Mazza comes from a solid
construction background, and he knows all the cowboy shortcuts, so he isn’t
ready to let builders get away with anything that would put his clients in danger
on their new property. Designer Noel Gatts and Joe help to locate and renovate
safe new homes for families.
(Left: Janet Jackson)
Janet Jackson
February 17
Season 1 / Episode 1 / M-Net (DStv Channel
101) / 21h30
Janet Jackson had a film crew follow her around for five years, starting with her State of The World Tour. In this 4-episode documentary, she talks about everything from her childhood and growing up with Michael, to her problematic relationships with controlling men and her too-early marriage.
We’ll also get Janet’s side of the infamous
SuperBowl nip-slip story and loads of unseen footage from her private and
professional life.
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