(Above: Call The Midwife)
This week on DStv is extra special because things kick off with the documentary series One Cup: A Thousand Stories on BBC Earth (DStv channel 184). Presented by actor Hugh Bonneville (the illustrious Earl of Grantham from Downton Abbey), the series follows his journey as he learns more about tea and its roots to China.
Local telenovelas Legacy and DiepCity are back with more juicy storylines and deadly betrayals.
And series lovers can get stuck into crime drama Gomorrah Season 5 and revival series Leverage Redemption on Universal TV (DStv channel 117).
Actor and comedian Kevin Hart starts his own car club in Kevin Hart’s Muscle Car Crew over on Discovery (DStv channel 121), and there’s some epic Afrikaans content to look forward to with the movie Barakat, and reality series Boer Soek ’n Vrou and Wie Word ’n Miljoenêr?
Here are some of the highlights:.
One Cup: A Thousand Stories
Season 1 / Episode 1 / Watch from February 19
/ BBC Earth (DStv channel 184) / 20h00
Tea came from China to conquer the world
and influence cultures, beliefs and behaviours across the globe. Hugh
Bonneville narrates as the series explores the landscapes where tea grows, from
high mountains to wild coasts. See the women and men who grow, harvest, taste
and sell tea around the world tell their stories.
Gomorrah
Season 5 / Episode 1 / Watch from February 19
/ M-Net (DStv channel 101) / 21h30
It’s the final season of this Italian crime
drama centred on the Savastano Camorra clan in Naples. The cops are looking for
Genny, last seen hiding in a bunker, and Ciro is alive in Latvia. Genny and his
only ally, Ponticelli crime boss ’O Maestrale, prepare to go to war.
Leverage: Redemption
Season 1 / Episode 1 / Watch from February 22
/ Universal TV (DStv channel 117) / 20h00
Reformed criminals Sophie Devereaux (Gina
Bellman), Eliot Spencer (Christian Kane) and Parker (Beth Riesgraf) reunite to
take down the rich and powerful. And now they have the law on their side in the
form of corporate lawyer Harry Sullivan (Noah Wyle) who’s eager to help them to
take down a billionaire who’s profiting off the opioid crisis.
Barakat
Movie / kykNET (DStv channel 144) / February
19 at 20h00
An ageing matriarch aims to bring together
her fractured, dysfunctional family over Eid-al-Fitr to break the news about
her new romance. Starring Vinette Ebrahim, June van Merch and Joey Rasdien.
Eye of The Leopard
Doccie / National Geographic Wild (DStv
channel 182) / February 20 at 18h00
Jeremy Irons narrates this documentary by
National Geographic filmmakers Dereck and Beverly Joubert. They follow the
adventures of one special leopard, Legadema, from
when she’s just eight days old, on her journey to becoming a skilled huntress
and a busy mother herself in the Mombo region of the Okavango Delta, Botswana.
Season 10 / Episode 1 / BBC Brit (DStv
channel 120) / February 20 at 19h00
1966 brings changes for the midwives and
nuns via the ongoing women’s rights movement. Trixie helps Sister Julienne to
haul Nonnatus House out of a financial pickle, Dr. Turner treats a former
soldier with radiation issues, Sister Monica Joan has a crisis of faith, and
England win the World Cup!
(Right: Pierce Brosnan in “The Misfits”)
The Misfits
Movie / M-Net (DStv channel 101) / February 20 at 20h05
Heist action film directed by Renny Harlin.
A band of modern-day Robin Hoods called The Misfits hire criminal mastermind
Richard Pace (Pierce Brosnan) to help them steal a
cache of gold bars hidden underneath a prison.
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