Flipping Showdown
Channel: HGTV (DStv 177)
TX Time: 21h00
Genre: Reality Competition, Reality Makeover, Home Improvement
Ken and Anita Corsini, owners of a real estate business in Atlanta, will give a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for renovators and flippers to get $100,000 cash and the chance to start and grow their own real estate/flipping franchise.
During the six-episode series, the Corsinis, flipping experts who have bought, sold and renovated over 800 homes since starting their own business, will invest more than two million dollars of their own money for the flipping competition - including providing the nine homes required for the series and the accompanying budgets for each renovation challenge, sometimes surpassing $90,000.
The power couple, who first rose to fame on Flip or Flop Atlanta, will judge the work of three teams as they renovate three properties each within a set time and budget.
Faced with unexpected expenses, crunched timelines and a long list of judging criteria, the teams will need to put their imaginations and business savvy into overdrive to max out each home's value.
The team that delivers the most added value will win a career-launching prize - a chance to join the Corsini's thriving business team with a franchise in their own hometown.
The Flipping Showdown competitors include Colin and Christina Beck of Cincinnati, Ohio; Michael and Amy Gomez of Nashville, Tennessee; and brothers Cam Griffith and Chris Carter from Pensacola, Florida, and Washington, D.C.
The series will kick off with a starter-home challenge and $30,000 budget that sends the teams into turmoil as they try to manage the tight six week timeline and the set renovation allowance.
As the competition continues, the teams will renovate three homes from top to bottom and show off the best of their renovation, design, project planning and brand building in hopes of winning the biggest career jump of their lives.
In the series premiere, "The Flipping Frenzy Begins": With a $30,000 budget and six weeks to finish round one, the teams struggle to stay on time and under budget designing a flip that'll attract buyers.
As the deadline to reveal their kitchens to Ken and Anita approaches, the pressure begins to boil over.
Calls from the Inside
Channel: Investigation Discovery (DStv 171 / StarSat 223)
TX Time: 21h00
Genre: True Crime, Documentary Series
It's an iconic line in any crime story: when a suspect is arrested, they get one call.
In reality, once a person enters the criminal justice system, they have multiple opportunities to make calls as they await trial.
The vast majority of those calls are recorded. An admission, a threat, a slip of the tongue, a bribe it's all on tape - and the suspect knows it.
But this doesn't always stop them from talking and talking.
Calls from the Inside uses jailhouse phone calls to frame the narrative of murder investigations steeped in mystery.
In the series premiere, "Calling All Suspects": Newlyweds Tony Cooper and Melinda Kotkins of Gresham, Oregon, are executed.
Jail calls during Tony's previous incarceration yield many suspects, including men in love with Melinda.
The killer seals his own fate thanks to a jail call to his wife.
L.A.'s Finest 2
Channel: Netflix South Africa
TX Time: 10h00 (all episodes)
Genre: Police Procedural, Drama
Season 1 took us into the lives of former DEA agent, Syd Burnett (Gabrielle Union), who left her complicated past behind to join the LAPD, and detective Nancy McKenna (Jessica Alba), who juggled her demanding case-load with a rebellious teenage step-daughter.
Together they took on the most dangerous criminals in Los Angeles and became a force to be reckoned with - both on the streets and in each other's lives.
When Season 2 returns, Syd mourns the sudden loss of a friend and struggles to find answers, while McKenna must deal with the aftermath of Izzy's kidnapping and the rift it has left in her marriage.
But when a powerful crimewave in Koreatown threatens to destroy the community, Syd, McKenna and the team must find those responsible before it's too late.