Girls Cruise
Channel: BET (DStv 129)
TX Time: 21h30
Genre: Docu-Reality, Music
Music star Lil' Kim and her star-studded group of friends embark on a glamorous vacation of a lifetime.
Lil' Kim is joined by industry stars Mýa and Chilli, comedy's new "it girls" Pretty Vee and B. Simone and long-time best friends Tiffany and Char in this series of self-exploration and sisterhood.
As they travel through the Caribbean, the crew hits the high seas on an epic journey filled with adventures, emotional breakthroughs and spicy romances as they cultivate bonds and unapologetically live their best lives.
Meet the crew:
Lil' Kim is a Grammy Award winner and the first woman in hip hop to score three consecutive Billboard #1 singles.
She's a multi-platinum rapper, actress and fashion icon who remains one of the most influential people in pop culture.
Chilli is a singer-songwriter, dancer and entrepreneur.
In addition to being a member of the renowned musical group TLC, Chilli is the founder of a nonprofit group, Chilli's Crew, which works with young girls in Atlanta.
Mýa is a Grammy Award-winning popstar and actress who broke into the mainstream with her platinum self-titled record.
In addition to an extensive discography and film resume, Mýa has recently taken on vegan lifestyle activism.
Pretty Vee is a rapper and comedian who stars on MTV's Wild 'N Out.
She rose to prominence through her viral skits and characters, and has become a popular act in parody.
Simone is a rising comedian who also stars on Wild 'N Out.
She has amassed a loyal fan base from her viral social media videos, and has headlined sold-out comedy tours.
Tiffany is an actress, model, host, dancer and entrepreneur with a long-standing friendship with Lil' Kim.
She is the founder of a lifestyle clothing brand and a philanthropist.
Char is a philanthropist, socialite, former model and entrepreneur who runs a successful candle business.
The Apprentice: ONE Championship Edition
Channel: Netflix South Africa
TX Time: 10h00 (all episodes)
Genre: Reality Competition
The Apprentice: ONE Championship Edition invites 16 candidates handpicked from around the world to compete in a high-stakes competition involving business and physical challenges.
To win, they'll need brains and brawn.
The winner will receive a US$250,000 job offer to work directly under ONE Chairman and CEO Chatri Sityodtong for a year as his protégé in Singapore.
Apocalypse: Hitler Takes on the East
Channel: National Geographic Channel (DStv 181 / StarSat 220)
TX Time: 21h00
Genre: Documentary Series, History
In June 1941, Hitler took his greatest gamble - launching an attack against the Soviet Union.
Despite being the largest German operation of WWII, Operation Barbarossa was one of his biggest failures.
Hitler invades the USSR: he wants to conquer this "living space" of which he dreams for his Reich, and conquer the largest country in the world.
By October 1941, as Hitler believes his triumph imminent, his men and tanks are freezing where they stand.
Meanwhile, the Red Army consolidates his positions.
Home Rescue
Channel: The Home Channel (DStv 176)
TX Time: 19h30
Genre: Reality Makeover, Home Improvement
Have you fallen out of love with your home? Do you struggle to find space, stranded in a sea of clutter?
Well, take heart. Home Rescue is on the way.
Let's face it – people are slow to let go.
From old furniture and random knick-knacks, to unused clothes and unfinished projects – eating up space and burying precious memories under a blanket of clutter.
One day, a spring clean will come, but somehow, it never does. Until now.
On Home Rescue, architect and designer Róisín Murphy and builder Peter Finn take on cluttered homes.
Whether belonging to a family, an individual or a group of friends, they'll step in and offer them real resolutions with an entire makeover of two of the worst rooms in their house.
In the series premiere, "Tallaght": Róisín and the Desperate Houses crew spend three days with Annette from Tallaght, helping her rescue two hopelessly cluttered bedrooms.
With the help of builder Peter Finn and his crew, Róisín sets out to completely redesign the unruly top floor of the house, creating a luxury hotel style bedroom for Annette and a treatment room to help her reconnect with her skills as a Reiki master.
Law & Order: Organized Crime
Channel: Me (DStv 115)
TX Time: 20h30
Genre: Police Procedural, Drama
A new spin-off in the franchise which features Christopher Meloni reprising his Law & Order: SVU role as Elliot Stabler, who returns to the NYPD to battle organised crime after a devastating personal loss.
However, the city and police department have changed dramatically in the decade he's been away, and he must adapt to a criminal justice system in the midst of its own moment of reckoning.
Throughout the series, we will follow Stabler's journey to find absolution and rebuild his life, while leading a new elite task force that is taking apart the city's most powerful criminal syndicates one by one.
Abandoned Engineering 2
Channel: HISTORY (DStv 186)
TX Time: 20h15
Genre: Documentary Series, Technology
From abandoned bridges and roads to power stations and whole towns, the series explores more extraordinary structures left behind by time.
Why were these structures built and how were they left to crumble?
The world is peppered with examples of incredible engineering projects and buildings designed to make life easier for those that used them, amaze those that came to see them – and make money for those that ordered, designed, and built them.
In the Season 2 premiere, "Hitler's Army Powerhouse": Hear how the Politz synthetic fuel plant in Poland, now a derelict site, was once central to Nazi Germany's drive to become self-sufficient on fuel.
He planned to accomplish this by using the latest technology of the time to turn coal into oil.
MasterChef USA 7
Channel: eReality (Openview 108)
TX Time: 19h00
Genre: Reality Competition, Food
Gordon Ramsay and Christina Tosi welcome 40 new home cooks into the MasterChef kitchen for Season 7.
The contestants will not only have to impress Chefs Ramsay and Tosi, but throughout the season will compete for the approval of culinary greats and special culinary guest judges, including Wolfgang Puck, Aarón Sánchez, Edward Lee, Kevin Sbraga and Richard Blais.
Thousands of hopefuls auditioned at MasterChef's open casting calls in Austin, Chicago, Detroit, Jackson, Las Vegas, Los Angeles, Louisville, Minneapolis, New York, San Diego, and San Francisco.
Representing 15 states across the USA, this season's 40 contestants - including a professional poker player, DJ, web designer, yoga instructor, pool lifeguard, investigator, three firefighters and more - take time away from their busy day jobs in hopes of turning their culinary dreams into reality.
In the Season 7 premiere, "Battle for a White Apron": 40 of the best home cooks in America travel to Los Angeles to compete in the MasterChef Battle of the Apron challenge, during which they will attempt the to earn a coveted white apron and move forward to compete for the MasterChef title, a cookbook deal and the $250,000 grand prize.
Judging the battle rounds will be Ramsay and Tosi, who will taste for flavour, creativity and presentation.
In order to move to the next round of the competition, the home cooks must display culinary skills, as well as an immense passion for food, and be determined to out-cook their rivals.
Once the MasterChef Battle for the Apron concludes, the top home cooks will be put through their paces in a series of challenges designed to test their palates, food knowledge, passion and culinary skills.
Later in the season, the hopefuls set out to cook appetizers and entrees for a very special wedding of a previous MasterChef contestant, steak dishes for over 100 veterans and a group of sweet 16-ers.
They also will face the infamous MasterChef tag team and restaurant takeover challenges.
With each new challenge, the pressure will mount as the home cooks compete for the coveted MasterChef title.
Bob Hearts Abishola
Channel: Comedy Central (DStv 122)
TX Time: 21h00
Genre: Comedy
From Two and a Half Men producer Chuck Lorre, Bob Hearts Abishola is a love story about a middle-aged compression sock businessman from Detroit who unexpectedly falls for his cardiac nurse, a Nigerian immigrant, while recovering from a heart attack and sets his sights on winning her over.
Bob runs his family's successful, highly competitive sock company with his mother, Dottie, his sister, Christine, and his younger brother, Douglas.
When the stress of the job lands him in the hospital, he meets Abishola, his kind, hard-working nurse whom he's immediately drawn to.
Now all Bob needs to do is convince her to give him a chance, which will take some doing since they couldn't be more different.
After coming to America from Nigeria to find a better life for her and her son, Dele, a straight-A student, Abishola lives in a small apartment with her super-protective relatives, Auntie Olu and Uncle Tunde.
Abishola's close friends include fellow nurse Gloria and Kemi.
Undaunted by Abishola's lack of initial interest or the vast differences in their backgrounds, Bob is determined to win her heart, in this comedic examination of immigrant life in America.
Black-ish 6
Channel: BET (DStv 129)
TX Time: 21h00
Genre: Comedy
Like any parents, Andre "Dre" (Anthony Anderson) and Rainbow (Tracee Ellis Ross) Johnson want to give their children the best.
But their offspring's childhood is turning out to be much different than theirs.
In the Season 6 premiere, "Pops the Question": Summer was a season of change for the Johnsons. The twins are headed into eighth grade, and Junior is out on his own managing social media for Migos.
Meanwhile, Pops reveals that he is getting married.
Guest starring in the season premiere is Loretta Devine as Lynette and Baron Vaughn as Doug.
Evil 2
Channel: Me (DStv 115)
TX Time: 22h30
Genre: Supernatural, Drama, Thriller
Evil is a psychological mystery that examines the origins of evil along the dividing line between science and religion.
The series focuses on a skeptical female psychologist who joins a priest-in-training and a contractor as they investigate the Church's backlog of unexplained mysteries, including supposed miracles, demonic possessions and hauntings.
Their job is to assess if there is a logical explanation or if something truly supernatural is at work.
The second season brings evil closer to home. Kristen struggles with her darker nature, while David suffers temptation as he gets closer to his ordination.
Meanwhile, Ben is visited by night terrors that prey on his greatest fears.
In the Season 2 premiere, "N is for Night Terrors": The team is given the task of evaluating the likelihood of Leland being possessed, which if decided true, would require them to exorcise him.
The team is given the task of evaluating the likelihood of Leland being possessed, which if decided true, would require them to exorcise him.
Raising Dion 2
Channel: Netflix South Africa
TX Time: 10h00 (all episodes)
Genre: Superhero, Sci-Fi, Fantasy
Raising Dion follows the story of Nicole and her son Dion after Dion starts to manifest several mysterious, superhero-like abilities.
Two years after defeating the Crooked Man, Season 2 follows Dion as he continues honing his powers with the support of his mom and Tevin, his Biona trainer who catches Nicole's eye.
After befriending new student Brayden - a fellow powered kid - a series of alarming events unfold, and Dion learns that danger is still looming.
Navigating twists, turns and surprise visitors, Dion and Nicole must prevail again - not just to save themselves, but the entire city of Atlanta.