The Responder
Channel: M-Net (DStv 101)
TX Time: 22h30
Genre: Drama
Written by ex-police officer Tony Schumacher, his first original series for television, The Responder holds a mirror up to the emotional extremes of life on the front line of British policing - sometimes darkly funny, sometimes painfully tragic, always challenging.
The Responder follows Chris Carson (Martin Freeman, The Office), a crisis-stricken, morally compromised, unconventional urgent response officer tackling a series of night shifts on the beat in Liverpool.
Whilst trying to keep his head above water both personally and professionally, Chris is forced to take on a new rookie partner Rachel.
Both soon discover that survival in this high pressure, relentless, night-time world will depend on them either helping or destroying each other.
In the series premiere: Chris Carson is struggling - every night he drives a police response car in the city of Liverpool, dealing with everything from warring neighbours to druggies, and he's also suffering from a breakdown brought on by stress at work, and wants to leaves his marriage.
His wife, Kate, offers to pay for more counselling, but Chris rejects her help preferring to sort his own problems out, even though he is reaching breaking point.
When an old school friend, Carl Sweeney, asks him to help find a young heroin addict called Casey, Chris uses his local knowledge to locate her in a hideout in an alleyway.
But when Casey tells him that she has stolen a bag of cocaine and may be in danger, Chris offers to help, seeing a path to redemption in the young woman - if he can save her, perhaps he can save himself.
Carl is furious with Chris for helping Casey escape - the bag of drugs that Casey stole isn't actually his, and if Chris can't help Carl find the bag, they are both in deep trouble.
Wild Weather: Our World Under Threat
Channel: BBC Earth (DStv 184)
TX Time: 19h00
Genre: Nature, Documentary
Panorama investigates a year of wild weather and hears how freak events are becoming increasingly commonplace, changing life right now for millions.
This summer a small town was destroyed by fire after record-breaking high temperatures in the Pacific Northwest and Canada.
Floods in Germany swept away entire villages.
A plague of mice destroyed livelihoods in Australia's New South Wales.
Dust storms from China swept thousands of miles to South Korea and the people of Madagascar are on the brink of the world's first climate change-induced famine.
By interrogating climate science and with exclusive access to new Met Office data, reporter Justin Rowlatt reveals where in the world the climate is changing the fastest and who will be most affected.
Murderville
Channel: Netflix South Africa
TX Time: 10h00 (all episodes)
Genre: Comedy, Mystery
Eccentric detective Terry Seattle teams up with clueless celebrity guest stars to investigate a series of murders in this improvisational crime comedy.
Meet Senior Detective Terry Seattle (Will Arnett), Homicide Division.
For Terry, every day means a new murder case and a new celebrity guest star as his partner.
But here's the catch: each episode's guest star isn't being given the script. They have no idea what's about to happen to them.
Together, the guest star and Terry Seattle will have to improvise their way through the case... but it will be up to each celebrity guest alone to name the killer.
Join them as they punch a one-way ticket to Murderville.
Celebrity guest stars include Annie Murphy, Conan O'Brien, Ken Jeong, Kumail Nanjiani, Marshawn Lynch, Erinn Hayes and Sharon Stone.
The six-episode procedural crime comedy is based on the BAFTA award-winning BBC3 series Murder in Successville.
Inside the Mind of a Serial Killer
Channel: Curiosity Channel (DStv 185)
TX Time: 22h00
Genre: True Crime, Documentary Series, Docu-Drama
Forensically researching the lives of serial killers, this series features chilling real life video and audio footage of people who murdered over-and-over again.
Serial killers blend in. They appear normal. But lurking deep within their psyche are the triggers that kick-start their psychopathic behaviour.
Sinister childhood experiences, adult knock-backs, detectable mental frailty, narcissism and an absence of empathy combine to build up a body of evidence which rings alarm bells for psychologists.
With dramatic reconstructions alongside real life footage and FBI interviews, criminologists, journalists and detectives profile killers including Angus Sinclair, Anthony Sowell, Joanna Dennehy and Anders Breivik, and hear about accused serial killer Lonnie David Franklin nicknamed the Grim Sleeper whose spree of killings date back 30 years.
Experts come together with the aid of CCTV footage to reveal exactly what the telltale signs are and analyse the chilling behaviour of the killers.
In the series premiere, "Eddie Leonski": Eddie Leonski, an American soldier stationed in Australia, strangles multiple women after becoming obsessed with the idea of stealing their voices.
In the second episode of the weekly double bill, "Angus Robertson Sinclair": Suspected of multiple murders, Angus Robertson Sinclair is tried, acquitted and then tried again - a first in Scotland.