Leverage: Redemption
Channel: Universal TV (DStv 117)
TX Time: 20h00
Genre: Action, Comedy-Drama, Thriller
In this new iteration, and new world, the Leverage crew have watched as the rich and powerful continue to take what they want without consequence.
Grifter Sophie Devereaux (Gina Bellman), thief Parker (Beth Riesgraf), hitter Eliot Spencer (Christian Kane) and hacker Alec Hardison (Aldis Hodge) have watched the world change over the last eight years.
Since their last job, it's become easier - and sometimes legal - for the rich to become richer and the powerful to squash anyone who gets in their way.
To address the changes in the world around them, the team finds new blood in Harry Wilson (Noah Wyle), a corporate lawyer who is looking for redemption after realizing he'd been sitting on the wrong side of the table for his entire career; and Breanna Casey, Hardison's foster sister who has a knack for computers, robotics and getting into trouble.
In this new world, the team will use their collective skills to take down a new kind of villain.
From the man who created an opioid crisis from the comfort of his boardroom, to the couple who prefers to deport workers instead of paying them, to the shadowy security firm that helps hide dangerous secrets for a price... when someone needs help, we provide... Leverage.
In the series premiere, "The Too Many Rembrandts Job": When the team comes together to help Sophie, they intercept guilt-ridden corporate fixer Harry and decide to help him take down an evil billionaire making money on the back of an opioid crisis.
Motor MythBusters
Channel: Discovery Channel (DStv 121)
TX Time: 20h00
Genre: Motoring, Reality, Science
Former MythBusters presenter Tory Belleci, along with sassy mechanic Faye Hadley and engineer extraordinaire Bisi Ezerioha, host an extension to one of television's most popular factual formats by taking science to the streets and putting car-related pop culture, viral videos and urban legends under the microscope.
This entertaining series delivers undiscovered facts and applies rigorous science to everything from Hollywood car stunts to everyday automotive questions that grind the gears of car owners and enthusiasts.
Along the way, we'll see if you can increase turbocharger boost pressure with just the pop-tab from a soda can and a length of wire - like Vin Diesel did in Fast and Furious 8 - and find out if a normal human being could propel the Flintstone's car – complete with huge stone rollers and solid tree trucks - using just their leg power.
Dolly: The Sheep that Changed the World
Channel: BBC Earth (DStv 184)
TX Time: 20h00
Genre: Documentary, Science
The story of the scientists who created Dolly, the sheep that changed the world.
This documentary tells the full story for the first time with never-before-seen archive, revealing how on a small Scottish farm, a handful of the world's best genetic scientists worked in secret to crack the holy grail of life: cloning.
The story, when it broke, caused a moral panic to sweep the world.
But how did it happen? Who was behind it? What was the science?
And, ultimately, what is Dolly's legacy today?
Hi$tory
Channel: Curiosity Channel (DStv 185)
TX Time: 21h00
Genre: Documentary
National Public Radio game host, Peter Sagal, takes us on an irreverent romp through American history to reveal how money makes the world go around.
Watergate
Like a burger and fries, Nixon and scandal have always gone together.
But why did his men break into the Watergate office building? Why did Nixon crave personal wealth?
The answers lie with JFK, Howard Hughes, and... the Nixonburger.
Civil War
Why, as a teenager in New Jersey in the 1980s, was Peter Sagal taught the Southern myth of the Civil War?
How did Gone with the Wind become a national parable and why is Robert E. Lee an American hero?
Slaves = money = power.
Transcontinental Railroad
The movies have taught us that the west was won by rugged individuals with a gun on one hip and a gal on the other.
But those Americans who settled the west, those icons of freedom and independence, lived at the mercy of the railroad tycoons.
Cold War
The Cold War was won not by weapons of war, but blue jeans, silk stockings, and fast food.
Just follow the money.
Race: Bubba Wallace
Channel: Netflix South Africa
TX Time: 10h00 (all episodes)
Genre: Documentary Series, Sport, Motoring
This docuseries follows Bubba Wallace, the only Black driver currently in NASCAR's Cup Series, as he uses his voice and talent to change the sport.
Both the personal and professional tracks of Bubba's life are chronicled in this new docuseries.
With exclusive access to Wallace during the 2021 NASCAR Cup Series season, his first with Michael Jordan and Denny Hamlin's 23XI Racing, the six-episode series traces his rise to the elite ranks of NASCAR as the only full-time Black driver and the turbulent aftermath that followed his decision to speak out about racial injustice.
George Clarke's Old House, New Home 5
Channel: The Home Channel (DStv 176)
TX Time: 20h00
Genre: Reality Makeover, Reality, Home Improvement
Britain has some of the most historic houses in the world; from Georgian Architecture to Victorian to Art Deco, there are different architectural styles on every street.
But the way houses were built years ago just doesn't work for modern living.
On Old House, New Home, architect George Clarke gets under the skin of homes with history.
On each episode he visits two homes and helps the owners to unlock their full potential, create stylish solutions, and making them fit for 21st century living.
Together they'll make some critical choices on what to chuck and what to cherish, and teach us a thing or two about what modern styles work when you have an old house that you want to turn into a new home.
In the Season 5 premiere, "Ackworth & Chiswick": In West Yorkshire, Pip is moving back into the home that she grew up in and is finding it emotional.
And there's a mystery house in west London.