I Was There
Channel: HISTORY (DStv 186)
TX Time: 20h15
Genre: Documentary Series, History, Docu-Drama
I Was There offers an immersive trip back in time, placing host Theo Wilson — the grandson of a Tuskegee Airman with a passion for history — at the centre of some of the world's most impactful events, to deconstruct how they truly unfolded.
It features surprising perspectives on how a map, a dance, and fateful timing were factors in the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln and how cost-cutting, weather, and a spark created one of history's worst aircraft catastrophes - the Hindenburg disaster.
Each episode highlights a different moment in history.
Inspired by his passion for history, Wilson is a fly on the wall as he breaks down the barrier between the audience and the action to revisit a series of critical historical events, disasters, triumphs and true stories to learn unexpected facts in an engaging, fast-moving, and often unpredictable way.
Through original archival material, expert testimony and dramatic recreations using CGI technology to place Wilson in the scene, each episode challenges ideas of what really happened during some of the most pivotal moments in history.
This season explores Abraham Lincoln's assassination; the Hindenburg disaster; the Salem witch trials; the death of Jesse James; the Oklahoma City bombing; the battle of Stalingrad; H.H. Holmes' murder spree during the 1893 Chicago World's Fair; the Chernobyl accident; the 1965 Bloody Sunday march from Selma to Montgomery; the 1986 space shuttle Challenger disaster; the 1889 catastrophic Johnstown flood in eastern Pennsylvania and the St. Valentine's Day massacre.
In the series premiere, "Hindenburg Disaster": Theo Wilson travels back in time to 1937, finding himself aboard the world's most luxurious airship, the Hindenburg, where he must solve the mystery of what leads to its fiery fall from the sky - the first epic disaster ever caught on moving film.
In the second episode of the weekly double bill, "Johnstown: America's Deadliest Flood": Theo time-travels back to 1889 to the bucolic river shores of Johnstown, Pennsylvania where the biggest flood in US history is about to be unleashed.
Wilson finds himself dissecting the disaster, along the way discovering how filthy rich steel barons cut corners on maintenance of a nearby dam and laid the groundwork for this epic flood - all because they wanted to fish.
My Extreme OCD Life
Channel: CBS Reality (DStv 132)
TX Time: 07h05
Genre: Documentary Series
In this documentary miniseries we follow the lives of eight young people as they attempt to live a normal life in the face of Obsessive Compulsive Disorder.
These first hand accounts reveal young people whose daily lives are consumed by routine and ritual.
They fight an internal and often secret war with frightening intrusive thoughts, which compel them to complete endless rituals - convincing them that terrible things will happen if they don't.
We meet them as they take those first steps into adulthood battling to conquer their OCD demons.
Classical Destinations: The Great Composers
Channel: Curiosity Channel (DStv 185)
TX Time: 20h00
Genre: Documentary Series, History, Music
Where does this great music come from?
Deep inside the composer, of course, but the places where the composer were born, where they lived and worked have a huge influence on their music.
The greatest names of classical music made their lives and wrote their music in some of the most fascinating places on Earth.
In this series we see the cities, hear the sounds and meet the real people and stories behind the music which has shaped our world.
This series introduces us to the greatest brilliant musical minds and the places they called home such as Johann Sebastian Bach, George Frideric Handel, Ludwig van Beethoven, Frédéric Chopin and Edvard Greig.
Classical Destinations is your passport to a deeper, more intimate understanding of these six composers and the places which out of which their sublime music grew.
Teachers 3
Channel: Comedy Central (DStv 122)
TX Time: 22h00
Genre: Comedy
Teachers revolves around a group of elementary school teachers who are trying to mold the minds of America's youth, but don't have their own lives together at all.
The series is created by and stars the improv group The Katydids.
And now, the Fillmore Elementary educators are back in session with their antics.
After a much needed long recess, the leaders of the playground are back and ready to conquer a new school year.
This season the Fillmore Elementary heroines fighting the spread of the vicious and highly contagious lice epidemic.
The Teachers are put to the test when the dreaded curse of creepy crawlers enters the classroom, and the question remains - who will make it out alive?
In the Season 3 premiere, "Hello, Goodbye": The teachers rally to help a newly poor Ms. Watson throw a back-to-school mixer.
Also, a familiar face takes over as principal, and Mrs. Adler discovers a squatter in her classroom.
In the Dark 4
Channel: M-Net (DStv 101)
TX Time: 20h30
Genre: Comedy-Drama
Final season!
Over the past three seasons, Murphy Mason has gone from a lazy receptionist to a drunken vigilante detective, a drug front proprietor and a woman-on-the-run.
But now, everything has finally caught up to her.
In the final season of In the Dark, blind anti-hero Murphy must work closely with her ex, Max, her best friend Felix and his sister Leslie to keep herself out of jail for her crimes.
But staying out of jail proves more difficult than expected when Josh Wallace, a Chicago PD consultant and Murphy's ex-fling, doubles down on his obsession with Murphy.
Working with detectives Gene Clemens and Sarah Barnes, Josh focuses all his efforts on putting her back behind bars.
In the Season 4 premiere, "Bail's in Your Court": Murphy is having a tough time adjusting to life in prison with unexpected dangers looming large.
Meanwhile, Max accompanies Leslie and Felix to an interesting afternoon with their grandmother.
Power (Seasons 1-6)
Channel: Netflix South Africa
TX Time: 10h00 (all episodes)
Genre: Drama
Follows James St. Patrick (Omari Hardwick), nicknamed "Ghost", owner of a popular New York City nightclub, who also happens to be a major player in one of the city's biggest illegal drug networks.
He struggles to balance these two lives, and the balance topples when he realises he wants to leave the drug ring in order to support his legitimate business.
Power tells the story of a visionary crime drama set in two different worlds, the glamorous New York club scene and the brutal drug trade.
James Ghost St. Patrick has it all: a beautiful wife, a gorgeous Manhattan penthouse, and the hottest, up-and-coming new nightclub in New York.
His club, Truth, caters to the elite: the famous and infamous boldface names that run the city that never sleeps.
As its success grows, so do Ghost's plans to build an empire.
However, Truth hides an ugly reality.
It's a front for Ghost's criminal underworld; a lucrative drug network, serving only the wealthy and powerful.
As Ghost is seduced by the prospect of a legitimate life, everything precious to him becomes unknowingly threatened.
Once you're in, can you ever get out?