Too Hot to Be Single 2
Channel: SABC1
TX Time: 21h00
Genre: Dating Game Show, Reality
Modern dating game show designed to find a match for people who rate themselves as hot property, using methods from dating apps and social media.
Set in a studio, Too Hot to Be Single features a hot single who is looking for an equally hot date.
Led by host Lawrence Maleka, six hopeful matches will go through a series of trials to impress the single.
Segment by segment the single eliminates options until they are left with one match.
Extended to 26 episodes, Season 2 offers 26 hot singles from across the country a chance at finding their perfect match.
The singles come from Gauteng, KwaZulu-Natal, Cape Town, Eastern Cape and Limpopo, and they made their way to the studio to find a hot date from their home province.
They boast beauty, brains and a range of artistic talents and accolades.
A twist this season is that Direct Mails are officially open.
The singles' BFFs will get free rein to dig into the matches' DMs to check if they are single or still "for the streets".
In the game #AreYouGame there are brand new games to look forward to, such as - "Feel Me Up", "Wild Thoughts" and "I Dare You," that give singles and matches an opportunity to get up close and personal.
With Lawrence Maleka again playing Cupid, the season promises to be spicy.
Privaatspeurders
Channel: VIA (DStv 147)
TX Time: 20h00
Genre: True Crime, Documentary Series, Afrikaans
Private investigator Ben "Bliksem" Booysen and other hard-hitting investigators share their most shocking, sensational and fascinating career moments.
They recount experiences they could never forget from swindlers to organised crime, statutory rape and murder.
The private detectives give us insight into cases from all corners of the country.
Inside Dubai
Channel: BBC Lifestyle (DStv 174)
TX Time: 20h00
Genre: Documentary Series
Drenched in sun, luxury and excess, what is it really like to live in the desert paradise of Dubai, an ultra-modern tax haven for the super-rich?
In this series we meet the millionaires and billionaires of Dubai, as well as the people who serve them.
We explore how the ex-pats adapt to the rules and laws of this sun-drenched city, and how they cope with the frenetic change that living in Dubai brings.
Episode 1
Meet Sonia, whose wardrobe is worth £4 million; Abu, whose car number plate alone is worth £7 million; Money Kicks, a teenage billionaire who loves wrapping supercars; and the people who serve them.
Episode 2
The property market is booming in Dubai, and so is a British property tycoon's real estate business, with his employees earning several hundred thousand pounds on a single sale.
Episode 3
As the UAE celebrates its 50th birthday and looks to the future, can Dubai keep up the frenetic pace of change?
The sheikh plans to more than double the number of tourists who visit Dubai over the next 20 years, from 20-million to 50-million, but how is the city gearing up for this influx?
Liverpudlian nightclub entrepreneur Chris Wright spent 12 years running events in Ibiza, but now he is targeting Dubai as the next party capital of the world, opening a bar in a new complex of beach clubs.
He is also benefiting from a relaxation in the rules around alcohol.
A former Miss Great Britain, Amy Kitchingman, came to Dubai for New Year's Eve in 2010 and never left.
She remembers being given a red card in the shopping mall for wearing a skirt that was too short, but she too has noticed a relaxation in the rules more recently.
And in one of Dubai's toughest challenges yet, staff at a major art exhibition are hoping to convince the world that Dubai belongs on the global stage for art alongside the likes of London and Paris.
Millionaire art lover and investor Charles is hoping to find a painting to hang alongside his original Picasso on the walls of his villa.
Kew Gardens: Season by Season
Channel: BritBox
TX Time: 00h01
Genre: Gardening, Documentary Series
Garden enthusiasts and horticulturists take note: this series offers unprecedented access to the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, with never-before-seen footage of the gardens filmed during the lockdown in 2020.
Each of the four one-hour episodes filmed at Kew Gardens and Wakehurst, Kew's wild botanic garden in Sussex, focuses on a different season.
Sit back and enjoy this behind-the-scenes glimpse of what makes Kew so special, from the ground-breaking science behind the plants to the future-proofing botany and the exceptional staff.
With special insights into the wonder of the plants themselves, and how Kew's employees maintain, study, and protect one of the most diverse collections on the planet, Kew Gardens: The Four Seasons is a chance to soak up some gardening inspiration.
Noughts + Crosses 2
Channel: M-Net (DStv 101)
TX Time: 23h30
Genre: Drama
An adaptation of book one of Malorie Blackman's award-winning young adult series Noughts & Crosses, a gripping story of first love in a dangerous, alternate world where prejudice divides society.
Over 700 years ago the Aprican Empire invaded Europe.
Aprica colonised the continent and reached as far as Albion. Albion has been under Aprican rule ever since.
Noughts + Crosses follows two young people, Sephy and Callum, who are divided by their colour but united by love.
Sephy (South African actress Masali Baduza) is a Cross, a member of the black ruling class and daughter of a prominent politician.
Callum is a Nought, a white member of the underclass.
The two have been friends since early childhood, but their relationship grows ever more complicated as they come of age.
It's the story of two families separated by power and prejudice but forever entwined by fate.
Bonnie Mbuli plays Sephy's mother Jasmine. The cast also features British musician Stormzy as newspaper editor Kolawale.
In the Season 2 premiere: On the run, Callum and Sephy have found a safe haven in the woods.
But when their peace is disturbed by an unexpected visitor, they must go to London to gather the resources they need to leave Albion for good.
Back in London, Sephy's disappearance is spurring vigilante attacks, and hate crime against Noughts is on the rise.
Wanted by the police for terrorism, and by the Ofa Brotherhood for his role in Sephy's kidnap, Jude hides out in an office block.
But when he unexpectedly meets Cara, who has both Cross and Nought heritage, things get off on the wrong foot.
Long Slow Exhale
Channel: Me (DStv 115)
TX Time: 21h00
Genre: Drama, Sport
Set in the high-stakes world of women's college basketball, Long Slow Exhale stars Rose Rollins, Josh Lucas and Ian Harding.
The drama follows J.C. Abernathy (Rollins), a successful Head Coach of a competitive women's college basketball team who finds herself in the middle of a potentially career-shattering sexual abuse scandal.
As she tries to find the truth among the many secrets she uncovers, she has to make hard decisions that will affect her, her family and the team of female athletes who all rely on her.
In the series premiere, "Travelling Violation": After winning the NCAA Women's Basketball Championship, Head Coach J.C. Abernathy's path to a repeat victory is threatened when a team scandal begins to surface and a dead body appears without warning.
MasterChef UK 13
Channel: eReality (Openview 108)
TX Time: 19h00
Genre: Reality Competition, Food
A new season of the cookery competition begins as John Torode and Gregg Wallace return to the judging table on the hunt for the next MasterChef champion.
Out of the hundreds that auditioned, 64 amateur cooks are through to battle it out over four weeks of heats, producing some of the most inspiring, exceptional and unusual food ever seen on the series.
The first eight hopefuls try to prove to judges John Torode and Gregg Wallace that they have the potential to be the 2017 MasterChef Champion.
This year sees the introduction of the all new MasterChef market, which is stocked full of amazing produce from all around the world as well as a selection of meat and fish.
The first challenge is to invent and cook one dish using what's available in the market.
On offer are pork mince, chicken breast and pancetta as well as halibut and mussels.
They have an hour and 20 minutes to dazzle the judges and prove they are good enough to stay in the competition.
The stakes are high in this round and it's important to choose wisely as, after tasting all eight dishes, John and Gregg decide which five cooks are good enough to stay, while three will be sent home.
The five remaining contestants now have one challenge standing between them and a quarter-final place.
They must cook two courses that will excite not just John and Gregg but also some very special guests.
Some of MasterChef's most inspiring winners and finalists return to judge the food of this year's new contenders.
In this heat the contestants must attempt to impress last year's MasterChef finalists - Billy Wright, Jack Layer and champion Jane Devonshire.
After the five hopefuls have cooked, John and Gregg decide which three contestants deserve to take the next step and go through to the quarter-final.
Agter Tralies 4
Channel: VIA (DStv 147)
TX Time: 20h30
Genre: True Crime, Docu-Reality, Afrikaans
In each episode of this docuseries we follow the story of someone who committed a crime, ended up behind bars and had torebuild their lives after being released.
We delve deep into the crime they committed, explore their time spent behind bars as well as the story of their release from jail and their plans to create a new life for themselves.
Perpetrators tell us about the crimes that landed them in prison and how they rebuilt their lives after their release.
Bull 6
Channel: M-Net (DStv 101)
TX Time: 20h35
Genre: Drama, Legal Drama
Bull stars Michael Weatherly as Dr. Jason Bull in a drama inspired by the early career of Dr. Phil McGraw, the founder of one of the most prolific trial-consulting firms of all time.
Brilliant, brash and charming, Dr. Bull is the ultimate puppet master as he combines psychology, human intuition, and high-tech data to learn what makes jurors, attorneys, witnesses and the accused tick.
His personal life proves harder to manage as he tries to live a healthier lifestyle following a heart attack and learns he is expecting a child with his ex-wife.
Bull employs an enviable team of experts at Trial Analysis Corporation to shape successful narratives down to the very last detail.
This includes his quick-witted former brother-in-law, Benny Colón, a lawyer who acts as defence attorney in the company's mock trials.
There's also Marissa Morgan, a neurolinguistics expert from the Department of Homeland Security who monitors shifting jury reactions in real-time for Bull.
Also on the team is former NYPD detective Danny James, the firm's tough but relatable investigator; and Taylor Rentzel, a working mother and former colleague of Marissa's who is an expert in coding and computer hacking.
Rounding out the team is Chunk Palmer, a former all-American lineman and stylist-turned-law student who helps clients prepare their look and testimony for trial.
In high-stakes trials, Bull's combination of remarkable insight into human nature, three PhDs and a top-notch staff creates winning strategies that tip the scales of justice in his clients' favour.
In the Season 6 premiere, "Gone": Bull and the TAC team must call upon all their collective experience to locate Bull's kidnapped daughter, and the abductor warns them not to go to the police.
As Bull works to build the most important psych profile of his life, he begins to suspect the captor is someone connected to his past.