Guillermo Del Toro's Cabinet of Curiosities
Channel: Netflix South Africa
TX Time: 10h00 (2 episodes daily)
Genre: Horror, Anthology
Bizarre nightmares unfold in eight tales of terror in this visually stunning, spine-tingling horror collection curated by Guillermo del Toro.
From macabre to magical, gothic to grotesque or classically creepy, these eight equally sophisticated and sinister tales (including two original stories by del Toro) are brought to life by a team of writers and directors personally chosen by del Toro.
Guillermo del Toro, master of the macabre, presents a new anthology series that surprises, delights and horrifies as eight hand-picked directors tackle stories that explore the edges of what "horror" means.
From otherworldly creatures to internal demons, Cabinet of Curiosities plumbs the depths of the human psyche as it makes the hair on the back of your neck stand up.
Over the course of eight episodes, some original stories, others based on horror classics, a who's who of genre helmers direct a cavalcade of stars including Andrew Lincoln, Essie Davis, Glynn Turman, F. Murray Abraham, Rupert Grint, Tim Blake Nelson, Dan Stevens and Crispin Glover.
Cabinet of Curiosities was created and is executive produced by Guillermo del Toro who also appears to introduce each episode.
Lot 36
To pay off a violent debt collector a bitter, bigoted man attends storage unit auctions to flip antiques.
When he buys Lot 36, he gets much more than he bargained for.
Graveyard Rats
Masson is a clever but weasley cemetery caretaker who moonlights as a grave robber.
To pay off his mounting debts, he digs up the grave of a wealthy shipping merchant and becomes locked in a battle with the titular rodents.
Pickman's Model
In 1909, a pensive art student has his world turned upside down when he meets a quirky, introverted new student, Richard Pickman – a painter of the macabre.
Dreams in the Witch House
As a boy, Walter watched his twin sister Epperly die of an illness. He comforted her before she passed.
When it finally happened he witnessed her enter a forest dimension, sending him on a lifelong quest to find the realm she entered.
The Autopsy
A string of missing persons cases leads a sheriff to a suspect who himself ends up dead.
The sheriff turns to his friend the medical examiner to determine what really happened and the autopsy takes a shocking turn.
The Outside
Stacey, an awkward self-conscious bank teller and amateur taxidermist who does not fit in with her gossipy colleagues, discovers an expensive lotion called Alo Glo that causes a dramatic transformation.
The Murmuring
After experiencing a personal tragedy, expert ornithologists Nancy and Edgar Bradley travel to Nova Scotia to study dunlin flight patterns and encounter strange occurrences in the house where they are staying.
The Viewing
In 1979 under mysterious circumstances, four accomplished professionals are brought to the mansion of a wealthy recluse and encounter a mind-blowing creature.
The Cleaning Lady
Channel: Me (DStv 115)
TX Time: 22h00
Genre: Drama
The series is an emotionally-driven character drama about a whip-smart Cambodian doctor who comes to the US for a medical treatment to save her ailing son.
However, when the system fails and pushes her into hiding, she refuses to be beaten down and marginalised.
Instead, she becomes a cleaning lady for organised crime, using her cunning and intelligence to forge her own path in the criminal underworld.
Nazi Secret Weapons
Channel: Curiosity Channel (DStv 185)
TX Time: 22h00
Genre: Documentary, History
Driven by the necessities of WWII, German engineers and designers helped pioneer some of the most sophisticated military machinery in the world.
Just prior to the end of WWII, the German military secretly undertook a massive push to design miracle weapons such as colossal tanks and the world's first guided missiles and long-range bombers that could attack New York.
The technology advanced generations in little more than a decade and the machines were on a grander scale than reached even today.
Now, nearly 60 years later, a team of experts examine the original blueprints to determine if these so-called Wunderwaffen, or "wonder weapons," could have changed the outcome of the war.
This program will travel into the past to discover the fascinating details of Hitler's wonder weapons - colossal tanks, suicide bombers and the first guided missiles.
What weapons were successful and why, which weren't deployed soon enough to give Germany the edge, and what was their ultimate fate after the war?
Do the original blueprints have clues to revolutionary potential or fatal structural flaws?
Love in Paradise: The Caribbean 2
Channel: TLC Entertainment (DStv 135)
TX Time: 22h00
Genre: Reality
Is the Caribbean truly a lovers' paradise?
This sexy docu-soap follows couples who found love in the Caribbean and are hopeful their relationships will continue, despite the miles and drama between them.
From the producers of 90 Day Fiancé, the tropics provide the backdrop for relationships in various phases - from a couple who met online but will now meet for the first time, holiday flings that turned serious and a vacation romance that turned into a pregnancy.
Will meeting in paradise work out once the suntan fades?
Season 2 follows three new and two returning couples with so much at stake, they risk more than just a broken heart by putting their relationships with family and friends on the line.
Tensions rise and secrets unfold as these couples attempt to join their vastly different lifestyles together and they realise that their compatibility during a short-lived vacation romance may not be suitable for a lasting connection.
In the Season 2 premiere, "The Trouble with Two Tops": Daniele shocks her friends with her wedding plans.
VaLentine worries sex will be complicated with Carlos and Aryanna gets ready to take her son to meet his father, Sherlon, in Jamaica.
Meanwhile, Frankie fell in love on vacation, but his girlfriend has a girlfriend.
Nisboere 7
Channel: VIA (DStv 147)
TX Time: 18h30
Genre: Documentary Series, Advertiser-Funded, Afrikaans
Meet farmers who cultivate interesting crops such as lavender, olives and exotic mushrooms, as well as breeders of miniature horses in this agriculture-focused series.
The show visits farmers across South Africa to shine the spotlight on their dynamic farms, niche crops and products.
This season they are back with a new look and a fresh approach. The presenters are Corné Liebenberg and Phillip Venter.
Fortune Feimster: Good Fortune
Channel: Netflix South Africa
TX Time: 10h00
Genre: Comedy, Special
Getting engaged. Getting iced. Getting a mind-blowing butt massage.
Fortune Feimster shares uproarious stories from her life in this stand-up special.
Good things come to those who call their friends, plan an amazing proposal, and end up in life-changing situations in a room full of strawberries.
Filmed at the Chicago Shakespeare Theatre, Fortune is back for her second Netflix comedy special, Good Fortune.
Expanding on her confessional brand of comedy and how she's different than what meets the eye, Fortune reflects on her own good fortune, including some big life events she's experienced in the last couple of years, like falling in love with her wife and the extravagant proposal she planned that didn't go as expected, and much more.