Deadliest Catch: The Vikings Return
Channel: Discovery Channel (DStv 121)
TX Time: 20h00
Genre: Reality, Docu-Reality
When the Alaskan Red King Crab fishery shuts down for the first time in 25 years, Bering Sea veteran Captain Sig Hansen is forced to look for opportunities elsewhere.
Deciding to risk it all, he sets his sights on a promising new fishing ground where King Crab is an invasive species: his ancestral home of Norway.
By traveling across the world and returning to the land of his father, Sig hopes to not just to fill the void of a lost season, but to build a fishing empire greater than his ancestors could have ever imagined.
But as daughter and co-captain Mandy struggles to start her own family, beginning anew in the land of their forefathers becomes an unexpected journey to rediscover their own heritage and cement the legacy they'll pass down to the next generation of fishermen.
Along with Mandy, her husband Clark, and former right-hand man Jake Anderson, Sig must search the past to find the key to their future and ensure that the legacy his father built withstands the test of time.
Will the Hansen family succeed like those that came before them or will these harrowing seas tear them apart?
In the series premiere, "Homeland": In the wake of his most difficult season ever, Captain Sig Hansen attempts to build a new fishing operation in Norway, where King Crab are invasive.
When daughter and co-captain Mandy Hansen joins as partner, she begins taking matters into her own hands.
Ice Road Rescue 7
Channel: National Geographic Channel (DStv 181)
TX Time: 19h00
Genre: Reality, Docu-Reality
Ice Road Rescue portrays a group of tow truck rescue workers.
When winter hits Norway the transport roads turn into treacherous bobsleigh tracks and every day the rescuers fight to keep these routes open by rescuing heavy trailers stuck in the mountain terrain.
Winter storms, avalanches and lack of daylight through the winter season are just some of the challenges they have to face, working close to the polar circle.
Extreme winter conditions that often make them risk their lives.
This winter, the ice road heroes face freak weather conditions.
A once in a lifetime storm and record breaking rain and snow throw up massive challenges.
In the Season 7 premiere, "Marathon Mission": Thord and Bjoern are tested to the limits when they have to rescue a truck from falling into a lake.
Nazis in the CIA
Channel: Curiosity Channel (DStv 185)
TX Time: 22h00
Genre: Documentary, History
During the Cold War the CIA recruited high-ranking Nazis and Italian Fascists as agents for their operations against leftists and Communists across the globe.
The agency infiltrated the top echelons of the German government and used Nazi treasures, allegedly lost in WW2, to finance these operations.
For the first time, this film unveils how ruthlessly the CIA instrumentalised the war criminals of the Third Reich for its purposes.
My Kenyan Plate 2
Channel: HONEY (DStv 173)
TX Time: 16h00
Genre: Reality, Food
Kenyan food is explored in this upbeat cooking show hosted by a food blogger.
She explores the most exciting recipes made with ingredients that are simple and accessible no matter where you are.
Get all the thrilling tips and tricks on the key to Kenyan cuisine.
Savage Builds
Channel: Discovery Family (DStv 136 / StarSat 222)
TX Time: 16h00
Genre: Reality, Science, Technology
Putting his unending curiosity and nearly unparalleled inventiveness to the test, Mythbusters star Adam Savage is taking on bigger and badder builds.
From a 3-D printed titanium suit of armor inspired by Marvel Studios' Iron Man films that actually flies to experimenting with the highly volatile liquid nitroglycerin, Savage Builds will propel Adam into explosive and unpredictable worlds with high stakes payoffs.
Each episode focuses on one project as Adam collaborates with notable experts in their fields, friends, colleagues, and some of his favourite people on the planet.
Among those Adam enlists to help sow controlled mayhem are filmmaker Peter Jackson, longtime MythBusters collaborator Tory Belleci and actor Gary Oldman.
Nothing is guaranteed when venturing into the unknown, but whether a build is a success or failure, the results intend to thrill.
In the series premiere, "Iron Man": Adam calls on Richard Browning, the inventor and chief test pilot of the Gravity Jet Suit, which is powered by five 1,000 horsepower mini jet engines, to help get Adam's titanium Marvel Studios' Iron Man-inspired suit to fly.