Blackpool's Dance Fever
Channel: BBC Brit (DStv 120)
TX Time: 18h00
Genre: Documentary
As the best ballroom and Latin dancers from across the globe take part in the prestigious British Open Championships at the Blackpool Dance Festival, this programme goes behind the scenes.
Prepare to swing your hips, move those feet and feel the heat.
Once a year, the best ballroom and Latin dancers from across the globe quickstep their way to Blackpool to take part in dancing's most prestigious competition, the British Open Championships.
For nearly 100 years, it has been one of Britain's best-kept secrets, but this year we are invited to join in and tell the behind-the-scenes story of the Latin and ballroom dance scene in Blackpool - waltz and all...
It's the 100th anniversary of this pinnacle of ballroom dancing, which sees the very best dancers compete to be named World Champion.
This is your backstage pass to a glitter-filled arena packed with stunning sambas, sexy rumbas and beautiful waltzes, as well as intense competition and serious sacrifice.
Meet the iconic coaches, who've dedicated their lives to dance – and are loved and feared in equal measure.
And get the inside story on the dedicated dancers, battling hard to beat their demons and do their partners proud.
It's a small, intense and incestuous world packed with high kicks, high drama and high stakes.
Edge of the Unknown
Channel: National Geographic Channel (DStv 181 / StarSat 220)
TX Time: 21h00
Genre: Adventure, Interview Show, Nature
For the world's top adventure athletes, the line between triumph and tragedy is razor thin.
In the pivotal moments when life hangs in the balance, what drives the greatest to continue pushing to redefine what is humanly possible, to stare down fear and risk it all?
This is an epic 10-part series that ventures inside the minds of pioneering adventure athletes, captured at the peak of their powers as they recount their personal stories of transcendence on the journey to perfect the mastery of their craft.
Through intimate interviews and archival footage from the world's top big wave surfers, climbers, big mountain snowboarders, polar explorers and kayakers, Edge of the Unknown gives a front-row seat to adrenaline-filled adventures, uncovering how athletes adapt and evolve, even after being confronted by fear, devastating personal loss, and Mother Nature at her harshest.
Witness how some of the world's top athletes prepare mentally, physically and emotionally for their high-stakes endeavours.
In the series premiere, "Before Free Solo": In preparation for his impossible climb featured in Free Solo, renowned mountain climber Alex Honnold trained in the High Atlas Mountains of Morocco.
Witness the never-before-told story of Honnold's "secret solo" and preparation for his generation-defining climb.
Joyous Celebration: Imvuselelo
Channel: SABC1
TX Time: 19h30
Genre: Religion, Music, Special
The third instalment of Joyous Celebration Restoration: Imvuselelo took place at Emperor's Palace on Saturday, 17 December.
Staged and hosted in the season of thanksgiving and re-birth, Joyous Celebration Restoration was conceived during COVID.
The show was and is conceptualised as an evening of praise and worship to give thanks and reignite hope, faith and a renewal for the year ahead.
Headlining Joyous Celebration performing some of their old and latest hits, the production also features "friends of Joyous" with guest artists joining the ensemble on stage.
Banned from the Bible II
Channel: HISTORY (DStv 186)
TX Time: 20h15
Genre: Documentary, Docu-Drama, Religion
Take another look at ancient texts that were edited out of the Bible.
Are they the missing links to Christ's true teachings, or heretical attempts to rewrite history?
Building on the growing interest in early Judeo-Christian scripture generated by the first episode of this series, Banned from the Bible II will explore nine more ancient books rejected by the various canonical councils and early church fathers, who shaped the Bible as we know it today.
As more and more are rediscovered, they join an everexpanding collection of ancient religious works known as apocrypha or pseudepigrapha.
The writings themselves are generally of unknown origin and dubious authorship, embellished copies of copies going back centuries, but modern linguistic and paleographical experts are finding that, at their root levels, these documents are extremely early works that beg the question: why were they not included in the Bible?
The Witcher: Blood Origin
Channel: Netflix South Africa
TX Time: 10h00 (all episodes)
Genre: Fantasy, Drama
More than a thousand years before the events of The Witcher, seven outcasts in an Elven world join forces in a quest against an all-powerful empire.
Every story has a beginning.
Set in an Elven world 1200 years before the world of The Witcher, Blood Origin tells a story lost to time - one of seven outcasts who unite against an unstoppable power that took everything from them.
Their blood quest giving rise to a prototype Witcher in a conflict that brings about the "conjunction of the spheres", when the worlds of monsters, men and elves merged to become one.
Gadget Man's Guide to Christmas
Channel: Curiosity Channel (DStv 185)
TX Time: 12h00
Genre: Special, Technology
Can technology help deliver a Christmas that's more festive cheer than a festive chore?
Richard and celebrity friends help improve Christmas with gadgets for shopping, to wrap presents, beat the weather, cook the dinner and even improve your carol singing.
Joseph: The Silent Saint
Channel: HISTORY (DStv 186)
TX Time: 19h25
Genre: Documentary, Religion, Docu-Drama
Joseph is one of the greatest biblical mysteries.
Who exactly was the Earthly spouse of Mary and father of Jesus?
A humble tradesman, Joseph descended from royalty.
He was counseled by angels, chased into a strange land by murderers and adored by a son who would grow up to be called the King of Kings.
Yet not one word of his is recorded in the Bible.
Through interviews with leading theologians and priests, and with dramatic recreations, Joseph: The Silent Saint paints the clearest picture yet of the man who spoke with his actions and shaped the very foundations of Christianity.
Vir Das: Landing
Channel: Netflix South Africa
TX Time: 10h00
Genre: Comedy, Special
Vir Das dives deep into his childhood in India, the perils of outrage and finding his feet in the world for his fourth Netflix stand-up special.