Deadliest Kids
Channel: Investigation Discovery (DStv 171 / StarSat 223)
TX Time: 21h00
Genre: True Crime, Documentary Series
When kids kill, it sends shock-waves through the community.
But what drives a child to commit murder?
Police evidence, personal archives, and interviews with the victim's loved ones reveal the truth behind the world's deadliest kids.
In the series premiere, "The Murder of Alana Calahan": 14-year-old Alana Calahan's body was found in the woods at the back of her house.
Alana's mother and sisters discuss this tragedy for the first time.
Stonehouse
Channel: BritBox
TX Time: 00h01
Genre: Drama, Miniseries, True Crime
The life and times of disgraced Labour minister John Stonehouse has been dramatised with Matthew Macfadyen (Succession) in the leading role and co-starring Keeley Hawes (The Durrells) as Stonehouse''s wife Barbara.
The three-part drama relates how Stonehouse, a high-flying member of Harold Wilson's Government, vanished from the beach of a large luxury hotel in Florida in November 1974, leaving a neatly folded pile of clothes as he swam into the sea, intent on faking his own death.
The MP for Walsall North left behind his loving wife Barbara and three young children as a shocked public and media presumed he had drowned or been eaten by sharks.
Charismatic, oozing with charm and brimming with confidence, Stonehouse had impressed Prime Minister Harold Wilson and Labour stalwarts from an early stage in his parliamentary career.
From a working-class background, he'd graduated from the London School of Economics, was in the RAF during the War and seemed the ideal candidate for a life in politics.
As the drama unfolds, it becomes apparent his reputation as a devoted family man masked the truth, as he'd embarked on an extra marital affair with his secretary, Sheila Buckley, and acted as a spy for the Czech Secret Service in the 1960s.
His complex financial status and relationships eventually took their toll, with Stonehouse deliberately stealing the identity of a recently deceased constituent.
Stonehouse applied for a passport in the dead man's name and began to weave an elaborate conspiracy, seeking a new life in Australia.
But his plans soon turned sour as Stonehouse was arrested by Australian police who had been under the mistaken impression that he was the fugitive peer Lord Lucan.
Brought back to the UK by Scotland Yard detectives, Stonehouse found that he was crucial to keeping the Labour government in power with its wafer-thin majority.
In the series premiere: Miami, 1974. John Stonehouse's (Matthew Macfadyen) head bobs above the water.
Looking back at the beach, he sees his clothes folded up. This is the point of no return.
In the late sixties, John Stonehouse's political career is booming.
Under the leadership of Prime Minister Harold Wilson, he bags ministerial roles in Aviation and then as Postmaster General.
He's happily married to Barbara Stonehouse, with three children.
During these successes though, Stonehouse is also forging secret relationships - first with Czech spymaster Alexander Marek and then with his new secretary Sheila Buckley.
Marek makes him an offer and Stonehouse is more than happy to trade information for money.
His romance with Sheila is more organic, but also requires some more plate-spinning.
On top of this, the drama sees him spending his newfound wealth lavishly.
Against Barbara's wishes, they move into a grand new house and Stonehouse buys an impractical sports car.
The 1970 election proves to be a turning point as Stonehouse, when Labour loses power, goes from flag-waver to scapegoat.
He's left out in the cold by Wilson, Marek and the media.
Rumours of fraud are circulating too, as his suspect investments are scrutinised. He's becoming desperate.
Inspired by The Day of the Jackal, he hatches a secret plan to escape his dire circumstances that involves a dead constituent and forged passports.
A ministerial trip to Miami is the perfect opportunity - but can he bear to leave his family, and the real John Stonehouse, behind?
No-Recipe Road Trip with the Try Guys
Channel: Food Network (DStv 175)
TX Time: 19h00
Genre: Food, Comedy
With millions of followers and a loyal fanbase, comedy group The Try Guys are well-known for their curiosity, humour and willingness to try anything under the sun, often with hilarious results.
The four fearless best friends and business partners also love food and trying to cook new dishes with zero instruction and in this series they test their culinary instincts to recreate signature menu items in restaurants across the country - and the final dishes are all over the map.
In each episode, the guys hit a new city and visit two local establishments where each must attempt to make the restaurant's best-known dish with no recipe or instruction.
In the end, the Try Guy with the most successful dish as determined by a local chef and guest judge wins and gets the chance to have their dish put on the restaurant's menu.
Kicking off in Santa Barbara, the series also visits Los Angeles, Charleston, Atlanta and Nashville.
In the series premiere, "Santa Barbara: Fish and Croissants": In Santa Barbara, California, The Try Guys compete against each other in two cooking challenges with no recipes for guest judge Mike Chen.
First, they take a stab at fish fillets while attempting to debone their own seafood specials with Michelin-recognised Chef Preston Knox at Barbareno.
Then, they roll and fold themselves into knots with Chef/owner Pierre Henry at Bree'Osh Bakery as they work to get their filled croissants on the menu.
Whitstable Pearl 2
Channel: Universal TV (DStv 117)
TX Time: 20h00
Genre: Drama
Based on Julie Wassmer's series of novels, the series follows big-hearted local restaurant owner Pearl Nolan who sets up a local detective agency after undergoing police training in an earlier career.
With her son grown, single mum Pearl pursues her lifelong dream and starts a private detective agency, which she runs from her family restaurant in the coastal town of Whitstable.
Drawn by her caring nature, locals soon flock to her with all kinds of cases.
But when a friend dies suspiciously, Pearl finds herself in conflict with gruff new cop in town, DCI Mike McGuire.
In the Season 2 premiere, "Babylon": While returning from visiting his young son, Kruz, in France, Whitstable local and former soldier Dan Tomlin crashes his car.
When he wakes in the hospital, Dan learns that Kruz had been hiding in the trunk of his vehicle - and he's now gone missing.
With his ex-wife accusing him of kidnapping their son, Dan hires Pearl to track him down, and she teams up with Mike to find the missing boy.
Hitler's Last Stand 4
Channel: National Geographic Channel (DStv 181 / StarSat 220)
TX Time: 21h00
Genre: Documentary Series, Docu-Drama, History
On 6 June, 1944, the Allies finally land troops in Normandy to open the western front.
But after the surprise of the D-Day landings and Allied advances, Nazi loyalists dig in, determined to keep a merciless grip on the towns, strongholds and fortresses to defend the Third Reich.
These are the stories of desperate battles waged on the edge defeat, not just for victory, but for survival.
In the Season 4 premiere, "Killer Causeway": In the aftermath of the D-Day landings, Nazi paratroopers dig in to defend at Carentan to prevent the link up on US forces on Utah and Omaha Beaches.
I Am Shauna Rae 2
Channel: TLC Entertainment (DStv 135)
TX Time: 21h00
Genre: Reality
Shauna is more determined than ever to live life like every other 22-year-old.
Standing 3 feet 10 inches tall, her growth was stunted after a childhood battle with brain cancer.
This season she continues to struggle with the side effects of her condition and seeks out answers to her mounting medical questions.
Shauna is in the driver's seat (literally) on her journey for independence as she starts driving lessons.
Will she be able to achieve the huge accomplishment of getting her license?
Meanwhile, her parents Patty and Mark hunt for a new house that will have a separate living space for Shauna, however, Shauna and her younger sister, Rylee, are making their own plans to move out on their own... despite their parents' worry.
In order for them to live independently, Shauna must first get a job.
Of course, that's easier said than done as some careers may be out of her reach given her child-like stature.
The family visits older sister Tara in Florida, and while they're looking forward to some fun in the sun, they know it may not be long before things get heated between Tara and Shauna.
Through all of this, Shauna is still looking for love and explores new ways of dating, including meeting a man who also has pituitary dwarfism.
Will sparks fly between these two kindred spirits?
Snapped 18
Channel: eReality (Openview 108)
TX Time: 22h20
Genre: True Crime, Docu-Drama
Each episode of this true-crime reality series examines a different felon, usually a female, who has committed murder or attempted murder.
The victim is usually the perpetrator's partner.
The documentary-style series features interviews with friends and family members of the accused and victims, law-enforcement officials, attorneys and other people with first-hand knowledge of the cases.
In the Season 18 premiere, "Sheila Eddy": A family searches for a missing teen only to find out she's been betrayed by her closest friends.
Open Homes 3
Channel: The Home Channel (DStv 176)
TX Time: 18h30
Genre: Home Improvement, Reality
Expert home and garden designers take a tour through awe-inspiring properties, from resort-style pavilion homes to hinterland hideaways with endless views.
See on-trend interior design and even a house that floats on the side of a hill.
If you're renovating, building or just addicted to looking through stunning houses, this is the show for you.
Forces of Nature
Channel: BBC UKTV (DStv 134)
TX Time: 14h55
Genre: Nature, Documentary Series
Shape, motion, elements and colour tell us a lot about Earth.
Using the latest technology to bring unique perspectives and understanding of nature's wonders, this series shows the immense forces that make our world so vibrant and diverse.
Professor Brian Cox combines some of the most spectacular sights on Earth with our deepest understanding of the universe to reveal how the planet's beauty is created by just a handful of forces.
In the series premiere, "The Universe in a Snowflake": Brian uncovers how the stunning diversity of shapes in the natural world are shadows of the rules that govern the universe.
In Spain, he shows how an attempt by hundreds of people to build the highest human tower reveals the force that shapes our planet.
In Nepal, honey hunters seek out giant beehives that cling to cliff walls.
The perfect hexagonal honeycombs made by the bees to store their honey conceal a mathematical rule.
Off the coast of Canada, Brian explains how some of the most irregular, dangerous shapes in nature - massive icebergs that surge down from Greenland and into shipping lanes of the Atlantic - emerge from a powerful yet infinitely small force of nature.
Even the most delicate six-sided snowflake tells a story of the forces of nature that forged it.