BET Awards 2023
Channel: BET (DStv 129)
TX Time: 02h00 (live) and 20h00
Genre: Awards
The BET Awards describe themselves as "the ultimate platform to showcase the best, brightest and most beautiful aspects of the Black experience – honouring the present and future of Black music, creativity, and sportsmanship, by celebrating the culture and being a driving force for social change."
Drake and GloRilla lead the international nominations this year, counting at seven and six nominations respectively.
Burna Boy heads Africa with four nominations, alongside Tems following closely with three.
This year's nominees reflect an abundance of creative expression and Black excellence across music, television, film and sports.
From West Coast to East Coast, Trap to Bounce, Afro Beats and Dance Hall, the culture's finest are set to deliver a full range of Hip Hop favourites, including:
69 Boyz
Big Daddy Kane
Chief Keef
DJ Unk
E-40
Fast Life Yungstaz & Easton (F.L.Y.)
Fat Joe
Ja Rule
Kid 'N Play
MC Lyte
Percy 'Master P' Miller
Remy Ma
Soulja Boy
The Sugarhill Gang
Trick Daddy
Trina
Tyga
Uncle Luke
Warren G
Ying Yang Twins
Yo-Yo
Also joining the party are nominees Coco Jones and GloRilla, plus hitmakers Doechii and Lil Uzi Vert.
Dream Home Makeovers with Sophie Robinson
Channel: The Home Channel (DStv 176 / Openview 113)
TX Time: 20h00
Genre: Reality Makeover, Home Improvement
Featuring the UK's undisputed queen of colour, this series follows the interior design guru as she pushes brave homeowners just beyond their comfort zones to create eye-popping interiors that are cozy to live in and amazing to look at.
Every episode features two dazzling transformations along with tips for getting wow-factor results.
And — from minimalist and monochrome to Art Deco and country cottage chic — Sophie harnesses creativity, charisma and the transformational power of colour to revolutionise drab interiors, one stylish home at a time.
In the series premiere: Transforming a huge living space in a converted schoolhouse in Nottinghamshire for a couple with very different ideas.
In Middlesex a couple who haven't decorated their living room and entrance hallway since they moved in 13 years ago.
Undercover Underage 2
Channel: Investigation Discovery (DStv 171 / StarSat 223)
TX Time: 21h55
Genre: True Crime, Docu-Reality
Every day, countless minors are exploited, groomed and abused in person and online.
Enter Roo Powell and her team at the nonprofit SOSA (Safe from Online Sex Abuse), who work in tandem with law enforcement to apprehend child predators by becoming the targets.
After a successful first season resulting in four convictions of sexual predators, ID shows SOSA multiplying that number in Season 2 as the SOSA team relocates to embed with the sheriff's office in Canadian County, Oklahoma and deploys three new underage decoys.
As the team launches the fictitious online accounts for a 15, 14 and even a 12-year-old persona, it's a race against the clock to identify the ACMs (adults contacting minors) and build a case against the alleged predators to enable law enforcement to make an arrest before the perpetrators can victimize other children.
With 16 arrests featured this season, the pressure is palpable over the course of eight explosive and intense all-new episodes.
Returning this season alongside Roo are social media lead Shelby Chikazawa and photographer and visuals lead Matt Monath.
New to this season is SOSA's director of communications, Jordan Pérez, as well as various team members in support roles for research and evidence.
The entire team works directly in conjunction with Canadian County Sheriff's Office (CCSO) led by Major Adam Flowers, who oversees its ICAC (Internet Crimes Against Children) Task Force, and Sheriff Chris West.
Multiple adult decoys are deployed this season with Roo's guidance including the 12-year-old "Abby," 14-year-old "Mackenzie," and 15-year-old "Skylar."
As these young women engage with the ACMs online via their decoy personas, Roo guides them as they process and absorb the impact of the lewd actions and disturbing words intended for actual minors.
Building off the tremendous work of last season, Roo and the team at SOSA continue to carefully craft back stories, social media profiles and photos to help the fictitious decoys transform into teens and tweens and together they work to engage with the alleged online predators to identify them for law enforcement.
Once the ACMs engage with the underage decoys, the team communicates with the ACMs via texts, calls and even distressing video chats to gather pieces of information about their real identities.
Every adult that contacts the teenage decoys is distinctly told from the outset that they are speaking to an underage girl and is given the opportunity to cease communication at any point.
For those who choose to proceed with explicit exchanges with a supposed minor, the team mobilizes quickly to put a name to the offender.
Then, once the team at SOSA has enough information for a positive identification, they turn over their findings to law enforcement to make the arrest and get an alleged predator off the streets.
In the Season 2 premiere, "Reasons to be Terrified": A misstep during a critical investigation could have serious consequences.
Lawless Island 6
Channel: National Geographic Channel (DStv 181)
TX Time: 19h10
Genre: Docu-Reality
In the wilderness of Southeast Alaska, the residents of Port Protection use skill and perseverance to survive and thrive in their self-reliant lifestyle on the fringes of society.
Long-time residents battle the elements and time as they learn from past mistakes, and new challenges.
Fresh faces in town learn to adapt and survive as they build a life in this beautiful but unforgiving landscape.
In the Season 6 premiere, "The Perfect Bear": As the community of Port Protection springs forward, Squibb and Troy join forces to repair a sinking float that could cause a massive oil spill.
The Time Traveler's Wife
Channel: Me (DStv 115)
TX Time: 22h00
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
An intricate and magical love story, adapted by Steven Moffat from the novel by Audrey Niffenegger.
The Time Traveler's Wife tells the story of Clare and Henry, and a marriage with a problem... time travel.
Rose Leslie stars as Clare Abshire. She's fiery, clever and unstoppable — and for most of her life she's had an amazing secret.
Since she was six years old, Clare has had an imaginary friend: a kind and funny man, sometimes old, sometimes young, who appears in the woods behind her house and tells her tales of the future.
Visits from the mysterious Henry are the bright spots in the tedium of her childhood.
As the years pass and she grows into a beautiful young woman, she starts to realise her friend is not imaginary — he's a time traveler, visiting from the future.
And he's not just from any old future, he's from her future. Clare has a literal date with destiny.
One day she's going to meet a young man called Henry DeTamble, whom she'll know very well but who won't recognise her at all, and she will become the time traveler's wife.
Theo James is Henry DeTamble, and since he was eight years old, Henry's been a time traveler.
It's not a superpower, it's a condition; he can't help it.
Sometimes, when Henry is stressed or worried — and sometimes for no reason at all — he loses his grip on the current moment and falls naked into the past or the future.
One minute he's making breakfast, the next he's naked at a hoedown in 1973.
He can be stuck there for any amount of time, he never knows.
His life is a rollercoaster of constant danger and white-knuckle survival.
Until one day he meets a beautiful redhead in the library where he works.
Her name is Clare Abshire, and although he's never seen her before, she claims to have known him all her life.
Finally his curse has given him something good, and Clare and Henry are about to have the time of their lives.
Spring Baking Championship
Channel: Real Time (DStv 155)
TX Time: 12h55
Genre: Reality Competition, Food
As temperatures warm up outside, the competition heats up in the kitchen as eight of the USA's best bakers compete on Spring Baking Championship.
Bobby Deen hosts this sweet competition, as the contestants attempt to rise to the occasion with their springtime treats and win a sweet spot in the hearts of judges Duff Goldman, Nancy Fuller and Lorraine Pascale.
Only one winner will take home the grand prize of $50,000 and the title of Spring Baking Champion.
From Mother's Day brunches to Memorial Day family picnics to birthday parties and weddings, the competitors must prove their spring baking abilities each step of the way.
In each of the six hour-long episodes, the bakers are tested in a pre-heat round, where one baker will be granted a special advantage in the main-heat.
Along the way they must endure surprising twists in order to succeed.
Throughout the season, the bakers will be challenged to buzz around the kitchen creating sweets featuring honey as the main ingredient.
Then they must make tart treats using lemons and limes.
Which dessert will turn the judges sour and make them pucker?
In another challenge, the bakers must create a dozen dessert pops to stay in the competition.
Which baker's dreams will pop when their treat does not make the cut?
Contestants will also be challenged to create a layered springtime trifle, and then they will have the freedom to create any dessert as long as it is red, white and blue.
In the grand finale, the three remaining bakers must create an impressive wedding dessert bar, before tackling the main centerpiece of the big day - the wedding cake.
Who will shine, and who will melt in the competition?
In the series premiere, "Spring Bounty": The bakers must create the best flower-inspired cupcake.
Then, in the main heat they must take on the upside down cake using fresh fruit, leaving one baker turned upside down in this difficult challenge.