Real Girlfriends in Paris
Channel: S3
TX Time: 18h00
Genre: Reality
While in the City of Lights, six bold twentysomething American women find each other, encounter a romantic rendezvous or two and embrace all the spontaneity that comes with living in an exciting new city.
The series will follow six young women - Anya Firestone, Emily Gorelik, Margaux Lignel, Kacey Margo, Adja Toure and Victoria Zito - who are all American expats and experiencing their wildest adventure yet in the most beautiful city in the world.
As the women live their best lives and chase their ultimate dreams, they find themselves navigating careers, romantic rendezvous, unavoidable conflicts and discovering who they are meant to be and exactly what they want.
Anya Firestone
Anya Firestone is an artistic, bubbly and resilient woman who loves all things French culture.
She has lived in Paris on and off for the last decade, has a master's degree in French cultural studies, and is licensed by the French government to give tours at every historical and cultural venue in Paris.
As an inventive hostess, she often has gatherings and weekly Shabbat dinners in her Parisian apartment that she shares with her fiancé, Mathieu, and their precious pup, Zsa Zsa.
Anya exudes her quirky personality everywhere she goes, and her affectionate presence makes her the go-to shoulder to lean on when the ladies are feeling homesick or needing advice.
Emily Gorelik
Born and raised in New Jersey, Emily Gorelik visited France while attending NYU and decided she was going to stay.
She has lived in Paris for two years and while still perfecting her French, she prides herself in knowing enough to order in cafés, date French boys and, of course, shop.
Emily is pursuing a degree in luxury design management with the dream of bringing her mom's interior design brand to Paris.
When presented with a once-in-a-lifetime fashion internship, however, she is faced with the decision of following her parents' path or creating her own.
Kacey Margo
Kacey Margo is a Southern California native who traveled to Paris while taking time off for a semester in college.
Bitten by the Parisian bug, she fell in love with the culture and quickly secured a temporary role as an English teacher in a French classroom.
The instability of her work situation has forced her to bounce between Paris, L.A. and New York for a few years, but she has recently returned to the City of Lights and is determined to stay.
Unfortunately, complications with her visa could get in the way.
Margaux Lignel
Margaux Lignel is a free spirit looking for love, fun and lasting friendships.
She has been educated at some of the best schools in the world, including the American School in Paris, FIT and the Conde Nast College of Fashion and Design.
Born to French parents in New York, she spent most of her formative years traveling back and forth to Paris and just moved into a new apartment in the 5th arrondissement.
Margaux is yearning to chart her own path, on her own terms and figuring out exactly what she wants to do next.
Adja Toure
Adja Toure is a high achiever with an Ivy League degree from Cornell.
Having visited Paris growing up, she has dreamt of returning as an adult.
With her family scattered across the country, she has always felt at home in France.
Fatigued by her current job, Adja begins to consider a career pivot into the beauty space.
While putting this next phase in motion, she dips her toes into the dating scene but will need to combat her trust issues first.
Victoria Zito
Victoria Zito is a small-town girl with big fashion dreams.
Born and raised in Texas, Victoria was always encouraged by her mother to stay close to home and stick to what she knows.
With a burning passion for fashion, though, Victoria moved to Paris in 2017 with a scholarship to Parsons and is currently the head designer at nascent fashion brand Chloe Colette.
Recently divorced, Victoria is ready to start a new chapter and focus on herself and explore all the romantic opportunities Paris has to offer.
In the series premiere, "Bonjour Paris!": Victoria, Kacey and Adja share life stories over fried food and ranch dressing.
Anya hosts the girls for an American Thanksgiving dinner where Emily opens up about wanting to find love in Paris.
Is It Cake, Too?
Channel: Netflix South Africa
TX Time: 10h00 (all episodes)
Genre: Reality Competition, Food
Skilled cake artists create mouthwatering replicas of handbags, sewing machines and more in a mind-bending baking contest inspired by a popular meme.
Deception is the name of the game for the world's most talented bakers who will compete to create hyper-realistic cakes that look exactly like everyday objects – with cash on the line.
But are they good enough to deceive a panel of celebrity judges... and you?
You'll be asking yourself "is it real?" Or... is it cake?
Mikey Day from Saturday Night Live hosts alongside a revolving panel of celebrity guest judges.
Ghosts 3
Channel: BBC Brit (DStv 120)
TX Time: 20h35
Genre: Comedy
Alison and Mike, a cash-strapped young couple struggling to buy their first home, think their prayers are answered when a distant relative bequeaths them a sprawling country estate.
The catch? The old house is haunted by the ghosts of its former inhabitants.
The restless spirits, horrified that the new owners plan to turn the peaceful pile into a bustling hotel, make plans to oust the troublesome newcomers.
But their bungled efforts have unintended consequences...
Fate intervenes when Alison has an accident which bestows her with a unique gift.
As the doors of crumbling country mansion Button House creak open once more, the haphazard house share between its living inhabitants and its restless dead is settling into a strange kind of daily routine.
But cash-strapped Alison and Mike's plan to transform their unexpected inheritance into a bustling luxury hotel is still a distant dream.
Could the exploitation of their troupe of ghostly housemates bring in the funds they need - or are they setting themselves up for even more chaos?
In the Season 3 premiere, "The Bone Plot": When a historical documentary team comes to film at Button House, Alison and the ghosts are shocked to discover that the assassination plot they are investigating involved one of their own.
Meanwhile, Mike - always on the lookout for free publicity - begs Alison to accept the offer of a television interview about the old house.
The only hitch is that Alison is terrified of speaking on camera.
Luckily, Thomas is there to coach her in the art of speechmaking.
What could possibly go wrong?
Son of a Critch 2
Channel: M-Net (DStv 101)
TX Time: 21h15
Genre: Comedy
Based on the best-selling memoir from Mark Critch, Son of a Critch is the very real story of a young Mark coming of age in St. John's, Newfoundland.
It's a heartfelt window into the life of a child - much older inside than his young years - using comedy and self-deprecation to win friends and connect with the small collection of people in his limited world.
In the Season 2 premiere, "Growing Apart": Mark is shocked that Fox returns to school with older boyfriend who can drive.
In the second episode of the weekly double bill, "You're Dead After School": Pop is betting on the Tyson Frazier fight.
It turns out that Mike Jr. earns more than his father and now senior has to ask for a raise.
Mark's mood completely turns around after Fox dumps Millard, except Millard now wants a fight.
Andrew Schulz Presents - Yannis Pappas: Blowing the Light
Channel: S3
TX Time: 21h00
Genre: Comedy, Special
It's a good time, difficult time, narcissistic time.
The newly-married Yannis Pappas explores the political division in America, online culture and how the amenities of modernity have saved and ruined us all.
He also presents his controversial idea to bring everyone in the world together in his first hour stand-up comedy special shot at NY Comedy Club in NYC, produced by Andrew Schulz.
So Help Me Todd
Channel: Me (DStv 115)
TX Time: 20h00
Genre: Drama, Legal Drama
Marcia Gay Harden and Skylar Astin star as razor-sharp, meticulous attorney Margaret Wright (Harden) and Todd (Astin), her talented but aimless son whom she hires as her law firm's in-house investigator.
As the black sheep of the Wright family, Todd is a laidback, quick-thinking, former private detective who fell on hard times after his flexible interpretation of the law got his license revoked.
Margaret's penchant for excellence and strict adherence to the law is at complete odds with Todd's scrappy methods of finding his way through sticky situations.
When Todd inadvertently teams with his mother on a case, she's surprised to find herself duly impressed by – and proud of – his crafty ability to sleuth out information with his charm and his wide-ranging tech savvy.
At last, Margaret sees a way to put her son on a "suitable" path to living an adult, financially solvent life she approves of, and she asks him to join her firm.
Todd agrees, since it means getting his license back and once again doing the job he excels at and loves.
Mother and son working together is a big first step toward mending their fragile, dysfunctional relationship, and they may even come away with a better understanding of each other.
But whether Todd and Margaret will be able to accept each other for who they are is another case entirely.
Riverdale 6
Channel: Netflix South Africa
TX Time: 10h00 (all episodes)
Genre: Drama
When Season 5 came to a close, Veronica and Reggie plotted to open a casino, Toni and Fangs began a romantic relationship, and a bomb went off at the Andrews house.
As Season 6 begins, Jughead Jones walks us through Riverdale — only the beloved town much darker, creepier, and seemingly haunted.
The gang will wrestle with moral dilemmas, caught between and epic battle of good and evil.
In the Season 6 premiere, "Chapter Ninety-Six: Welcome to Rivervale": Following the explosion that ended Season 5, a new day dawns in the town of RiverVALE, where everything is as it should be.
Veronica and Reggie are now the town's power couple, while Jughead and Tabitha move in together.
But with Cheryl demanding a return to the "old ways," this serenity will surely not last.
And how could Archie and Betty possibly have survived?
MasterChef Australia 15
Channel: M-Net (DStv 101)
TX Time: 18h00
Genre: Reality Competition, Food
Season 15 will introduce a brand new batch of 18 culinary hopefuls all vying for the coveted title of Australia's MasterChef and the grand prize of $250,000.
The season promises to be a food-filled feast, packed with multiple competitive challenges, twists and turns, and other scrumptious surprises.
Professional Chefs and Judges Andy Allen, Melissa Leong and the late Jock Zonfrillo return with their wealth of culinary expertise to taste and deliver critique.
The competition wastes no time cranking up, with Jamie Oliver arriving on Day 1 to kick-start the series, guiding the contestants through two special episodes.
Right from the get-go there is a game-changing secret advantage up for grabs that will alter the path of the competition for one cook.
Season 15 features the most talented home cooks from a diverse range of culinary backgrounds including Russian, Ukrainian, Italian, Chinese and Zimbabwean.
These contestants will serve up deliciously creative dishes and showcase the unique beauty and cuisine from not only around Australia but from their heritage.
Preppers
Channel: S3
TX Time: 19h30
Genre: Comedy
NOTE: this show was supposed to start in March, but didn't. TVSA was not informed of the schedule change by the channel, so hopefully this time it starts.
Escaping the fallout of a personal cataclysmic event, Charlie, a young Australian Aboriginal woman, finds herself at the centre of a mismatched community of doomsday preppers.
This comedy follows young Aboriginal woman Charlie, who experiences her own personal cataclysmic event when her life crumbles around her.
Escaping the fallout, Charlie finds herself at the centre of a hilariously mismatched community of doomsday preppers planning for the apocalypse at Eden 2.
Founded by a wizened old First Nations man called Monty, Eden 2 is a refuge for Aboriginal people, and a few others that Monty has conned into footing the bill.
Charlie reluctantly joins the preppers and is eventually won over by the rag-tag bunch of misfits as she tries to come to terms with the dissatisfaction, loneliness and alienation she's always felt trying to find her place in a White Australia.
By gaining a sense of purpose, becoming an unlikely leader and confronting the generational trauma of colonisation, Charlie ultimately realises that she isn't as powerless or vulnerable as she thinks.
With climate change, economic catastrophe, terrorism, pandemics, meteor strikes, hostile AI, nuclear proliferation, alien invasion it looks almost certain that the end is nigh.
So, when the end comes — no matter how it happens — maybe the craziest thing is to NOT be prepared?