Bessie Coleman: Queen of the Skies
Channel: Curiosity Channel (DStv 185)
TX Time: 21h00
Genre: Documentary, Docu-Drama, History
Widely regarded as the first woman of African American descent to have a pilot's license, Bessie Coleman soared across the sky.
Her goal was to encourage women and African Americans to reach their dreams.
Born to a family of poor sharecroppers in Texas, Bessie Coleman saved and received sponsorships to attend flight school in France.
Unfortunately, her career ended with a tragic plane crash in 1923, in which she was flung from the plane, plummeting to the ground.
Her legacy lives on in this special.
Kokkedoor: Vuur & Vlam
Channel: kykNET (DStv 144)
TX Time: 20h00
Genre: Reality, Food, Reality Competition
Reality cooking show Kokkedoor is back and this time around contestants will have to show their talent by cooking with fire.
In Kokkedoor: Vuur & Vlam, braai is on the menu and judges Bertus Basson and Kobus Botha will decide who South Africa's braai masters are.
Bertus is a top chef, a TV personality and the presenter of the kykNET series In die Sop.
Kobus is a braai guru who has lived in France for the last couple of years where he is teaching the French the pleasure of cooking on an open fire.
Contestants will have to cook on flames and coals, in ash or on a braai grid.
Captain Fall
Channel: Netflix South Africa
TX Time: 10h00 (all episodes)
Genre: Animation, Comedy
A goofy, gullible sea captain is hired to helm a high-end cruise ship and becomes the perfect fall guy for an illicit smuggling operation.
The wet-behind-the-ears yet good-hearted sea captain unwittingly finds himself at the helm of a smuggling ship for a terrible international cartel, who's using him as a fall guy in case the authorities ever catch up to them.
Featuring the voices of Jason Ritter, Christopher Meloni and South African-born Lesley-Ann Brandt.
Operation Lost Boy
Channel: Investigation Discovery (DStv 171 / StarSat 223)
TX Time: 21h00
Genre: True Crime, Documentary Series
This is the story of a Norwegian vigilant task force and a four-year hunt for child predators and the efforts to take down their international network, and it all begins with a teenager named Martin.
15-year-old Martin calls the police in Bergen, Norway.
That phone call leads to an international investigation that exposes a large network of child predators.
Explore the shocking details of this disturbing case.
Hang Ups
Channel: S3
TX Time: 19h30
Genre: Comedy
Stephen Mangan stars as Richard Pitt, a therapist with a chequered professional career, who finds himself at a crossroads in life – a crossroads precipitated by the startling realisation that his life appears to be falling apart at the seams.
Hang Ups is an unconventional comedy about an unconventional therapist trying to keep his life, and patients, from falling apart.
The series presents a family and a society that have the opportunity to be more connected than ever before, but who in reality find themselves utterly disconnected.
Time poor and technology rich, self-obsessed and neurotic, image-conscious but insecure, the world is full of hang ups and is it any wonder why...?
In the series premiere: We join Richard on the first day of his new venture where working from home is destined to be chaotic when he has his teenage children, his high flying wife (Katherine Parkinson), his unconventional parents (Charles Dance and Celia Imrie), his eccentric therapist (Richard E Grant), his useless best friend Pete (Karl Theobald) and a whole host of extraordinary clients to contend with.
When a disastrous past decision comes back to haunt him is it any wonder his clients are left wondering who needs therapy more...
CSI: Vegas 2
Channel: Me (DStv 115)
TX Time: 20h00
Genre: Police Procedural, Drama
Amidst the neon lights and long shadows, dark threats continue to lurk in Sin City.
Maxine Roby leads her brilliant team of Crime Scene Investigators as they use science to solve baffling cases.
This combined force will deploy the latest forensic techniques to do what they do best – follow the evidence – in order to preserve and serve justice in Sin City.
In the Season 2 premiere, "She's Gone": Season 2 kicks off with the return of Catherine Willows (Marg Helgenberger) as she persuades Maxine to let her rejoin the esteemed CSI team in Las Vegas.
The CSIs investigate the murder of a dominatrix found near her secret sex dungeon.
D.P. 2
Channel: Netflix South Africa
TX Time: 10h00 (all episodes)
Genre: K-Drama, Comedy-Drama
Jung Hae-in and Koo Kyo-hwan are back as the unlikely duo An Jun-ho and Han Ho-yeol, a pair of soldiers in the Deserter Pursuit unit — which is charged with tracking down South Korean men who attempt to dodge required military service.
When we return to eccentric corporal Jun-ho and rookie Ho-yeol, they're feeling the intense repercussions of the shocking incident that ends Season 1.
But over the course of the six episodes in Season 2, as they return to duty, hunting down other defectors, the tables are turned.
Suddenly, one of the chasers becomes one of the chased.
Konings van Kitskos 9
Channel: VIA (DStv 147)
TX Time: 17h00
Genre: Food, Afrikaans
Best friends Alvin Bruinders and Gerhard Steyn love to eat.
In this lively, fun-filled series they hit the road to visit the best fast-food joints in South Africa and to taste the most indulgent dishes on the menus.
Alvin and Gerhard may have recently shed the kilos but they're still on the hunt for delicious fast food in this season of Konings van Kitskos.
In the Season 9 premiere: The kings visit a restaurant in Pretoria that enchants guests with their coffee.
Afterwards they learn how to jazz up potatoes at a restaurant in Midrand.
Flipping 101 with Tarek El Moussa 3
Channel: HGTV (DStv 177)
TX Time: 21h00
Genre: Reality, Home Improvement
Tarek El Moussa, best known from Flip or Flop, shares the secrets to his success in this series.
The series spotlights Tarek as he mentors first-time flippers, helping them navigate costly mistakes as they race to get a renovated property on the market.
Facing obstacles at every turn, from unexpected construction delays and crumbling foundations to rotting roofs and dilapidated interiors, these flipping newcomers need Tarek's invaluable expertise to transform their risky investments into big rewards.
In the Season 3 premiere, "The Never-Ending Flip": This episode will feature brothers Erik and Bryan who have teamed up with their friend Mike to build a flipping empire.
After their first two flips yielded middling profits that they split three ways, the trio is hoping for better results on their latest house in Los Alamitos, California.
When neighbourhood comps point to another potential low profit, they call on Tarek for guidance.
Tarek discovers that Erik and Bryan's constant arguing and miscommunication is about as turbulent as the real estate market.
It's up to him to keep their business strong and their friendships intact.