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New on TV today: Saturday 12 August

Written by Shows Editor from the blog New Shows and Seasons on 12 Aug 2023
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China's Wild Empire

Channel: Nat Geo Wild (DStv 182 / StarSat 221)
TX Time: 18h00
Genre: Wildlife, Nature, Documentary Series

China's Wild Empire

The epic adventures of China's golden snub-nosed monkeys, Tibetan antelope and Asian elephants, told across the seasons in a diversity of habitats.

Dense and mysterious forests, vertical mountains, sweeping deserts and thriving wetlands...

While Central Asia is densely populated, it's also one of the most vast - and last - unexplored wilderness regions on Earth.

Its distinctly sublime landscapes boast the highest biodiversity of anywhere outside the tropics.

This insider, exclusive access - along with a global perspective - propels you into Asia's magnificent bounty of rare, charismatic wildlife through intimately told stories about unique animals.

Following the approach of The Frozen Kingdom of the Snow Leopard we embark with three more iconic animals as their true dramas unfold before our eyes.

And, for the first time, an international crew is on the ground to capture behavior in previously unseen locations in China.

Golden Monkeys: Braving the Impossible

Two golden snub-nosed monkey families battle for food, mates and social status in China's mountain forests, where the females ultimately hold sway.

Tibetan Antelope: Mysterious Migration

China's female Tibetan antelope undertake an annual odyssey to their calving grounds on the Tibetan plateau, but it's a journey fraught with danger.

Yunnan's Intrepid Elephants

With China's Asian elephant population growing, and natural resources harder to find, they need to be increasingly brave and intrepid to survive.
 

Get Me to 21: The Jenna Lowe Story

Channel: M-Net (DStv 101)
TX Time: 20h30
Genre: Documentary

Get Me to 21: The Jenna Lowe Story

When Cape Town teenager Jenna Lowe was diagnosed with life-threatening Pulmonary Hypertension (PH), she didn't simply become a patient, she became a lead activist bringing attention to the disease.

In 2014, two years ahead of her 21st birthday, Jenna launched her #GetMeTo21 social media campaign to raise awareness for this rare, life-threatening disease and to drive organ donation in South Africa.

Articulate, brave and beautiful, she touched people across the world, and the campaign achieved international acclaim.

This documentary features footage and interviews with many of Jenna's friends, doctors and family, including Jenna's mother Gabi who chronicled her daughter's heroic odyssey with this poorly understood medical condition in her best-selling memoir Get Me to 21.

Get Me to 21 pays tribute to Jenna's indomitable spirit, sharing insights on how the Lowe family found strength and resilience as they faced every parent's worst nightmare; firstly the medical practitioners that couldn't diagnose Jenna's condition and then had few, if any, treatments to offer.

The Lowes didn't accept that helplessness.

Yet PH is a degenerative condition and ordinary challenges of youth such as writing matric became especially poignant as her family watched Jenna sitting in a wheelchair with oxygen support determinedly writing her final exams – she achieved straight As.

Jenna's family started a not-for-profit organisation, the Jenna Lowe Trust, in her memory.

It helped to establish The Jenna Lowe PH Clinic at Groote Schuur, which currently supports around 600 PH patients because earlier diagnosis means a better quality of life.
 

The Grim Sleeper: Mind of a Monster

Channel: Investigation Discovery (DStv 171 / StarSat 223)
TX Time: 21h00
Genre: True Crime, Documentary

The Grim Sleeper: Mind of a Monster

The Grim Sleeper is one of the most ruthless serial killers in Los Angeles history, preying on the women of South Central for decades.

In 2001, detectives in the LAPD's cold case unit re-open the files on a series of unsolved murders from the 1980s.

All of the women were shot with a .25-caliber automatic, their bodies dumped in alleyways.

As police search for DNA evidence to unlock the case, they are stunned to discover a new victim – 14 years after the last known murder.

The race is on to catch the brutal serial killer, before he can strike again.
 

Behind Your Touch

Channel: Netflix South Africa
TX Time: 10h00 (all episodes)
Genre: Comedy, K-Drama

Behind Your Touch

A veterinarian with psychometric powers and a hot-blooded detective fall in love with each other while solving minor crime cases in a small town in Mujin, Chungcheong-do.

However, their skills are tested when they unravel a chilling serial killer mystery.
 

Will He Say Yes? Zambia 3

Channel: HONEY (DStv 173)
TX Time: 16h00
Genre: Reality

Will He Say Yes? Zambia 3

After waiting for longer than expected, women take the bull by the horns and propose to their boyfriends.

Each woman gets the opportunity to plan an authentic proposal, with the advice and guidance of two celebrity hosts.

The big question is, will he say yes?
 

A Prisoner Stole My Heart 2

Channel: HONEY (DStv 173)
TX Time: 16h30
Genre: Reality

A Prisoner Stole My Heart 2

We meet women who share the real-life experience of falling in love with a convicted offender.

They take us through the highs and lows of the relationship, how they maintained romance from prison and how their lovers are in the real world.
 

Wedding Insider 2

Channel: HONEY (DStv 173)
TX Time: 20h30
Genre: Lifestyle, Reality

Wedding Insider 2

An intimate view of Africa's most beautiful weddings.

Get an inside look at the most glamourous, lavish and over-the-top weddings on the continent.

Each episode showcases the special day of three couples, narrated by a quirky voice over.
 

Britain's Got Talent 16

Channel: M-Net (DStv 101)
TX Time: 19h00
Genre: Reality Competition, Variety, Talent Search

Britain's Got Talent 16

The UK's most-loved variety talent show returns to our screens for its 16th season.

The talent spectacular is bigger and better than ever before, as this year sees more jaw-dropping acts, as well as more golden buzzer moments than any season yet.

Brand new judge Bruno Tonioli joins the panel alongside Simon Cowell, Amanda Holden and Alesha Dixon.

Once again, the incomparable duo Ant and Dec will be hosting, both on stage and from the wings as they get ready to cheer and console the acts brave enough to perform in front of thousands.

With auditions held in both London and Manchester for the first time since before the pandemic, the calibre of talent this year is the best the competition has ever seen.

Lookout for South African amputee dancer Musa Motha who makes it to... we won't give away spoilers but let's just say he goes far.
 

In the Footsteps of Killers 2

Channel: CBS Justice (DStv 170 / StarSat 222)
TX Time: 20h00
Genre: True Crime, Documentary Series

In the Footsteps of Killers 2

Silent Witness star Emilia Fox and Britain's top criminologist Professor David Wilson attempt to solve Britain's most heinous murders in this true crime series.

Investigated like a documentary and filmed like a drama, In the Footsteps of Killers is a television hybrid in which an unsolved murder is solved in each episode.

Through research for her role in the BBC series, Emilia has become an expert in unsolved murder.

David specialises in studying serial killers, their modus operandi and psychology and has assisted many police forces across the globe.

In each episode, the pair investigate an unsolved British murder.

They travel to and base themselves in the vicinity of the crime, reinvestigate the evidence for themselves, meeting police, victim's relations, witnesses, journalists and experts.

Crucially, they will walk the murder scene in the footsteps of the killer.

Seeing the scene from the murderer and victim's perspective, no matter how long after the crime, is critically important.

The series follows the two detectives' ups and downs, their setbacks and their breakthroughs before they are able to reveal the name of the killer as a result of their thorough re-investigations.

In the Footsteps of Killers takes audiences inside a crime like never before.

In the Season 2 premiere, "The Murder of Vishal Mehrotra": On 29 July 1981, eight-year-old Vishal Mehrotra had been in central London watching the Royal Wedding Parade with his family.

The family left central London and returned to home to Putney but on their way back; Vishal vanished.
 

Chaos in Court

Channel: Real Time (DStv 155)
TX Time: 22h30
Genre: True Crime, Clip Show

Chaos in Court

Eexamines clips of dramatic, unexpected and cathartic courtroom moments.

Each episode brings the backstories of the crimes and legal proceedings to the forefront with analysis from a diverse panel of experts including judges, defence attorneys, prosecutors and criminal psychologists.

Featured within each episode are interviews with defendants, family members and others who witnessed the action to help bring dramatic courtroom moments to life - as well as the emotional realities of what happens when the ultimate stakes are on trial.

In the series premiere, "Predators Among Us": Larry Nassar is attacked by an angry parent; a gang member, a snitch and the FBI collide; and a defendant curses out a judge.

Also, a murderer taunts the mother of two teenage sons; a perp sings for a lenient sentence; and a prisoner meets his baby in the courtroom.

 



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