Special Forces: World's Toughest Test
Channel: M-Net (DStv 101)
TX Time: 17h00
Genre: Reality Competition
Described as "the ultimate celebrity social experiment", Special Forces: World's Toughest Test is a series in which household names endure some of the harshest, most grueling challenges from the playbook of the actual Special Forces selection process.
There are no votes, and no eliminations - just survival.
Danny Amendola, Mel B, Hannah Brown, Tyler Florence, Kate Gosselin, Dwight Howard, Montell Jordan, Gus Kenworthy, Nastia Liukin, Carli Lloyd, Beverley Mitchell, Kenya Moore, Mike Piazza, Dr. Drew Pinsky, Anthony Scaramucci and Jamie Lynn Spears will quickly learn the meaning of "no guts, no glory" - and no glam.
Selection for the Special Forces is a test unlike any other.
The celebs will take on, and try to survive, demanding training exercises led by Directing Staff (DS) agents Rudy Reyes, Mark "Billy" Billingham, Jason "Foxy" Fox and Remi Adeleke, an elite team of ex-special forces operatives.
In this series, the only way for these recruits to leave is to give up on their own accord, through failure or potential injury, or by force from the DS.
Viewers will see the recruits face the harshest of environments that simulate the highly classified selection process, pushing themselves in a way they have never been challenged before.
Special Forces: World's Toughest Test is the ultimate test of their physical, mental and emotional resilience - revealing the celebrities' deepest and truest character.
Who will quit, who will survive?
Abandoned 3
Channel: Mzansi Magic (DStv 161)
TX Time: 20h00
Genre: Reality
Actress and TV presenter Phumeza Mdabe hosts Abandoned, a show that helps orphans who were abandoned as toddlers to track down their family members.
Mdabe helps those who were left on park benches, commuter stations or at orphanages to search and reconnect with those who abandoned them – their mothers or fathers – in a reality show that seeks to help them find a sense of belonging.
The show also gives those that gave up their children an opportunity to find and reconnect with their offspring.
Every week, the show tackles different dynamics, and helps the abandoned children ask questions like: Did my mother or father love me?
How do they go to bed knowing that I am out there? Did they ever try to find me or how will my life change when I find them?
The show first seeks to explore what the abandoned child has gone through all these years, before Phumeza sets off to locate their parents to get them to respond to the child's unanswered questions.
The final part of the show sees Phumeza attempt to reunite the two in a physical or virtual meeting to find a sense of closure and way forward.
The Haunted Museum 2
Channel: Travel Channel (DStv 179)
TX Time: 21h10
Genre: Anthology, Horror, Paranormal
Horror-loving fans get ready as filmmaker Eli Roth and paranormal investigator and Ghost Adventures host Zak Bagans team up in The Haunted Museum, a spine-chilling new scripted series that brings to life the terrifying tales of the world's most haunted and cursed artifacts.
The series features a collection of short horror films inspired by the frightening relics on display in Zak Bagans' Haunted Museum in Las Vegas.
Each episode presents a chilling cinematic story of a ghoulish object from Bagans' eerie collection, scripted and produced in collaboration with Eli Roth and featuring exclusive commentary from Bagans about its hellish history.
An enthusiast for all things haunted, Zak Bagans has amassed a collection of thousands of creepy artifacts from all over the world, exhibited across a sprawling 30-room, 14,000-square-foot mansion museum.
Here, brave visitors come face-to-face with a plethora of spooky memorabilia that span paranormal legends, true crime, Hollywood pop culture and haunted history.
But among these relics are a group of items that are particularly sinister, inducing nightmarish experiences - fainting spells, chills, convulsions, scratches and disturbing bad luck.
Now, these cursed objects take the spotlight in The Haunted Museum, as Zak Bagans and Eli Roth join forces to tell their ominous stories in a frightening format.
Roth - the modern master of horror and creative force behind such films as Cabin Fever and Hostel - along with his accredited team of writers present the frightful tales behind Bagans' most feared items through innovative and evocative horror shorts.
In the Season 2 premiere, "The Witch's Head": William, a wealthy collector of antique oddities, acquires an ancient, mummified head for his personal collection.
When he inexplicably slips into an unresponsive state, his family soon discovers that they are being haunted by a malicious entity and are left to fend for themselves against an unimaginable evil.