Cook Clever, Waste Less with Prue and Rupy
Channel: S3
TX Time: 18h00
Genre: Food
Culinary legend and 'queen of leftovers' Prue Leith teams up with food expert Rupy Aujla to help British families tackle food waste and save money.
Every year in the UK people throw almost 14-billion pounds worth of food in the bin – it's bad for the planet and disastrous for our wallets.
But with creative meal-planning, genius food hacks and mouth-watering recipes – Prue and Rupy are going to teach families to Cook Clever and Waste Less.
In the series premiere: This week fraught parents David & Nadya from Bristol are at their wits end.
Like many people in the UK their sons have food allergies and trying to cater to them is making mealtimes stressful, adding a hefty amount to the weekly shopping bill, and creating a lot of food waste.
Prue and Rupy have designed a cunning time and money saving food plan that's gluten and dairy free.
Recipes include an edible burrito bowl, a rich parsnip cake and a delicious smoothie that uses up banana skins.
In the second episode of the weekly double bill: This week we're in West Yorkshire where busy single mum Danielle wants to cook healthy vegan meals for her two girls, but all too often resorts to takeaways and frozen food.
Their food waste is out of control, not helped by her slavish devotion to best before dates.
Prue and Rupy's delicious vegan meal plan gets her batch-cooking simple tasty meals with no need for takeaways.
Recipes include a takeaway inspired BBQ corn ribs with homemade baked beans and slaw, a delicious spring Panzanella salad that uses up one of the UK's most wasted foods and a novel way to transform flat fizzy pop.
Love & Translation
Channel: TLC Entertainment (DStv 135)
TX Time: 20h00
Genre: Dating Game Show, Reality
In a tropical paradise, American men embark on an epic adventure to find "the one" in a group of women from all over the world.
The twist: none of the women speak or understand English, and the men do not speak their languages.
In this relationship series, three American bachelors travel to paradise where they will be joined by 12 women from nine different countries, who don't speak any English.
Without a shared language or the use of a translator, this series explores how singles looking for love come together in the attempt to find a connection.
In spending time together and focusing on getting to know one another, Love & Translation will showcase raw, genuine moments in a unique dating environment.
With challenges that include utilising the five senses such as uninterrupted eye gazing and pheromone attraction tests, as well as adrenaline-pumping group date activities, these singles will try to learn about each other without the gift of language.
And if the singles aren't feeling that loving feeling with anyone, they can pack up their bags and look for love elsewhere.
Love & Translation aims to find out what it takes to make a love connection when language is too foreign.
Into the Dragon's Lair
Channel: Curiosity Channel (DStv 185)
TX Time: 21h00
Genre: Wildlife, Documentary
Photographers Didier and Roger risk their lives to film inside a crocodile's lair in the Okavango Delta.
No man has ever entered a lair and survived; will they be the exception?
Didier Noirot dove with Jacques Cousteau over 5,000 times. Often, they were joined by South African photographer Roger Horrocks – notorious for his daring shark photography.
This documentary chronicles their dive with the giant Nile crocodile.
The New Look
Channel: Apple TV+
TX Time: 00h01
Genre: Biopic, Drama, Period Drama
This series reveals the shocking story of how fashion icon Christian Dior and his contemporaries, including Coco Chanel, Pierre Balmain and Cristóbal Balenciaga, navigated the horrors of World War II and launched modern fashion.
Set against the World War II Nazi occupation of Paris, The New Look focuses on the pivotal moment in the 20th century when the French city led the world back to life through its fashion icon Christian Dior.
As Dior rises to prominence with his groundbreaking, iconic imprint of beauty and influence, Chanel's reign as the world's most famous fashion designer is put into jeopardy.
The interwoven saga follows the surprising stories of Dior's contemporaries and rivals from Chanel to Pierre Balmain, Cristóbal Balenciaga and more; and, provides a stunning view into the atelier, designs and clothing created by Christian Dior through collaboration with the House of Dior.
Real Time Crime 2
Channel: Investigation Discovery (DStv 171 / StarSat 223)
TX Time: 21h00
Genre: True Crime, Documentary Series
Police and communities have a new weapon in the fight against crime.
Across America, Real Time Crime Centres use surveillance cameras, tracking systems and gunshot detectors to solve crimes and bring criminals to justice.
Every episode features two high-octane stories with life and death stakes.
Filmed across nine states, with exclusive access to nerve centres from New York to New Orleans, each story includes incredible CCTV footage along with interviews with the major protagonists - police solving the crimes, witnesses and the families of the victims.
In the Season 2 premiere, "Warpath": In Albany, New York, a camera catches a murder, and a Real Time Crime centre helps bring the killer to justice.
And in Ft. Worth, Texas, police use surveillance cameras to track down a gunman and stop a one-man crime wave.
Married to Real Estate 3
Channel: HGTV (DStv 177)
TX Time: 21h00
Genre: Reality Makeover, Home Improvement, Reality
Egypt Sherrod and Mike Jackson help more Atlanta families buy houses with potential and transform them into breathtaking dream homes.
Egypt, a real estate broker and designer; and her husband Mike, an expert builder; will continue to inspire fans and keep it fun while they run successful property businesses, manage a home and raise three daughters.
Egypt, who previously starred in Property Virgins and Flipping Virgins, will apply her extensive real estate and financial knowledge to find clients affordable options in their ideal neighbourhoods that can be reimagined with her custom design plans.
Mike and his team will then maximize the budget and troubleshoot any construction issue to deliver stunning renovations that increase the homes' value and return on investment.
In the Season 3 premiere, "Home Sweet Om": Egypt and Mike scout houses in Roswell for a couple who have an office, playroom and yoga studio space at the top of their list.
The dynamic duo will infuse the clients' newly renovated home with a natural, minimalist style in every room, including a kitchen that features sleek flat-panel cabinets and fluted wood accents on the large island.
Also this season, Egypt and Mike will share memorable family experiences as their pre-teen Kendall takes up the viola while younger daughter Harper learns to ride a bike, and they'll renovate a new office for their booming businesses.
Love is Blind 6
Channel: Netflix South Africa
TX Time: 10h00 (weekly batches)
Genre: Dating Game Show, Reality
Singles who want to be loved for who they are have signed up for a less-conventional approach to modern dating in Seattle, and will choose someone to marry without ever meeting them.
Over several weeks, the newly engaged couples will move in together, plan their wedding and find out if their physical connection matches their strong emotional bond developed in the Pods.
When their wedding day arrives, will real-world realities and external factors push them apart, or will they marry the person they fell blindly in love with?
Hosted by Nick and Vanessa Lachey, this season will uncover whether looks, race or age do matter, or if love really is blind.
The series is back for a sixth season, following a new set of singles from Charlotte, North Carolina — all ready to cut through the static of modern dating and forge authentic relationships, sight unseen.
This season, the singles form deep and immediate connections, setting the stage for an unexpected journey full of twists, turns, and shocking revelations that will test each relationship well after the participants leave the Pods for the real world.
Defenders of the Wild
Channel: Curiosity Channel (DStv 185)
TX Time: 20h00
Genre: Wildlife, Nature, Documentary Series
Conservationist Ivan Carter seeks solutions to create a balanced wildlife ecosystem.
Experts join Carter to spotlight the conservation efforts happening worldwide.
In the series premiere, "Elephants: Land of Tusks": Ivan and his team participate hands-on in an ambitious project to translocate 100 elephants from areas facing degradation due to overpopulation to repopulate some of Africa's most depleted national parks.
In the second episode of the weekly double bill, "The Once and Future Kings": Dr. Dave Gaynor conducts a natural experiment and introduces lions and cheetahs into the Zambeze Delta to look at the role apex predators play in the ecosystem, and how prey adapts in terms of behaviour and numbers.