Sugar
Channel: Apple TV+
TX Time: 00h01
Genre: Drama
Sugar is a contemporary take on one of the most popular and significant genres in literary, motion picture and television history: the private detective story.
Colin Farrell stars as John Sugar, an American private investigator on the heels of the mysterious disappearance of Olivia Siegel, the beloved granddaughter of legendary Hollywood producer Jonathan Siegel.
As Sugar tries to determine what happened to Olivia, he will also unearth Siegel family secrets; some very recent, others long-buried.
Spasie 3
Channel: kykNET (DStv 144)
TX Time: 18h30
Genre: Lifestyle, Reality, Afrikaans
This lifestyle programme focuses on the transformation of small spaces into stunning homes.
It shows how small spaces can be utilised optimally and how people who downscaled adjusted their way of living to live with less.
A lot of people embraced the tiny-home trend in South Africa, and the show went looking for them.
Each episode consists of three parts: First, it shows somebody who made the change then visits a cleverly-designed space, as well as companies that manufacture micro homes.
In the third section of the show, we follow somebody who is in the process of creating a small space.
The purpose of the programme is to show that there is an alternative, showing you can downsize without giving up on your quality of life.
Spasie is all about the philosophy of living lighter with less. The series provides you with practical information about the what and how.
The inspiration for the show came from a family who started living in a bus with their four children during lockdown.
In the Season 3 premiere: Henk and Surita exchanged a four-bedroom house for a bus.
In Muldersdrift we find inspiration in a tree house and we start following Anton's straw bale building project.
So Help Me Todd 2
Channel: M-Net (DStv 101)
TX Time: 21h00
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.
In the Season 2 premiere, "Iceland Was Horrible": Margaret and Todd tackle a case involving a murder on live local morning news and must rethink their working relationship after Todd decides to open his own PI business.