The Penguin
Channel: M-Net (DStv 101)
TX Time: 03h01 (live, tomorrow morning)
Genre: Superhero, Drama, Fantasy, Miniseries
Starring Colin Farrell as Oz Cobb (aka "The Penguin"), the DC Studios series continues The Batman epic crime saga that began with the film The Batman.
Developed by showrunner Lauren LeFranc, the series centres on the character played by Farrell in the film.
The eight-episode series delves deep into the master manipulator's character and explores his transformation from a low-level criminal into one of Gotham's most feared crime lords.
The show is simulcast with HBO in the US tomorrow morning (Friday) at 03h01, with repeats in primetime on Mondays at 21h00.
Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story
Channel: Netflix South Africa
TX Time: 10h00 (all episodes)
Genre: Drama, Period Drama, True Crime, Anthology
This true crime drama probes the lives of the Menendez brothers, convicted of the brutal 1989 murders of their parents in Beverly Hills.
Ryan Murphy and Ian Brennan's true crime anthology series, which began with Dahmer, returns with Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story, chronicling the case of the real-life brothers who were convicted in 1996 for the murders of their parents, José and Mary Louise "Kitty" Menendez.
While the prosecution argued they were seeking to inherit their family fortune, the brothers claimed - and remain adamant to this day, as they serve life sentences without the possibility of parole - that their actions stemmed out of fear from a lifetime of physical, emotional and sexual abuse at the hands of their parents.
The series explores the complex dynamics within the Menendez family, and whether the brothers were troubled individuals acting out of fear and desperation due to years of abuse, or calculating killers driven by financial gain and greed.
Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story dives into the historic case that took the world by storm, paved the way for audiences' modern-day fascination with true crime, and in return asks those audiences: Who are the real monsters?
The series stars Javier Bardem, Chloë Sevigny, Nicholas Alexander Chavez and Cooper Koch.
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Official trailers: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story
Agatha All Along
Channel: Disney+
TX Time: 00h01
Genre: Superhero, Fantasy, Comedy
Marvel live-action series which focuses on Kathryn Hahn's character, Agatha Harkness, from the series WandaVision, as she sets off on a dangerous, mysterious adventure filled with trials and tribulations.
The infamous Agatha finds herself down and out of power after a suspicious goth Teen helps break her free from a distorted spell.
Her interest is piqued when he begs her to take him on the legendary Witches' Road, a magical gauntlet of trials that, if survived, rewards a witch with what they're missing.
Together, Agatha and this mysterious Teen pull together a desperate coven, and set off down, down, down The Road...
Killing Richard Glossip
Channel: Real Time (DStv 155)
TX Time: 21h40
Genre: True Crime, Documentary Series
For almost 20 years, two men convicted of murder - one on death row, and the other sentenced to life without parole - maintain two very different accounts of what led to the slaying of Barry Van Treese on 7 January, 1997, at the Best Budget Inn in Oklahoma City.
Richard Glossip, a man with no prior felony convictions, has consistently maintained his innocence, insisting that he had no knowledge that anyone planned to kill Van Treese.
Justin Sneed, who admitted to killing the victim and whose fingerprints were found in the room, cut a deal for a life sentence instead of risking the death penalty by telling the police that Glossip hired him to do it.
Now, with cameras following Glossip's case during what could be the final days of his life, Killing Richard Glossip tells this haunting story - that of a former motel manager sentenced to die for orchestrating a murder that he swears he had nothing to do with.
Is the state of Oklahoma about to execute an innocent man?
That chilling question is at the heart of this real-time documentary series, created and directed by filmmaker Joe Berlinger, who has dedicated his career to exposing abuses in the criminal justice system.
Berlinger's Academy Award- nominated and Emmy-winning Paradise Lost trilogy of documentaries famously helped lead to the release of one man from death row and two others from life in prison.
Every second counts as Glossip sits on death row awaiting execution, and now Berlinger's cameras are there with exclusive access to capture each moment as the clock ticks down.
With support growing worldwide for Glossip, the docuseries also features interviews with high-profile supporters, including actress Susan Sarandon, billionaire entrepreneur and social activist Richard Branson, and anti-death penalty activist and author Sister Helen Prejean (Dead Man Walking) who, at the eleventh hour, pursued attorneys Don Knight and Mark Olive, convincing them to devote their time to the Glossip case pro-bono.
Van Treese's body was found beaten and bloody on the floor of a room of the Oklahoma City motel that he owned, and that was managed by Glossip.
But there are no DNA nor fingerprints from Glossip at the crime scene that tie him to his boss' murder.
Instead, Glossip's death sentence is based primarily on the testimony of Justin Sneed, the motel maintenance man who was convicted of Van Treese's murder and sentenced to life without parole.
While Sneed admitted to killing Van Treese, he claims he did so under pressure from Glossip and for promise of payment.
Before his two trials, the state of Oklahoma offered Glossip plea deals that would save his life, each of which he rejected, insisting upon his innocence.
Today, Glossip spends 23 hours a day, as he has for the past 20 years, fighting for his life from a tiny underground cell on death row, while Sneed is serving a life sentence at a medium security prison in Oklahoma.
In 2015, Glossip was served his last meal on three separate occasions, only for Sister Helen Prejean, the United States Supreme Court, the work of his attorneys, and fate to intervene in each instance, staving off execution.
During the state's third attempt at killing Richard Glossip, Glossip paced back and forth in a cold cell wearing nothing but boxer shorts for 45 minutes after the time for his scheduled execution, only for the execution to be halted due to a lack of approved execution drugs.
The state's investigation into this botched execution attempt led to a moratorium on executions in Oklahoma.
As Glossip continues to skirt the edge of execution, Berlinger's cameras are embedded with his legal team in real-time as the team races against the clock to uncover new evidence that proves his innocence.
The series features unprecedented access to the unfolding re-investigation of Glossip's case, including exclusive interviews with Glossip and Sneed, as well as the first-ever interviews with the lead detectives and attorneys on both sides of the case.
Killing Richard Glossip traces Glossip's terrifying journey through the criminal justice system, his harrowing brushes with death, and what may be his last chance at freedom for a crime he swears he did not commit.
Twilight of the Gods
Channel: Netflix South Africa
TX Time: 10h00 (all episodes)
Genre: Animation, Fantasy
Zack Snyder unleashes a bold and bloody vision of Norse mythology in this adult animated series about a warrior with an axe to grind against the gods.
In a mythical world of great battles, great deeds and great despair, Leif, a mortal King, is saved on the battlefield by Sigrid, an iron-willed warrior with whom he falls in love.
On their wedding night, Sigrid and Leif survive a wrath of terror from Thor, which sets them - and a crew of crusaders - on an against all odds and merciless mission for vengeance.
This heroic story of love, loss and revenge, is a journey to Hell and beyond... across fantastical lands, battlefields fierce and bloody, and wars waged against Gods and demons.
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