February TV to love with DStv Compact Plus

Looking for ideas to woo your loved one? Try the animal kingdom for inspiration. Or possibly, don’t. Looking at the animal world from the perspective of dating, some animals are into their one-night stands, while others go on one date, then move in together for good. And sometimes the only way you’re getting anywhere is by pulling some epic dance moves.
Watch on Wednesday, 10 February on Curiosity Channel (DStv 185) at 20:00

Wildlife filmmakers around the world take us on insider tours of their home countries to introduce us to seldom-seen plants and wildlife. See places as you’ve never seen them before, including Southern California, New York City, Patagonia, Mexico’s desert and the South Africa’s bushveld, where Karen Odendaal gives us a tour of the Manyoni Private Game Reserve in Zululand.
Watch on Wednesday, 3 February on Curiosity Channel (DStv 185) at 19:00

The polar bear is a symbol of wilderness survival in one of the world’s harshest environments. This documentary special about the bears’ seasonal lives on the ice reveals all the special adaptations that allow them to not just survive, but to be the top predator in the Arctic Circle. It also explores why the bear has become a symbol of devastating climate change.
Watch on Wednesday, 3 February on Curiosity Channel (DStv 185) at 20:00

Mangroves are one of the most important habitats on Earth, and they’re essential to species from shorebirds to sharks, monkeys to manatees that depend on mangroves for their survival. But even if you aren’t hanging out between the saltwater and the shore, Mangroves are hard at work protecting cities from tsunamis, preventing erosion, building up land, and improving water quality.
Watch on Wednesday, 24 February on Curiosity Channel (DStv 185) at 20:00

Find out how island environments shape the wildlife that lives there into some unusual forms that allow them to exploit every niche. In Zanzibar’s archipelagos, the world’s largest crab climbs trees to hunt coconuts, while clouds of giant bats take wings, and giant leatherback turtles visit Trinidad’s beaches to lay their eggs by night. From volcanic Dominica to the Galapagos, it’s an extravaganza of adaptation.
Watch on Saturday, 6 February on Curiosity Channel (DStv 185) at 19:00

This bird’s eye view of a variety of landscapes and environments, shot from aircraft and drones, allows us to see how plants, animals, weather and landscapes interconnect, as well as how and why a change to one will affect the others. It’s also a beautiful and seldom-experienced way of looking at the world around us at a completely different scale.
Watch on Wednesday,17 February on Curiosity Channel (DStv 185) at 20:00

Using new information gathered from 2 NASA comet missions, this documentary weighs up some of the theories surrounding comets’ earthly encounters. Could carbon elements that led to life on Earth have come from a comet? Also watch How Life Began on Tuesday, 2 February on History (DStv 186) at 20:15 and Megaquake on Tuesday, 23 February on History (DStv 186) at 20:15.
Watch on Tuesday, 16 February on History (DStv 186) at 20:15

To stand out in history, these famous women leaders, politicians and activists had to truly swim against the tide. This documentary series looks at how we see them now, and how their behaviour was viewed in their time, from Egyptian Queen and wily diplomat Cleopatra, to visionary peasant military leader Jeanne d'Arc, all the way through to anti-Nazi activist Sophie Scholl.
Watch from Tuesday, 16 February on Curiosity Channel (DStv 185) at 20:00

The producers of The Curse of Oak Island and The UnXplained With William Shatner have brought in real-life treasure hunters Rick and Marty Lagina to host this 8-episode series about some of the world’s greatest treasure hunts. The series includes interviews with fortune seekers and historians, and takes us to active digging sites. From Aztec gold, to sunken ships, all that glitters is great viewing.
Watch from Friday, 26 February on History (DStv 186) at 21:05

When ships sink in just the right conditions, they become time capsules – a window back into how people in the past lived everyday working lives. In this series, the Cinémarine team take us down to explore 6 incredible wrecks everywhere from Indian Ocean atolls, to the St. Lawrence River. It will also showcase tales from crew members and passengers who survived the wrecks.
Watch from Thursday, 11 February on History (DStv 186) at 20:15

CIA veteran and conspiracy theorist Bob Baer has previously set out to show that Hitler escaped at the end of WWII to live in South America. Now he explores the Nazis’ goal in doing that: to launch an attack on the United States. In this 2-hour documentary special, Bob will build his case for how the 4th Reich planned to infiltrate the US after the end of WWII.
Watch on Sunday, 21 February on History (DStv 186) at 20:15

New technology like CRISPR (clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats) allows us to make changes on a genetic level. Dr. Eric Olson is hoping to edit out the gene causing Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy. Dr. John Zhang is combining genes to give babies three biological parents. Dr. Pablo Ross wants to grow human organs for transplant within pigs’ bodies. And biohackers are using gene-editing kits on their own bodies.
Watch on Monday, 1 February on Curiosity Channel (DStv 185) at 21:00

Genuine nice guy Dave Johnson (Max Greenfield) and his family move into a predominantly black California neighbourhood, setting their next-door neighbour Calvin Butler (Cedric The Entertainer) fretting about the start of gentrification, which Dave could be bearing like a plague rat. But Calvin’s crustiness comes under constant assault from Dave’s relentless niceness, and the wives and kids are soon getting along, too.
Watch from Monday, 8 February on Comedy Central (DStv 122) at 21:00

Comedian Adam DeVine (Bumper from the Pitch Perfect movies) is throwing a house party (S1 was filmed in 2013 in his Los Angeles mansion, and he has invited 3 different fellow comedians to join him in each episode. As well as playing out sitcom-style scenes (like bringing a friend’s ex-girlfriend to his party), his pals will perform stand-up comedy sets.
Watch from Saturday, 6 February on Comedy Central (DStv 122) at 22:30

Jeff and his rotating panel of guest comedians are joining up to “roast” hot topics of the day (that day being some time in 2012 for S1). They’re giving their general hot takes on subjects ranging from Oscar Pistorius, to a women-only city in Saudi Arabia, before taking aim at public enemies like club bouncers, meter maids, flea market vendors and the paparazzi.
Watch from Saturday, 6 February on Comedy Central (DStv 122) at 23:30