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Sir David Attenborough presents this 5-episode series about the forces and planetary systems that drive life on Earth including volcanos, the sun, the oceans, the weather and humankind – each of which is covered in its own episode. The research is extensive, the camera footage is quite simply incredible. And the storytelling focuses on how animals survive harsh environments across the planet, from volcanic islands, to alkali lakes, deserts and snowfields. It’s an entertaining, top-notch piece of education that’ll have the whole family wide-eyed in wonder.
Watch from Sunday, 14 February on BBC Earth (DStv 184) at 16:00

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In this 6-episode series, actor and comedian Griff Rhys Jones is venturing around Australia by train, motorbike, dinghy, bungee cord, parachute, small plane, camel, and even his own feet. He’ll go everywhere from Perth to Kalgoorlie, Darwin to Uluru, dodging deadly Aussie wildlife and soaring temperatures along the way, and giving us a crash course in Australian slang and pastimes. Highlights include a visit to the partly underground opal mining town of Coober Pedy, and Griff getting desert survival tips from an Aboriginal elder.
Watch from Friday, 12 February on BBC Earth (DStv 184) at 19:00

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In this 5-episode series, adventurer Ben Fogle is in Africa on a conservation mission with a team of wildlife experts. He’ll be talking to poachers, hunters and conservationists to understand the complex politics and economic forces behind plummeting species population numbers and habitat destruction. Ben will also tackle the pandemic dangers posed by the bushmeat trade, and meeting the people and communities in South Africa, Namibia, Uganda, Kenya and Liberia who’re driving change and education to preserve Africa’s wild places and wildlife.
Watch from Wednesday, 24 February on BBC Earth (DStv 184) at 19:00

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This brand-new series is a reboot of the Chuck Norris action series Walker, Texas Ranger, with Supernatural’s Jared Padalecki in the lead role as grief-stricken widowed Texas Ranger Cordell Walker. Look out for Jared’s real-life wife, Genevieve, as Cordell’s murdered wife, Emily, who’s a ghostly presence as Cordell becomes obsessed with working out how and why she really died. Cordell isn’t a “spinning kick to the face first, first ask questions later” kind of guy this time round, but he still has his own moral compass.
Watch from Tuesday, 2 February on M-Net (DStv 101) at 19:30

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Grey’s is launching with double-bill episodes, and the big news this season is the return of TR Knight as George O’Malley and Patrick Dempsey as Meredith’s love, Derek Shepherd. Their “back from the dead” adventures start in episode 2, when Meredith contracts COVID-19, faints and sees Derek on a beach. Grey’s pulls no punches as it shows the strain on the hospital staff dealing with massive workload and death toll from the pandemic as it hits the staff on a personal level.
Watch from Monday, 22 February on M-Net (DStv 101) at 20:30

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The firefighters come to grips with COVID-19 in a crossover with Grey’s Anatomy S17 (episodes 1 and 2). Sullivan has a new job – getting sober – while he and his wife, Andy, are on a mandatory 90-day break from one another. Andy has enough relationship drama on her plate, as she tries to connect with her presumed-dead mother, who abandoned her 20 years ago. We’ll see more of Grey’s Carina as Station 19 explores her relationship with Maya. And find out why there’s a tiger in the firehouse!
Watch from Monday, 22 February on M-Net (DStv 101) at 19:30

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Fresh from US, FBI’s 3rd season is bringing Maggie back from her undercover work, but she and OA aren’t necessarily going to click back into place as easily as they would have assumed, thanks to Maggie’s romance on the side with her undercover agent lover. The season is also off to a topical start with the agents wearing masks thanks to COVID-19 and investigating a mass shooting perpetrated by a white nationalist organisation. And Scala is getting a new partner from the NYPD.
Watch from Tuesday, 16 February on M-Net (DStv 101) at 20:30

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Series showrunner David Hudgins has indicated that the pandemic will be coming into FBI’s: Most Wanted storylines in intriguing ways – as it would in a world where so many people are wearing masks. This season we can expect to find out more about the team’s personal lives, particularly with some of them having to adjust to children staying at home. And we’ll meet Jess LaCroix’s dad, played by Lost’s Terry O’Quinn, along with a troublesome bounty hunter named Jackie, played by Amy Carlson.
Watch from Wednesday, 17 February on M-Net (DStv 101) at 20:30

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We love a tasty British crime thriller! In this 4-episode series set in Scotland, grieving mom Anna (Kelly Macdonald) is on trial for inciting violence she posts online that a local bus driver is really the man who murdered her child, now living under an assumed identity. The bus driver’s lawyer has his own axe to grind, having been falsely accused of a crime himself. The series digs into what happens when people have had their trial but feel that justice has not been done.
Watch from Thursday, 4 February on M-Net (DStv 101) at 21:30

This crime drama, which lists Jerry Bruckheimer among its producers, spotlights the opioid epidemic in the US. Alcoholic and drug-addicted National Marine Fisheries Service Agent Jackie Quiñones (Monica Raymund) is determined to find the killers of a fellow addict – key informant for drug cop Ray Abruzzo (James Badge Dale) – whose body she finds washed up on the beach. As Jackie investigates the case, she’ll start seeing her friends and neighbours in a new light, as many people in town are involved in the drug trade.
Watch from Thursday, 18 February on M-Net (DStv 101) at 22:30

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Not even the 2020 news cycle could drive comedy news show host John Oliver into screaming insanity. He’s back for more in 2021. He’ll be showing off at the opening of the sewerage treatment plant that’s been named after him, buying rat erotica online, criticising the fashion choices of a new US President, apologising the Adam Driver for his nasty thirst tweets, and taking revenge on 2020 for being a straight-up garbage year. Episodes air express from the US on Tuesdays at 00:30.
Watch from Friday, 26 February on M-Net (DStv 101) at 23:00

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In the sitcom’s 4th and final season, Matt LeBlanc returns as now 50-year-old construction company owner and dad, Adam Burns. Adam buys a boat without consulting his wife, Andi, then sets them up with a fake relationship counsellor who always takes the husband’s side. There’s mother-in-law trouble, the kids are flunking school and wanting to drop out, and even Adam and Andi’s friends seem to want to fly the nest. With their 20th anniversary coming up at the end of the season, Adam and Andi had better sort out their issues.
Watch from Saturday, 20 February on M-Net (DStv 101) at 18:00

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Working single mom Jackie (NCIS star Pauley Perrette) has to take in her estranged socialite sister Elizabeth (Natasha Leggero) and her rich-boy husband, Javier (Jane The Virgin’s Jaime Camil), after Javier’s father cuts him off financially in this family sitcom. Javier and Elizabeth need to prove that they can get jobs and live responsibly before Daddy will open his pockets again, and in Jackie, they might have the perfect guide for doing just that… or Javier could pay attention to how hard his assistant, Luis (Izzy Diaz), works.
Watch from Saturday, 6 February on M-Net (DStv 101) at 18:30

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Ex-Special Ops soldier Pete Koslow (Joel Kinnaman) is forced to become an informant for the FBI, first within a crime ring run by The General (Eugene Lipinski), then inside a prison drug-smuggling ring.
Watch on Sunday, 7 February on M-Net (DStv 101) at 20:30

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This adaptation of Louisa May Alcott’s classic novel, Little Women, stars Saoirse Ronan as tomboy writer Jo, Emma Watson as her dignified big sister, Meg, and Timothée Chalamet as their neighbour, Laurie.
Watch on Sunday, 14 February on M-Net (DStv 101) at 20:00

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This movie about the Battle of Kamdesh, starring Scott Eastwood and Orlando Bloom, is based on CNN correspondent Jake Tapper’s 2012 book, The Outpost: An Untold Story of American Valor.
Watch on Sunday, 21 February on M-Net (DStv 101) at 20:00

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In this action flick starring Denise Richards and Thomas Jane, a would-be art thief and his crew sneak aboard a plane full of high-flying gamblers to rip them off.
Watch on Sunday, 28 February on M-Net (DStv 101) at 22:00

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A determinedly child-free bachelor searches through his hook-ups from years past to find the mother of a 13-year-old boy who’s rocked up on his doorstep claiming to be his son.
Watch on Sunday, 7 February on M-Net Movies 1 (DStv 104) at 20:00

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A man taking part in an illegal car race from Mexico to California becomes the reluctant courier for a gangster’s girlfriend who’s on the run. From the folks that made Sharknado.
Watch on Saturday, 6 February on M-Net Movies 2 (DStv 106) at 20:00

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A company brings unsuspecting guests to an island where they can live out one lifelong fantasy… to its full, most horrifying consequences. With Maggie Q and Lucy Hale.
Watch on Sunday, 28 February on M-Net Movies 2 (DStv 106) at 20:00

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