WEEK ONE: 1-7 SEPTEMBER
MURDER IN A SMALL TOWN S1
Universal TV (DStv Channel 117) | 8PM on Tuesdays from 2 September
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Karl Alberg moves to the idyllic coastal town of Gibsons to become the new police chief and soothe a psyche that has been battered by big-city police work. Unfortunately, the gentle paradise has more than its fair share of secrets and murders continue to wash up on his shore.
Rossif Sutherland (yes, he’s Donald’s son) stars as Karl. As local librarian Cassandra, Kristin Kreuk (Smallville) won Best Lead Performance at the 2025 Leo Awards, where co-stars Myla Lowe and Dakota Guppy were also nominated. Murder In A Small Town also won Editing and Stunts prizes at the Canadian awards.
Also starring Oscar winner Marcia Gay Harden (Mystic River) and Oscar nominee James Cromwell (Succession), Murder In A Small Town is based on the Edgar Award-winning crime novels by L.R. Wright.
Variety says the series “combines mystery and romance for a perfectly enjoyable experience… an all-inclusive crowd-pleaser.”
Watch the trailer:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?
NADIA BEYOND BRAGGA S2
BET Africa (DStv Channel 129) | 7PM on Saturdays from 6 September
Nadia Beyond Bragga is a reality show about award-winning rapper Nadia Nakai, offering fans an intimate glimpse into her life beyond the spotlight.
Nadia is currently up for Social Media Star of the Year at the 2025 South African Social Media Awards, competing against Anele Zondo, Black Coffee, Lasiswe, and Tyla.
Watch the S2 trailer:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?
TOTSIENS, SELINA
kykNET (DStv Channel 144) | 8:30pm on Saturday, 6 September
Selina’s comforting presence in the Swanepoel household has been taken for granted for years. She is much more than just a domestic helper – she is like family. When she mysteriously falls ill, the Swanepoels are faced with unfamiliar emotions. A visit to Selina in her own home confronts the Swanepoels with a world they do not know.
At the kykNET Silwerskerm Film and TV Festival, Lourensa Eckard won Best Presenter for In Gesprek, as well as Best Short Film and Best Editing (Regardt Visser) for Totsiens, Selina in the Established Filmmaker category.
Watch the trailer:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?
ANIMALS ON DRUGS S1
Discovery Channel (DStv Channel 121) | 9PM on Saturdays from 6 September
Wildlife biologist Forrest Galante investigates meth-exposed alligators in Florida, bears raiding homes for alcohol, and Pablo Escobar’s cocaine-connected hippos in Colombia. Watch some of the wildest wildlife moments here.
LEVELS S1
Mzansi Magic (DStv Channel 161) | 8PM on Sundays from 7 September
When a syndicate steals a billion rand off a passenger plane at a private airport, senior crime intelligence agent Bongi Nkosi is appointed to investigate the heist. Already distracted by the loss of her husband and a teenage son who hates her, her life gets even more complicated when an over-zealous young agent is assigned to be her boss on the case and second guesses her every move.
SAFTA nominee Lunathi Mpofu (Inimba, 1802: Love Defies Time) and SAFTA winner Bonko Khoza (Ithonga, The Wife) co-star as the two detectives. Also look out for SAFTA winners Melusi Mbhele (Shaka Ilembe, Isibaya) and Charmaine Mtinta (Yizo Yizo, How To Ruin Christmas) and rising stars like Luyanda Zuma (Shaka iLembe, Sibongile & The Dlaminis), Sikelelwa Vuyelani (1802: Love Defies Time, Adulting), Unathi Mkhize (Ithonga, The River), and Joseph Sedibo (Empini, 016FM).
Taking over Shaka iLembe’s Sunday night primetime slot, Levels is from SAFTA-winning writer Busisiwe Ntintili (The Wife, Happiness Is A Four-Letter Word), who is producing through The Ntintili Factory.
Watch the trailer:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?
CONCLAVE
M-Net (DStv Channel 101) | 8:05PM on Sunday night, 7 September
The pope is dead. The throne is vacant.
When Cardinal Lawrence is tasked with leading one of the world’s most secretive and ancient events – selecting a new Pope – he finds himself at the centre of a web of conspiracies and intrigue that could shake the very foundation of the Catholic Church.
Conclave won Best Adapted Screenplay at the 2025 Oscars, where it was up for eight Academy Awards, including Motion Picture of the Year. The film also won over 80 more awards internationally, including the Rotten Tomatoes’ Golden Tomato for the best-reviewed Mystery & Thriller Movie of 2024 and this year’s awards for Best Film at the BAFTAs, Best Acting Ensemble at the Critics Choice Awards, and Best Leading Actor from the Screen Actors Guild Awards for Ralph Fiennes as Cardinal Lawrence.
Directed by Edward Berger (All Quiet on the Western Front), Conclave also stars Oscar nominees Stanley Tucci, John Lithgow, and Isabella Rossellini, as well as BAFTA nominee Lucian Msamati (Gangs of London).
Watch the trailer, which has over 25m views:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?
WEEK TWO: 8-14 SEPTEMBER
ELECTRIC BLOOM S1
Disney Channel SA (DStv Channel 303) | 5PM on Monday-Thursdays from 8 September
The three members of mega-famous pop group Electric Bloom look back and tell the story of their band and friendship, starting with the day they all met in high school.
Watch the trailer, which has nearly 7m views:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?
MICKEY MOUSE CLUBHOUSE+ S1
Disney Junior (DStv Channel 309) | 8:30AM weekdays from 8 September
Mickey and his pals welcome everyone to the Clubhouse for all-new, plussed-up adventures filled with songs, laughs, handy helping, and fun new surprises.
Watch the trailer, which has over 4m views:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?
SEPTEMBER 5
M-Net Movies 1 (DStv Channel 104) | 8PM on Friday, 12 September
Nominated for Best Original Screenplay at this year’s Oscars and Critics Choice Awards, and for Best Motion Picture – Drama at the Golden Globes, September 5 is set during the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, Germany, where an American sports broadcasting team must adapt to live coverage of the Israeli athletes being held hostage by a terrorist group.
Based on real events, September 5 unveils the decisive moment that forever changed media coverage and continues to impact live news today.
John Magaro (Past Lives) stars alongside Emmy nominee Peter Sarsgaard (Dopesick), Berlin International Film Festival Shooting Star Leonie Benesch and Ben Chaplin (The Thin Red Line).
The film has a 92% critics’ rating on Rotten Tomatoes, where the critics’ consensus says, “Capturing the compromises, dedication, and human fallibility of the newsroom, September 5 is a worthy chronicle of a tragic flashpoint in broadcast media history.”
Watch the trailer, which has over a million views:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?
MOUNTAINHEAD
M-Net (DStv Channel 101) | 9PM on Friday, 12 September
Four friends. $371 billion net worth. One international crisis. Zero responsibility.
Nominated for the 2025 Emmy for Outstanding TV Movie, Mountainhead is the feature film directorial debut of seven-time Emmy winner and Oscar nominee Jesse Armstrong, creator of Succession.
The all-star cast of billionaire tech bros includes Emmy nominees Steve Carell and Ramy Youssef, Critics Choice nominee Cory Michael Smith and multi-award winner Jason Schwartzman.
Watch the trailer:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?
A KILLER AMONG FRIENDS
ID (DStv Channel 171) | 9PM on Fridays from 12 September
From executive producer Jennifer Love Hewitt, this documentary series explores how murder tears friend groups apart, returning them to the scene of the crime to confront past betrayals and unearth long-buried secrets.
Watch the trailer:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?
MIN OF MEER
kykNET (DStv Channel 144) | 8:30pm on Saturday, 13 September
Jana wants to be a mermaid, and her husband, Jakob, does everything in his power to make that fantasy a reality. But her first professional appearance as a mermaid turns into a disaster, and in the process, heartbreaking secrets come to the surface…
SAFTA-winning actress Cindy Swanepoel (Koek, Binnelanders) transitions seamlessly into the director’s chair in Min of Meer, which won her the Best Short Film and Directing prizes in the Rising Filmmaker category at the kykNET Silwerskerm Film and TV Festival in August, as well as Best Script (Anél Wood) and Best Actress (Liezl de Kock as Jana).
Watch the trailer:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?
1000-LB ROOMIES S1
TLC (DStv Channel 125) | 8PM on Saturdays from 13 September
Larger-than-life roommates Nesha and Jaz tackle life, love and losing weight as they bond over food and their shared love of Jaz’s daughter, Nana.
Watch the trailer:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?
CELEBRITY RACE ACROSS THE WORLD S2
BBC Earth (DStv Channel 184) | 7PM on Sundays from 14 September
Four celebrities and their loved ones race across the world, from the Amazon to the Andes. No phones, flights or bank cards allowed. And definitely no VIP treatment!
The four new famous faces embarking on an epic 12,500 km race of a lifetime are broadcaster Jeff Brazier and his son, Freddy; actor Kola Bokinni and his cousin, Mary Ellen; broadcaster Kelly Brook and her husband, Jeremy; and Radio 2 host Scott Mills and his husband (then fiancé), Sam. Tested to the extremes, they’ll need to rely on their ingenuity as well as the kindness of strangers.
The wildly popular first season won the 2024 BAFTA for Factual Entertainment.
Watch the S2 trailer:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?
DEN OF THIEVES: PANTERA
M-Net (DStv Channel 101) | 8:05PM on Sunday, 14 September on M-Net
Gerard Butler and O’Shea Jackson Jr. return in the #1 box office hit sequel Den of Thieves: Pantera, with Big Nick and Donnie teaming up to rob the world’s largest diamond exchange.
Watch the trailer, which has over 13m views:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?
WEEK THREE: 15-21 SEPTEMBER
THE EMMY AWARDS
M-Net (DStv Channel 101) | 2AM and 9PM on Monday, 15 September
Will The Penguin waddle off with all the prizes? Will Hacks win Best Comedy for the second year in a row? Wake up early to avoid spoilers and be the first to know.
TOP GUNS: THE NEXT GENERATION S1
National Geographic (DStv Channel 181) | 8:30PM on Wednesdays from 17 September
It’s the ultimate test of precision, pressure and perseverance.
Top Guns: The Next Generation follows a class of Navy and Marine Corps student pilots as they enter the final—and most unforgiving—phase of elite strike fighter training.
From live bombing drills to close-range dogfights and nail-biting carrier approaches, each episode captures the intense demands of a program that challenges abilities, endurance and resolve at every turn.
Watch the trailer:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?
HACKS S4
M-Net (DStv Channel 101) | 10PM on Wednesdays from 17 September
The reigning Best Comedy Series at the Emmys, Golden Globes and Critics Choice Awards, Hacks is back for a fourth season, with Deborah and Ava working to get their late-night show off the ground and make history doing it.
As legendary comedian Deborah Vance, Jean Smart has won the Best Actress Emmy every season, while Hannah Einbinder won Best Supporting Actress at this year’s Critics Choice Awards.
With nine Emmys to its name already, Hacks is up for another 14 for Season 4, including Outstanding Comedy Series, Lead Actress (Smart), Supporting Actress (Einbinder), Guest Actress (Julianne Nicholson, Robby Hoffman), Directing and Writing.
Season 4 has a 98% critics rating on Rotten Tomatoes, with The Guardian saying, “Season 4 of Hacks is very funny. But what makes it really special is just how raw it is, too, ready to hit you in the feels when you least expect it.”
Watch the trailer:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?
ALLEGIANCE S2
M-Net (DStv Channel 101) | 7PM on Wednesdays from 17 September
The award-winning Canadian police procedural continues the story of star rookie police officer Sabrina Sohal (Supinder Wraich) as she grapples with the limits of the justice system..
Watch the trailer:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?
AND JUST LIKE THAT S3
M-Net (DStv Channel 101) | 9PM on Thursdays from 18 September
The third and final season of And Just Like That… continues the story of our favourite New Yorkers from Sex and the City, glam besties Carrie, Miranda and Charlotte, as they navigate the complex reality of life as 50-somethings. Emmy winners Sarah Jessica Parker, Cynthia Nixon and Kristin Davis co-star and exec produce.
Watch the trailer:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?
ZOMBIES 4: DAWN OF THE VAMPIRES
Disney Channel SA (DStv Channel 303) | 5PM on Friday, 19 September
On a summer road trip after their first year of college, Zed and Addison discover the warring worlds of Sunnyside and Shadyside, encountering two new groups of monsters.
In the first three Zombies movies, Zed and Addison brought human and monsterkind together in their hometown of Seabrook.
Now a new adventure dawns for the duo when their summer road trip takes an unexpected detour, landing them in the middle of yet another monster rivalry: Daywalkers vs. Vampires.
Tensions flare when Zed and Addison find themselves acting as camp counselors between the two opposing supernatural factions. With the help of Eliza and Willa, they must convince sworn enemies Nova and Victor to try to unite their warring worlds before an even greater threat endangers them all.
When the first Zombies premiered on Disney Channel in 2018, it ranked at #1 among kids 6-11 and tweens 9-14, spawning a global franchise that now includes animated series, chart-topping soundtracks and four feature films.
Watch the trailer, which has over 12m views:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?
HIER
kykNET (DStv Channel 144) | 8:30pm on Saturday, 20 September
At the kykNET Silwerskerm Film & TV Awards in August 2025, David Viviers won Best Actor and Chris Lotz won Best Cinematography for this genre-bending short film which whips up romance, science fiction, action and drama into something decidedly ominous. 2025 Silwerskerm nominee Anja Taljaard (Khaki Fever, Juffrou X) co-stars.
Watch the trailer:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?
HAPPY’S PLACE S1
M-Net (DStv Channel 101) | 6PM on Saturdays from 20 September
Three-time Grammy winner Reba McEntire was nominated for a 2025 Kids Choice award in this heartfelt new sitcom as Bobbie, a tough but lovable woman who inherits her late father’s Tennessee tavern – only to discover that her new co-owner is also the half-sister she never knew she had! They couldn’t be more different, but they’ll navigate this new life together… because at Happy’s Place, everyone is family.
Watch the trailer:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?
JOU MASE TAAL
kykNET (DStv Channel 144) | 8PM on Sundays from 21 September
Fresh from its premiere at Silwerskerm, Jou MASE taal explores the complex relationship that coloured and black Afrikaans speakers have with the language.
Produced by multi-award-winners IdeaCandy and directed by Stephanie Pekeur, this documentary series delves into how these speakers engage with Afrikaans, how it makes them feel, and the extent to which they embrace or reject it.
The varied list of contributors includes Allan Boesak; media personality Rozanne McKenzie; musicians Deon Daniels (“DJ Ready D”), Janine “Blaq-Pearl” Overmeyer, Moenier “Monox” Adams, and Quintin “Jitsvinger” Goliath; actor Christo Davids; author Terry-Ann Adams; academic Earl Basson; and journalist and activist Virginia Keppler-Young, among others.
Watch the trailer:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?
THELMA
M-Net (DStv Channel 101) | 8:05PM on Sunday, 21 September
Oscar nominee June Squibb plays a feisty 93-year-old grandmother who gets conned by a phone scammer. To reclaim what was taken from her, she sets out on a treacherous quest across Los Angeles, accompanied by an aging friend (Richard Roundtree – the original Shaft) and his motorized scooter. Thelma earned its 94-year-old star – who did most of her own stunts – the Best Actress in an Action Movie award at the 2025 Critics Choice Super Awards.
Watch the trailer:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?
WEEK FOUR: 22-28 SEPTEMBER
IRON MAN & HIS AWESOME FRIENDS S1
Disney Junior (DStv Channel 309) | 3PM on weekdays from 22 September
Marvel’s Iron Man and his Awesome Friends is the first preschool series featuring a young Tony Stark (Iron Man) and his world-saving besties, Riri Williams (Ironheart) and Amadeus Cho (Iron Hulk).
The series follows the adventures (and misadventures) of the best friends and super geniuses as they work together to protect their city and solve problems both big and small.
Listen out for guest stars like Emmy winner Tony Hale and Emmy nominees Vanessa Bayer and John Stamos.
Watch the trailer:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?
AMERICA’S GOT TALENT S20
M-Net (DStv Channel 101) | 6PM weekdays from Monday, 22 September
America’s Got Talent is back for another season of jaw-dropping performances by singers, dancers, comedians, novelty acts and more, all competing for a life-changing $1 million prize.
The 2025 Kids Choice winner in the Favourite Reality TV Show category, America’s Got Talent is hosted by Hollywood Walk of Famer Terry Crews (Brooklyn Nine-Nine), with Simon Cowell, Howie Mandel, Sofia Vergara and Mel B as judges.
Previous seasons have been nominated for 12 Emmys, among other accolades.
Watch the teaser:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?
THE LAST RHINOS: A NEW HOPE
National Geographic (DStv Channel 181) | 5PM on Monday, 22 September – World Rhino Day
Award-winning photographer Ami Vitale follows a global effort to save the northern white rhinoceros from extinction. With only two surviving females, a team of scientists race to create the world’s first surrogate rhino pregnancy. The fate of the species now rests in the hands of the teams who are devoted to saving it in this hopeful, urgent film. Clip.
YELLOWJACKETS S3
M-Net (DStv Channel 101) | 10PM on Mondays from 22 September
Yellowjackets follows a team of wildly talented high school girls’ soccer players who become the (un)lucky survivors of a plane crash deep in the remote northern wilderness. Season 3 was the most-watched Yellowjackets season yet, with the finale becoming the most-streamed episode in the series ever. Stars include Critics Choice winner Melanie Lynskey, Emmy nominees Christina Ricci and Lauren Ambrose, and two-time Oscar winner Hilary Swank.
Watch the trailer, which has over 5m views:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?
TEACUP S1
M-Net (DStv Channel 101) | 10PM on Tuesdays from 23 September
Trapped on a farm in rural Georgia, a group of neighbours must put aside their differences and unite in the face of a mysterious and deadly threat. Emmy nominee Yvonne Strahovski (The Handmaid’s Tale) leads the cast. From horror-movie mastermind James Wan (Saw, The Conjuring), Teacup is inspired by Robert McCammon’s bestselling novel, Stinger, and was nominated for Best Horror Series at this year’s Saturn Awards, as voted by the Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films.
Watch the trailer, which has nearly 3m views:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?
NAKED AND AFRAID APOCALYPSE S1
Discovery Channel (DStv Channel 121) | 8:05PM on Wednesdays from 24 September
No food. No water. No clothes.
In Naked and Afraid Apocalypse, four teams of Naked and Afraid all-stars are dropped into forgotten corners of South Africa – a ghost town, a vehicle junkyard, a cemetery, and a mine shaft – where they must scavenge the wreckage for resources. In these abandoned locations, they must endure punishing heat and navigate constant dangers, from rusted metal and broken glass to unpredictable lions, elephants, black mambas and more.
In a first for the Emmy-nominated franchise, survivalists will not be extracted but must escape this wasteland and find their way back to civilization at the end of the challenge.
Watch the trailer:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?
LEKUNUTU S7
Moja Love (DStv Channel 157) | 10PM on Wednesdays from 24 September
Hosted by SAFTA-nominated actress Gabisile Tshabalala, this gripping reality show invites individuals to reveal long-held secrets that could shake their relationships. With raw confessions and emotional stakes, not every moment is easy. When the truth hits home, tensions rise.
BASED ON A TRUE STORY S2
M-Net (DStv Channel 101) | 8PM on Fridays from 26 September
Emmy-nominated for its music this year, Season 2 of Based on a True Story finds new parents Ava and Nathan Bartlett three months into parenthood and determined to resist their true crime obsessions – until a series of new murders pulls them back in. Three-time Emmy nominee Kaley Cuoco (The Flight Attendant, The Big Bang Theory) and Critics Choice nominee Chris Messina (The Mindy Project) co-star.
Watch the trailer:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?
CLEOPATRA’S FINAL SECRET
National Geographic (DStv Channel 181) | 9PM on Sunday, 28 September
Lawyer-turned-archaeologist Kathleen Martinez has spent 20 years searching for Cleopatra’s lost tomb. Her excavations now lead in an unexpected new direction, a submerged site miles offshore in the Mediterranean. She enlists Titanic discoverer Bob Ballard, the Egyptian Navy, and a team of archaeologists and divers to help her explore this mysterious location.
Watch the trailer:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?
WEEK FIVE: 29-30 SEPTEMBER
SKYMED S3
Universal TV (DStv Channel 117) | 8PM on Mondays from 29 September
Natasha Calis beat out co-star Morgan Holmstrom to win Best Lead Performance: Drama at the 2024 Leo Awards in Canada for this air ambulance medical series about nurses, pilots and jaw-dropping rescues. Paramount+ has already ordered a fourth season.
Watch the trailer:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?
WYLDE PAK S1
Nickelodeon (DStv Channel 305) | 3:25PM on weekdays from 29 September
Half-siblings Jack and Lily adjust to living together while helping at their family’s pet business. Trailer.
TIM REX IN SPACE S1
NickJr. (DStv Channel 307) | 4:30PM weekdays from 29 September
T-Rex Tim, his big brother Tommy, little sister Tia and Triceratops bestie Kai tackle kid-shaped problems with dino-sized solutions in space. Trailer.
DESIGN FOR YOU S10
Home Channel (DStv Channel 176) | 4PM on Mondays from 29 September
Whether you’re a design fanatic or simply seeking ideas for your next renovation, Sam Alexander is here to ignite your creativity by uncovering the wonders of interior design.
EVERYTHING COMING TO DSTV IN SEPTEMBER
This September also includes sporting highlights like the Springboks vs. The All Blacks, the Proteas vs. England, the MTN8 Final, the Italian Grand Prix, and the Women’s Rugby and Cricket World Cups.
See the full schedule:
https://www.dstv.com/en-za/
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