April comes with love from DStv Family, to your family.
DStv Family is full of South Africans helping 1 another this month. Diaan Daniels plays matchmaker for brides & gowns in Die Bruid-Boetiek Season 3. Professional home organisers Carin Smith and Jani Augustyn-Goussard are back turning chaos into order in Pak Weg, Pak Reg Season 3, Nomsa Buthelezi returns with interventions and rehab for people with drinking problems in Uyaphuza Season 5, Dingaan Khumalo plays negotiator between warring in-laws in Mamazala Season 11, and community champion Siyabonga Mdlalose takes on cheats and frauds in Skhipha Amafiles Season 5. PS: Also look out for a new season of talkshow Minki, and find out what really happens behind closed doors in Couples Therapy with American Psychoanalyst Dr. Orna Guralnik.
If you’re looking for a little drama and you want to see inside some unusual lives, try talk show 2 Dope Queens Season 2, brand new local sex-talkshow Ezocansi Season 1, the fascinating new local life-swap series Culture Swap Season 1. Get your fingers flexed and prepare to tweet about dating show Single And Mingle Season 8, or enjoy the real “Wow” power of true crime series Love Fraud Season 1. Also look out for Landbouweekliks Season 17 and Keerpunt Season 4
For heart-pounding action try Sydney Harbour Patrol Season 1, Deadliest Catch: Dungeon Cove Season 1 or Dutch Caribbean Coastguards Season 1, and for reality with a spooky edge, there’s Haunted Towns Season 1, which follows the Tennessee Wraith Chasers, and UFO Witness Season 1 with former FBI agent Ben Hansen.
DStv Family also has those easy-to-watch reality competition series like the hot & spicy Laat Die Potte Prut: Kampione Season 1, Huisgenoot Blokraaibestes Season 2, Musiekpaniek Season 6, and The Voice Season 21 – which sees Ariana Grande join the series as a judge for the first time.
And then if the start of the new F! Grand Prix season has woken up the car crazy TV fans in your house, stay with DStv Family for brand new local car repossession series X-Repo Season 1, New Zealand-based Great Southern Truckers Season 1 ( you could watch it just for the incredible scenery), Junkyard Empire Season 2, Car S.O.S. Season 10, and documentary series Icons of Auto Season 1
Watch to see more? Here are the must-watch drama, comedy & telenovelas coming to DStv Family this April.
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Helping hands & hearts
Die Bruid-Boetiek Season 3
In each episode of this fun reality show, 2 brides-to-be who are in desperate need of wedding dresses pop into fashion designer Diaan Daniels’ exclusive boutique to try on gowns for their big days. Can Diaan play matchmaker and make these women fall in love… with fashion?
Watch Die Bruid-Boetiek Season 3 from Monday, 11 April at 20:30 on VIA (DStv Channel 147).
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Minki Season 11
Minki van der Westhuizen returns with an 8th season of her much-loved talkshow where she interviews a guest – whether they are a celebrity or an ordinary person – with an incredible story to tell. Plus, she surprises her guest with someone with whom they have a special connection. Minki works from a space of deep empathy so every interview is guaranteed to be packed with tears, laughter and inspiration.
Watch Minki Season 11 from Monday, 11 April at 17:30 on VIA (DStv Channel 147).
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Couples Therapy Season 1
Psychoanalyst Dr. Orna Guralnik treats 4 different couples over the course of 6 episodes in this intimate documentary series. From debates over having children, to difficulties with finances, relationship expectations and mismatched libido, Dr. Guralnik tries to help these brand-new clients to work through it all and come to grips with their issues.
Watch Couples Therapy Season 1 from Saturday, 16 April at 20:00-22:20 (4 episodes) on Me (DStv Channel 115).
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Couples Therapy Season 2
Psychoanalyst Dr. Orna Guralnik treats 3 different couples in this intimate documentary series. Dru is more attracted to his love than she is to him, Matthew is struggling with sober sex with his boyfriend, Gianni, and Michal is finding her husband Michael’s laidback attitude more like apathy.
Watch Couples Therapy Season 2 from Saturday, 30 April at 21:40 on Me (DStv Channel 115).
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Uyaphuza Season 5
Nomsa Buthelezi hosts this reality intervention series targeted at people who have a drinking problem, and the people in their families and communities that their behaviour is affecting. The series will explore the roots of individuals’ reasons for drinking and show the outcomes of their rehabilitation process.
Watch Uyaphuza Season 5 from Saturday, 2 April at 20:00 on Moja Love (DStv Channel 157).
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Mamazala Season 11
Dingaan Khumalo (who’s said some pretty interesting things about karma lately) hosts this reality help show aimed at settling disputes and uncomfortable situations between in-laws. Dingaan will listen to all sides of a case before he helps the people involved to negotiate a way forward, from fury to a place of acceptance.
Watch Mamazala Season 11 from Saturday, 2 April at 19:30 on Moja Love (DStv Channel 157).
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Skhipha Amafiles Season 5
Siyabonga Mdlalose is the social justice warrior we all need! He’s out to expose and confront corrupt figures who’re preying on their communities. Where the public knows someone is in the wrong, but the law has done nothing, Siyabonga will step in to set right fraud, malpractice, cults and corruption.
Watch Skhipha Amafiles Season 5 from Sunday, 3 April at 19:00 on Moja Love (DStv Channel 157).
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Pak Weg, Pak Reg Season 3
DIY experts Carin Smith and Jani Augustyn-Goussard are here to help people who’re being overwhelmed by clutter to the point where they can’t even enjoy what they have. They’ll show us how simple DIY tricks and smart plans can transform any space from a cluttered mess into a room with a purpose.
Watch Pak Weg, Pak Reg Season 3 from Thursday, 14 April at 17:00 on VIA (DStv Channel 147).
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real people, real stories
2 Dope Queens Season 2
Comedy talkshow based on Jessica Williams and Phoebe Robinson's light-hearted podcast. This season, Lupita Nyong'o chats about fashion, Daniel Radcliffe gets real about nostalgia, Janet Mock and Lizzo get into music (watch Lizzo twerk and play the flute!) and Keegan-Michael Kay takes on the idea of "Regal AF".
Watch 2 Dope Queens Season 2 from Sunday, 3 April at 22:00 on Me (DStv Channel 115).
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Ezocansi Season 1
Intimacy can often be a taboo and in South Africa generally, it’s something we only discuss behind closed doors. But sex talk show Ezocansi is here to delve openly into fantasies, pleasure, and our sexual satisfaction, whatever our size, age, weight, sexuality or gender. Ezocansi is here to talk.
Watch Skhipha Ezocansi Season 1 from Sunday, 3 April at 22:00 on Moja Love (DStv Channel 157).
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Culture Swap Season 1
Culture swap offers the South African public an opportunity to get to understand some of our different types of cultures and lifestyles. Each week 2 people trade their lives and we follow them as they try to adjust to the different environments, from urban to rural, traditional to modern. Instead of Wife Swap, think Life Swap!
Watch Culture Swap Season 1 from Sunday, 3 April at 19:00 on Moja Love (DStv Channel 157).
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Single and Mingle Season 8
Have you ever wondered how some unlikely couples got together? This fly-on-the-wall reality series follows single people as they go on blind dates, right from their houses, to the very end of the date to catch up on what they really thought and felt… and whether there will be a second date.
Watch Single and Mingle Season 8 from Saturday, 2 April at 18:00 on Moja Love (DStv Channel 157).
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Love Fraud Season 1
This true-crime documentary mini-series investigates con man Richard Scott Smith who used the internet to prey on lonely women, marrying them and taking them for every penny before vanishing – until these ladies went looking for him… and found each other! With a bounty hunter on their side, they turned the tables.
Watch Love Fraud Season 1 from Saturday, 2 April at 20:00 & 21:00 on Me (DStv Channel 115).
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Landbouweekliks Season 17
Elma Postma is back on the road calling on farmers around South Africa to explore the latest innovations and developments. The Landbou team highlights how farmers are nurturing heritage species and using environmentally friendly farming methods to preserve the soil, as well as diversifying their land use.
Watch Landbouweekliks Season 17 from Tuesday, 12 April at 17:30 on VIA (DStv Channel 147).
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Keerpunt Season 4
People who’ve narrowly escaped death and survived to tell the tale, or those who hit rock bottom and saw the light, share their stories and reveal how these incidents became the major turning point in their lives, and the practical steps they took to make their new lives take shape.
Watch Keerpunt Season 4 from Tuesday, 12 April at 20:30 on VIA (DStv Channel 147).
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Sydney Harbour Patrol Season 1
The Sydney Harbour is 1 of the busiest harbours in the world, where the elite Sydney Harbour Patrol works 24/7 to keep the world-famous waterfront running. Salvage divers keep wreckage from a police boat from hitting beachgoers, and the patrol step in when a massive public holiday party gets rowdy.
Watch Sydney Harbour Patrol Season 1 from Wednesday, 27 April at 18:30 on Discovery Family (DStv Channel 136).
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Deadliest Catch: Dungeon Cove Season 1
Captains and crews operating out of Newport, Oregon, go to sea in search of crab. A monster storm stands boats that didn’t beat the weather back to shore, 4 lives are in the balance when a boat overturns, and while the community is still counting their casualties, they get news of a new shipwreck.
Watch Deadliest Catch: Dungeon Cove Season 1 from Wednesday, 20 April at 17:40 on Discovery Family (DStv Channel 136).
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Dutch Caribbean Coastguards Season 1
Hitch a ride with the Dutch Coastguard on the tropical islands of Curacao, St. Maarten and Aruba. The crew of HNLMS Holland have to intercept a party boat, a Search & Rescue helicopter must find a missing girl on Bonaire, and the Coastguard meets with a boat full of refugees.
Watch Dutch Caribbean Coastguards Season 1 from Saturday, 30 April at 21:00 on National Geographic (DStv Channel 181).
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Haunted Towns Season 1
The Tennessee Wraith Chasers use historical research and modern science to explore the most haunted towns in the US as they investigate paranormal stories, tall tales and urban legends. They’ll visit civil war battle sites in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania and Vicksburg, Mississippi. And they’ll stop by Salem, Massachusetts, Wright Square in Savannah, Georgia.
Watch Haunted Towns Season 1 from Wednesday, 13 April at 21:05 on Travel Channel (DStv Channel 179).
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UFO Witness Season 1
Former FBI agent Ben Hansen draws on the archives of the late Dr. J. Allen Hynek, chief scientific adviser of Project Blue Book, during his mission to uncover the truth behind UFOs seen across America. Can the past illuminate some modern sightings, like the 2017 videos of US Navy Pilots’ UFO encounters?
Watch UFO Witness Season 1 from Friday, 8 April at 21:05 on Travel Channel (DStv Channel 179).
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Competitive edge
Laat Die Potte Prut: Kampione Season 1
In this spin-off of VIA’s cooking competition series Laat Die Potte Prut, judges Marinda Engelbrecht and Alvin Bruinders return with tricky tests and challenges as the past seasons’ winning teams go up against each other to win the crown as South Africa’s true potjiekos champions.
Watch Laat Die Potte Prut: Kampione Season 1 from Thursday, 14 April at 20:00 on VIA (DStv Channel 147).
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Huisgenoot Blokraaibestes Season 2
VIA is looking for the country's crossword champion. In this weekly gameshow, presenter Cintaine Schutte (Katrien in Fynskrif) tests the vocabulary and language knowledge of 3 contestants to see who deserves to wear the crown as crossword champ. Bring the kids, because it’s a fun way to learn Afrikaans.
Watch Huisgenoot Blokraaibestes Season 2 from Monday, 11 April at 20:00 on VIA (DStv Channel 147).
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Musiekpaniek Season 6
Carla Mackenzie hosts this intense gameshow in which local musicians meet their superfans, who must prove their trivia knowledge about the musician by answering a series of increasingly obscure questions about them. This season’s guests include Reandri Grey, Loki Rothman, Neil Sandilands, and Karlien Van Jaarsveld.
Watch Musiekpaniek Season 6 from Friday, 1 April at 20:00 on VIA (DStv Channel 147).
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The Voice Season 21
Blake Shelton, Kelly Clarkson and John Legend return as coaches, while Ariana Grande replaces Nick Jonas on the judging panel. Carson Daley hosts. Ed Sheeran is the mega mentor for the Knockout rounds. Gwen Stefani, who married Blake in July 2021, makes a guest appearance in episode 22.
Watch The Voice Season 21 Saturdays & Sundays at 18:00 from Sunday, 17 April on Me (DStv Channel 115).
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Car crazy!
X-Repo Season 1
This reality series goes inside the face-paced, high-pressure world of car repossession. We follow Xolani and his team of repo agents as they take back everything from luxury SUVs and sports cars to trucks, from people who haven’t been making payments. These are not bank repossessions, but person-to-person cases.
Watch X-Repo Season 1 from Saturday, 2 April at 19:00 on Moja Love (DStv Channel 157).
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Junkyard Empire Season 2
Car nerd Andy Cohen is out to turn piles of rusting junk into money making machines, along with his “old school” dad Bobby and their quirky team. This season Andy spots a Mercedes SL55 that needs a lot of work, builds a paintball tank, and Andy and Bobby have a bet over a pickup truck.
Watch Junkyard Empire Season 2 from Friday, 29 April at 18:30 on Discovery Family (DStv Channel 136).
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Car S.O.S. Season 10
Fuzz Townshend and Tim Shaw continue their search for owners whose cars need a little TLC. They tackle chronic rust, hard to find parts and broken engines to restore these beauties including a 1988 Fiat Uno Turbo, a 1992 VW Corrado, 1992 Saab 900 Turbo and more.
Watch Car S.O.S. Season 10 from Tuesday, 26 April at 19:00 on National Geographic (DStv Channel 181).
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