Wicked pleasures & treasures on DStv Family this August

You know what a family reunion’s like – even the most shocking parts are entertaining! And this August DStv Family is bringing you to the party.

We have everything from the always scandalous Uyajola 9/9 Season 9 (the drunk uncle of TV shows), to African pride in series like Culture Swap Season 1 and Dance Naija Dance Season 1, to big epic stories like granny and grandpa tell in Primal Survivor: Mighty Mekong Season 6 and the new Hindi supernatural telenovela, Night of Doom Season 1.

There’s more family round the fireside in Kom Ons Braai: Celebs Season 1, and the arty cousins can gang together to enjoy the latest in cutthroat fashion and design with Project Runway Season 19.

Read on for more about these shows, and a glimpse into what else is coming your way this August on DStv Family.

PS: because you get to see so much more on DStv with Family, check out our other monthly highlights packages for news about August’s hit series like The Big Clean Season 1, Say Yes To The Dress Season 20, Cesar Millan: Better Human, Better Dog Season 2, Afrimaxx Season 1, and Hair To The Throne Season 2.

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Kom Ons Braai: Celebs Season 1

In this special 7-episode spin-off series, 2 normal families will prepare their best braai dishes and side salads in a backyard party. They’ll score each other’s efforts with points for braai technique, taste and entertainment. But someone is crashing the party! In each episode, a different secret celeb will be dropping by to taste all the goodies, enjoy the braai, and hand out their own points.

Also watch: Kom Ons Braai: Familie En Vriende Season 17 from Saturday, 13 August at 20:00.

Watch Kom Ons Braai: Celebs Season 1 from Wednesday, 10 August at 20:00 on VIA (DStv Channel 147)

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Primal Survivor: Mighty Mekong Season 6

Survivalist Hazen Audel is on a new 800km journey through the Mekong River basin in Laos, Southeast Asia, hoping to learn new skills from the indigenous people who live on its banks and in its jungles. We’ll see him make his way through vicious limestone peaks and flooded caves as he searches for isolated groups of Hmong people, so he can follow in their footsteps as they make tools from shrapnel left over from the Vietnam War. Along the way he’ll hunt for mushrooms and meet the traditional musket hunters of the Bolaven Plateau.

Watch Primal Survivor: Mighty Mekong Season 6 from Wednesday, 17 August at 21:00 on National Geographic (DStv Channel 181)

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Project Runway Season 19

Christian Siriano returns as mentor, while Nina Garcia, Brandon Maxwell and Elaine Welteroth are back as judges in the brand new 2022 season. Exciting design challenges this season include creating a streetwear collection for male, female and non-binary models, a haunted mansion Halloween episode with Taraji P Henson as judge, a faux fur challenge, comfy chic for those couch days, an unconventional materials challenge during which they have to use only materials that they can source from a cocktail bar, and they’ll also have to make reunion looks for the ladies of The Real Housewives of Potomac, Orange County and New York City!

Watch Project Runway Season 19 Monday-Thursday from Monday, 22 August at 19:00 on Me (DStv Channel 115)

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Dance Naija Dance Season 1

Get ready to steal a move and practise it with your friends for the best Saturday night dance party ever! This 10-week reality competition series is looking for Nigeria’s best dance crew, and as we enter the show, they’ve whittled it down to the top 16 finalists. Expect a blend of Bollywood and Nollywood flair as the dancers, hosts and judges blend the best of both worlds. Hosted by Hero Daniels and Pelumi Buari, with choreographers/mentors Sashin Kandhai and Kenneth Agabata, and judges Kunle Remi and Uraysha Ramrachia.

Watch Dance Naija Dance Season 1 from Saturday, 6 August at 19:00 on ZeeWorld (DStv Channel 166)

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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, 7 August at 18:00 on Moja Love (DStv Channel 157)

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Night of Doom Season 1

Supernatural drama series (original title Qayamat Ki Raat). In 1993, newlyweds Suhasini and Mahendar visit a Ram temple where a “tantrik” named Kalasur, who lusts after Suhasini, curses her for beheading and dismembering him after he attacks them. If the curse holds, no woman of her blood will be able to survive consummating her marriage. 25 Years later, Suhasini’s daughters Karuna and Gauri are all grown up and Karuna is preparing to marry, when they find themselves back at the cursed temple, and they accidentally resurrect the tantrik, setting off a dark chain of horrors that will follow them and their families for the next 28 years.

Watch Night of Doom Season 1 daily from Tuesday, 23 August at 22:00 on StarLife (DStv Channel 167)

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Uyajola 9/9 Season 9

Our Sunday night sinners are back! Fresh off stringent sensitivity training, the series’ original host Jub Jub returns to catch and confront those cheaters. Nowhere is safe, because Jub Jub and the camera crew are headed everywhere from Gqeberha to Cape Town, Joburg, Mthatha, Durban and Mpumalanga. But maybe the cheaters and their accusers need some sensitivity training, too, because joh, the things people are calling each other, the slaps, the attacks, the all-out brawls from people in just their underwear, it’s all here on screen.

Watch Uyajola 9/9 Season 9 from Sunday, 7 August at 21:00 on Moja Love (DStv Channel 157)

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Also on Family this August

• Doodgewone Jo Season 6 from Wednesday, 10 August at 17:30 on VIA (DStv Channel 147)
• Ster-Status Season 4 from Thursday, 11 August at 18:00 on VIA (DStv Channel 147)
• Slim Vang Sy Baas Season 5 from Friday, 12 August at 17:30 on VIA (DStv Channel 147)
• Kelderklas Season 1 from Friday, 5 August at 17:00 on VIA (DStv Channel 147)
• S.W.A.T Season 2 from Thursday, 11 August at 20:00 on Universal TV (DStv Channel 117)
• Hollywood A List on Wednesday, 3 August at 20:00 on Universal TV (DStv Channel 117)
• Building Off The Grid Season 6 from Monday, 1 August at 16:00 on Discovery Family (DStv Channel 136)
• Building Alaska Season 10 from Monday, 29 August at 16:00 on Discovery Family (DStv Channel 136)
• Billions Season 6 from Tuesday, 2 August at 22:30 on Me (DStv Channel 115)
• The Neighborhood Season 4 from Saturday, 20 August at 17:00 on Me (DStv Channel 115)
• Wipeout USA Season 8 from Sunday, 28 August at 17:00 on Me (DStv Channel 115)
• Ordinary Joe Season 1 from Sunday, 7 August at 20:00 on Me (DStv Channel 115)
• Britain In Black & White on Sunday, 7 August at 22:00 on Me (DStv Channel 115)
• On The Run Eatin': With N.O.R.E. Season 1 from Sunday, 28 August at 22:00 on Me (DStv Channel 115)
• Rea Tsotella Season 18 from Wednesday, 3 August at 21:30 on Moja Love (DStv Channel 157)
• Uthando Noxolo Season 18 from Thursday, 18 August at 21:30 on Moja Love (DStv Channel 157)
• Dloz'lami Season 6 from Tuesday, 2 August at 22:00 on Moja Love (DStv Channel 157)
• Spin Outlaws Season 1 from Saturday, 6 August at 09:30 on Ignition (DStv Channel 189)

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Roasts & dragon roars on DStv Premium, Compact Plus and Compact this August

Premium

• House of The Dragon Season 1 from Monday, 22 August at 03:01 (express from the US) and 21:30 on M-Net (DStv Channel 101)
• Impossible Animals With Patrick Aryee Season 1 from Monday, 1 August on BBC Earth (DStv Channel 184)
• DMZ Season 1 from Friday, 19 August at 19:30 on M-Net (DStv Channel 101)
• Gentleman Jack Season 2 from Thursday, 18 August at 20:30 on M-Net (DStv Channel 101)
• Mysteries of The Deep Season 2 from Sunday, 21 August at 20:55 on Discovery Channel (DStv Channel 121)
• Our House Season 1 from Wednesday, 24 August at 22:30 on M-Net (DStv Channel 101)
• Chicago Med Season 7 from Tuesday, 9 August at 20:30 on M-Net (DStv Channel 101)
• Chicago PD Season 9 from Tuesday, 9 August at 22:30 on M-Net (DStv Channel 101)

Compact Plus

• The Roast of Khanyi Mbau on Monday, 8 August at 21:00 on Comedy Central (DStv Channel 122)
• Run The World Season 1 from Monday, 15 August at 22:00 on 1Magic (DStv Channel 103)
• The Orville Season 3 from Wednesday, 24 August at 22:00 on 1Magic (DStv Channel 103)
• I Was There Season 1 from Saturday, 20 August at 20:15 on History (DStv Channel 186)
• Suppressed Science Season 1 from Monday, 15 August at 20:00 on Curiosity Channel (DStv Channel 185)

Compact

• Ayeye: Stripped Season 1 from Friday, 5 August at 20:00 on Mzansi Magic (DStv Channel 161)
• DJ Zinhle The Unexpected Season 2 from Saturday, 6 August at 19:30 on BET (DStv Channel 129)
• Have Faith Season 4 from Monday, 15 August at 21:30 on MTV (DStv Channel 130)
• Celebrity Game Face Season 3 from Sunday, 14 August at 19:05 on E! Entertainment (DStv Channel 124)
• Tournament of Champions Season 3 from Tuesday, 16 August at 19:00 on The Food Network (DStv Channel 175)
• Guy! Hawaiian Style Season 1 from Monday, 22 August at 19:55 on The Food Network (DStv Channel 175)
• Dessert Games Season 1 from Friday, 5 August at 19:00 on The Food Network (DStv Channel 175)
• Alex Polizzi: My Hotel Nightmare Season 1 from Friday, 19 August at 20:00 on BBC Lifestyle (DStv Channel 174)
• Miss SA 2022 on Saturday, 13 August at 18:30 on M-Net (DStv Channel 101) and Mzansi Magic (DStv Channel 161)

All package alert: Awesome August shows

Check out the other highlights packages for more on these shows, which you will also be able to watch this August

Access

• The Big Clean Season 1 from Monday, 15 August at 20:00 on TLC (DStv Channel 135)
• Say Yes To The Dress Season 20 from Tuesday, 9 August at 20:00 on TLC (DStv Channel 135)
• Cesar Millan: Better Human, Better Dog Season 2 from Friday, 19 August at 18:00 on National Geographic Wild (DStv Channel 182)
• My Extreme OCD Life Season 1 On Saturday, 20 August and Sunday 21 August at 20:40 on CBS Reality (DStv Channel 132)
• Eating Ourselves To Death on Saturday, 27 August at 20:40 on CBS Reality (DStv Channel 132)
• My Obese Life on Sunday, 28 August at 20:40 on CBS Reality (DStv Channel 132)
• Afrimaxx Season 1 from Monday, 8 August at 19:30 on The Home Channel (DStv Channel 176)
• Rhythms of India Season 1 from Saturday, 6 August at 09:30 on BBC World News (DStv Channel 400)
• Hair To The Throne Season 2 from Monday, 1 August at 16:30 on Honey (DStv Channel 173)
• My Zambian Plate Season 1 from Wednesday, 3 August at 16:00 on Honey (DStv Channel 173)
• Mom vs Wife: Kenya Season 2 from Tuesday, 2 August at 16:30 on Honey (DStv Channel 173)

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