Series & reality Highlights on DStv Compact Plus in October

Highlights 01 October 2021

A new Power series, local telenovela Wounds, Tamar Braxton & more on DStv Compact Plus in October

Series & reality Highlights on DStv Compact Plus in October

Whether you prefer your drama to be real life and really juicy, or you’re a just-in-fiction, please person, DStv Compact Plus has some fantastic storytelling for you this October.

1Magic (DStv channel 103) launches their first-ever medical telenovela, Wounds.

Power fans, the best news of the year is here as we get a full series on Kanan’s backstory in Power: Book III: Raising Kanan.

And Issa and her crew are back for the final season of Insecure (tissues, please).

Reality fans, it’s time for luxe lives of the rich and famous. On the menu we have Tamar Braxton’s series about her recovery from near suicidal destruction in Tamar Braxton: Get Ya LIfe. A brand-new Below Decks spin-off, Below The Deck: Sailing Yacht takes us out for the posh yachting season in Greece and Croatia. And Kathy Hilton joins The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills for the latest season.

Series with soul

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Wounds S1

South African medical drama telenovela following the daily lives of the nurses of Healing Hands hospital. New intern nurse Busisiwe (Samke Makhoba) tries to make her way in this strange environment, but she brings her own pain and fragility to the workday that opens her up to the tragedies happening around her.

Watch Monday-Friday from Friday, 8 October on 1Magic (DStv channel 103) at 21:30

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Power: Book III: Raising Kanan

This Power drama series prequel is set in the 1990s and follows the rise of Ghost’s great rival, Kanan Stark (Mekai Curtis). We go back into Kanan’s childhood, to his first assault when his mom, Raquel (Patina Miller), gave him a sock full of batteries to beat back the bullies with!

Watch from Tuesday, 26 October on 1Magic (DStv channel 103) at 22:00

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Insecure S5

Issa Rae’s comedy about the awkward life experiences of black women returns. Issa Dee and her friends, Molly, Kelli and Tiffany, embark on a final season of self-discovery that mostly dodges the COVID question mark. Issa and Lawrence’s romance might be over since Lawrence’s ex-girlfriend is pregnant by him.

Watch from Monday, 25 October on 1Magic (DStv channel 103) at 22:00

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PS: Keep watch for Claws S4 around Tuesday, 26 October on 1Magic (DStv channel 103) at 20:30. The date is still TBC in the US, though. 

Dramatic reality 

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Tamar Braxton: Get Ya Life S1

Reality series. Tamar reveals what it was like to lose everything positive in her life, including her home, her marriage, her manager, her record label, down to her own identity. Now she’s rebuilding. For fans of Tamar’s podcast Under Construction With Tamar Braxton, this is another side of the story.

Watch from Thursday, 14 October on 1Magic (DStv channel 103) at 20:30

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Below The Deck: Sailing Yacht S1

Meet the crews and the staff who make sailing a breeze for the pampered super rich and super bored. There are some familiar faces like Chef Adam Glick (Below Deck Mediterranean). Coming up, a drunken shipboard wedding, vegan guests, a baby on board, beach picnic, and a crash (whoops).

Watch from Sunday, 3 October on E! Entertainment (DStv channel 124) at 18:10

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The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills S11

We’ve seen the last of Denise Richards and Teddi Mellencamp Arroyave, but Crystal Kung Minkoff and Sutton Stracke join the show, and Kathy Hilton comes onboard, too. The Wives have a post-lockdown party at Dorit’s house, Lisa Rinna takes the girls to Lake Tahoe, and Erika talks divorce.

Watch Monday-Friday from Thursday, 7 October on 1Magic (DStv channel 103) at 19:00

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