Twenties Season 2 & KIX and Christmas movies on DStv Compact this December.
Choose Joy when you sit down with your family and friends to watch DStv Compact this December.
Lifetime (DStv channel 131) will be running special Christmas movies all month long, and we’ve singled out brand-new Snowed-Inn Christmas with Bethany Joy Lenz and A Gospel Christmas with Demetria McKinney as modern classics.
If you’d like to celebrate and you love a good story but you’re not into Santa and sleigh bells, KIX (DStv channel 114) has movies for martial arts fans of all ages, with films from the 1980s and 1990s featuring starts like Jet Li, Donnie Yen, Michelle Yeoh and Jackie Chan. You’ll also find 1 of the sweet old 1980s adventure films with Tom Selleck when you switch on for High Road To China.
And if your friends are your family, sit down together (or by Zoom) to enjoy Twenties Season 2.
Keen for more? Here are the must-watch reality and lifestyle shows on DStv Compact this December.
Fun with friends
Twenties Season 2
Screenwriter Hattie (Jonic T. Gibbs), a masculine-presenting queer Black woman in her 20s, and her BFFs, TV executive Marie (Christina Elmore) and yoga instructor Nia (Gabrielle Graham), chase their dreams in Los Angeles in this drama created by Lena Waithe. This season, Hattie works on her social media profile and lands a new delivery job.
Watch Twenties Season 2 from Thursday, 27 December on BET (DStv channel 129) at 22:00
The only thing that Jenna Hudson (Bethany Joy Lenz) and Kevin Jenner (Andrew Walker) have in common is that they work for the same online publication in New York City… until they volunteer for a special writing assignment, and a rogue storm strands them in the town of Santa Claus, Indiana, where they rediscover the magic of Christmas.
Watch Snowed-Inn Christmas on Saturday, 4 December on Lifetime (DStv channel 131) at 19:20
Young assistant pastor Olivia (Demetria McKinney) is assigned to be the head pastor of a church in a new town just a month before Christmas. She’ll need to whip the choir into shape and open the town’s annual Winter Jamboree while navigating local politics. With a special appearance and songs by Kirk Franklin.
Watch A Gospel Christmas on Saturday, 25 December on Lifetime (DStv channel 131) at 19:20
In this classic 1983 adventure film set in the 1920s, spoilt heiress Evie Tozer (Bess Armstrong) hires drunk, roguish biplane pilot Patrick O'Malley (Tom Selleck) and his sidekick to find her missing father in China, before she loses her fortune to Daddy’s scheming business partner, Bentik (Robert Morley).
Watch High Road To China on Friday, 3 December on KIX (DStv channel 114) at 19:00
Hong Kong cop Inspector Ng (Michelle Yeoh) and her Scotland Yard counterpart, Inspector Carrie Morris (Cynthia Rothrock), must track down the 2 petty thieves who stole a microfilm that contains critical evidence that ties a crime boss to a murder case, allowing the system to put him behind bars. 1985 action classic.
Watch Yes, Madam! on Sunday, 12 December on KIX (DStv channel 114) at 19:00
Action movie, originally released in 1985. Top Hong Kong cop Tat (Jackie Chan) is devoted to his mentally challenged brother, Dodo (Sammo Hung Kam-Bo), and cares for him despite the costs to his love life, career and dream of sailing around the world. Then Dodo is kidnapped during a gangland fight.
Watch Heart of A Dragon on Friday, 17 December on KIX (DStv channel 114) at 19:00
1989 Hong Kong action film directed by Yeun Woo-ing. Madam Yeung (Cynthia Khan) and Detective Donny Yan (Donnie Yen) investigate a drug trafficking case. After they prove a dockworker innocent of murder, they must find and expose the true killer, along with the identities of those who framed the dock worker.
Watch In The Line Of Duty 4 on Sunday, 19 December on KIX (DStv channel 114) at 19:00
1993 Hong Kong action film set in China in the late 1800s and directed by Tsui Hark. When Master Wong Fei Hung (Jet Li) and his disciples uncover an assassination plot shortly before a martial arts contest, the Master must stop the assassination while also battling their opponents.
Watch Once Upon A Time In China III on Friday, 24 December on KIX (DStv channel 114) at 19:00
Action film directed by Jackie Chan, originally released in 1989, and set in 1930s Hong Kong. After an old lady named Madam Kao (Gua Ah-leh) sells him a rose, gullible but kind-hearted country boy Kuo Cheng-Wah (Jackie Chan) suddenly becomes lucky, which could save his life in a mob war.
Watch The Canton Godfather on Friday, 31 December on KIX (DStv channel 114) at 19:00
Get the DStv app (Apple, Android or Huawei) and download episodes to watch on your phone or tablet – just remember to connect to the Wi-Fi first so there are no surprise data costs.
