Romantic movies, new series & new seasons of old favourites including The Responder, Rag Doll, Grey’s Anatomy Season 18, and Station 19 Season 5 on DStv Premium in February 2022
Whether you prefer your February romantic or action-packed, DStv Premium has TV series and movies that are so easy to love.
On Monday, 14 February, M-Net (DStv Channel 101) brings us the premieres of the new seasons of both Station 19 and Grey’s Anatomy, featuring crossover action as well as updates on Carina and Maya’s wedding, a first look at Teddy and Owen’s wedding and Addison and Meredith remembering Derek together, as well as some sizzling chemistry between Meredith and Nick.
For action fans, the start of FBI Season 4 will give us a glimpse at the characters who will form the backbone for the upcoming new spinoff series, FBI: International, as well as bringing in characters from FBI: Most Wanted.
At the movies, your Valentine’s is super romantic with the brand-new film Wild Mountain Thyme starring Christopher Walken, Jon Hamm, and Emily Blunt, as well as classic titles like 10 Things I Hate About You, Runaway Bride, and a handful of the Twilight movies on M-Net Movies 1 (DStv Channel 104).
If action and adventure is your true love, fresh from the big screen M-Net (DStv Channel 101) has everything from Bob Odenkirk’s action movie Nobody, to heist film The Misfits, and the comedy Superintelligence with Melissa McCarthy
Keen for more? Here are the must-watch documentaries and reality series coming to DStv Premium this February.
Serious & Silly series
The Responder Season 1
A captivating British crime drama starring Martin Freeman (Bilbo Baggins in the fantasy film trilogy The Hobbit). An embattled first responder tackles a series of night shifts in Liverpool while trying to keep his head above water personally and professionally.
Watch The Responder Season 1 from Thursday, 3 February at 22:30 on M-Net (DStv Channel 101)
British crime thriller based on the 2017 novel of the same name by Daniel Cole. Detectives investigate when a grotesque corpse is found, made up from body parts from six different people stitched together. With Henry Lloyd-Hughes, Lucy Hale and Natasha Little.
Watch Rag Doll Season 1 from Wednesday, 9 February at 22:30 on M-Net (DStv Channel 101)
Sitcom about the pitfalls of modern parenting. Jo (Christina Vidal Mitchell) and her husband Bill’s (Will Sasso) household is turned upside down when Bill’s judgemental mom, Sandy (Jane Curtin), moves in with them and has loud opinions about how they’re raising their children, as do both sides of their family.
Watch United We Fall Season 1 from Saturday, 12 February at 18:00 on M-Net (DStv Channel 101)
It’s the final season of this Italian crime drama centred on the Savastano Camorra clan, in Naples. The police are looking for Genny, last seen hiding in a bunker, and Ciro is alive in Latvia. Genny and his only ally, Ponticelli crime boss ’O Maestrale, prepare to go to war.
Watch Gomorrah Season 5 from Saturday, 19 February at 21:30 on M-Net (DStv Channel 101)
The series skips ahead a year to a pandemic-free future, but we’ll get flashbacks, like the fallout from Carina and Maya’s wedding. Episode 1 is a crossover with episode 1 of Grey’s Anatomy Season 18, episode 1 (on Monday, 14 February). Sullivan goes viral as “Fire Daddy”, and Andy is transferred to Station 23.
Watch Station 19 Season 5 from Monday, 14 February at 19:30 on M-Net (DStv Channel 101)
Meredith celebrates recovering from COVID and gets a job offer that would see her split her time between Seattle and Minnesota. Teddy and Owen tie the knot, and Jo adjusts to being a single mom. Addison and Meredith remember Derek together and Addison meets Derek’s children for the first time.
Watch Grey's Anatomy Season 18 from Monday, 14 February at 20:30 on M-Net (DStv Channel 101)
The first episode of the season is a backdoor pilot for the upcoming FBI: International series and includes events that will cross over into episode 1 of FBI: Most Wanted Season 3. Most Wanted’s Kenny Crosby teams up with Bell and Zidan to take down the kidnapper working for a trafficking ring.
Watch FBI Season 4 from Tuesday, 1 February at 19:30 on M-Net (DStv Channel 101)
Romantic comedy-drama. Irish dad Tony Reilly (Christopher Walken) threatens to leave the farm to his American nephew, Adam (Jon Hamm) unless his 30-something son, Anthony (Jamie Dornan), seals the deal with the woman next door, Rosemary (Emily Blunt).
Watch Wild Mountain Thyme on Sunday, 13 February at 21:00 on M-Net (DStv Channel 101)
Action. Ex-CIA assassin-turned-bored suburban dad Hutch "Nobody" Mansell (Bob Odenkirk) becomes a drug lord’s enemy number 1 after he returns to his old business following a house robbery.
Watch Nobody on Sunday, 6 February at 21:00 on M-Net (DStv Channel 101) Watch M-Net now
The Misfits
Heist action film directed by Renny Harlin. A band of modern-day Robin Hoods called The Misfits hire criminal mastermind Richard Pace (Pierce Brosnan) to help them steal a cache of gold bars hidden underneath a prison.
Watch The Misfits on Sunday, 20 February at 21:00 on M-Net (DStv Channel 101)
A self-aware (and self-important) artificial intelligence programme (voiced by James Corden) selects Carol Peters (Melissa McCarthy), the most average person on Earth by its calculations, for an experiment that will decide the future of humanity.
Watch Superintelligence on Sunday, 27 February at 21:00 on M-Net (DStv Channel 101)
And there’s plenty of movie madness for the kids, too.
Movies for Kids
BobbleHeads
Animation. 4 bobblehead figurines band together to come up with a fool proof plan to protect their toy collecting owner’s home from a pair of greedy relatives who are plotting to steal from his priceless collection. With the voices of Jennifer Coolidge, Luke Wilson, and Cher.
Watch BobbleHeads on Saturday, 5 February at 16:00 on M-Net (DStv Channel 101)
Animated sequel to the 2002 horse film, Spirit: Stallion of The Cimarron. Shortly after moving to a small town, rebellious Lucky Prescott befriends Spirit the wild stallion, and she and her friends must come up with a way to defend Spirit and his herd from a mean horse wrangler.
Watch Spirit Untamed on Saturday, 12 February at 16:00 on M-Net (DStv Channel 101)
Blend of live-action and animation. Kayla (Chloë Grace Moretz) calls in mouse demolition expert Tom the cat after Jerry the mischievous mouse runs amok in her fancy hotel while she’s responsible for organising a high-profile wedding. Cast includes Colin Jost, Rob Delaney, Pallavi Sharda and Ken Jeong.
Watch Tom & Jerry: The Movie on Saturday, 19 February at 16:00 on M-Net (DStv Channel 101)
Anime based on French author Maurice Leblanc’s Arsène Lupin stories from the early 1900s, and the Lupin: The Third franchise created by Monkey Punch in the mid-1960s. Set during the late 1960s, gentleman thief Arsène Lupin III and his crew search Paris and Brazil for the legendary Bresson Diary, in competition with a Nazi treasure-hunter group.
Watch Lupin III: The First on Saturday, 26 February at 16:00 on M-Net (DStv Channel 101)
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