With DStv Family, you always have something to talk about, and with SA’s spiciest series coming your way this March, tongues are going to be burning!
Somizi hosts romantic reality series Lovey Dovey Season 1, the ultimate “but would you, though?” show on TV this month ‘cos some of these men and women, yikes! Elvis Blue is living out your tiny house dreams in his own super-cool home build series, Elvis B(l)ou Season 1. And there’s joyful, relaxing pleasure in The Masked Singer Season 5.
For that wow factor, try 1 of local talk-reality shows like the provocative AmaBishop Season2, the brand-new, no-holds-barred talkshow Ezocansi Season 1 and local social justice classics like, Ekhaya Season 2, Ifalami Season 2, Skhipha Amafiles Season 5 and No Excuses Pay Papgeld Season 6.
There’s also plenty to be intrigued by that doesn’t include our neighbours, cheats and crooks, and a lot of it is suitable for curious little minds, too. Try animal trainer series Zoltan The WolfMan Season 1, National Geographic (DStv Channel 181) engineering and palaeontology series Colossal Machines Season 1 and The Dinosaur Hunters Season 1, and chilling ghost stories in Alaska Haunting Season 1 and These Woods Are Haunted Season 3.
Keen for more? Here are the must-watch drama and comedy series coming to DStv Family this March.
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Reality & competitions
Lovey Dovey Season 1
Host Somizi welcomes 15 singletons who are looking for true love to the Lovey Dovey Mansion, where they will tackle a series of challenges and elimination tasks to find their Mr. or Ms. Right. Only 1 golden couple, who develop the most authentic relationship, will walk down the aisle at their own dream wedding.
Watch Lovey Dovey Season 1 from Saturday, 19 March on Moja Love (DStv Channel 157) at 21:00
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Elvis B(l)ou Season 1
We see your tiny house and raise you a stage! Elvis Blue and his wife, Chireze, bought a bus and have big renovation plans for it – with a stage on the roof and everything. They face several challenges in the process. Will they be able to work together and think on their feet?
Watch Elvis B(l)ou Season 1 from Monday, 21 March on VIA (DStv Channel 147) at 18:30
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The Block Australia Season 14
This season’s designers filmed during the pandemic, which disrupted supply chains and led to a long mid-season production break. They’ll be revamping 5 old, prefabricated houses, each from a different decade between 1910 and 1950, which have been moved to a vacant lot in the Brighton suburb of Melbourne.
Watch The Block Australia Season 14 Mondays-Fridays from Tuesday, 8 March on Me (DStv Channel 115) at 19:00
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The Bachelor In Paradise: Australia Season 3
Osher Günsberg returns as host to former contestants of The Bachelor and The Bachelorette Australia as they try to form new romances or get booted out of paradise. This season, sweet and handsome Ciarran is here to make everything better, but alas, so is Jamie, the nightmare man from Angie’s Bachelorette season.
Watch The Bachelor In Paradise: Australia Season 3 Mondays-Thursdays from Tuesday, 22 March on Me (DStv Channel 115) at 21:30
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The Masked Singer Season 5
The singing competition in which celebrities mask their identities behind gorgeous, elaborate costumes returns. Niecy Nash steps in to guest host for the first 5 episodes while Nick Cannon recovered from COVID-19 (get ready for his intriguing return in episode 5). This season, for the first time, 1 of the contestants will be a fictional character.
Watch The Masked Singer Season 5 Saturdays & Sundays from Saturday, 12 March on Me (DStv Channel 115) at 18:00
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Let’s talk about it!
AmaBishop Season 2
Church scandal? Led by host Nimrod Nkosi, AmaBishop’s roundtable of experts is here to ask why. Join the spiritual and church leaders as they shed light on real-life scandals and financial scams, and delve deep into some of the issues troubling the Christian religion in South Africa today.
Watch AmaBishop Season 2 from Sunday, 6 March on Moja Love (DStv Channel 157) at 21:00
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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 talkshow Ezocansi is here to delve openly into fantasies, pleasure and our satisfaction, whatever our size, age, weight, sexuality or gender. Ezocansi is here to talk.
Watch Ezocansi Season 1 from Sunday, 27 March on Moja Love (DStv Channel 157) at 22:00
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Besigheid Wat Saak Maak Season 7
This talk series showcases the people behind the businesses – what motivates them and what insights they have to offer. More than ever, the human face of the company matters so find out what makes the face of the brand tick, and pick up tips to get your own business on the road.
Watch Besigheid Wat Saak Maak Season 7 from Saturday, 19 March on VIA (DStv Channel 147) at 08:30
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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, 26 March on Me (DStv Channel 115) at 20:00
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Ekhaya Season 2
Hosted by Siyabonga Mdlalose this show highlights the issues around property ownership. Even an iron-clad will may be challenged by unhappy beneficiaries, but what this show aims to achieve is to show viewers that a family settlement is more amicable than any other solution for property disputes.
Watch Ekhaya Season 2 from Thursday, 3 March on Moja Love (DStv Channel 157) at 21:30
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Ifalami Season 2
Nothing has the potential to tear a family apart like greed. Host Sia mediates on behalf of young people who claim that their inheritance has been squandered, or that family members, financial institutions or lawyers are withholding money. Expect tough questioning because production house 3rd Strand Media (Pay Papgeld) isn’t afraid to go there.
Watch Ifalami Season 2 from Thursday, 3 March on Moja Love (DStv Channel 157) at 22:00
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Skhipha Amafiles Season 5
Community champion and series host Siyabonga Mdlalose shines the spotlight on issues such as fraud, malpractice, cults and corruption. With the evidence to back him up and reams of complaints in hand, Siyabonga confronts the cheats in person, on camera, and he makes sure that their victims are suitably compensated.
Watch Skhipha Amafiles Season 5 from Sunday, 6 March on Moja Love (DStv Channel 157) at 20:00
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No Excuses Pay Papgeld Season 6
Compassionate host Moss Makwati tackles issues of child maintenance in South Africa in this reality series that promises to track down deadbeat moms and dads so that their own children don’t keep having to pay for their selfishness, recklessness, and cluelessness about what it really costs – and takes – to raise a child.
Watch No Excuses Pay Papgeld Season 6 from Saturday, 19 March on Moja Love (DStv Channel 157) at 22:00
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Curious minds
Zoltan The WolfMan Season 1
Animal handler and trainer Zoltan Horkai works in the film and television industry. His farm is home to over 100 animals including packs of wolves, 3 bears, wild boars and deer. And he’s here to show us how he cares for, motivates and lives among his animals at home and on the set.
Watch Zoltan The WolfMan Season 1 from Wednesday, 9 March on Discovery Family (DStv Channel 136) at 17:40
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Colossal Machines Season 1
Got a vehicle obsessed little one? This series is going to grip their imagination hard. We’ll see how “massive machines require engineering extremes” in 6 episodes about astronomical engineering, sea-going craft, civil engineering machines, machines that handle mass manufacturing, specialised machines that work in subzero temperatures, and military machines.
Watch Colossal Machines Season 1 from Tuesday, 15 March on National Geographic (DStv Channel 181) at 19:00
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The Dinosaur Hunters Season 1
Dinosaurs represent 1 of the greatest revolutions in the history of science. They may be long dead, but the field of study is growing. And now new technologies have revealed secrets hidden in prehistoric bones that nobody could have foreseen until a few years ago.
Watch The Dinosaur Hunters Season 1 from Friday, 18 March on National Geographic (DStv Channel 181) at 21:00
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To Catch A Smuggler Season 4
Smuggling requires sometimes shocking ingenuity and creativity on the parts of both the smugglers and customs officers. This season sees the customs and border police head into the jungles of Puerto Rico, catch someone smuggling meth in a car bumper and cocaine in another, and stop a woman smuggling underaged puppies.
Watch To Catch A Smuggler Season 4 from Thursday, 17 March on National Geographic (DStv Channel 181) at 19:00
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Alaska Haunting Season 1
Alaskans share stories of moments they thought they were alone… only to get shocking proof that they weren’t. 1 family’s dream home seems to be occupied, a vengeful spirit wants a couple out of its log cabin, a homeowner learns about her home’s violent past, and another victim wakes up covered in scratches and bites.
Watch Alaska Haunting Season 1 from Wednesday, 2 March on Travel Channel (DStv Channel 179) at 21:10
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These Woods Are Haunted Season 3
These are the true accounts of people who ventured deep into the forest only to flee, screaming. Security guards sent to protect a church in the woods are freaked out, a family’s neighbour warns of a creature luring among the trees, and the site of a Satanic rite in California sparks werewolf rumours.
Watch These Woods Are Haunted Season 3 from Friday, 11 March on Travel Channel (DStv Channel 179) at 22:05
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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, 12 March on Me (DStv Channel 115) at 20:00
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