DStv Compact brings the party to you in April 2022
Highlights
01 April 2022
Fresh reality & lifestyle shows like The Great British Bake-Off Season 12, Battle of The Ankara Season 1 on DStv Compact
With so many public holidays on the way this April, you can count on DStv Compact to bring the party to your house. We have: 7 luxury lifestyle series and seasons starting; 4 fresh true crime shows; 14 reality shows filled with human drama; 10 reality competition series, and so much more!
A dazzling fashion design competition is on the way in Battle of The Ankara Season 1, with judges Palesa Mokubung and Gert-Johan Coetzee. And if you love clever people making beautiful things, also look out for The Great British Bake-Off Season 12 and hairstyling competition Hair To The Throne Season 1. Silly fun meets talent in The Masked Singer UK Season 3, and if you like it hot in the kitchen, look out for Alex vs. America Season 1, Chopped Season 50 and Come Dine With Me (UK) Season 14.
If you love real drama from real people, April really is your month on DStv Compact. Bring the tissues when Abandoned Season 2 reunites kids with their lost parents, bring the popcorn for Twice As Bold Season 1, which follows 31-year-old polygamous twin sisters Olwethu and Owami Siko, who married the same man. Then if you like the spice of romance with your reality, brace yourself for Below Deck Mediterranean Season 6, Pastor Wants A Wife Season 2 with new bachelor Tshego Modisakeng, the confrontational Why Are You Hiding Me? Season 1 and Temptation Island SA Season 1, the sweet Will He Say Yes? Kenya Season 1, Ehe! It's A Match: Nigeria Season 1, and the fascinating Makoti Season 1. And that’s just the tip of the iceberg!
There are also all your luxe lifestyle, home reno and deco series like The World's Most Luxurious Holidays Season 1, Grand Designs Season 18, Fix My Flip Season 1, Flip Or Flop Season 10, and the fun and funny My Lottery Dream Home Season 12.
It’s all waiting for you this April on DStv Compact…
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Matt Lucas and Noel Fielding return as hosts with judges Paul Hollywood and Prue Leith in TV’s nicest ultimate baking battle. This season’s contestants include a physicist, a chief engineer, a software developer and a detective. Challenges including baking a Prinzregententorte, Chouxnuts and a mad Hatter Tea Party display.
Watch The Great British Bake-Off Season 12 from Monday, 11 April at 20:00 on BBC Lifestyle (DStv Channel 174).
Design competition series hosted by Luthando "Loot Love” Shosha, with Palesa Mokubung and Gert-Johan Coetzee as judges. 10 up-and-coming fashion designers from different African regions compete for the Ankara fashion crown, with dazzling designs inspired by, rooted in and based on the Ankara fabric.
Watch Battle of The Ankara Season 1 from Monday, 11 April at 17:30 on Honey (DStv Channel 173).
Action-packed hairstyling competition hosted by Nigerian supermodel Adeola Ariyo. 8 African stylists go head-to-head for the title of champion stylist. Each week they’ll be given a unique challenge in which they’ll create a dazzling do in a limited amount of time. 1 competitor is eliminated each week until just 1 Hair Knockout champion remains.
Watch Hair To The Throne Season 1 from Monday, 11 April at 16:00 on Honey (DStv Channel 173).
Gameshow. 12 celebrities, whose identities are hidden by elaborate costumes on and off stage, perform for judges Davina McCall, singer Rita Ora, stand-up comic Mo Gilligan and presenter Jonathan Ross, who have to guess who they are. There’s a Westlife singer and a former X-Factor judge in this year’s pack.
Watch The Masked Singer UK Season 3 from Sunday, 10 April at 19:00 on BBC Brit (DStv Channel 120).
Each week, 5 strangers take turns to throw a dinner party somewhere in the UK, with the guests scoring the experience as a whole. It’s the ultimate fly on the wall experience as we go inside strangers’ homes, learn their dinner party secrets and critique their table manners.
Watch Come Dine With Me Season 14 from Monday 12 April at 18:00 on BBC Lifestyle (DStv Channel 174).
Iron Chef Alex Guarnaschelli takes on 3 chefs 2 rounds of cooking in each episode. They’ll serve their dishes to the judges in a blind taste test, and anyone – even Alex – can be sent home for presenting the weakest dish. There’s a cash prize on the line but the real victory would be outcooking Alex.
Watch Alex vs. America Season 1 from Saturday, 23 April at 19:55 on Food Network (DStv Channel 175).
Cooking competition series. 4 chefs compete in a 3-round contest during which they must use the random ingredients that they have been assigned in innovative and delicious ways. This season, the chefs must prepare food for a picky dog, use milkshakes and chips in a dish, and figure out what to make with fish offal.
Watch Chopped Season 50 from Wednesday, 27 April at 19:00 on Food Network (DStv Channel 175).
4 teams of HGTV’s in-house experts – Egypt Sherrod and Mike Jackson (Married to Real Estate), twins Leslie Davis and Lyndsay Lamb (Unsellable Houses); couple Dave and Jenny Marrs (Fixer to Fabulous); and Keith Bynum and Evan Thomas (Bargain Block) – have 6 weeks and $225,000 (R3,320,676) to renovate identical properties. With host Ty Pennington.
Watch Rock The Block Season 3 from Tuesday, 5 April at 22:00 on HGTV (DStv Channel 177).
Ben Shephard hosts this game show which gives contestants a chance to win up to £20,000 (R389,365). 4 Players answer quiz questions to earn counters, which are then dropped into the Tipping Point machine (a giant version of the games arcade coin pusher). Get the giant counter out to win the grand prize.
Watch Tipping Point Season 10 from Monday, 4 April at 18:00 on BBC Brit (DStv channel 120)
Reality series that follows 4 families for 4 weeks as they spend, save and grow the stack of cash that they’ve been given by Nedbank. Each of the families will share their goals at the start, and we get to see who gets the closest to meeting those goals.
Watch Nedbank Family Money Challenge Season 1 from Saturday, 2 April at 19:00 on BET (DStv Channel 129).
Host Phumeza Mdabe brings kindness and emotional intelligence to her ongoing quest to help reunite children with their long-lost, estranged or unknown parents. She goes all out to protect scared and vulnerable clients as she prepares them for one of the most difficult encounters of their lives with someone they were told abandoned them.
Watch Abandoned Season 2 from Tuesday, 12 April at 20:00 on Mzansi Magic (DStv Channel 161).
31-year-old twin sisters Olwethu and Owami Siko are so close that they married the same man, stayed with him for 9 years and had daughters with him, born just 2 months apart. In this reality series, they’re looking for a new Mr. Right while also on a spiritual journey to explore their calling as prophets.
Watch Twice As Bold Season 1 from Thursday, 7 April at 20:00 on Mzansi Magic (DStv Channel 161).
Join Captain Sandy Yawn and her young, attractive crew members aboard the Lady Michelle as they navigate the high seas, and the drama below decks, while floating the world’s most spoiled and demanding clients around the Med. Look out for South African deckhand Mzi "Zee" Dempers. Andy Cohen hosts the finale reunion episode.
Watch Below Deck Mediterranean Season 6 from Sunday, 10 April at 18:20 on E! Entertainment (DStv Channel 124).
35-year-old Tshego Modisakeng is a man of god, IT technician and entrepreneur from Rustenburg. This father of 2 is looking for his Mrs. Right, and he wants someone outspoken who’s not into playing games. And while being in the church is a bonus, she doesn’t need to be involved in church activities.
Watch Pastor Wants A Wife Season 2 from Wednesday, 6 April at 20:00 on Mzansi Magic (DStv Channel 161).
Reality. People in relationships slowly realise that those they love are keeping their relationships behind closed doors. They’re refusing to introduce them to family or friends, and hesitant to show affection in public. Now they’re asking why, and huge secrets that could threaten the relationship come to light.
Watch Why Are You Hiding Me? Season 1 from Monday, 25 April at 22:00 on MTV (DStv Channel 130).
Women take the bull by the horns and propose to their boyfriends. With the aid of hosts Rose Sibisi and Tin Tin, each woman will get the opportunity to plan an authentic proposal. But will the man of their dreams say yes? Tune in and find out.
Watch Will He Say Yes? Kenya Season 1 from Wednesday, 13 April at 16:00 on Honey (DStv Channel 173).
Romantic reality series. Someone who has always wanted to introduce 2 of their single friends to 1 another gets the chance to do so. They’ll transform their kitchen into a pop-up restaurant and host a date for 2 singles in their house. It’s a chance to see Nigerian courtship up close!
Watch Ehe! It's A Match: Nigeria Season 1 from Friday, 15 April at 18:30 on Honey (DStv Channel 173).
This reality series is based on the cultural practice referred to as ukukotiza in isiZulu – a period in which a woman moves in with her in-laws after lobola is paid. Over the course of 13 episodes, we follow couples from different backgrounds as the brides-to-be spend 21 days in their potential in-laws’ houses.
Watch Makoti Season 1 from Saturday, 2 April at 19:30 on Mzansi Magic (DStv Channel 161).
Host Phat Joe goes from hosting the Real Housewives of Durban reunion to guiding 4 couples at a crossroads in their relationship as they try to determine whether it’s time to commit or split – with the help of a host of sexy singles who’re going to go all-out to break them up and find love themselves.
Watch Temptation Island SA Season 1 from Saturday, 9 April at 21:30 on Mzansi Magic (DStv Channel 161).
Louis Theroux meets with people in America’s entertainment system who’re accused of dangerous and criminal behaviour. Hear from rappers accused of toxic behaviour, content creators of the far right and their leaders who’re behind the misogynistic, racist white supremacist movement, and see how the porn industry is handing its #MeToo reckoning.
Watch Louis Theroux: Forbidden America Season 1 from Thursday, 14 April at 21:10 on BBC Brit (DStv channel 120)
Suge Jacob Knight, son of infamous hip-hop producer Suge Knight, sets off to become a licensed estate agent and million-dollar deal maker in Southern California. We’ll meet his determined agents and celebrity clients like Vivica A. Fox, NLE Choppa, and Loni Love. But drama ensues when the lines between business and pleasure blur in the party lifestyle.
Watch Love & Listing Season 1 from Tuesday, 5 April at 21:30 on BET (DStv Channel 129).
Dr. Terry Dubrow and Dr. Paul Nassif have new patients looking for cosmetic surgery, including 1 patient who wants Tiffany Pollard’s nose, a rock ’n roller with a droopy eye, a woman whose “mommy makeover” went tragically wrong, and a trans woman who gets both docs up and dancing. Plus, Justin Jedlica “The Human Doll” returns.
Watch Botched Season 7B from Sunday, 10 April at 18:20 on E! Entertainment (DStv Channel 124).
Catch up with former makeover clients including farmer Gail, Julie and Sylvia and Paulette and Tom. We saw how their glamorous transformations shocked family and friends, but how did that impact their lives in practical and emotional terms, and were they able to keep up the good work?
Watch 10 Years Younger Changed My Life Season 1 from Thursday, 7 April at 20:00 on BBC Lifestyle (DStv Channel 174).
Chef Cliff Crooks is out to retrain and reinspire struggling chefs across the US. This season, a food truck owner and caterer needs to learn how to attract clients, a messy cook gets set right, and a former executive chef who had to start over as a line cook gets a boost.
Watch Chef Bootcamp Season 2 from Sunday, 17 April at 19:00 on Food Network (DStv Channel 175).
Kenya’s Chef Chep Chikoni hosts this thrilling cooking journey. In each episode the chef will present exciting Kenyan meals that are quick and easy to make, and she’ll show viewers across the continent the tips and techniques for creating the best version of the dish in their own kitchens.
Watch My Kenyan Plate Season 1 from Tuesday, 12 April at 16:30 on Honey (DStv Channel 173).
Architect George Clarke takes us to meet people who’re transforming unusual places into spaces to live, play and work. Meet a couple who turned an old fire engine into a bar where they raise money for firefighters' charities, a 23-year-old who built a shepherd's hut from scratch, and an extraordinary home in Chile.
Watch George Clarke's Amazing Spaces Season 10 from Friday, 15 April at 20:00 on BBC Lifestyle (DStv Channel 174).
Find out how the super-rich take a break from doing whatever. See where they go, how they get there, and what they experience. Go inside New York's Mark Hotel, where Meghan Markle held her baby shower, the Royal Malewane in South Africa's Kruger National Park, the Royal Mansour in Marrakesh and more.
Watch The World's Most Luxurious Holidays Season 1 from Thursday, 28 April at 20:00 on BBC Lifestyle (DStv Channel 174).
Kevin McCloud discusses ambitious building or renovation plans, then follows the build throughout the entire process. This season, see the progress of a Victorian gatehouse in London, a Roman house in Hertfordshire and a longhouse in County Down among others. Place your bets now on whether the marriage will survive the project.
Watch Grand Designs Season 18 from Friday 9 April at 20:00 on BBC Lifestyle (DStv Channel 174).
Estate agent Page Turner helps would-be house flippers who are stuck, losing money and in over their heads. She offers them a partnership and profit-share, and in exchange she'll bring in her own team, money, expertise and tough love to get their projects back on track and back making a profit.
Watch Fix My Flip Season 1 from Thursday, 21 April at 21:00 on HGTV (DStv Channel 177).
Recently divorced partners Tarek and Christina take on home reno challenges in 1 final season together, including expensive foundation issues, complicated design choices, a year-long renovation project and the addition of a studio rental unit to increase a home’s value. With so many projects on the go, will they have a flop on their hands?
Watch Flip Or Flop Season 10 from Thursday, 14 April at 21:00 on HGTV (DStv Channel 177).
David Bromstad helps his instantly rich clients across the United States, including a homeless man who inherited a small fortune after his mother died, to find fantasy homes to fit their newfound wealth. This season, he sources a waterfront getaway in Cape Coral, Florida, a sprawling family estate in Atlanta, Georgia and more.
Watch My Lottery Dream Home Season 12 from Monday, 18 April at 21:30 on HGTV (DStv Channel 177).
True-crime series on people who shared their homes with a killer. This season, Judith Hawkey forces her stepson to shoot his father, Robert Foust slowly becomes aware that his son Aaron is a sociopath, and Timothy Spencer “bullies” his little brother Travis as practice for how he’d attack his rape and murder victims.
Watch Evil Lives Here Season 7 from Tuesday, 12 April at 21:00 on ID (DStv Channel 171).
True crime. Orange County Crime Scene Investigator Alina Burroughs sheds light on the forensic evidence behind shocking murder cases, including the murder of toddler Caylee Anthony, and the 2016 Pulse nightclub massacre, and the deaths of Michelle Witherell, Brian Hughes and Stacie Pannell, whose killer was someone truly unexpected.
Watch Crime Scene Confidential Season 1 from Thursday, 21 April at 21:00 on ID (DStv Channel 171).
True-crime series focussed on the lies exposed during murder investigations. This season, Henry Seugura violently murders his mistress and her 3 children, including his own son, to avoid paying overdue child support, and Janet Ray claims that her mysteriously missing husband has just gone fishing.
Watch Where Murder Lies Season 2 from Friday, 29 April at 21:00 on ID (DStv Channel 171).
True crime. Fugitive murderer Richard Lee McNair tells the story of his 1992 prison break (1 of 3 times he escaped prison) and 10 months of life on the run, while his friends and family, the law enforcement officers he betrayed, and journalists tell their sides of the story in this 4-episode series.
Watch The Prison Breaker Season 1 from Saturday, 9 April at 21:00 on ID (DStv Channel 171).
Insiders used their lived experiences to help us to explore the things we love and the things we love to hate about South Africa and being South African. Examine all the things that make being Black in this country unique and funny and what we want to keep going forward.
Watch The Culture Capsule Season 1 from Saturday, 9 April at 19:30 on BET (DStv Channel 129).
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