SA’s most exciting TV, from Housekeepers Season 2 and Dance Nation: Amapiano Vs Gqom Season 1 delivered right to you by DStv Access in April 2022
DStv Access brings SA’s best entertainment to you this April, whether you love telenovelas, local drama, talent shows, the real people, the romance or the luxury homes…or all of it!
Thando Thabethe returns in Housekeepers Season 2. If you were wondering how she was going to escape with that bloody knife at the end of Season 1, Season 2 has the answers. It’s only going to get more intense for poor Linda, with a funeral home in her future. There’s also a new telenovela, The Scent of Passion, to enjoy.
MTV Base (DStv Channel 322) is bringing us an unusual must-watch talent show, Dance Nation: Amapiano Vs Gqom Season 1. If you love TV with personality, the super parents with 14 kids are back in Doubling Down With The Derricos Season 3 and 1000LB Best Friends Season 1 follows 4 morbidly obese BFFs as they support each other through treatment with bariatric surgeon Dr. Procter. Thato Molamu is back to reunite families in Abazali Season 2, and we go inside some of the UK’s dirtiest and most disastrous homes in Call The Cleaners Seasons 1 & 2.
If you like your reality series for the romance, tune in for new seasons and series starting like 90 Day: The Single Life Season 2, the shocking and confrontational Not The One For You Season 1 on Mzansi Wethu (DStv Channel 163), Mnakwethu: Happily Ever After Season 1, and Pastor Wants A Wife Season 1.
National Geographic Wild (DStv Channel 182) is bringing us everything that bites and stings in Deadliest Month Ever and Something Bit Me! Season 1, and for a grassroots level look at what’s happening on the farm in SA, Tony Ndoro replaces Lindiwe Sithole as host of African Farming Season 3 on Mzansi Wethu (DStv Channel 163).
All this, plus 3 new design & decor show seasons, all the action on KIX (DStv Channel 114) and Easter Specials on Dumisa (DStv Channel 340) and 1Gospel (DStv Channel 331). DStv Access is bringing it to you, this April.
Remake the classic telenovela that aims to bring back the magic of Hacienda Casablanca and the inspiring love class-crossing story of Gaviota and Sebastián. Shortly after the death of the owner of Hacienda Casablanca, migrant coffee picker Gaviota meets his son, Sebastián, to claim the land that his father left her in his will.
Watch The Scent Of Passion Season 1 from Monday, 4 April at 22:00 on Telemundo (DStv Channel 189).
Linda (Thando Thabethe) is blackmailed into going undercover to work as a housekeeper for a new batch of the rich & ruthless: Clive Ngubane (Lindani Nkosi) and his wife, Noli (Xolile Tshabalala), who run a funeral parlour… and were owed a big chunk of cash by the Zwide family in exchange for certain favours that might horrify Linda.
Watch Housekeepers Season 2 from Monday, 11 April at 21:30 on Mzansi Wethu (DStv Channel 163).
It’s a dance-off with a twist: no judges, no prize money, no influencers, just Culture. Quick stepping, body popping Amapiano champs bring the spirit of the pouncing cat, while the rhythm of KZN comes through as Gqom’s flexible, attention grabbing bhenga dancers reply with a gwarra-gwarra.
Watch Dance Nation: Amapiano vs. Gqom Season 1 from Friday, 22 April at 17:30 on MTV Base (DStv Channel 322).
Parents Deon and Karen Derrico are facing a whole new set of challenges with 14 kids aged between 2 and 15 years old. This season, we’ll see the family try to go vegan for GG and prepare for a big moving day. But with GG’s health crisis hitting home, plans are up in the air.
Watch Doubling Down With The Derricos Season 3 from Wednesday, 13 April at 21:00 on TLC (DStv Channel 135).
Meghan, Vanessa, Tina and Ashley are larger-than-life best friends who’re battling morbid obesity together under treatment from Dr. Procter. They’re tackling the hard work with heart and a wicked sense of humour and have been friends since high school. They’ll reveal what it's been like being weight loss losers for so many years.
Watch 1000LB Best Friends Season 1 from Monday, 18 April at 20:00 on TLC (DStv Channel 135).
A team of specialist cleaners take us along as they enter the UK’s grimiest homes, to help people who’ve become thoroughly overwhelmed by housework, from an old lady in her 1-room London flat, to a Landlady in Kent whose tenants trashed an entire house, and an old man who’s been hoarding for 30 years.
Watch Call The Cleaners Seasons 1 & 2 from Monday, 25 April at 21:00 on TLC (DStv Channel 135).
This reality show helps parents who have been denied access to their children to establish a relationship with them. Host Thato Molamu’s skilled mediation and legal expert Stanley Malematja’s know-how managed to get 11 out of 13 relationships back on track in Season 1. Now there’s more hope for reconciliation.
Watch Abazali Season 2 from Saturday, 9 April at 20:30 on Mzansi Wethu (DStv Channel 163).
90 Day Fiancé favourites are looking for love again. This season we follow Stephanie Matto (Before the 90 Days Season 4), Darcey Silva’s ex, Jesse Meester who makes a connection with Jeniffer Tarazona (Before the 90 Days Season 3), Ukrainian Natalie Mordovtseva (90 Day Fiancé Season 7 & 8) and Big Ed (again).
Watch 90 Day: The Single Life Season 2 from Thursday, 7 April at 20:00 on TLC (DStv Channel 135).
Musa Mseleku advised men on how to approach their wives about opening their marriage to another woman. The first meeting between Qondanisa’s wife, Sithokozile, and his girlfriend, Samantha, erupted in a screaming match. And while Dulas’s wife, MaDlamini, accepted his wish to marry aMaMmhlongo, she wasn’t willing to be packed off to the rurals. Find out what happened next.
Watch Mnakwethu: Happily Ever After Season 1 from Wednesday, 27 April at 19:00 on Mzansi Wethu (DStv Channel 163).
Pastors Aaron, Zion and Lincoln are looking for true love and a woman fit to stand by their side and help them to lead a church in this new reality show from super producer Basetsana Kumalo. 12 women are onboard to compete for their hearts and prove that they can be the perfect “Mamfundisi”.
Watch Pastor Wants A Wife Season 1 from Wednesday, 6 April at 19:00 on Mzansi Wethu (DStv Channel 163).
Brothers Jonathan and Drew help families to turn their current homes into their dream homes so they never have to move. The homeowners choose between 2 design options and from then on they’re in the dark until the big reveals. This is not about resale value, it’s about finding the heart!
Watch Property Brothers: Forever Home Season 1 from Monday, 11 April at 17:00 on The Home Channel (DStv Channel 176).
Contractor and designer Danielle Bryk is tackling 1 massive project. She’s knocking down the rundown old Bryk family cabin to build a new family cottage and holiday home for her sister and brother-in-law in its place. As well as weathering personal challenges, Danielle will have to make the cabin as eco conscious as possible.
Watch The Bryk Retreat Season 1 from Tuesday, 12 April at 19:00 on The Home Channel (DStv Channel 176).
Kirstie Allsopp and Phil Spencer are playing matchmaker between hopeful house hunters and their dream homes. Their clients will settle for nothing less than perfection. This season, we revisit former clients, too, like the couple who wanted to start a hot tub business in the Lake District.
Watch Location Location Location Season 23 from Monday, 25 April at 20:00 on The Home Channel (DStv Channel 176).
Simon Toohey explores sustainable, fresh, flavour-packed cooking, building exciting flavour combinations with everyday fruit and veg. Look out for his tips on how to buy delicious produce in season to create street food, salads and dals. He also welcomes guests into his kitchen to share their home cooking.
Watch Freshly Picked with Simon Toohey Season 1 from Tuesday, 26 April at 18:00 on The Home Channel (DStv Channel 176).
Tony Ndoro replaces Lindiwe Sithole as host this season as he sets about meeting with successful black commercial farmers to discuss everything from grand strategy of securing international markets, to the nitty gritty of caring for the soil and looking after wetlands so you can farm for the future.
Watch African Farming Season 3 from Thursday, 7 April at 18:30 on Mzansi Wethu (DStv Channel 163).
Footage of the most riveting moments of animal predation every Sunday throughout April.
Sunday, 3 April: Bite, Sting, Kill (episode 4): Animals that kill with venom, like deadly spiders, snakes, the Komodo dragon, the platypus and the slow Loris.
Sunday, 10 April: Africa’s Deadliest Swamps: Africa’s predators use their environment to execute the perfect kill.
Sunday, 17 April: Africa’s Deadliest Oceans: This episode showcases how Africa’s marine life survive, with brute strength, cunning behaviour and killer instincts!
Sunday, 24 April: Africa’s Deadliest Small But Deadly: From meerkats to monitor lizards, eagles and antlions, what these predators lack in size, they make up for in power, strength and tenacity.
Watch Deadliest Month Ever from Sunday, 3 April at 18:00 on National Geographic Wild (DStv Channel 182).
These are true stories of how animal encounters, from flies to lions, have sent people to the ER. Hear from the personal trainer who became the prey as they realised they were being stalked along a trail, and a couple whose romantic hike turned into a trail of terror.
Watch Something Bit Me! Season 1 from Wednesday, 6 April at 18:00 on National Geographic Wild (DStv Channel 182).
Cats and dogs? Nah, Dr Susan Kelleher treats only exotic animals that normal vets won’t see. This season an unresponsive ferret is rushed to the clinic for emergency care, and a gender-reveal party for a young marmoset is fun for the whole clinic. Patients include a kinkajou, a fox, and a swan.
Watch Dr K's Exotic Animal ER Season 7 from Monday, 25 April at 18:00 on National Geographic Wild (DStv Channel 182).
The KIX action starts on Good Friday with action filled documentary film Kung Fu Stuntmen, complete with interview from the likes of Sammo Hung, Mars Cheung and Donnie Yen, followed by all 6 of the movies featured in the docu-film, including Millionaire’s Express, Heart Of Dragon and Police Story. This is an instant classic, for anyone who loves their KIX movies.
Saturday, 16 April at 19:00: Armour of God
Saturday, 16 April at 20:45: Iron Monkey
Sunday, 17 April at 19:00: Once Upon a Time In China
Sunday, 17 April at 20:45: Heart of Dragon
Monday, 18 April at 19:00: Police Story
Monday, 18 April at 20:45: The Big Boss
Watch Easter Holiday Specials from Friday, 15 April at 19:00 on KIX (DStv Channel 114).
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