Competitive September on DStv Compact Plus

You’re a champion this September with DStv Compact Plus. While everyone’s out there fighting to be the best, you’re on your throne, ready to award the ultimate honour – the title of your favourite show.

New comedy series I Love That For You shows just what people will do to win a slot as host of one of those “made for TV” product channels and Power Book III: Raising Kanan Season 2 is all about the struggle to rule the streets. Blown Away Season 2 gives us high blown crafts and arts drama, and in Alone: Polar Bear Island Season 9, adventurers are willing to get eaten by a whole polar bear just to prove they’re good enough to be on your TV.

Because you get to see almost everything on DStv with Compact Plus, check out our other monthly highlights packages for news about September’s hit series like Murder Inc: Pain, Love & Family Season 1, Miss Scarlet And The Duke Season 2, Better Call Saul Season 6, Coming Out Season 2, Running Wild With Bear Grylls: The Challenge Season 1, Houvrou Of Trouvrou Season 1, and Dr. Pimple Popper Season 4.

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I Love That For You Season 1

Small town nobody Joanna Gold (Vanessa Bayer) wants nothing more in life than to host a TV show on one of America’s Home Shopping networks, SVN. After she fluffs her audition, she plays on the producers’ and her co-stars’ sympathies by claiming that she has cancer. Just like that, she’s on TV, where her bumbling charm soon has viewers stampeding in, and long-time SVN host Jackie Stilton (Molly Shannon) steps up to mentor Joanna, despite her evil co-worker Beth Ann’s (Ayden Mayeri) eye rolling contempt.

Watch I Love That For You Season 1 from Monday, 5 September at 20:30 on 1Magic (DStv Channel 103)

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Power Book III: Raising Kanan Season 2

This Power drama series prequel is set in the 1990s and follows the rise of Ghost’s great rival, Kanan Stark. At the end of Season 1, Kanan had to flee his home after shooting a police officer, his biological father Detective Howard, and leaving him for dead. Now Kanan’s mom Raq is caught up in an endless struggle to hold and expand control of her drug empire on the streets of Queens, New York. And when Howard claims to have amnesia, Raq brings Kanan back home and shows him the ropes of controlling the business, from the trap houses to the “boardroom”.

Watch Power Book III: Raising Kanan Season 2 from Tuesday, 6 September at 22:00 on 1Magic (DStv Channel 103)

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The Bachelorette Season 19

Two Bachelorettes for the price of one? Yes please! Flight instructor Rachel Recchia and her co-runner up from The Bachelor Season 26, ICU nurse Gabby Windey, will be able to compare notes as they meet their 32 suitors, including a guy who’s a “meatball enthusiast”, a set of twins and other assorted dudes and bros who could afford to leave their day jobs for an indeterminate number of weeks. The first episode is, as always, a surreal treat, as it includes a children’s choir singing a song titled "Clayton Sucks", in memory of the Bachelor who rejected them both.

Watch The Bachelorette Season 19 from Thursday. 29 September at 22:00 on 1Magic (DStv Channel 103)

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Murdered By Morning Season 1

You never know when it’ll be your last night on Earth! This true crime series examines 10 cases in which exciting parties, ordinary work night shifts, pub crawls and a casino trip end in horror. We see how investigators traced the victim’s steps on that fatal night, to find their killers. Cases include that of young actress Jessie Blodgett, toy shop assistant manager Larry Wells, and of Morna Jean Brennen, whose attacker dismembered her body and left bits of her in bags all over a winter landscape.

Watch Murdered By Morning Season 1 from Monday, 5 September at 19:00 on CBS Justice (DStv Channel 170)

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Blown Away Season 2

Reality glass-blowing competition is presented by Nick Uhas (creator of science-based YouTube channel Nickipedia) and the prize is a residency at the Corning Museum Of Glass. This season’s challenges range from creating original cartoon characters, to making realistic replicas of household objects like vacuum cleaners, to an epic nature-based challenge that references climate change, which sees them make everything from icebergs to insects in glass. The guest judges include Queer Eye’s design expert Bobby Berk, and Blown Away season 1 winner, Deborah Czeresko.

Watch Blown Away Season 2 from Monday, 5 September at 20:15 on History (DStv Channel 186)

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Alone: Polar Bear Island Season 9

Adventurers can choose just 10 items to take into the wilderness with them. They’re then dropped off in Southern Labrador, Canada, each of them with their own camera. Each must survive totally isolated, no film crew, as they record their experiences. The last person left standing without calling for evacuation wins $500,000 (R8,509,190). This season, aside from the cold, lack of food, water and isolation, they’ll have to be on their guard, because they’re in polar bear territory. Well, they would be if the pack ice had formed in Baffin Bay and the Davis Strait, but it had not at the time this series was filmed.

Watch Alone: Polar Bear Island Season 9 from Thursday, 15 September at 20:15 on History (DStv Channel 186)

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Also on Compact Plus this September

• Tamar Braxton: Get Ya Life! Season 1 from Thursday, 15 September at 20:30 on 1Magic (DStv Channel 103)
• Married To Medicine: Atlanta Season 9 Mondays-Thursdays from Monday, 16 September at 19:00 on 1Magic (DStv Channel 103)
• Inside The Mind Of A Serial Killer Season 2 from Thursday, 1 September at 22:00 on Curiosity Channel (DStv Channel 185)
• Extraordinary Humans on Friday, 2 September at 22:00 on Curiosity Channel (DStv Channel 185)
• Human By Chance on Monday, 5 September at 21:00 on Curiosity Channel (DStv Channel 185)
• Becoming Human on Monday, 5 September at 21:00 on Curiosity Channel (DStv Channel 185)
• History By The Numbers Season 1 from Tuesday, 6 September at 21:00 and 22:00 on Curiosity Channel (DStv Channel 185)
• Sagrada Familia: Gaudi's Challenge on Tuesday, 13 September at 20:00 on Curiosity Channel (DStv Channel 185)
• The Secrets Of Civilization Season 1 from Tuesday, 13 September at 21:00 on Curiosity Channel (DStv Channel 185)
• Planet Insect Season 1 from Wednesday, 14 September at 21:00 on Curiosity Channel (DStv Channel 185)
• Inside The Mind Of A Con Artist Season 1 from Thursday, 15 September at 22:00 on Curiosity Channel (DStv Channel 185)
• Africa's Desert Storms on Wednesday, 21 September at 22:00 on Curiosity Channel (DStv Channel 185)
• Rust Valley Restorers Season 9 from Tuesday, 6 September at 20:15 on History (DStv Channel 186)
• Ancient Aliens Season 14 from Saturday, 24 September at 19:45 on History (DStv Channel 186)

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VIP treatment on DStv Premium this September

• Attenborough's Global Adventure Season 1 from Sunday, 11 September at 16:30 on BBC Earth (DStv Channel 184)
• Naked And Afraid XL: Frozen Season 8 from Wednesday, 28 September at 20:00 on Discovery Channel (DStv Channel 121)
• Heels Season 1 from Thursday, 8 September at 20:30 on M-Net (DStv Channel 101)
• Evil Season 3 from Thursday, 15 September at 21:30 on M-Net (DStv Channel 101)
• 74th Emmy Awards 2022 on Tuesday, 13 September at 02:00 and 21:30 on M-Net (DStv Channel 101)
• Young Rock Season 2 from Saturday, 24 September at 19:00 on M-Net (DStv Channel 101)
• The First Lady Season 1 from Monday, 26 September at 20:00 on M-Net (DStv Channel 101)

All package alert: September shows

Check out the other highlights packages for more on these shows, which you will also be able to watch this September…

Compact

• Murder Inc.: Pain, Love & Family Season 1 from Tuesday, 21 September at 22:00 on BET (DStv Channel 129)
• The Julia Child Challenge Season 1 from Wednesday, 7 September at 19:55 on The Food Network (DStv Channel 175)
• The Murdaugh Murders: Deadly Dynasty on Sunday, 25 September at 21:00 on ID (DStv Channel 171)
• The Wife Season 1 Mondays-Fridays from Monday, 12 September at 21:30 on Mzansi Magic (DStv Channel 161)
• Miss Scarlett And The Duke Season 2 from Monday, 12 September at 20:00 on BBC Brit (DStv Channel 120)

Family

• Better Call Saul Season 6 from Monday, 5 September at 22:00 on Me (DStv Channel 115)
• Mzansi Greed Season 1 from Thursday, 1 September at 21:30 on Moja Love (DStv Channel 157)
• Coming Out Season 2 from Saturday, 17 September at 21:30 on Moja Love (DStv Channel 157)
• Running Wild With Bear Grylls: The Challenge Season 1 from Wednesday, 28 September at 21:00 on National Geographic (DStv Channel 181)
• Head Over Heels Season 1 from Monday, 19 September at 18:10 on tlnovelas (DStv Channel 133)
• Private Eyes Season 5 from Friday, 9 September at 20:00 on Universal TV (DStv Channel 117)
• Houvrou Of Trouvrou Season 1 from Wednesday, 28 September at 20:00 on VIA (DStv Channel 147)

Access

• My Life With A Disfigurement on Saturday, 10 September at 20:40 on CBS Reality (DStv Channel 132)
• The Incredible Dr. Pol Season 11 from Monday, 5 September at 22:00 on National Geographic Wild (DStv Channel 182)
• Hidden Passion Season 1 from Monday, 26 September at 22:00 on Telemundo (DStv Channel 118)
• Dr. Pimple Popper Season 4 from Friday, 2 September at 21:00 on TLC (DStv Channel 135)
• 7 Little Johnstons Season 8 from Wednesday, 21 September at 20:00 on TLC (DStv Channel 135)

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