November’s big bang on DStv Premium

DStv brings you all the fireworks this November! This month’s series bring us all the heroes – from the real-life Captain Planets who’re competing to save the environment, to real astronauts, explorers, mountaineers and adventurers. Meanwhile drama series Fire Country gives us a villain to hero story of prison inmates saving homes and lives.

If the fire’s not hot enough, two more brand new series will be lighting up the night: vampire series Let The Right One, and shamelessly dramatic country music drama Monarch.

PS: Because you get ALL of DStv with DStv Premium, check out our other monthly highlights packages for news about November’s hit shows like The TS Madison Experience on 1Magic (DStv Channel 103), Lavish and Imboni Yama Tekisi on Mzansi Magic (DStv Channel 161), and so much more.

The fun never ends... If you can’t resist a red carpet, The Soul Train Awards 2022 are coming to BET (DStv Channel 129) on Monday, 28 November, and the MTV European Music Awards 2022 are on Sunday, 13 November on MTV (DStv Channel 130).

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Big Bang November on DStv Premium

The Earthshot Prize: Repairing Our Planet

DStv has partnered with The Earthshot Global Alliance (first launched by Prince William in 2020) this year to raise awareness about the project. This 5-episode documentary explores different Earthshot projects around the world – all of which aim to achieve five goals crucial to the survival of our planet within the next 10 years: to protect and restore nature, clean our air, revive our oceans, build a waste-free world and fix our climate. In each episode, one project will win this year’s prestigious Earthshot Prize and a cash pay-out to help them to take their work to the next level.

Watch The Earthshot Prize: Repairing Our Planet Season 1 from Sunday, 13 November at 16:15 on BBC Earth (DStv Channel 184).

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Tales From The Explorer Club

Since 1904, real-life elite adventurers have been sharing their tales with one another at The Explorer Club, which was founded in New York City. Now, the establishment forms a global network, whose adventurers aim to promote scientific exploration and field study. This documentary series opens the club’s doors to us as explorer Josh Gates takes us into the lives of legends like Edmund Hillary, Tenzing Norgay, Ernest Shackleton. Tales From The Explorer Club also explores the modern-day heroes of space exploration, those whose round-the-world expeditions inspire us, and even into the movies and TV, to reveal the real-life daring behind characters like Indiana Jones, and Brad Pitt’s character in Seven Years In Tibet.

Watch Tales From The Explorer Club Season 1 from Wednesday, 9 November at 20:00 on Discovery Channel (DStv Channel 121).

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Let The Right One In

They say you’re a day for life, but what about the afterlife? Ten years back, Mark Kane’s (Demián Bichir) 12-year-old daughter Eleanor (Madison Taylor Baez) was turned into a vampire. After years of wandering during which Mark went to extraordinary lengths to bring home the blood (both his own and other people’s), they’re returning to New York City on the trail of a cure for her condition. However, when Eleanor becomes fascinated by Isaiah Cole (Ian Foreman) and the two become best friends, Mark is in for a shock. Ian’s mom Naomi (Anika Noni Rose) is a homicide detective, and Mark has gotten a little sloppy.

Watch Let The Right One In Season 1 from Thursday, 10 November at 22:00 on M-Net (DStv Channel 101)

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Fire Country

Expect dazzling effects in this Jerry Bruckheimer-produced procedural drama series about CalFire – a wilderness firefighting unit made up of prisoners, who are hoping to knock some years off their sentences. Bode Donovan (Max Thieriot) thinks that signing up is his ticket out – until he’s assigned to his hometown, Edgewater, where he’s burned all his bridges. His mom, police chief Sharon (Diane Farr), and dad, fire chief Vince (Billy Burke), have mixed feelings about this bedraggled bird returning to their nest. In the first season, Bode learns that taking on wildfires requires a level of trust, cooperation, and concentration that leaves no room for dodgers.

Watch Fire Country Season 1 from Tuesday, 29 November at 19:00 on M-Net (DStv Channel 101)

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Monarch

Yee haw, Nashville fans, if you miss your good old soap-style country music drama, settle in, because Monarch is playing your song. The Romans, founders of record label, Monarch, are considered The First Family of Country Music. Dad Albie (Trace Adkins) and his tough wife Dottie Cantrell Roman (Susan Sarandon) are the crowned king and queen of the scene, but there’s a power struggle between the kids. Dottie favours her older daughter, Nicky (Anna Friel), leaving younger daughter Gigi (Beth Ditto) desperate for the spotlight. Their handsome brother Luke (Joshua Sasse), Monarch’s CEO, could wreck it all when he starts an affair with one of his sister’s beaus.

Watch Monarch Season 1 from Thursday, 10 November at 20:00 on M-Net (DStv Channel 101)

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Also on Premium this November

Brand-new M-Net November movies

Watch Uncharted on Sunday, 6 November at 20:05 on M-Net (DStv Channel 101)

Watch Marry Me on Sunday, 13 November at 20:05 on M-Net (DStv Channel 101)

Watch West Side Story on Sunday, 20 November at 20:05 on M-Net (DStv Channel 101)

Watch The Witches on Sunday, 27 November at 13:00 on M-Net (DStv Channel 101)

Watch Dune on Sunday, 27 November at 20:05 on M-Net (DStv Channel 101)

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• Lion: The Rise and Fall of the Marsh Pride on Monday, 14 November at 19:00 on BBC Earth (DStv Channel 184)
• Dynasties Season 2: The Making Of on Sunday, 13 November at 15:20 on BBC Earth (DStv Channel 184)
• King Tut’s 100th Anniversary on Sunday, 6 November at 19:05 on Discovery Channel (Stv Channel 121)
• Alaska: The Last Frontier Season 11 from Thursday, 17 November at 20:55 on Discovery Channel (Stv Channel 121)
• Crossfire Season 1 from Wednesday, 9 November at 22:00 on M-Net (DStv Channel 101)
• La Brea Season 2 from Saturday, 19 November at 20:00 on M-Net (DStv Channel 101)
• Nancy Drew Season 3 from Saturday, 26 November at 20:00 on M-Net (DStv Channel 101)
• CSI: Vegas Season 2 from Wednesday, 2 November at 21:00 on M-Net (DStv Channel 101)
• Evil Season 3 from Thursday, 10 November at 21:00 on M-Net (DStv Channel 101)
• The Good Doctor Season 5 from Monday, 28 November at 19:00 on M-Net (DStv Channel 101)

All package alert: November shows

Check out the other highlights packages for more on these shows…

Compact Plus

• Salvage Kings Season 3 from Wednesday, 16 November at 20:15 on History (DStv Channel 186)
• The TS Madison Experience Season 1 from Friday, 5 November at 17:00 on 1Magic (DStv Channel 103)
• The Chi Season 5 from Tuesday, 15 November at 22:00 on 1Magic (DStv Channel 103)
• Wonders Of…Asia Season 1 from Friday, 18 November at 21:00 & 22:00 on Curiosity Channel (DStv Channel 185)
• Britain’s Greatest Obsessions Season 1 from Monday, 28 November at 20:15 on History (DStv Channel 186)

Compact

• Imboni Yama Tekisi Season 1 from Wednesday, 2 November at 20:00 on Mzansi Magic (DStv Channel 161)
• Bob Hearts Abishola Season 2 from Tuesday, 15 November at 21:00 on Comedy Central (DStv Channel 122)
• Deadliest Mums & Dads Season 1 from Tuesday, 15 November at 21:00 on ID (DStv Channel 171)
• Lavish Season 1 from Friday, 4 November at 20:00 on Mzansi Magic (DStv Channel 161)
• The Savoy Season 2 from Thursday, 4 November at 20:00 on BBC Lifestyle (DStv Channel 174)

Family

• Kom Ons Braai: Familie En Vriende Season 18 from Saturday, 12 November at 20:00 on VIA (DStv Channel 147)
• X Repo Season 4 from Saturday, 5 November at 19:00 on Moja Love (DStv Channel 157)
• Good Sam Season 1 from Friday, 11 November at 21:00 on Me (DStv Channel 115)
• Gordon Ramsay Uncharted Showdown Season 1 from Wednesday, 9 November at 21:00 on National Geographic (DStv Channel 181)

Access

• My Worst Nightmare Season 1 from Saturday, 19 November at 19:45 on CBS Reality (DStv Channel 132)
• Moving Houses Season 1 from Monday, 28 November at 20:00 on The Home Channel (DStv Channel 176)
• Pop Goes The Vet With Dr. Joya Season 1 from Monday, 26 November at 18:00 on National Geographic Wild (DStv Channel 182)
• Bad Hair Day Season 1 from Friday, 11 November at 21:00 on TLC (DStv Channel 135)
• Tyler Perry’s The Oval Season 4 from Wednesday, 23 November at 22:30 on BET (DStv Channel 129)

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