10 new cosy-at-home series

Warm up your winter with a full menu of DStv’s sweetest, spiciest cooking, design and travel series. Gordon Ramsay is in New Orleans for Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmares USA.

Chefs and bakers are sweating in reality competition series like Super Mega Cakes, MasterChef Australia, and 24 in 24: Last Chef Standing. And Nadiya Hussein and The Pioneer Woman are sharing hearty home cooking.

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Or you could take a dreamy eating, drinking, designing trip to Spain, South America, or a castle in France. 

Watch it all as you dream of spring, and the return of food, fashion, art and entertainment at The DStv Delicious International Food & Music Festival – coming to Kyalami on 20 and 21 September 2025. PS: keep an eye on your Rewards and consider stockpiling those points.

10 new cosy-at-home series for your viewing menu

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MasterChef Australia

Cooking competition reality series. 24 contestants from previous seasons return to face judges Andy Allen, Sofia Levin, Jean-Christophe Novelli and Poh Ling Yeow in a series of stress tests that’ll challenge their creativity. This season, chefs are asked to appease Gordon Ramsay during a busy dinner service, come up with dishes on the fly based on Mystery Box ingredients or leftovers from a judge’s fridge, identify ingredients while blindfolded, and even remake showstoppers like Steven He's Balloon Puppy Cake.

Watch Season 17, Mondays at 6PM, Tuesdays at 5:45PM, and Wednesdays-Fridays at 6PM on M-Net Channel 101. Previous episodes available on DStv Stream.

Super Mega Cakes

Baking competition reality series. You won’t believe it’s cake when Duff Goldman and the Charm City Cakes team compete against six teams of America’s best cake artists to create mega-sized cake art. We have flying Superman cakes, gateaux disguised as gourmet meals, confections made to look like great architecture (guest judged by Drew Scott from Property Brothers), and if every week is Shark Week in your house, check out the Ocean Predators episode on Sunday, 27 July. 

Watch Season 1, Sundays at 4:05PM on Food Network Channel 175. Previous episodes available on DStv Stream.

Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmares USA

Restaurant kitchen makeover reality series. Gordon Ramsay is putting America’s Deep South to rights, one restaurant at a time, as he travels between New Orleans’ French Quarter, Louisiana, and Georgetown and Houston in Texas. Welcome to the intersection of passion and delusion. Always on the menu: tantrums, frozen seafood, ambitious owners ignoring chefs, business blunders, pre-made sauces, work relationships more toxic than botulism, and a delicious serving of Chef Ramsay being upsetty spaghetti.

Watch Season 9, Mondays to Thursdays at 22:00 on BBC Lifestyle Channel 174. Previous episodes available on DStv Stream.

The Pioneer Woman

Cooking show. Ree Drummond shares never-fail family recipes with simple ingredients and techniques, including her Chocolate Cake with Seven-Minute Frosting. Also coming up this season: sports day favourites like smash tacos, recipes for using fresh vegetables and herbs from your garden, and handheld bites for people on the go like her breakfast croissants. While we’re in her kitchen, she also shares some exciting family news, and shows us how to make a prepare-ahead dish to take to new parents.

Watch Season 38, Thursdays at 5PM and 5:30PM on Food Network Channel 175. Previous episodes available on DStv Stream.

Anton & Giovanni's Adventures in Spain

Travel show. Wish you could take a break from winter? Strictly Come Dancing stars and BFFs Anton Du Beke and Giovanni Pernice take us along in their luggage for their epic, three-episode tour of Spain – armed with a list of must-see spots from Anton’s Spanish mom. The journey starts in Andalusia, with a hot air balloon flight landing them just outside Seville. Then there’s gondola races, a dive into the language of hand fans, yachting off Marbella, and more. 

Watch Season 1, Fridays at 7PM on BBC Earth Channel 184. Previous episodes available on DStv Stream.

Nadiya’s Cook Once Eat Twice

The Great British Bake Off’s beloved winner Nadiya Hussain is here to help you make the most of your weekly grocery shopping and your kitchen time. Along with intriguing new recipes like a zero-waste banana peel curry, and a roast peanut chicken tray bake, there are great beginner recipes to set kids who’re about to leave home on the right track (or get the whole family to pitch in on prep nights), like Nadiya’s easy soda bread and instant chicken noodles. 

Watch Season 1, Tuesdays at 8PM on BBC Lifestyle Channel 174. Previous episodes available on DStv Stream.

24 in 24: Last Chef Standing

Cooking competition reality show hosted by Michael Symon and Esther Choi. 24 chefs compete in 24 challenges during eight three-hour shifts over the course of just 24 hours – if they can survive the first elimination speed round. And if you think that sounds insane, you’re right! They have to get a three-course meal to the table in just one hour, or create an art-inspired arrangement in 10 minutes. But no chef show is complete without surprise to spice things up.

Watch Season 2, Wednesdays at 5PM on Food Network Channel 175. Previous episodes available on DStv Stream.

Coming soon: Castle Impossible

Our Princess Diaries childhood dream became a grownup nightmare (and okay, yes, a dream) for American Daphne Reckert in 2020, when she inherited a 500-year-old chateau in Lesigny, France, from her maternal grandparents. Now she and her highschool sweetheart-turned-fiancé Ian Figueira must pinch pennies and come up with bright ideas to raise funds from weddings and film bookings, as they restore the rapidly crumbling castle room by room. Come along as they explore its secret passageways and surprising secrets.

Watch Season 1 from Tuesday, 29 July at 9PM on HGTV Channel 177.

Coming soon: Thirst with Shay Mitchell

Pretty Little Liars star Shay Mitchell is on the ultimate South American booze cruise, as she visits Peru, Argentina, Colombia and Brazil to meet local hosts and discuss their signature cocktails, local ingredients, drinking and brewing traditions, and more. Visit Peru’s mountain distillery, join the slow coffee movement with a morning espresso beer in Cartagena, try a flaming cocktail in Buenos Aires' first tiki bar, and get soaked in caipirinhas and cachaça shots on the island of Florianópolis.

Watch from Saturday, 26 July at 9:55PM on Food Network Channel 175.

Coming soon: Grand Designs New Zealand

Home design series. Host Tom Webster tours ambitious construction projects to explore how owner-designers, architects, and builders are coping with site challenges, the skyrocketing price of materials, and environmental issues. This season, look out for a house modelled on a Stealth Bomber, a house project that rises like a phoenix after a fire, and two busy people determined to turn a tennis court into their new beach house while coping with two landslides on their other properties. 

Watch Season 9 from 25 July at 8pm on BBC Lifestyle Channel 174.