DStv Premium Highlights October 2025

News 01 October 2025

It’s Hot-tober on DStv Premium with red-hot series including Fire Country Season 3, Alone: South Africa, Kevin Costner’s The West and more.

It’s Hot-tober on DStv Premium and we’re sweating! We have the first-ever season of endurance reality series alone set in a desert environment, as contestants head for the Karoo in Alone: South Africa. Serial killer Dexter is back from the dead in Dexter: Resurrection, and John Dutton himself takes Yellowstone fans for a dive into history in the documentary series Kevin Costner’s The West. Halloween fan? We’ve got you! Check out Witches of Essex with Rylan and Prof Alice Roberts.

But the hottest ticket of all must be the Rugby Championship 2025: Springboks vs Argentina on Saturday, 4 October, and the Proteas cricket T20I against Namibia, and ICC World Test Championship 2025-27 in Pakistan. Read on for all of this and more coming to DStv Premium this October.

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Too-hot-to-handle dramas

Lockerbie: A Search for Truth

On 21 December 1988, a bomb exploded aboard Pan Am Flight 103, 38 minutes after take-off. All 259 passengers and crew died, along with 11 people on the ground as the flaming wreckage rained down on the Scottish town of Lockerbie. To date it remains the deadliest terrorist attack in UK history. This docu-drama follows Dr Jim Swire’s (Colin Firth) quest for truth and justice, as he’s nominated spokesperson for the UK victims’ families after losing his two-year-old daughter.

Watch Lockerbie: A Search for Truth Season 1 from Wednesday, 8 October at 9PM on M-Net Channel 101.

Dexter: Resurrection

In the original Dexter, serial killer and police blood spatter expert Dexter Morgan (Michael C Hall) faked his death in a hurricane. Ten years later he resurfaced as “Jim Lindsay” in Dexter: New Blood. Cornered again, he convinced his son Harrison to kill him. Ten weeks later, Dexter wakes from a coma to track down Harrison (Jack Alcott), killing other serial killers along the way – which brings him to the attention of billionaire serial killer collector Leon Prater (Peter Dinklage).

Watch Dexter: Resurrection Season 1 from Tuesday, 7 October at 9PM on M-Net Channel 101, and on Showmax. Binge prequel series Dexter: Original Sin on DStv Stream and on Showmax. And Binge Dexter Season 1-8 on Showmax.

Fire Country

Produced by Jerry Bruckheimer, this action series centres on the programme in which prisoners become “volunteer” Cal Fire firefighters in high-risk areas of Northern California in exchange for reduced sentences. This season, firefighter and paramedic Gabriela’s (Stephanie Arcila) wedding day is interrupted by a helicopter crash, prisoner-turned-Station 42 fireman Bode (Max Thieriot) is offered a life-changing career opportunity, and he and Gabriela consider admitting their secret. And an underground “zombie” fire and a hoarder house fire promise added excitement.

Watch Fire Country Season 3 from Friday, 17 October at 7PM and 8PM on M-Net Channel 101. Binge Fire Country Season 1 on Showmax.

Shakespeare & Hathaway

The UK’s cosiest crime series is back after a three-year break! Private detectives Lu Shakespeare (Jo Joyner) and Frank Hathaway (Mark Benton) are back on the beat in Stratford-upon-Avon as social media influencers run amok, and Frank is invited to a Murder Mystery School Reunion that leaves him trapped in an isolated mansion with an ex-girlfriend as a killer starts picking off players. And a movie director falls victim to one of their own creations at Stratford’s annual Horror-upon-Avon convention.

Watch Shakespeare & Hathaway Season 5 from Monday, 13 October at 8PM on BBC Brit Channel 120.

Heated history documentaries

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Kevin Costner’s The West

Yellowstone star Kevin Costner and Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Doris Kearns Goodwin teamed up to create this eight-part history of the American West during the time of westward “expansion”. The series’ mix of interviews and reenactments focuses on the clashes between government and military-backed settlers – including missionaries, hunters, gold prospectors, slavers, ranchers and other land-grabbers – and Native Americans like the Lakota Sioux, Comanche, Cayuse, Blackfoot, and Miami, who had thousands of years of experience living in the West’s unique environments.

Watch Kevin Costner's The West from Sunday, 5 October at 8:15PM on History Channel 186.

Witches of Essex with Rylan and Prof Alice Roberts

Looking for a truly haunted Halloween? Between 1450 and 1750, thousands of women across Britain were tried for witchcraft. The accusations tore through communities, turning neighbours, friends and families against each other. Essex alone accounted for 60% of all executions in the UK. In this three-part series from Louis Theroux’s production company, former Celebrity Big Brother winner Rylan Clark and Professor Alice Roberts dig into history to find out why women, specifically, were under attack.

Watch Witches of Essex with Rylan and Prof Alice Roberts from Friday, 31 October at 8:15PM on History Channel 186.

Alone: South Africa

The 12th season of Alone takes 10 tough survivors into the Great Karoo desert, where they’ll need to live off the land and survive by their wits – last competitor standing wins! This is the first time that Alone has shot in a semi-desert region, but the survivalists, including an Australian and a New Zealander, are being dropped off on the shores of a lake, where there’s abundant game … including baboons. Uh oh. Better get those shelters and fires built.

Watch Alone: South Africa Season 12 from Thursday, 30 October at 7:25PM on History Channel 186.

BBQ Brawl

Expand your palate as two new chefs, Maneet Chauhan and Antonia Lofaso, don their aprons as captains to challenge Bobby Flay and his team for their barbecue crown, under the eyes of judges Carson Kressley, Brooke Williamson, and Rodney Scott. We’ll be taking notes in episode 3’s cooking challenge, with flavours from around the world in a Global Live-Fire Feast. And there are baking and vegetarian challenges in episode 7 that prove “you don’t need meat to bring the heat”.

Watch BBQ Brawl Season 6 from Monday, 6 October at 7PM on Food Network Channel 175.

Lifestyle’s hottest destination is…

Sue Perkins’ Big Adventure: Paris to Istanbul

Former Bake Off host and Taskmaster competitor Sue Perkins is following the route of the Orient Express from Paris to Istanbul. Tune is as she becomes a model during Paris Fashion Week and eats a croissant the size of her head, splashes about as a mermaid in Strasbourg, joins Munich’s Pride parade, yodels for YouTube in Salzburg, goes dancing at Budapest’s hottest party, visits Transylvania's Castle Dracula, and sinks her fangs into real Turkish Delight in Istanbul.

Watch Sue Perkins' Big Adventure: Paris to Istanbul from Friday, 24 October at 7PM on BBC Earth Channel 184

Sports on fire!

Rugby Championship 2025: Springboks vs Argentina

Argentina is back for more in the final week of the Championship at Twickenham, after taking a 67-30 pounding from defending champions South Africa on 27 September, during which Sacha Feinberg-Mngomezulu broke the South Africa record for points scored in a Test, with three tries, eight conversions and two penalties. We get the feeling that the Bokke have gotten fond of that trophy, and don’t want to give it back, so best of luck to Los Pumas.

Watch Rugby Championship 2025: Springboks vs Argentina on Saturday, 4 October from 2:50PM on SuperSport Rugby Channel 2011.

Cricket: ICC World Test Championship 2025-27

The Proteas are off to Pakistan to defend their ICC World Test Championship title in Lahore and Rawalpindi. With Temba Bavuma recovering from calf strain, David Miller will lead the squad for the T20I games in Pakistan, while Dafabet Warriors’ Matthew Breetzke takes charge for the ODI series. It’s exciting enough to bring Quinton de Kock out of retirement!

Watch the ICC World Test Championship 2025-27, Pakistan vs the Proteas, First Test from Sunday, 12 October at 6:20AM on SuperSport Cricket Channel 212 (with highlights on SuperSport Variety 1, Channel 206) until Thursday, 16 October. Second Test 20-24 October. First T20I on 28 October, Second T20I on 31 October. See your SuperSport schedules for details.

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