Premium TV highlights this August on DStv

In Treatment S4

Grieving LA-based therapist Dr. Brooke Taylor (Uzo Aduba) gets too involved when she starts treating her entitled, angry, frightened patients in her own home and via Zoom, thanks to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Watch from Friday, 6 August on M-Net (DStv channel 101) at 21:30 (double bill)

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The Good Doctor S4

Following the COVID-centred 2-episode premiere, this season moves to regular hospital stories as Shaun, Claire and Park train new residents. And a pregnancy rocks 1 of the hospital’s couples this season.

Watch from Monday, 30 August on M-Net (DStv channel 101) at 19:30

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The Good Fight S5

Lucca and Adrian leave, and Jay battles COVID, before Reddick, Lockhart, & Associates welcomes new employees, and eccentric new judge Wackner (Mandy Patinkin) disrupts the legal system in this always-topical drama.

Watch from Monday, 16 August on M-Net (DStv channel 101) at 21:30

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The Last Kingdom S4 

Historical fiction based on writer Bernard Cornwell’s The Saxon Stories (2004-2020). S4 is set in the years 901-912 and will include Wales, Mercia and Wessex’s united efforts to defeat the Danes at the battle of Tettenhall.

Watch from Wednesday, 11 August on M-Net (DStv channel 101) at 22:30 

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Shrill S3

In this comedy’s final season, Annie is back “dating while fat”, her BFF, Fran, lands a job at a posh salon and prepares to meet her partner’s parents, and Annie’s editor, Gabe, publishes his memoir.

Watch from Friday, 27 August on M-Net (DStv channel 101) at 22:30

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The Goldbergs S8

Coming up in this ’80s tribute comedy, Adam gets a glow up, and Beverly enters politics and a pyramid scheme. Episode 16 will be the late George Segal’s final appearance, and Carrie Wampler replaces Kelli Berglund as Barry’s love, Ren.

Watch from Saturday, 14 August on M-Net (DStv channel 101) at 18:00

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American Housewife S5

In this comedy’s final season, we’ll see home-schooling launch Katie into the mommy vlogging world. And we get a fascinating perspective on the Otto household in the series’ 100th episode, thanks to Franklin’s podcast.

Watch from Saturday, 21 August on M-Net (DStv channel 101) at 19:00

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Run

Teenaged Chloe (Kiera Allen) has a range of health conditions and is home-schooled by her mother, Diane (Sarah Paulson). But Chloe starts to suspect that Diane is manipulating and controlling her in this psychological thriller.

Watch on Sunday, 1 August on M-Net (DStv channel 101) at 21:00

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Break Even

4 friends find $50 million while scuba diving, unaware that a crooked DEA agent (Ivan Sergei) planted it on behalf of a drug kingpin (James Callis) who’d kill to get his cash back.

Watch on Sunday, 15 August on M-Net (DStv channel 101) at 21:00

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Bent

Crime thriller based on JP O'Donnell’s 2009 novel, Deadly Codes. Framed and jailed ex-narcotics cop Danny (Karl Urban) butts heads with government agent Rebecca (Sofia Vergara) in his quest to avenge his partner’s murder.

Watch on Sunday, 22 August on M-Net (DStv channel 101) at 21:00

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The Corrupted

Ex-con Liam (Sam Claflin) is determined to win back his family’s trust after losing everything to a powerful local crime syndicate leader (Timothy Spall) in this crime thriller set around the 2012 London Olympics.

Watch on Sunday, 29 August on M-Net (DStv channel 101) at 21:00

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Once Upon A Time In London

British crime drama based on real-life cons Billy Hill and Jack Corner, who controlled London’s underworld from the 1920s to 1960s and mentored the Kray Twins.

Watch on Sunday, 22 August on M-Net Movies 2 (DStv channel 106) at 20:00

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Face The Music

Bill (Alex Winter) and Ted (Keanu Reeves) return in a new time-travelling adventure. They have less than a day in which to write a song to save reality, with help from their daughters.

Watch on Sunday, 1 August on M-Net Movies 1 (DStv channel 104) at 20:00

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Stage Mother

Small-town Texas church choir director Maybelline (Jackie Weaver) inherits her estranged gay son Ricky’s (Eldon Thiele) struggling San Francisco drag club in this musical comedy, with Jackie Beat.

Watch on Sunday, 8 August on M-Net (DStv channel 101) at 21:00

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Made In Italy

Romantic comedy. Widowed artist Robert Foster (Liam Neeson) and his estranged son, Jack (Liam’s real-life son Micheál Richardson), repair their relationship as they restore their family’s Italian villa together.

Watch on Saturday, 14 August on M-Net Movies 1 (DStv channel 104) at 16:00

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