Fox Africa Highlights – June 2021

SOLAR OPPOSITES (8 x 30“)

Mondays at 21:30 from 3 May. Ends 21 June.

Co-created by Justin Roiland (Rick and Morty) and Mike McMahan(Rick and Morty), Solar Opposites centers around a team of four aliens who escape their exploding home world only to crash land into a move-in ready in suburban America. They are evenly split on whether Earth is awful or awesome. Korvo (Justin Roiland) and Yumyulack (Sean Giambrone) only see the pollution, crass consumerism and human frailty, while Terry (Thomas Middleditch) and Jesse (Mary Mack) love humans and their TV junk food and fun stuff. Their mission: protect the Pupa, a living super computer that will one way day evolve into its true form, consume them and transform the Earth.

WAR OF THE WORLDS S2 (8 x 60“)

Mondays at 20:45 from 24 May. Ends 5 July.

Double bill premiere night, single episodes weekly thereafter.

The second season of the contemporary adaptation of H.G. Wells’ classic novel, returning cast members Gabriel Byrne, Daisy Edgar Jones, as well as Léa Drucker, Natasha Little, Stéphane Caillard, Adel Bencherif, Ty Tennant, Stephen Campbell Moore, Bayo Gbadamosi, Aaron Heffernan and Emilie de Preissac.

In series one of War of the Worlds, an alien attack all but wiped out mankind, with just a handful of humans fighting to survive. And no one felt more rocked by the invasion than Emily (Daisy Edgar Jones), who discovered she may have her own strange personal connection to the aliens.

In series wo our characters will be left reeling by the possibility that the invaders could be human. A tense fight to take back the planet awaits them. For some, the sheer desperation to survive will lead them to contemplate sacrificing one of their own…

THE RESIDENT S4 MARATHONS

Saturday 12 June. Episodes 1 – 7 from 14:30

Sunday 13 June. Episodes 8 – 14 from 17:10

Season four of The Resident continues to shine a light on the daily heroism of today’s health care workers.The provocative medical drama follows the doctors and nurses at Chastain Memorial Hospital, as they face personal and professional challenges and fight for their patients’ health. The new season picks up as Dr. Conrad Hawkins and nurse practioner Nicolette Nevin tie the knot in an intimate and beautiful wedding, strengthening their already powerful bond.

Meanwhile, Chastain is transitioning from private to public hospital, causing the hero doctors to fight to fix the broken machine from the inside. Dr. Randolph Bell finds himself mining his own past to find his estranged former stepson, elite plastic surgeon Dr. Jake Wong. Bell attempts to bring Dr. Wong to Chastain to increase the number of world-class surgeries at the hospital and to repair their complicated past.

Additionally, as star surgical resident Dr. Mina Okafor and her brilliant mentor, Dr. AJ Austin, grow closer than ever, they must learn to maintain a professional relationship within the walls of the hospital.

GREY’S ANATOMY S16 (21 x 60)

Wednesdays at 20:45, from 3 February (ends 23 June)

Miranda Bailey became a foster parent and helped Amelia get through intense labor. Early in season 16, Miranda Bailey (Chandra Wilson) experiences a miscarriage. As she began to move forward with her life again, she finds herself taken by a teenage foster kid who was being treated at the hospital.

ROAD TO DESTINY (TELENOVELA)

Monday – Friday at 15:05 from 10 February 2021 (ends 4 August 2021)

Repeat omnibus of all 5 episodes that aired during the week: Sundays from 07:05 (Omnibus start times may differ slightly each week)

Luisa Fernanda Pérez, a beautiful, 18-year-old student, has two passions: mastering the violin and gardening, a skill she inherited from her father, Pedro, the former groundskeeper of the wealthy Altamirano family’s estate. A chance encounter with destiny alters her life when she is injured in a car accident caused by Luis (her biological father), a playboy lawyer. In the process, Luisa falls for his stepson, Carlos, the attractive, young doctor who treats her in hospital.

HAWAII FIVE – O S6

Monday – Friday at 19:55

Steve McGarrett (Alex O’Loughlin) comes to Hawaii to avenge his father’s death, but when the Governor offers his own task force, he accepts. He picks up team members on the way, Danny Williams (Scott Caan), the head detective on his father’s case, Chin Ho Kelly (Daniel Dae Kim), a former Honolulu Police Department Detective who was fired for accused corruption, and McGarrett’s father’s old patrol partner, Kono Kalakaua (Grace Park), a Cadet at the Police Academy who’s one week from graduating, Lori Weston (Lauren German), entry to Five-O temporarily, Catharine Rollins (Michelle Borth), a girlfriend of Steve, and Captain Lou Grover (Chi McBride), a former Chicago Police Department Head of S.W.A.T.

AMERICAN DAD S12, 13 & 14

Monday – Friday at 16:40

Smith’s family consists of four members which include a freaky goldfish that has the mind of a German football player and an alien. Smith, along with the CIA, tries to save America from every threat.

By Andrew Germishuys

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