“It’s been a challenging few weeks for our country. Many of us will feel more than a little discomforted by the notion that the rule of law has almost entirely disintegrated. But just when you thought you’d heard it all, we introduce you to an undertaker accused of burying the departed in unmarked graves and… Continue reading Coming Up On Carte Blanche – 20 July 2025
Category: Television
“NCIS: Sydney” Season 2 Premieres this July
NCIS: Sydney storms back onto Universal TV (DStv 117) with a gripping second season of high-stakes crime drama this month. The ten-part series premieres on Monday 21 July 2025, with new episodes airing every Monday at 8pmuntil 22 September. Having only just found their feet, the second season sees NCIS: Sydney square off against a… Continue reading “NCIS: Sydney” Season 2 Premieres this July
“St. Denis Medical”: Saving Patients without Losing Patience – Saturdays on M-Net
The Office created the workplace mockumentary genre when it premiered on the BBC in 2001 and inspired a new way of looking at comic television. It spawned hit tributes to the style in the shape of Parks & Recreation, Modern Family, Abbott Elementary and Arrested Development. Coming to M-Net from 19 July at 6pm, St.… Continue reading “St. Denis Medical”: Saving Patients without Losing Patience – Saturdays on M-Net
Coming Up On Carte Blanche – 13 July 2025
“Apparently, the term ‘banana republic’ was coined by the writer O. Henry in the early 1900s to describe a fictitious country loosely based on Honduras. I wonder if, in his wildest imaginings, Henry could have conceived of a real country in which an elite army unit is accused of abduction and murder – days before… Continue reading Coming Up On Carte Blanche – 13 July 2025
Helen Mirren, Tom Hardy & Pierce Brosnan and Two Other Reasons to Watch MobLand
If Mirren, Hardy & Brosnan as stars of a London family gangster series dreamed up by Day of the Jackal creator Ronan Bennett aren’t enough reasons to get you to watch MobLand (on M-Net from 10 July at 9pm), why do you even watch TV? The Harrigans are an Irish, London-based crime family who find… Continue reading Helen Mirren, Tom Hardy & Pierce Brosnan and Two Other Reasons to Watch MobLand
Coming Up On Carte Blanche – 6 July 2025
“I’ve changed. Once a journalist who covered violent rebellion in the DRC and the Second Gulf War, I now regularly cry in the final of MasterChef. And for that, I lay the blame squarely on my children. Since becoming a dad, I’ve morphed from emotionless hack to emotional wreck, a shadow of my windswept, dust-smeared… Continue reading Coming Up On Carte Blanche – 6 July 2025