ST Eyethu (channel 401) is a lifestyle channel dedicated to Zulu family households. There is a large variety of programming that will broadcast on this channel.

From shopping and English entertainment to Zulu dubbed dramas and local shows, we have a huge variety of programming for everyone in the family but mostly aimed at kids and mothers. This is primarily a Zulu/English channel with room to grow.

This channel joins the other local channels found on the platform including SABC 1-3, e.tv, OnseTV, Inpas TV, Soweto TV and 1KZN TV just to name a few.

The channel is available is Local, Max Package, Special Package and Super Package.

The series features a 17-year-old boy, who, after the death of his mother, moves in with his estranged relatives, the Codys, a criminal family clan governed by matriarch Smurf. Ellen Barkin portrayed the leading role of Janine "Smurf" Cody in the first four seasons, played by Jacki Weaver in the 2010 film.

Animal Kingdom is currently in its fourth season which can be seen on M-Net and M-Net City which can be found through MultiChoice's DStv platform. The series was renewed for a fifth season on July 2019 on TNT.

Season 1 airs Monday 12 July at 22:00 on e.tv

The final season shows the different lives of the characters, Cihan is seen embarking, and exhausted with flashbacks of his earlier events, Dilara marries Harun and both live with their child, Alas, in Cihan's home, siblings Hazal and Ozan become business partners, and Cansu prematurely marries Deniz and expects a baby, However she loses her baby because of her Parkinson's disease.

Gebroke Harte Season 3 replaces Doodsondes at 19:00 from Monday 20 July. eExtra is available on OpenView channel 105, DStv channel 195 and StarSat channel 489.

The Candidate (La Candidata), looks into the personal side of the world of politics through the life of a Mexican presidential candidate. The series is also produced by Televisa.

Silvia Navarro, Rafael Sánchez Navarro and Susana González are the main protagonists in the show with Víctor González (Leo, Pasion Morena) and Nailea Norvind playing the lead antagonists.

The series debuted back in November 21, 2016 through Televisa and ended on February 12, 2017 with 62 episodes. During its run the show won eight awards at the 35th TVyNovelas Awards, including Best Telenovela of the Year.

The Candidate airs Tuesday 11 August at 16:40 CAT/15:40 WAT/17:40 EAT on FOX Life which can be found on MultiChoice's DStv and ODM's StarSat (SA) alongside StarTimes (ROA).

This Is Us, the series follows the lives of siblings Kevin, Kate, and Randall (known as the "Big Three"), and their parents Jack and Rebecca Pearson.

Most episodes feature a storyline taking place in the present (2016–2019, contemporaneous with airing) and a storyline taking place at a set time in the past; but some episodes are set in one time period or use multiple flashback time periods.

The series has been nominated for Best Television Series – Drama at the 74th Golden Globe Awards and Best Drama Series at the 7th Critics' Choice Awards, as well as being chosen as a Top Television Program by the American Film Institute. Sterling K. Brown has received an Emmy, a Golden Globe, a Critics' Choice Award, and an NAACP Image Award for his acting in the series. Mandy Moore and Chrissy Metz received Golden Globe nominations for Best Supporting Actress. In 2017, the series received ten Emmy nominations, including Outstanding Drama Series , with Brown winning for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series.

This Is Us was only seen through M-Net on MultiChoice's DStv now now viewers that don't have access to the channel have to rely on a free-to-air station for a premium drama. Alas, those with M-Net are currently on the fourth season while SABC 3 will take you to the very beginning.

This Is Us airs daily at 18:30 from Monday 6 July

Brand New & Exclusive
WHAT HAPPENED TO ASHLEY &
LAURIA? HELL IN THE HEARTLAND
23 September – 10 October, Wednesdays 21h00
This four-part investgatve documentary series explores a harrowing and unique missing persons case that is currently evolving into a much larger story of unsolved murder and allegatons of cover-up and corrupton in Oklahoma. Crime author and investgator Jax Miller and former police investgator Sarah Cailean intrepidly research the confounding case of Lauria Bible and Ashley Freeman, two teenagers who disappeared in December 1999, afer the Freeman family trailer was burned to the ground. The series delves into the many strange theories of the case and reveals a truth that proves even more incredible.

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SURVIVING JEFFREY EPSTEIN
27 September, Sundays at 20h50
In the glamorous world of the global elite, an open secret lingered. One trafcking ring, with one man at the centre. Hundreds of survivors. Who knew; who refused to see; and who helped him get away with it? He’s dead, but his survivors are stll living with the traumatc afermath. Surviving Jefrey Epstein is a four-part documentary event series that investgates how the elusive Epstein allegedly ran a global network targetng young girls for himself and his cabal of rich and powerful friends. Operatng from his luxurious homes in New York City, Palm Beach, New Mexico, Paris and the Caribbean, he was also accused of using his extreme wealth and infuence to cover his predaton.
Following his August 10, 2019 death by suicide in federal prison, Jeffrey Epstein stole one more thing from his victms: the chance to face their accuser and finally see justce prevail. This documentary series provides a platorm for these courageous women to share their stories frst- hand as we examine Epstein’s rise to boundless wealth, the people surrounding him who potentally procured and protected, his second arrest, shocking death and the stories yet untold.

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FAMILY FEUD MOVIES

THE WRONG MOMMY
05 September at 19:20pm Saturday CEO Samantha (Vivica A. Fox) promotes her successful project manager, Melanie (Jessica Morris), who is married with a young daughter. She seems to have it all going on, and the new job prompts her to hire her own personal assistant, Phoebe (Ashlynne Yennie). However, while smart, the new hire is also cunning and has a twisted plan for revenge against Melanie’s mother, Carol, (Dee Wallace).
05 - 27 September 2020

THE WRONG STEPFATHER
12 September at 19:20pm Saturday Ellen (Vivica A. Fox), principal at a high school, feels life is getng beter for her best friend - teacher Karen (Krista Allen), afer she meets Craig (Corin Nemec), a charming new college advisor. Yet something seems of as the relatonship moves fast into an engagement and suddenly Karen’s daughter’s problems magically disappear. Suspicions slowly evolve into real fear when Karen begins to believe that Craig might be the wrong stepfather for her daughter.

DATING TO KILL
12 September at 20:50pm Saturday Jessica, a single mother, has a warm relatonship with her 18-year-old daughter — until Tessa starts dating an older man against mom’s wishes. The crisis becomes lethal when Jessica realizes the older man is someone who attacked her when she was in college — and he’s now back for revenge!

A SISTER’S OBSESSION
19 September at 19:20pm Saturday
Kendra is a happily married career woman. But as her life quickly starts to unravel, she soon discovers the cause of her troubles – it seems her long lost twin sister resents her “enttled life” and is determined to even the playing field.

A DAUGHTER’S REVENGE
26 September at 19:20 Saturday
Elle Spencer has devised a terrifying plan... soon her friend, Anna will be released from jail, where she served tme for a DUI. Anna has nothing – no family, no money, no job – only Elle is there for her. What Elle does not reveal, is that she blames her stepfather for her mother’s suicide, and Anna will become the unsuspectng instrument of her revenge. Stars Jessica Sipos, Linden Ashby and Sierra Wooldridge.

REMEMBERING 9/11
Brand New & Exclusive
9/11 INSIDE AIR FORCE ONE
13 September, Sunday at 20h15
This two-hour feature documentary tells the story of 9/11 from a unique vantage point: inside Air Force One on its nine-hour journey from Florida, across the country, and fnally home to Washington D.C. Featuring interviews with President George W. Bush, Vice President Dick Cheney, Chief of Staf Andy Card, the pilot of Air Force One, Secret Service agents, as well as the intelligence and military aides on board.

9/11 ESCAPE FROM THE TOWERS
13 September, Sunday at 22h05
9/11: Escape From the Towers is a gripping frst-hand account of the 2001 atacks on the World Trade Centre told from the unique perspectve of survivors, most of whom are sharing their experiences for the frst tme. Focusing on two foors - the 81st foor of the north tower and the 77th foor of the south tower, just below the impact zones - it’s the story of ordinary working Americans who are completely unaware of the cause of the devastaton right above their heads, or that they are caught up in the middle of the worst terror atack in American history.

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9/11 PENTAGON SPECIAL
20 September, Sunday at 20h15 Utlising original interviews, new informaton, and dramatc visualizatons, this documentary brings viewers inside America’s capital city on September 11, when American Airlines Flight 77 crashed into the western face of the Pentagon, killing 125 people.

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9/11 THE FINAL MINUTES OF FLIGHT 93
20 September, Sunday at 21h10
On September 11, 2001, one hijacked plane never reached its target when United 93 crashed in rural Pennsylvania. Now, for the frst tme, previously classifed streams of evidence are combined to piece together what really happened in a gripping minute- by-minute account. Evidence includes secret service documents, air trafc control transmissions, phone records, voicemails, frst person testmony, and a top-secret audio recording that may reveal the details of Flight 93’s crucial fnal moments. It’s the story of heroism in the face of tragedy, and it sheds new light on the biggest mysteries of that fateful fight.

Brand New Season
SWAMP PEOPLE S11
15 September – 15 December, Tuesdays at 20h15 The swamp faces a crisis like never before. Despite hunters’ best eforts to cull the exploding alligator populaton last year, their numbers have reached record levels. Vicious bull gators are breeding at an astounding rate and fooding the backwaters with deadly monsters
-- bigger, bolder and more dangerous than ever before. With their friends, families and pets at risk, swampers take up arms and employ radical new strategies to protects their communites from these savage beasts. New faces are called in to help fght the invasion, and hunters dive deeper into the belly of the bayou than ever before in search of the monster bull gators that are ravaging Southern Louisiana. The threat has never been bigger and the stakes couldn’t be higher.

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WARRIORS WAY
21 September – 26 October, Mondays at 21h10 Get ready to discover the deadliest, vicious and most successful warriors of their tme. Spartans, Vikings, Samurai and more! These were the most eminent fghters in human history. Episodes highlight the greatest achievements on the batlefelds, command of their armies, brilliant strategies and unique fghtng styles that enabled them to conquer their enemies in overwhelming force.

Brand New Season & Exclusive
LOST GOLD OF WWII S2
25 September – 13 November, Fridays at 20h15 The quest for the one of the largest treasures in modern day history contnues. Lost Gold of WWII returns to resume the search for hundreds of billions of dollars of stolen loot supposedly hidden in Southeast Asia by Japanese General Tomoyuki Yamashita. In season 2 of Lost Gold of WWII, the team dives deeper into the mystery. Guided by recent scans suggestng gold, they focus on three key sites: a mysterious waterfall, a crater known as Breach 6 and a large tunnel recently found. The series will dig deeper into the conspiracies surrounding Yamashita’s Gold, its link to the CIA and various historic world leaders. Will an all new team, extraordinary technology and unprecedented fnds be enough to uncover the whereabouts of World War II’s greatest treasure?

Brand New & Exclusive
BATTLE OF BRITAIN 80: ALLIES IN THE AIR
27 September, Sunday at 20h15
The makers of ‘That’s All Brother’ and ‘Plane Resurrecton’, draw on their vast experience and archive to commemorate the combatants and aircraf on both sides of the seminal aerial batle of WWII. Features exclusive access to the fghtng aircraf, including the rare, modern 4K footage and technical details of the Axis aircraf involved. Renowned Aviaton author and historian Ian Mcachlan reveals some of the forgoten stories of that fateful period, including the role played by the women of the Women’s auxiliary Air Force, and the overseas pilots air to air footage all combine in this anniversary piece to tell the story of “The Few”.

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BATTLE OF BRITAIN: THE RACE FOR THE RADAR
27 September, Sunday at 21h10
On the brink of war, the Graf Zeppelin crossed the North Sea on a daring spy mission. Lufwafe wireless experts had come to probe the mysterious towers that had appeared around the Britsh coastline. Fighter Command reeled in horror as they ploted the airship’s progress from Essex to the north of Scotland. Surely the Germans must have discovered all the secrets of Britain’s just completed radar defence system. A year later the Batle of Britain was won with the crucial advantage radar gave the RAF. So why had the Germans not destroyed Britsh radar before the Batle? The answer came afer a chance encounter long afer the war. The Zeppelin spies had made the greatest intelligence blunder of the war.

GORDON RAMSAY UNCHARTED 2
Wednesdays at 21:00 from 26 August (ends 2 October)

Gordon Ramsay dives, fishes, forages and leaps out of helicopters on another all-action adventure in the pursuit of food. From the big game filled wild of South Africa; and caiman infested jungles of Guyana, to pristine Tasmania, his culinary journey takes in Louisiana's Cajun swamps, Norway's icy fjords, the spice packed mountains of South India and the epic Indonesian Island of Sumatra.

BARKSKINS
Thursdays at 21:00 from 13 August (ends 3 September) Double billed, 2 episodes per week.  

Based on the New York Times bestselling novel by Pulitzer Prize winner Annie Proulx, BARKSKINS follows a disparate group of outcasts and dreamers battling to escape their pasts while navigating the brutal frontier hardships, competing interests and tangled loyalties at the crossroads of civilization: the New World.

AMERICA’S NATIONAL PARKS UPDATES
Mondays at 19:00 from 13 August (ends 28 September)

Get to know the Grand Canyons most notable critters, including a new scene featuring one of the Canyons feistiest residents: the Gila monster.

CONTINUING SHOWS

GATHERING STORM
Mondays at 21:00 from 15 July (ends 19 August)  

A major global series forming a unique view on the planet's fiercest storms, through the experience of people who work at sea inside the major hurricane zones of the world. Through extensive access agreements, hundreds of cameras are embedded on boats, ships and oil platforms. So, as the storm approaches and the clock ticks down we are with the men who witness weather at its wildest, from all angles. All face different challenges, with different cargoes, deadlines and routes. At stake is the job, their cargo, their equipment... and their lives. We tell their greatest stories; the triumphs of engineering, ingenuity and sheer bravery that go along with working in storms at sea. Through their eyes we witness the rise of the storm.  And we experience what it takes to get their job done in the face of nature's wildest weather. To explain what lies behind the unpredictability and danger unfolding on the ocean's surface, these first-hand stories combine with scientific insight, analysis and satellite mapping.

MADE IN A DAY
Tuesdays at 19:00 (double bills) from 29 July (ends 1 September)

The last decade has seen a revolution in manufacturing.  A just-in-time economy means the products we love are being made on a massive scale in record time. Lightning fast logistics mean global trade and distribution happens faster now than ever before. This is the story of how some of today's biggest brands, from Tesla Cars to Gibson Guitars, from Tabasco Sauce to Space Rockets, are made in America.

BANGED UP ABROAD S13
Mondays at 21:00, from 13 July (ends 14 September)

The most tense and dramatic series on TV is back with ten stories of drugs, deception, and dramatic downfalls.

WORLD WAR II HELL UNDER THE SEA
Tuesdays at 21:00, from 14 July (ends 18 August)

World War 2: Hell Under the Sea is an event-based series charting the stealth game of subsea warfare from contact to attack of the greatest submarine patrols of World War II. From the rise of the Wolfpack to the drive for victory in the Pacific, meet the masterminds who brought together the strategy, technology and tactics to make every sailor's worst nightmare to come to life.

SPECIALS

India from Above – Wednesday 19 August at 20:00
Lost Voices of World War II – Tuesday 25 August at 21:00

EQUATOR‘S WILD SECRETS (6 x 60‘)
Sundays at 18:00

Life along the equator is spectacularly diverse. More than half of the world's species live here. Equators Wild Secrets is a 6 part series about the Equator's wildest and most diverse ecosystems - the Amazon, the Andes, the Galapagos Islands, Borneo and Sumatra, Africa, and the Coral Sea. This series features a cornucopia of exotic animals in habitats ranging from steamy rainforests and great grasslands to snowy mountains and great reefs.

PREDATOR BLOODLINE (5 x 60‘)
Mondays at 18:00, from 3 August
Bloodlines... It is through this mechanism that individuals inherit the unique code for survival.
The fight for survival is universal. The fight for legacy sets these six extraordinary characters and their families apart. With our camera lens having captured these animals‘ lives daily for three years, the series allows viewers to witness personalities that defy expectation, to see determination without equal, and to watch these characters navigate the extreme tribulations of life in the wild where bloodlines are everything and they strive at all costs to conquer the ultimate prize: survival for themselves and their kin.

SOUTH AMERICA’S WEIRDEST (3 x 60‘)
Wednesdays at 18:00 from 12 August

South America's Weirdest dives into the depths of the South American wild to investigate the cast of misfits, the oddities, the weird, the eccentric and the truly bizarre. The landscape here is truly one of a kind. So, the animals have evolved accordingly. In the South American wild, strange problems gave rise to even stranger solutions.

TV show host, Mo Abudu has revealed that EbonyLife TV will no longer function as it is now becoming a video-on-demand service called EbonyLife ON.

She also revealed that most of the contents offered by the channel will now be uploaded EbonyLife ON which will be available on iOS stores and Google.

She said: “Remember when we used to wait a whole week to watch our favourite TV shows? Well, those days are gone forever! Now, we can binge on the whole series if we want to. Therefore, we have decided that EbonyLife TV will no longer be available on DStv from 31st July 2020.”

EbonyLife TV was launched by Multichoice in 2013 and operated on DSTV. The deal ended in 2018 and Mo Abudu partnered with Startimes to broadcast the channel.

If you read the first paragraph nicely the channel will no longer function as it used to. They recently signed a content deal with Netflix and with it going dark on DStv in the rest of Africa.

Apparently Ebonylife made the choice to can the channel from DStv so it's likely that StarTimes (ROA) and StarSat will follow as well since Ebonylife might transition into becoming an online platform once their contract expires.

The channel launched 9 years ago for the rest of Africa on MultiChoice's DStv excluding South Africa. EWTN is also available on StarTimes (ROA) and StarSat (South Africa).

During those nine years, A lot of angry DStv customers approached MultiChoice over the possibility of adding EWTN to DStv's South African platform and as always we'll forward your suggestion to a relevant department.

They even created a petition and page to help get the channel to the market seeing as StarSat which is located in South Africa also packages the channel.

Two years ago, I contacted someone with regards to the channel and this is what DStv told them and what they're trying to do:
DStv: Currently it is VERY expensive to get
EWTN on DSTV
The Individual: I have made contact with a representative from EWTN in USA to see how we can get this going, he is currently meeting with the powers that may be to see how we can get the funds available and if it is viable to do so in South Africa.

And two years have passed and EWTN is only available on StarSat. Do you believe MultiChoice South Africa will get this channel they were able to get Da Vinci Kids and AfricaNews on board so anything is possible.

Brave And Beautiful (Divya Drishti), separated at childhood, Divya and Drishti attain super powers - to not only see the future, but also manipulate it. However, their own future lies in the hands of an evil Pishachini. Sana Sayyad and Nyra Banerjee take up the titular character's roles.

The series consists of 106 episodes each consuming at least 45 minutes meaning that this will be the second drama series on the channel that doesn't consist of 30 minutes with the first being Crime Alert. It made its debut last year on StarPlus and ended earlier in the year on that channel.

Star Life was set to air two other telenovelas earlier in the year but due to the lockdown regulations implemented in Africa and India months back these shows were delayed indefinitely. The channel hasn't made a statement with regards to the shows but they are likely to air them at some point.

The series makes it debut at 18:00 WAT/19:00 CAT/20:00 EAT from August 18th

StarLife can be found on MultiChoice's DStv, eMedia Investments' OpenView (SA Only) and StarSat (South Africa) with StarTimes (ROA).

EVIDENCE OF EVIL
Season 3. Premiere
Sundays at 20:00, from 6th September.
Season 3 of the original true crime series “Evidence of Evil” explores and reconstructs some of the most intriguing and startling criminal cases of the past two decades, where technology changed the course of the investigations and brought the guilty to justice. Featuring key witness testimony, new interviews, reconstructed sequences and archive footage, the series showcases the hard work and dedication of investigators, police, scientists, and other experts in their fields.
Episode 1., “The Fridge Killer”, airs on 6th September: In February 1995, Police in Reno, Nevada were called to investigate a suspicious dumpster bin and made a startling discovery - a badly beaten body of a middle-aged female, tied up and wrapped in a sleeping bag. Detectives soon identified the deceased person as 45-year-old, missing school teacher, Kathy Powell. The case revealed a number of innocent victims connected by murder and the episode shows how an intensive investigation and forensic techniques finally led detectives to uncover a serial killer.

CLOSE CALLS: ON CAMERA
Season 6 Channel Premiere
Saturdays and Sundays at 19:30 and 01:20, from 5th September until 4th October.
“Close Calls: On Camera” brings to life the stories of ordinary people who have faced extraordinary circumstances.
With access to a variety of sources such as video and phone footage shot by the victims and onlookers, dramatic real-life 999 calls, and first-hand accounts from the victims and their friends and families, Close Calls: On Camera relives the split-second moments when everyday events are transformed into disasters and meets the people who lived to tell the tale.

DOUBLE-BILLS OF JUDGE JUDY FOLLOWED BY A DOUBLE DOSE OF
JUDGE JOE BROWN
WEEKDAYS FROM 10:20 AND 20:20

JUDGE JUDY
Season 15
Double-bills on weekdays at 10:20 and 20:20.
With her outspoken style, hard-hitting decisiveness and engaging wit, Judge Judith Sheindlin single-handedly reinvented the courtroom genre and in the process has become a pop culture icon. A former New York family court judge known for her ability to cut through a dispute and get to the core of the emotional issue at hand, Judge Judy acts as a true moral compass for people seeking guidance, resolution and common sense in their lives. Judge Judy’s goal is to make a lasting impression that will discourage repeat offenders and help heal families and victims of injustice. There are many imitators, but only one Judge Judy!

JUDGE JOE BROWN
Season 4, Episodes 73 - 173. Channel Premiere
Premiering episodes air on weekdays, double bills, at 11:10 and 21:10, right after Judge Judy.
Justice takes on a whole new meaning when it comes to the dynamic, tough-talking, no-holds-barred “Judge Joe Brown”. Brown, who rose from the streets of South Central Los Angeles, applies his trademark “tough love” approach and unorthodox sentencing methods to encourage offenders to learn from their mistakes - or he will make them pay the price for their actions. He also provides audiences with a face-to-face vantage point for witnessing real trials that offer final and binding resolutions. Judge Joe Brown’s passion for justice and his commitment to finding real solutions has enabled him to truly make a difference in people’s lives.