BBC on DSTV has a few gems starting up. From the cool detective series Luther to a thoughtful family drama, it’s all on offer. Here’s a taste …
Luther Series 4 (2 episodes)
From Wednesday 22 March at 8pm on BBC First channel 119 on DStv
Idris Elba returns as DCI John Luther, who has been called out of hiding by his former colleagues as they try to catch a cannibalistic serial killer.
Luther crosses paths with tech expert Benny Silver and high-ranking cop Martin Schenk again as he pursues this new disturbing case. Joining the cast for this miniseries will be Rose Leslie, Laura Haddock and Patrick Malahide.
Reggie Yates: Extreme UK Series 1 (2 Episodes)
Friday 24 March at 8pm on BBC Brit channel 120 on DStv
Reggie Yates is on a mission to find out what it’s really like to be a man in the UK today. In each episode, Reggie meets different groups of men facing their own cultural and social struggles.
From the body-conscious, whose lives are dictated by the way they look, to black and Asian men who are under attack for being transsexual or gay, Reggie reveals the complex and sometimes dark realities of being a British male today.
Dangerous Earth Series 1 (3 episodes)
From Sunday 26 March at 6pm on BBC Earth channel 184 on DStv
This series combines archive footage, the latest research and the astonishing power of the planet’s most spectacular events.
With the explosion in camera technology, millions of people now have full HD camera kit. Things that once required specialist equipment and months of planning to film can now be captured by eye witnesses with a smart phone or GoPro.
Combined with the equally powerful images from the BBC archive, this rich vein of footage has tested our scientific understanding of these phenomena to its limits and beyond. In this series, we discover how this new footage is pushing earth science into uncharted territory. From volcanoes that burn blue at night to hurricanes packing 1.5 trillion watts of energy.
The A Word Series 1 (6 episodes)
From Sunday 26 March at 8pm on BBC First channel 119 on DStv
Alison and Paul Hughes are building a life in the Lake District for themselves and their two children: teenage daughter Rebecca and five year-old son Joe.
Joe is a dreamy boy who’s never knowingly without his headphones. Until the week he starts school, he is considered eccentric, and a little odd. But when Alison’s brother Eddie and his wife Nicola return to the family home to rebuild their broken marriage, we find the first people brave or tactless enough to suggest that Joe’s problems run deeper. And the moment Nicola says the un-sayable, Maurice, the family patriarch, begins to express his own misgivings about his grandson.
In the weeks following his diagnosis, Joe’s character and Joe’s autism magnify and exaggerate the tensions and fault lines that run throughout this multi-generational family, as they struggle to adapt to the changes in their lives, and more importantly to learn to communicate.
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