Festive films & series on DStv Premium this December

The stars are aligned as DStv kicks off the final month of the year with a table spread full of treats for the whole family. Choose whatever you want to watch together, and choose joy.

There are brand-new local films filled with familiar stars to make you feel at home including June van Merch in Nativi(ity), Zandile Lujabe in Season's Feelings, and Juliette Pauling in Eve's Christmas. And DStv’s grown-up movies are silly, fun thrill rides from the Mel Gibson “Santa Action” flick Fatman, to the Wonder Woman sequel movie WW84 and Guy Ritchie heist movie Wrath of Man. That’s just the ticket if Die Hard is your favourite Christmas movie. The stocking is stuffed for the little ones, too, with new Scooby-Doo and Teen Titans movies they can enjoy with the “big kid” cartoon and fantasy lovers in your family.

The festive theme continues with a new season of the ultimate family Christmas sitcom, The Moodys. But if you’d prefer to sit down with grandma for some tea and cyanide, there’s also a new season of The Bay, and new crime thrillers, The Pembrokeshire Murders (based on a true story) and Lie With Me. And if you’d like to watch some people all squished together and trying to get along, there’s the brand-new Survivor Australia season 8 and a new season of Alaskan Bush People, too.

Keen for more? Here are the must-watch documentaries and specials to watch on DStv Premium this December.

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Special Series

The Moodys' Christmas Season 2

It’s family reunion time again for Chicago Irish family the Moodys. Bickering married couple Sean (Denis Leary) and Ann’s (Elizabeth Oerkins) plans to travel are botched when their tjhree adult kids return to live with them thanks to divorce, house arrest and the logistics of moving house following a break up. Will build to a Box Set.

Watch Saturdays & Sundays from Saturday, 18 December on M-Net (DStv channel 101) at 18:00

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The Pembrokeshire Murders Season 1

True-crime drama. Detective Superintendent Steve Wilkins (Luke Evans) and his colleagues reveal how Pembrokeshire's most notorious cold cases, the Coastal Path Murders, were reinvestigated and solved thanks to technological advances, and the long arm of the law finally reached the serial killer, John Cooper (Keith Allen). This four-episode series builds to a Box Set.

Watch from Thursday, 9 December on M-Net (DStv channel 101) at 22:30

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The Bay Season 2

Detective Constable Lisa Armstrong is called to Morecambe to assist in the investigation into the murder of solicitor Stephen Marshbrook. The only witness to the murder is Stephen’s 10-year-old son, Oliver. Meanwhile, Lisa is determined to ignore the fact that her ex-husband, Andy, is back in Morecambe, too, aside from protecting herself and the children from him.

Watch from Wednesday, 29 December on M-Net (DStv channel 101) at 22:30

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Lie With Me Season 1

This crime thriller series centres on a British couple whose plans to make a fresh start in Australia, following one partner’s affair, are wrecked by their new nanny. When the wife, Anna, works out what’s going one, she decides to throw the nanny off course by revealing that her husband, Jake, is an abuser.

Watch from Thursday, 30 December on M-Net (DStv channel 101) at 21:30

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Reality rocks

Survivor Australia: Brains vs. Brawn Season 8

In this season of the classic reality series, contestants are divided into 2 tribes: Brains and Brawn. The season was filmed in Cloncurry, Queensland, due to COVID restrictions. Celebrity contestants include author Wai Chim, surfer Felicity "Flick" Palmateer, MMA fighter Chelsea Hackett, retired cyclist Baden Cooke and former AFL footballer Gavin Wanganeen.

Watch Mondays-Fridays from Tuesday, 14 December on M-Net (DStv channel 101) at 18:00

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Alaskan Bush People S6

This is the 2021 season. The Browns, a family of nine, live deep in the Alaskan bush. This season is dedicated to the late family patriarch, Billy Brown, who died in February 2021. As the season begins, Billy rallies the family On their North Star Ranch just before it is burned to the ground by wildfires.

Watch from Tuesday, 3 December on Discovery Channel (DStv channel 121) at 20:00

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All I Want For Christmas

Discovery Channel is broadcasting marathons of the latest seasons of fan-favourite shows. So if you love adventure, turbo, gold, and mystery, settle in for some Discovery time and check your schedules for the following shows: Gold Rush Season 12, Wheeler Dealers Season 17, Alaskan Bush People Season 6, Expedition: Back To The Future Season 1 and Expedition Unknown Season 6.

Watch Monday-Sunday from Monday, 20 December on Discovery Channel (DStv channel 121) at 11:00

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Loving local movies

Nativ(ity)

Nagvlug Films (Skemerdans, Barakat) brings audiences a holiday-themed comedy starring the iconic South African actress June van Merch. A community group plans a Christmas show to save their local hall – but will things go as planned? Featuring David Isaacs and directed by Bianca Flanders of Troukoors (Wedding Fever).

Watch on Saturday, 11 December on M-Net (DStv channel 101) at 12:45

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Season's Feelings

SAFTA winner Jozua Malherbe teams up with Wonderlus producer Zandré Coetzer for an original holiday comedy that follows a group of outsiders as they travel to a Christmas party. Starring Natalie Robbie, Zandile Lujabe and Kiroshan Naidoo.

Watch on Saturday, 11 December on M-Net (DStv channel 101) at 20:30

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Eve's Christmas

From Die Byl actor Marvin-Lee Beukes comes an M-Net original comedy in which feuding siblings, Carl and Eve, finally face their differences when Carl’s son invites Eve to visit for Christmas. Starring Juliette Pauling (Tali’s Baby Diary) and Mark Elderkin (Reyka, Black Sails).

Watch on Saturday, 18 December on M-Net (DStv channel 101) at 20:30

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Kids’ movies

Abigail

Russian-made live-action Steampunk fantasy adventure. When Abigail sets out to find her father years after he was taken from their home during an epidemic, she finds out that the “disease” that led to the entire city being quarantined was really a cover-up for the fact that dark magicians had taken over.

Watch on Saturday, 4 December on M-Net (DStv channel 101) at 15:00

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Scooby-Doo Meets Courage The Cowardly Dog

This is a huge ’90s throwback for animation fans. Scooby-Doo and the gang wind up in Nowhere, Kansas, the hometown of Courage the Cowardly Dog and his owners, Muriel and Eustace Bagge. Scooby and Courage must set aside their differences when a giant cicada monster threatens Nowhere.

Watch on Saturday, 11 December on M-Net (DStv channel 101) at 15:00

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Scooby-Doo! The Sword and The Scoob

Animation. An evil sorceress plotting to take over Camelot unwittingly sends the gang back to the days of knights, wizards and dragons. King Arthur (voiced by Jason Isaacs) asks Mystery Incorporated to help him to save his throne and to restore peace to the land.

Watch on Saturday, 18 December on M-Net (DStv channel 101) at 15:00

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Teen Titans Go! See Space Jam 

The superheroes Robin, Cyborg, Starfire, Raven and Beast Boy are kicking back, relaxing on a beach when The Nerdlucks (who can use other people’s superpowers) land next to them in their spaceship. The Titans invite the aliens into their home and decide to show them the newly released Space Jam movie.

Watch on Saturday, 25 December on M-Net (DStv channel 101) at 15:00

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Movies for grownups

Fatman

Chris Cringle’s (Mel Gibson) gift business is slowly going under because modern kids are so rotten. But he’ll need to check his naughty list twice when the US Military comes to him with an offer to build components for a new jet fighter plane, and a spoilt child hires hitman Jonathan Miller (Walton Goggins) to murder Chris.

Watch on Sunday, 5 December on M-Net (DStv channel 101) at 20:00

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WW84

Sequel to the 2017 Wonder Woman movie, directed by Patty Jenkins. It’s 1984 and Diana/Wonder Woman (Gal Gadot) is working at the Smithsonian Institution when she and a new museum employee, geologist and cryptozoologist Barbara Ann Minerva (Kristen Wiig), find an artefact called the Dreamstone, which supposedly grants someone holding it one wish.

Watch on Saturday, 25 December on M-Net (DStv channel 101) at 20:00

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Vanquish

Disabled retired cop Damon (Morgan Freeman) holds his caretaker Victoria’s (Ruby Rose) daughter hostage to force her to travel around town collecting bags of money during a single night. At each pick-up spot, former enemies of Victoria’s come out of the woodwork to attack her, while Damon fights off an attack at home.

Watch on Sunday, 12 December on M-Net (DStv channel 101) at 20:00

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Wrath of Man

2021 action-thriller heist film directed by Guy Ritchie, based on the 2004 French film Cash Truck. A mysterious man named H (Jason Statham) starts working for a cash-in-transit company, where he seems to be able to outfox robbers at every turn. But H has a hidden agenda.

Watch on Sunday, 19 December on M-Net (DStv channel 101) at 20:00

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Queen Bees

Fiercely independent Helen (Ellen Burstyn) is forced to move into the Pine Grove retirement community while her house is being repaired. She soon realises that the place is filled with cliques and mean girls, just like a high school, except instead of graduating, you die. Fortunately, Helen also makes a new BFF, Sally (Loretta Devine).

Watch on Sunday, 26 December on M-Net (DStv channel 101) at 20:00

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