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DStv just made your weekend better

We’re sure that DStv’s new mantra is maximum entertainment even in times of quarantine. The stay at home order has got nothing on them, not only are they consistent in content delivery, their line up just keeps getting better. So, if you are home this weekend, of course you are, so here is what you can binge on.

Soak in some laugh with My Flatmates, this Friday 17 April, Donatus summons a spiritualist to find a solution to his problem on Africa Magic Urban channel 153 at 7:00 pm.

On Unbroken, the drama is endless, Tivdoo meets Jeff. Eddy bands with Justice. Charity is disappointed in her daughter. Terfa receives a visitor. Showing on Africa Magic Showcase channel 151, Saturday 18 April at 8:00pm. Be the first to see new premiere titles on Africa Magic Showcase channel 151 this Saturday and Sunday. On 18 April catch Sola Sobowale and Mercy Johnson in Seven and a Half Dates, in a struggle of settling down, a lady is being pressured to get married against her will. While Crumbling Cookies airs on Sunday, 19 April at 7:30 pm, a top media woman has a ghastly accident and is confined to a wheelchair, her best friend in the pretense to help embarks on a mission with her scheming husband to betray her.

Relive a FIFA World Cup Classic which saw Nigeria’s Super Eagles stun European heavyweights Spain in a group stage match during the 1998 World Cup in France. FIFA World Cup Classic Games: 1998 Group Stage: Spain v Nigeria on Saturday 18 April at 3:10 pm on SuperSport 10 channel 230. Relive a classic tennis battle, as Novak Djokovic overcomes his great rival Roger Federer at Flushing Meadows in the Men’s Singles final of the 2015 US Open. Showing on Sunday 19 April at 5:00pm on SuperSport 6 channel 226.

Relive the emotional moments on Usain Bolt Says Goodbye at the IAAF World Championships as Usain Bolt’s retirement from competitive sprinting, with the Jamaican great hanging up his spikes after competing at the 2017 IAAF World Championships at the London Olympic Stadium, on Monday 20 April at 5:00 pm on SuperSport 5 channel 225.

For the movie lovers, this weekend, catch The Crow showing this Friday 17 April at 7:00 pm on TNT, Eric Draven, a young poet and a guitarist, is resurrected back to life by a crow. The crow guides Eric to his killers and he decides to give his killers a taste of their own medicine.

Our Sunday night special on M-Net channel 101 at 9:00 pm is the X-Men: Dark Phoenix, the amazing cast return for the ultimate showdown of the X-Men franchise. After a space mission goes wrong, Jean is consumed by a cosmic force, turning her into the Dark Phoenix. Five Feet Apart, so close and yet so far does not begin to describe this romantic drama. Two teens with cystic fibrosis fall in love, but because of their condition they cannot touch one another.  Airing on Sunday 19 April on M-Net Movies Premiere channel 108 at 8:15 pm.

For telenovela lovers, Telemundo channels 118, this Friday 17 April on Almost Yours at 7:00 pm. Gregoria confesses her love to Paco and asks him to marry her, but he breaks the news to her that he has not got long left to live. Monday 20 on Lord of the Skies Rutila reveals to Javier that she had a relationship with the president, and they get into an argument. Corina is ready to meet with Casillas, catch al the drama at 10:00pm. On Zee World channel 166, this Saturday 18 April at 5:00 pm on Our Perfect Place after making peace, the brothers look to be getting along. Rita seems more settled but Niranjan starts to act up again which causes her to doubt where Maya is in his life. Uday is back home again but for his own reasons. On Sunday 19 April on Deception at 6:00pm, Naren has no idea the man he trusts with his work at this point is the one planning to kill him.

The kids can look forward to movies from the new pop-up channel, Toonami with weekend Movies: Batman Unlimited: Monster Mayhem on Saturday 18 April at 7:30am. The Joker plans to hack Gotham’s technology and use it to his own advantage. Batman must team up with other superheroes to prevent him from doing so and thereby save the city. Penny On M.A.R.S, Penny is the 16-year-old secret daughter of a famous female pop star. She auditions for a prestigious performing arts school with her best friend Camilla, who knows her secret. They are both accepted and look forward to a new life. But things get complicated when they both fall for the same boy. Airing Tues 21 April at 5:40pm on Disney Channel 303.

One World: Together at Home from Global Citizens now is your chance to fight the spread of the COVID-19nvirus. Global Citizen is partnering with the World Health Organization, the United Nations, and some of the world’s leading artists for One World: #TogetherAtHome — a one-night special event curated by Lady Gaga that makes its global debut starting from April 18 at 8:00pm on Vuzu channel 116. 

Road to Destiny is a brand new telenovela, on Fox Live channel 126 from Friday April 20 at 5:20pm, Luisa Fernanda Pérez, a beautiful, 18-year-old student, has two passions: mastering the violin and gardening, a skill she learned from her father, Pedro, the former groundskeeper of the wealthy Altamirano family’s estate. A chance encounter with destiny alters her life after she is injured in a car accident caused by Luis (her biological father), a playboy lawyer and falls for his stepson, Carlos, an attractive, young doctor treating her at the local hospital. 

Evil another brand-new series on M-Net is about a sceptical psychologist Kristen Bouchard joins David Acosta, who is training to be a Catholic priest, and a blue-collar contractor as they investigate the church’s backlog of unexplained mysteries, including supposed miracles, demonic possessions and other extraordinary occurrences. Starting Wednesday April 22 at 9:00pm.

If you missed any of your favourite shows this week, then DStv Catch is here to make sure you are kept up to date, here a just a few titles you may have missed; Beast of Burden, Pilot Sean Haggerty must deliver a shipment of cocaine across the U.S.-Mexican border for his final run as a drug smuggler. Alone in a small plane, he’s faced with the burden of his allegiance to the cartel, his deal with the Drug Enforcement Administration and his increasingly tense relationship with his wife. 

Girls, an aspiring writer and her three friends, all in their early 20s, together try to make sense of what life has in store for them after living in New York for two years. They’re not sure what they want, or who they want it from, and the picture isn’t getting any clearer. 

American Housewife, Katie Otto, a mother of three children, struggles to fit in with wealthy people in her new neighbourhood while looking after her husband and kids. Gold Rush: Parker’s Trail, Adventure enthusiast Parker Schnabel gears up for the deadly Klondike Trail, the nearly 965-kilometre snow-clad hike that thousands of alpinists have attempted in the past.

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Asuquo Eton founded talkmediaafrica.com, now one of the most visited TV, music, tech and features website, in 2011. He is also a social media analyst, media and entertainment consultant.

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