Line Of Duty

Season 1 SABC3 (*193) 21:30 Action

What it’s all about: Detective Sergeant Steve Arnott is “demoted” to the police anti-corruption unit after he refuses to cover-up a police shooting.

Episode 1 Arnott joins the AC-12 team, and Gates finds out that his lover lied to him about her stolen car and that she drove over a dog. NB! See p18-19.

Season 4 BBC Earth (*184) 19:00 Doccie

Nature doccie Deadly 60 (2009-now) returns as survivalist Steve Backshall drags his camera crew across the world to meet 60 deadly animals. “We look at their danger to other creatures and the phenomenal abilities they show when they’re hunting prey,” says Steve, who adds that while the thresher shark is docile to larger animals, it terrifies him. “Its tail is longer than I am tall and the sharks use it to herd their prey. Their feeding frenzy is a sight to behold.”

The 11-episode season takes Steve from the jungles of Asian island Borneo, to the wilds of South Africa and waters of Florida in the US. And while size is sometimes important, it’s the smaller ones that Steve has respect for most. “A bull elephant is as frightening as an encounter can get, but when you’re an insect, a tarantula spider is a monster. I’m not scared of spiders and snakes, but I understand these critters very well,” says the 47-year- old host. And it’s also the smaller ones that worry him most – his most painful experience in the wild was in season 2 (2010) when a venomous centipede got trapped under his watch and stung him. “The pain was indescribable, it was this pulsing burn like scalding oil,” says Steve.

Don’t miss episode 5 (20 July) when Deadly 60 is in South Africa. He meets wildlife experts and gets to grips with creatures great and small, finding out more about everything from wild cats that hunt moths, to Africa’s deadliest animal: the hippo. “You think they are fat, lazy water cows, but they can outrun a man and they are fast swimmers. Animals are generally not dangerous to people unless [we] do something to threaten them,” says Steve.