3 THINGS TO WATCH ON TV TONIGHT
BBC BRIT, DSTV 120, 10.15PM STACEY DOOLEY: BOUNTY HUNTERS
Strictly Come Dancing star Stacey Dooley heads the US to meet some of America’s most prolific bounty hunters, who go after fugitives who have skipped bail, and bring them to justice – for a healthy fee. Shadowing the US’s modern-day bounty hunters, and getting to grips with the role bail bondsmen play in this ‘Wild, Wild West’ industry, Dooley asks: is this hugely profitable business taking advantage of the poor’s desperation for freedom?
FOX, DSTV 125, 8.45PM THE RESIDENTS
In season 3, Red Rock Mountain Medical has taken over, inserting its own doctors – including new neurosurgeon Dr Barrett Cain (Morris Chestnut, Rosewood) – and nurses into the well-oiled machine that was once Chastain Memorial Hospital, and causing the doctors to fight harder against the corrupting influence of money in health care that risks the lives of their patients.
FOX LIFE, DSTV 126, 3PM ROAD TO DESTINY
Luisa Fernanda Pérez, a beautiful, 18-year-old student, has two passions: mastering the violin and gardening, a skill she inherited from her father, Pedro, the former groundsman of the wealthy Altamirano family’s estate. A chance encounter with destiny alters her life when she is injured in a car accident caused by Luis (her biological father), a playboy lawyer. In the process, Luisa falls for his stepson, Carlos, the attractive, young doctor who treats her in hospital.