The Equalizer Is Back With Season 5 On Universal TV Across Africa

The Equalizer is set to return for its fifth and final season on Universal TV (DSTV 117) on 3 April at 8 PM with new episodes every Friday until the series finale on 31 July 2026. 

The Equalizer is a reimagining of the classic series starring Academy Award® nominee and multi-hyphenate Queen Latifah as Robyn McCall, an enigmatic woman with a mysterious background who uses her extensive skills as a former CIA operative to help those with nowhere else to turn. McCall presents to most as an average single mom who is quietly raising her teenage daughter. But to a trusted few, she is The Equalizer – an anonymous guardian angel and defender of the downtrodden, who’s also dogged in her pursuit of personal redemption.

Robyn’s clandestine work and her personal life often collide when her smart and observant daughter, Delilah, and her aunt Vi, who lives with Robyn to help her balance life as a working mother, struggle to conceal her vigilante career. While Robyn worries about the mental and emotional toll her work exacts on her family, she is joined in her pursuit of justice by Melody “Mel” Bayani, an edgy bar owner and sniper from Robyn’s past who recently quit the Equalizer team to recover from post-traumatic stress disorder; and Harry Keshegian, a paranoid and brilliant white hat hacker married to Mel. As Robyn aids the oppressed and exploited, she sometimes works with Marcus Dante, an NYPD detective and trusted friend who respects the need for Robyn’s type of justice even as he often questions her methods. 

Queen Latifah (Chicago, Hairspray) returns alongside Tory Kittles (Colony, True Detective), Adam Goldberg (A Beautiful Mind, Saving Private Ryan), Liza Lapira (Fast & Furious, Crazy, Stupid, Love), Laya DeLeon Hayes (God of War Ragnarök, The Angry Black Girl and Her Monster) and Lorraine Toussaint (Orange Is the New Black, Selma).

The Equalizer is produced by Universal Television in association with CBS Studios. Executive producers include Joseph C. Wilson, Dana Owens (Queen Latifah), Debra Martin Chase, Shakim Compere, John Davis, John Fox, Loretha Jones and Rob Hanning.

The Equalizer Season 5 premieres on Universal TV on 3 April at 8PM, with new episodes airing every Friday until 31 July 2026.

Blue Ridge Returns For Season 2 On Universal TV Across Africa

The wait is finally over as Blue Ridge returns to Universal TV (DStv 117) with Season 2 on 2 April at 8PM with new episodes every Thursday until the season finale on 21 May.

Based on the 2020 film of the same name, Blue Ridge follows Sheriff Justin Wise and his two deputies as they work to protect their small Appalachian town from the forces trying to rip it apart. Every case tests their grit, loyalty, and the limits of small-town peace. Longstanding feuds, disgruntled criminals, unruly travellers, and cold-blooded murderers wreak havoc - threatening the safety of the citizens Justin has promised to protect. 

Season 2 explores the shifting dynamics within the community and the growing pressures that come with wearing the badge in a place where everyone knows your name – and your history.

In Blue Ridge, justice is personal and earned one fight, one mystery, and one truth at a time.

Johnathon Schaech (That Thing You Do!, Houdini) returns alongside Sarah Lancaster (Chuck, The Judge) as Elli Wise, Taegen Burns (Imaginary, The Mighty Ducks: Game Changers) as Maddie Wise, and A. Martinez (Longmire, Avatar: The Last Airbender) as Connor McGrath.

The series will also feature surprise guest stars including Bruce Boxleitner (Babylon 5, Tron), Eric Close (Suits, Without a Trace), and Sean Patrick Flanery (The Boondock Saints, Nefarious).

Blue Ridge premieres on Universal TV on 2 April at 8PM, with new episodes airing every Thursday until 21 May.

 

Universal TV is available on DStv Channel 117 across Africa.

Dangerous Alliances And Criminal Secrets Collide In New Thriller In Flight On Universal TV

Set to deliver tension and twists, In Flight will premiere on Universal TV (DStv 117) on 19 February with new episodes every Thursday at 8 PM until the season finale on 26 March 2026.

When flight attendant and single mum Jo Conran is forced to smuggle drugs to protect her imprisoned son, she’s dragged into a dangerous criminal underworld. There she encounters Cormac Kelleher, who promises to keep her son safe so long as she smuggles heroin for him. Desperate, Jo reaches out to her ex, Dom Delaney, a customs officer, who begins to help Jo uncover the truth behind Cormac’s network before it’s too late.

Jo is an ordinary woman in an extraordinary situation. Over the course of the series, she is forced to negotiate gangsters, corrupt cops, hired killers and an unlikely love triangle fraught with danger. Terrified, alone and out of her depth, she learns fast and hatches a daring plot to turn the tables on the outfit threatening her son. Set against the fast-paced, high-pressure backdrop of international air travel, In Flight follows Jo’s relentless quest to protect her family while entangled in a dangerous criminal syndicate.

The cast includes Katherine Kelly (Mr Bates vs. The Post Office, The Long Shadow, Happy Valley), Ashley Thomas (Them, Top Boy), Stuart Martin (Rebel Moon, Miss Scarlet and The Duke), Harry Cadby (Everything Now, Red Rose), Tony Pitts (All Creatures Great & Small), Corinna Brown (Heartstopper, The Summer I Turned Pretty), Emma Higginbottom (Ted Lasso), Bronagh Waugh (Ridley, The Stolen Girl) and Ambreen Razia (Hounslow Diaries, Ted Lasso).

In Flight is a high-octane 6x60’ drama series produced by Buccaneer Media (The Crow Girl, Marcella, The Burning Girls), written and co-created by Mike Walden (Marcella, Whitstable Pearl) and Adam Randall (Slow Horses, iBoy), produced by Brendan Mullin (Wreck, Dalgliesh) and directed by Chris Baugh (Wreck, Tin Star).

Executive Producers are Anna Burns, Richard Tulk-Hart and Tony Wood for Buccaneer Media, Rebecca Dundon and Simon Judd for Fremantle, Mike Walden, Adam Randall, Katherine Kelly and Chris Baugh. Fremantle is handling global sales.

In Flight premieres on Universal TV on 19 February at 8PM, with new episodes airing every Thursday until 26 March.

Development Alert: NBC Renews Law And Order: SVU For Season 26, Law And Order For Season 24, Chicago Fire For Season 13, Chicago PD For Season 12 And Chicago Med For Season 10

Dick Wolf is in for another busy season at NBC. No surprise here, the Peacock network has renewed “Chicago Med,” “Chicago Fire,” “Chicago P.D.,” “Law & Order” and “Law & Order: SVU” for the 2024-25 broadcast TV season. Among Dick Wolf scripted series, that leaves just “Law & Order: Organized Crime” on the bubble; a renewal for that show, which has experienced multiple showrunner changes in its short life, is still in discussion.

Among the shows, this will rep the 26th season of “Law & Order: SVU,” the 24th season of “Law & Order,” Season 13 for “Chicago Fire,” the 12th season for “Chicago PD” and the 10th season for “Chicago Med.” All of the renewed series are produced by Universal Studio Group’s Universal Television division, along with Wolf Entertainment, and all shows stream the following day on Peacock. (Wolf’s deal with Universal is currently through 2027.)

Per NBC, “Chicago Fire,” “Chicago Med” and “Chicago P.D.” (collectively known as “One Chicago“) are the top three Wednesday shows in total viewers and rank among the top 10 primetime entertainment shows this season. Also, Season 25 of “Law & Order: SVU” is Thursday’s top-rated entertainment show in the 18-49 demo.

Across all platforms, Chicago Fire” is averaging 12.6 million viewers (+86%) and is +236% in the adults 18-49 demo (live+35); “Chicago P.D.” is averaging 12.0 million viewers (+114%) and is +287% in the demo; “Chicago Med” is averaging 10.5 million viewers (+57%) and is +141% in the demo; “Law & Order: SVU” is averaging 11.2 million viewers (+111%) and is +325% in the demo; and “Law & Order” is averaging 7.7 million viewers (+56%) and is +122% in the demo.

Dick Wolf is creator and executive producer on “Law & Order: SVU”; David Graziano, Julie Martin, Mariska Hargitay, Norberto Barba, Kenneth Brown, Arthur Forney and Peter Jankowski also executive produce. Wolf is also creator and executive producer on “L&O,” with Rick Eid, Pamela Wechsler, Alex Hall, Arthur Forney and Peter Jankowski are executive producers.

“Chicago Fire” executive producers are Dick Wolf, Derek Haas, Andrea Newman, Reza Tabrizi, Arthur Forney and Peter Jankowski; Dick Wolf, Diane Frolov, Andrew Schneider, Stephen Hootstein, Eli Talbert, Derek Haas, Arthur Forney, Matt Olmstead, Michael Brandt and Peter Jankowski are executive producers on “Chicago Med”; “Chicago P.D.” executive producers are Dick Wolf, Gwen Sigan, Chad Saxton, Rick Eid, Derek Haas, Gavin Harris, Jason Beghe, Arthur Forney, Peter Jankowski and Michael Brandt.