What to watch on Compact Plus in August 2025

News 01 August 2025

From Plastic Surgery Rewind, to Diarra from Detroit, and the 25/26 PL season, here are the Compact Plus highlights.

What to watch on Compact Plus in August 2025

Compact Plus makes you the ultimate insider this August!

Dig deeper into true-crime secrets with series like 911: Did the Killer Call? And Jessica Biel’s Fatal Destination. Secrets Declassified with David Duchovny exposes the weird side of the spy game, while Hitler’s Treasure Hunters explores hidden history. And we go undercover in mobland in the new drama series Diarra from Detroit and the latest seasons of The Family Business, and Spoorloos: Losprys.

There’s so much more to explore, so set your reminders for our top 10 August titles now.

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Mobbed-up drama

Diarra from Detroit

This drama series from actress-comedian Diarra Kilpatrick and Kenya Barris (Black-ish) blends mystery and comedy. Recently divorced teacher Diarra Brickland (Diarra Kilpatrick) stumbles into Detroit’s criminal underworld and a decades-old mystery about missing Black kids when she goes looking for Chris (Shannon Wallace), the hookup who ghosted her after a night of passion. Look out for Morris Chestnut as Diarra’s suave ex-husband Francois, and Phylicia Rashad’s Black Reel Awards-winning performance as one missing kid’s mom, Vonda.

Watch Diarra from Detroit Season 1 from Sunday, 31 August at 7PM on BET Channel 129.

The Family Business

Series creator Carl Weber based this crime-drama show on his book series of the same name. Stern patriarch and respected businessman LC Duncan (Ernie Hudson), the CEO of Duncan Motors, is running a criminal empire under the table. Now that he wants to retire, he has to groom a successor while keeping egos in check. But being boss paints a target on your back, even if you’re married to a Duncan – like LC’s fixer, Harris Grant (Miguel A Núñez Jr).

Watch The Family Business Seasons 4-5 from Thursday, 21 August at 7PM on BET Channel 129.

Spoorloos: Losprys

The crime-drama series returns with a fifth missing person case, but with an all-new cast and story, you don’t have to catch up to get into it! Karla (Lienke Vermeulen), the teenage granddaughter of rich game farmer Brand (Louis Minnaar), is kidnapped while her father, Willem (Neels Clasen), is on trial for murder. Karla is the key witness and her mom Lynette (Angelique Pretorius) turns to the only person she trusts to help them – her ex-lover, Frank (Laudo Liebenberg).

Watch Spoorloos: Losprys Season 5 from Tuesday, 26 August at 8PM on kykNET Channel 144.

Weird reality

Plastic Surgery Rewind

Plastic surgeon Dr Terry Dubrow, body image expert Dr Spirit, and RuPaul’s Drag Race judge Michelle Visage host this reality series in which some famous clients look into having their cosmetic treatments reversed. Guests include actress and Danity Kane singer Aubrey O’Day, who wants to dissolve her facial filler, RHOAtlanta star Kim Zolciak, YouTuber Sebastian Bails, and Love and Hip Hop Atlanta star Jessica Dime, who’s worried that toning down her look will see her fan numbers drop, too.

Watch Plastic Surgery Rewind Season 1 from Sunday, 17 August at 7:05PM on E! Channel 124.

911: Did the Killer Call?

Someone stumbles across a crime scene, and 911 operators get a frantic call. But what if the killer is the caller? It happens so often that each episode is able to take us inside three separate calls! This season, Judith Nix calls 911 claiming that her husband Kenneth has taken his own life but two gunshot wounds to his head suggest otherwise. And a call is the only clue in the murder of Kevin James after the main suspect is murdered.

Watch 911: Did the Killer Call? Season 1 from Wednesday, 17 August at 10PM on ID Channel 171.

Fatal Destination

Actress Jessica Biel is the executive producer and narrator of this true-crime series, which takes us into the darker sides of sunny holiday destinations around the world. Cases include the murder of rich retiree Jake Merendino in Rosarito, Mexico, the death of 22-year-old Emily Jean Schwarz during a camping holiday with her husband, the “hot tub vampire murder” of Shawn Johnson in New Orleans, and the highjacking of the Joe Cool charter yacht in the Bahamas.

Watch Fatal Destination Season 1 from Tuesday, 12 August at 9PM on ID Channel 171.

Epic sport kick off

The Premier League 25/26 Season

The season opens with Arne Slot leading Liverpool on home ground at Anfield on Friday, 15 August, as they face a surprising Bournemouth, who aced the Summer Series. All eyes will also be on the newly crowned 2025 FIFA Club World Cup champions, Chelsea, as they take on Crystal Palace on Sunday, 17 August. And we can expect the newly promoted Leeds United, Burnley, and Sunderland to shake up the old guard.

Watch the Premier League 2025/26 Season on SuperSport PSL Channel 202 from Friday, 15 August at 9pm.

Daring documentaries

Secrets Declassified with David Duchovny

The X-Files star David Duchovny hosts this series about former top-secret incidents gleaned from declassified government documents. This season we go inside a Soviet laboratory, a nuclear missile site under Greenland’s ice, and an apocalypse bunker inside a mountain in the US. We find out how secret agents have done everything from tapping undersea cables to living lies at The Pond, Mossad's Red Sea resort. And we learn about bizarre programmes, like Stalin’s hybrid soldiers, and weird spy gadgets and research.

Watch Secrets Declassified with David Duchovny Season 1 from Friday, 22 August at 7:25PM on History Channel 186.

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Genghis Khan: The Secret History of the Mongols

Christopher P Atwood’s 2023 translation of "The Secret History of the Mongols" – the oldest surviving text written in the Mongolic languages, dating back to 1227 – guides this six-episode live-action exploration of the life of Temüjin, aka Chinggis Khan, from his family’s fall from power during his childhood to his creation of an empire that conquered vast stretches of Asia and Europe to the fate of his empire in the hands of his chosen successor and third son, Ögedei.

Watch Genghis Khan: The Secret History of the Mongols from Friday, 8 August at 6:50PM on National Geographic Channel 181.

Hitler’s Treasure Hunters

Indiana Jones wasn’t all made up! This six-episode documentary series explores Himmler's Ahnenerbe, the SS division set up to track down and steal ancient religious artefacts and high-value objects associated with faith, including Christianity’s Holy Grail, Thor’s hammer Mjölnir from a cave in Iceland, and Tacicus’s Codex Aesinas from Italy. It was a journey that would take their researchers as far afield as Tibet. The goal? To back up the pseudoscientific classification of the Aryan race and its supposed superiority.

Watch Hitler’s Treasure Hunters Season 1 from Tuesday, 26 August at 7:25PM on History Channel 186.

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