DStv highlights - March 18, 2013

Bert Kreischer is off on another adrenalin-filled adventure in the new season of Bert the Conqueror.

• King Kong, M-Net Movies Showcase, 19.00

An aspiring director heads to a remote island with his crew to complete his movie. There they meet a mysterious beast that could mean the beginning and the end for them.

• Gordon’s Ultimate Cookery Course, BBC Lifestyle, 20.00

Gordon Ramsay’s going to strip away all the complexity, all the hard graft, and teach us how to cook amazing food with ease. This series is about giving home cooks the desire, confidence and inspiration to get cooking; whether you love doing so already or are just learning, Gordon will get you cooking with recipes that are accessible with a wow factor.

• Bert the Conqueror, Travel Channel, 21.00

Bert Kreischer clearly hasn’t learnt any lessons as he takes on more hilariously absurd but undeniably thrilling challenges. Watch Bert’s jowls furiously flapping with the G-force once more as he takes on Kingda Ka, the tallest, fastest roller-coaster on Earth which goes from zero to 206km/h in a world record-breaking 3.5 seconds. From El Toro, the tallest, fastest wooden roller- coaster in the US, to the North American Wife-Carrying Championship in Maine, nothing is off limits.

• Las Vegas Jailhouse, CBS Reality, 22.00

What happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas. Occasionally, what happens in “Sin City” leads to a stay in a cell. The offences of the inmates in the Las Vegas Jailhouse range from parking tickets to drug offences and murders. As the newly arrested and agitated suspects stream through the door, it’s down to the corrections officers to maintain order.