Shado’s is a spicy drama series with new-wave comedy and drama interlaced with ice-cold themes of betrayal, passion, intrigue and outright deception. Set in a swish Newtown bar called ‘Shado’s’, the drama series deals with the conundrums and contradictions of real characters dealing with real life issues. The bar provides the arena where the city
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Riemvasmaak
The Riemvasmaak story is contextualised by the most biblical forced expulsion of the Riemvasmaak community, its diaspora and triumphant return following the end of the apartheid rule and the establishment of democracy in South Africa. The drama is set in the beautiful Riemvasmaak area and based on the real historical events of forced removals from
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The sitcom is set in the late 1980’s and early 1980’s in the North West mining town of Orkney. The miner Hendrik, his wife Maggie, eldest son Ouboet (mechanic) and his wife Yolanda (hairdresser), daughter Hess (scholar and later student) and teenage son Wimpie are the main characters in a typical Afrikaans mining family. The
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Four families, one problem, each other. One way is a brand new drama series that takes us behind the walls of suburban South Africa. One way delves into the intriguing lives of four families who take us on an emotional rollercoaster of family conflict that, in the end, is a story of love: romantic love,
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The title, directly translated as “Number please” refers to the old manual telephone exchanges found in Post Offices. Callers had to call the exchange and ask to be connected to whichever number was required. The nature of the exchanges meant that people, including the exchange staff were able to listen in on conversations on the
Continue reading »Noah’s Ark
Noah’s Ark is a story about the bonds of love that bind a family, and the secrets that threaten to destroy it. In Noah’s ark, the struggle shifted from the political to the personal for our protagonist, Moses Mokoena – an expat, former activist who has since become a successful doctor with a successful psychotherapist
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Mzansi is a soap opera that starts out as a mystery and becomes the saga of two powerful men and their families in a pitched battle for power and revenge. Twenty years ago Lunga Gwedashe was framed for murder. He spent two decades in prison while the real murderer,Chris Ngcobo, was out in the world
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Mtunzini.com is a fresh African murder mystery series that entrenches itself in the culture to produce a gripping whodunnit storyline in each episode. Rooted in the rich edginess of South African youth culture, Mtunzini.com employs top-notch storytelling and a winning set of characters to produce great escapist entertainment. Each episode has a corpse. Each corpse
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Once divided into the separate worlds of Gugulethu and Bishop Lavis, Montana chronicles the intertwined lives of four families who live in and around the melting pot suburb of Montana, Cape Town. Initially the focus of the series is on four families ranging from the destitute Yilis, who live in a squatter camp bordering Montana,
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Man crafts a new genre of reality documentary film making for South African television, creating a contemporary series exploring 30-something’s, how they perceive themselves, their potential partners and subsequent interactions. This series aims to open closed doors and broaden perspectives in its pursuit of a candid look at Cape Town’s contemporary man. Each episode explores
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