Showmax has released the trailer for The Girl From St Agnes, their first original drama, and the series is now to be seen on their video-streaming service.

https://youtu.be/hkdzg1KYN78

At St Agnes, a prestigious all-girls boarding school in the Midlands, the only saint is in the name. When a popular student is found dead at the base of the old mill, the school is quick to declare the death a tragic accident. But drama teacher Kate Ballard, played by Nina Milner, doesn’t believe it. The more she investigates, the more Kate realises that she didn’t know the dead girl, Lexi Summerveld, as played by Jane DeWet, or the school at all. Behind the imposing walls of St Agnes, Lexi’s killer won’t be the only person exposed…

Here are four reasons to be excited:  

It’s a drama in South African English, for a change!

The Girl From St Agnes is a rare showcase of South Africa’s English-language acting talent.

It’s being distributed internationally! 

In a South African first, the dark drama is being distributed internationally by Red Arrow Studios International.

It’s only eight binge-able episodes.

We love soaps and telenovelas as much as the next South African, but sometimes it’s nice to watch something with a satisfying ending, like finding out who killed Lexi Summerveld and why. The Girl From St Agnes has that formula that the whole world has gone mad for: shorter seasons of extremely binge-able criminal content.

It’s like nothing you’ve seen before on South African TV.

South Africans normally turn to HBO series on Showmax for edgy content, rather than local series, which tend to be a lot more conservative, with nudity and divisive topics generally avoided. But conservative isn’t a word anyone’s going to use for The Girl From St Agnes.

Produced by the multi-award-winning Quizzical Pictures, The Girl From St Agnes is coming first and only to Showmax.

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kykNET het einde 2015 aangekondig dat die uiters gewilde dramareeks Getroud met rugby in ’n sepie omskep sal word en vanaf 4 April 2016 om 18:30, elke weeksaand, op kykNET, DStv-kanaal 144, as ’n nuwe sepie op die kassie sal wees.

Getroud met rugby is ʼn kykNET-suksesverhaal wat geen bekendstelling nodig het nie. Dié dramareeks is een van die gewildste reekse wat tot nog toe deur kykNET aangebied is.

Karen Meiring, M-Net: Direkteur van Afrikaanse kanale, is baie opgewonde oor dié nuwe era van Getroud met rugby: “Rugby lê die meeste Suid Afrikaners so na aan die hart en daarom glo ons die leefwêreld rondom dié sport sal altyd relevante en boeiende stories kan vertel.”

Gewilde karakters van die dramareeks sal steeds hulle plekke volstaan, byvoorbeeld Altus Theart, Louis van Niekerk, Rina Nienaber, Johan Scholtz, Franci Swanepoel, Nadia Beukes, David Clatworthy, Marijke van der Westhuizen en Anlia van Rensburg.

kykNET is ook opgewonde oor die nuwelinge in Getroud met rugby se rolverdeling. Die akteurs wat die rolle vertolk, is egter reeds ou bekendes in Suid-Afrikaanse sitkamers danksy prominente rolle in ander sepies en gewilde televisieprogramme – Jocelyn Broderick, David Vlok, Sean van Noordwyk, Arno Greeff, Ilse-Lee van Niekerk, Werner Coetser, David Louw, Christel van den Bergh, Vaughn Lucas, Jolene Martin, Fezile Mpela, Stephanie Baartman en Elsje Slabbert (Tieleman) sal almal deel van die nuwe aksie wees.

“Ná vier suksesvolle seisoene van Getroud met rugby as dramareeks, was dit vir my, as skrywer en vervaardiger, fantastiese nuus toe kykNET laat weet hulle het besluit om die reeks as sepie aan te bied. Nou kan die karakters – geliefde ou gesigte asook nuwes – elke dag bietjie dieper in die kykers se harte inkruip,” sê Deon Opperman, vervaardiger en skrywer van Getroud met rugby.

Die medevervaardiger en hoof- uitvoerende beampte van Opperman se produksiemaatskappy, Soné Combrink, se werk is vir haar uitgeknip. “Die kantoor is soos ʼn treinstasie,” sê Combrink. “Ons is reeds hard aan die werk om stelle te bou, die ontwikkeling van storielyne en om kostuums te ontwerp vir elke karakter.”

Getroud met rugby is vanaf 4 April 2016 om 18:30, elke weeksaand, op kykNET, DStv-kanaal 144, te sien.

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