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The local version of the global franchise spin-off series, The Bachelorette South Africa, is already in pre-production and the identity of the country’s "rose like no other" will be revealed later this week.

Meet the modest in M-Net’s first telenovela, Legacy: Trix Vivier from Trackers, easy-on-the-eye Sean-Marco Vorster and stalwart Dawid Minnaar are the Potgieters.

Coming soon to M-Net: Legacy, a dazzling local telenovela with a to-die-for ensemble cast; Kgomotso Christopher, Michelle Botes, Mary-anne Barlow, Anton David Jeftha and Deon Lotz embody a family at war with itself...

Special Acoustic Version of The Bachelor SA’s Theme Song, Different Feeling, Now Out! Over the past few weeks, Daniel Baron’s Different Feeling has been inspiring love as the theme song for M-Net’s reality show, The Bachelor South Africa and as the season saw Marisia accepting Marc’s ring during the final episode. Daniel has released a romantic acoustic version of the song alongside a sunset video ...

M-Net’s Trackers debuts June 5, Exclusively On CINEMAX. An adaptation of internationally acclaimed author Deon Meyer’s crime novel, Trackers, shot entirely in South Africa premieres Friday, 5 June, on Cinemax (US). Trackers deftly interweaves three story strands into a sophisticated action-packed thriller that covers the length and breadth of the country, explosively colliding in Cape Town in a violent conspiracy involving organized crime, smuggled diamonds, ...

Fairy-tale ending for The Bachelor SA Season 2 as Marc chooses Marisia. In a special season finale of M-Net’s popular reality dating series The Bachelor SA, Bachelor Marc Buckner handed the final rose and beautiful Jack Friedman ring to shy speech therapist Marisia van Wyk as a symbol of his love and commitment. The dreamy fairy-tale moment took place behind a spectacular African sunset, at the five-star ...

14th Annual South African Film & Television Awards Returns to Joburg. The National Film and Video Foundation (NFVF) officially announced that the SAFTAs (South African Film and Television Awards), will be hosted on the 27th and 28th of March 2020 at the Sandton Convention Centre in Gauteng. Having had a stint at Sun City in the North-West Provinces the SAFTAs are back in the city ...

Unhitched guys over 25, meet the woman of your dreams on M-Net! If you are looking for that special woman to settle down with, take note that M-Net’s brand new reality dating show; The Single Wives SA, are now inviting guys over the age of twenty-five, from all over South Africa, to put their name forward. If you are one of the successful candidates, you may ...

Seeking a second chance at finding love? M-Net is adding a South African version of another popular international reality dating show to its slate of top-notch local programming. In The Single Wives SA, six courageous women between the ages of 20 and 50, who have walked down the aisle and then suffered the pain of divorce or widowhood, will learn how to let go of their ...

Is it Too Soon To Tell? This season of M-Net’s Survivor, is now entering it’s final stages, with the bench of jurors, looking more intimidating than the few outcasts still remaining in the game.  But is it too soon to tell who the ultimate Survivor will be? And the answer is without a doubt yes, because, with Survivor, you never know, until you know. In ...

Is there some play left in Leatitia? In this episode of M-Net’s Survivor: Islands of Secrets, saw Mike winning his first individual immunity, maybe worth more than what we think.  Steffi also claimed her 5th visit to the Islands of Secrets, with a very special Family Surprise. After Jacques took his time looking for an hidden immunity idol re-introduced into the game, it was Leatitia ...

Survivor SA’s Mmaba answer some Questions… In most probably the most heated episode of M-Net’s Survivor SA: Islands of Secrets, it was surely up to the last vote, to decide which castaway the tribed voted off. At the end, after a tribal council where Jacques and Nicole had immunity, it was Mmaba who left the game, becoming yet another castaway to get the boot, with ...

M-Net confirms the second season of The Bachelor South Africa Since the end credits rolled over the final episode of the first season of The Bachelor South Africa, the country’s vocal  “Bachelor Nation” have been speculating about how and when another local version of the popular global franchise would return to M-Net. While some ardent fans were wondering whether they would see a Bachelor or ...

ʼn Baie persoonlike biografiese rolprent gebaseer op die roman van Elsa Joubert Vervaardiger Helena Spring het aangekondig dat die nalatenskap fliek, Poppie Nongena op 30 Januarie 2020 in fliekteaters landswyd uitgereik sal word. Die fliek is gebaseer op die bekroonde boek “Die Swerfjare van Poppie Nongena” deur Elsa Joubert. Clementime Mosimane maak haar rolprentdebuut as Poppie. Die res van die rolverdeling sluit groot name in, ...

#TeamVanCoke’s Takes 3rd Season of  The Voice SA! It was the Big Day on Sunday, 7 July, when the winner of The Voice South Africa was announced during a live broadcast on M-Net.  After the Top 5 Talent were cut down during the progress of an Audio and Visual spectacular, host Anele Mdoda announced the Top 2 of this season, being Wild Card, Soné Joubert ...

This Sunday is the Finale of The Voice SA, Season 3! With thanks to M-Net, we are giving away double tickets away to the final Live Broadcasts of The Voice South Africa, starting on Sunday, 07 July2019. This season’s finale will be broadcast live on Channel 101 from the Mosaic Teatro, in Fairlands, and you can be there! The Voice Finale Competition is now closed. ...

This VR Theatrical Production, will definitely not be a Sound of Silence… Here’s to you… an opportunity to win tickets to get on this Simon & Garfunkel journey down Memory Lane, all the way to Graceland, passing the Bridge over Troubled with Water. With thanks to the Producers, we are giving away 10 double tickets to the 20:00 performance, on Thursday, 4 July 2019 at ...

Deon Meyer’s Trackers to come alive on the Small Screen in Biggest African TV Colab. The television adaptation of internationally acclaimed author Deon Meyer’s crime novel Trackers marks the beginning of a new era in high-end African storytelling. Pan-African television network M-Net and two global broadcasting giants are joining forces to take this uniquely South African political thriller to the world.  First, as announced in December 2018, ...

Simon & Garfunkel gets a classy makeover with 8-piece cast. Fall in love with Simon & Garfunkel all over again in this dynamic, and uplifting musical journey through more than 20 classic hits! Everyone knows the songs of Simon & Garfunkel and between 5 and 28 July, you will be able to hear them all live at Pieter Toerien’s Montecasino Theatre. Expect to hear all ...

Your Survivor SA Cast-Aways! M-Net handpicked fascinating, multi-faceted personalities from a variety of professions and age groups who are not all they seem to be on the surface. It’s going to be a social experiment of note to observe how they manoeuvre through the conflicts that are bound to arise. With the Game well underway now, you can click on the cast-away below for more ...

What’s underneath the Surface…. Once South Africa’s first Bachelor has found “the one” on M-Net channel 101, the much-awaited new season of Survivor South Africa will roll into the channel’s popular Thursday night local productions slot at 19:00. Set in the beautiful Samoa, and spiced with all kinds of never-seen-before curveballs, twists and turns, Survivor SA: Island of Secrets will hit our screens on Thursday, 16 May. While M-Net ...

One of these Ladies will play for the Final Rose! In the premiere episode of M-Net’s new reality dating series, The Bachelor SA, South Africa’s first Bachelor, Lee Thompson, met 24 beautiful, diverse and accomplished women, who each tried to make a good first impression on their potential future husband. Below are the 24 ladies who vied for Lee’s heart:   America | 25 | Attorney ...

HBO® and M-Net Invite Game of Thrones® Fans to Bleed For The Throne! What would you do for the Throne? Prove your devotion and Bleed For The Throne– join the global Game of Thrones blood donation promotional effort. In partnership with HBO, M-Net, the South African National Blood Service (SANBS) and the Western Cape Blood Service (WPBS), the broadcaster is inviting all Johannesburg and Cape Town fans to prove ...

Social and On-line Media Influencers, Join the Voice Team for Post-Blind Chats… With the 3rd Season of M-Net’s The Voice South Africa currently being broadcast on DSTv’s channel 101’s most Successful Slot on Sundays, the deserving Talent of our Country, is slowly but singingly filling up the available spots in their chosen Coach’s teams. Audiences all across M-Net’s satellite reach, have already familiarized themselves with ...

Meet your host before 14 February when the 1st Bachelor SA starts! It’s all over the M-Net channels, and petals are falling much more noticeably, introducing that Channel 101 will be bringing viewers the local version of the immensely successful international reality dating show franchise, The Bachelor.  M-Net also revealed that local heartthrob, former Sharks rugby player, international model and business owner, Lee Thompson, would be ...

Stêr van The Voice Season 2, reik eerste enkelsnit uit. Die sanger PJ Pretorius, wat naam gemaak het tydens die tweede seisoen van die gewilde M-Net sangkompetisie, The Voice SA, het pas sy eerste enkelsnit uitgereik en beloof om iets beter te wees as wat verwag word. Dié pop-rock liefdesliedjie, wat 12 uit 10 heet, is uit die pen van Renier Bester en gaan oor ...

Rapper Riky Rick from Rikado Replaces Khan in the New Voice’s Coaching Ranks! M-Net recently revealed that radio and TV star Anele Mdoda had been signed as the new host of The Voice South Africa. But she is not the only larger-than-life personality who will soon be setting the brand-new stage at Urban Brew studios alight in the 3rd season of this popular talent search. Multi-talented rapper and record ...

Out with Bobby and In with Riana, as the new Afrikaans Coach in The Voice SA’s 3rd Season. There’s some serious competition coming your way from another new coach in the third season of M-Net’s The Voice South Africa. One of strongest female voices and most successful songwriters in the South African music industry, Christian and pop music star Riana Nel, took a seat in one of The Voice SA’s famous red ...

Lady Lira returns for Season 3 as the Longest Sitting Voice Coach in South Africa. Fans of The Voice South Africa are in for an electrifying third season. The sparks are bound to fly when new coaches Riky Rick, Francois van Coke and Riana Nel compete for talent.  To add to the star wattage, Lira is back in her old red seat, as the most capped Voice Coach in SA! As a confirmed coach ...

Francois van Coke replaces Karen Zoid as the Rocker on the new Voice’s Coaching Panel! The coaching panel for The Voice South Africa Season 3 would include three hitmakers from different backgrounds and music genres: a Flamboyant male rapper and producer, an Afrikaans gospel, country and pop darling and an Afro-chick soul diva. Missing from the mix was a rebellious rocker… and perhaps a little more testosterone.  ...