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Cape Town, Durban, Jozi… R U Ready… WWE LIVE will return to South Africa in 2020 with events on Wednesday, April 29 at Grand Arena Grandwest in Cape Town; Thursday, April 30 at Moses Mabhida Stadium, Durban; and Friday, May 1 and Saturday, May 2 at Ticketpro Dome, Johannesburg. Tickets for WWE LIVE South Africa are available via Computicket. Fans attending WWE LIVE will see their favourite Superstars including Seth Rollins™, Becky Lynch™, Charlotte Flair™, Bobby Lashley™, The O.C.™, Ricochet™,  Aleister Black™ and more*. “We ...

kykNET se Plaasjapie beloof ‘n Groot Oes met Groot Pryse! Kan jy vir  een maand op ‘n plaas oorleef? Skryf in vir kykNET se nuwe realiteitsprogram, Plaasjapie, en bewys dat jy ‘n boer is wat ‘n plan kan maak. Plaasjapie is kykNET se splinternuwe realiteitsreeks wat deelnemers die geleentheid gee om te wys of hulle die deursettingsvermoë het om op ‘n plaas te oorleef. 20 ...

Enter NOW to outwit, outplay and outlast the Survivor SA, Season 8.  Survivor SA fans finally received the news that they have been waiting for since nifty player Rob Bentele nabbed the title of Sole Survivor at the end of season 7’s live finale. M-Net confirmed that Survivor South Africa will return for an eighth season in 2020 and that entries have officially opened. Those who think they ...

Emily Van Camp returns to the Small Screen in awaited 3rd Season.  Entering its third season, The Resident continues to rip back the curtain and reveal the truth of what really happens, both good and bad, in hospitals across the country. This third season of this firm favourite premieres on Fox, on Tuesdays at 20:45 CAT from 21 January 2020. The provocative medical drama follows ...

Welcome to Queendom! Netflix announced that Queen Sono will release exclusively on Netflix worldwide on February 28, 2020. After the assassination of her mother, Queen Sono grows up to become a kick- ass yet unconventional spy devoted to protecting the people of Africa. During a dangerous field assignment, Queen unknowingly uncovers shocking details about her mother’s death, sparking her own truth-finding mission. Queen Sono will be ...

Second Season for Otis streams on Netflix this January. Sex Education will return to Netflix on 17 January 2020 with 8 brand new episodes. Sex Education is about Otis Milburn, a socially awkward high school student who lives with his sex therapist mother, Jean. In season 1 Otis and his friend Maeve Wiley set-up a sex clinic at school to capitalise on his intuitive talent ...

Jenny Han’s Best Selling Novel coming alive on Netflix. A new film with Noah Centineo, which is based on the #1 New York Times best-selling YA romance novel, will commence streaming on Netflix, as of 12 February 2020. It’s a new year and Lara Jean, played by Lana Condor, and Peter, Centineo’s character, are no longer pretending to be a couple. They now are a ...

Our own Theron against Kidman, in this new Jay Roach Real Life Feature. A new film reveals the personal and professional cost often paid by women when publicly going into battle with very powerful men. Bombshell, a film by award-winning director Jay Roach and screenwriter Charles Randolph, tells the explosive story of the women who brought down a powerful media mogul. Based on the real-life ...

New International Feature highlights the harsh realities of addiction. A Million Little Pieces is the adaptation of the notorious 2003 bestseller with the same name by James Frey, which offered a visceral account of the author’s time at a rehabilitation centre in the 1990s. An alcoholic and a drug addict, 23 year-old James has two options: treatment or death. After waking up on a plane ...

Star filled Cast in this David and Goliath Feature by Todd Haynes.  Dark Waters tells the shocking and heroic story of an attorney who risks his career and family to uncover a dark secret hidden by one of the world’s largest corporations and to bring justice to a community dangerously exposed for decades to deadly chemicals. Based on The New York Times Magazine article, The ...

Director of Skyfall, brings Epic War Movie to South Africa. The highly-anticipated new film from acclaimed director Sam Mendes, is the suspenseful war-drama 1917 – scheduled for release in South African cinemas on 17 January 2020. Sam Mendes, the Oscar®-winning director of Skyfall, Spectre and American Beauty, brings his singular vision to his World War I epic, which follows the thrilling tale of two young British soldiers on a single ...

BBC Studios Celebrates 20th Anniversary in SA with Stellar Local Line-Up. To mark the end of a successful 20th anniversary year for its channels business in Africa, BBC Studios revealed a full stellar summer season of programming across BBC Lifestyle, BBC Earth, BBC First, BBC Brit and CBeebies. South Africans can look forward to another local commission with a season 2 of Dinner Dates South ...

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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 ...

The Story of Scrooge, presented in a Ballet to Cape Town this Christmas Season. Cape Town City Ballet presents a sumptuous production of A Christmas Carol – The Story of Scrooge that will be the perfect holiday entertainment for the whole family! The production will be presented at Artscape Theatre from 14 to 24 December. This special Dickens treat for all ages, is a timeless ...

It’s a Scorching Summer with the Hottest Musical in Cape Town. Summer ‘19 is set to be the hottest season yet with the scorching hit musical Kinky Boots, that has been igniting the stage at The Fugard Theatre situated in the Mother City. Presented by Eric Abraham and The Fugard Theatre, the five-star South African premiere of this big hearted, Tony Award-winning musical has been ...

Third installment of the National Geographic’s Series, will feature the Queen of Soul. National Geographic, with Imagine Television Studios and Fox 21 Television Studios, announced the cast that will be joining previously announced Cynthia Erivo as Aretha Franklin, in the next installment of the Emmy-winning global anthology series Genius: Aretha. Malcolm Barrett, Patrice Covington, Kimberly Hébert Gregory, Rebecca Naomi Jones and Sanai Victoria will star ...

Restaurateur, Chef, Cookery writer, TV Presenter, Novelist and Business Women comes home! Prue Leith has announced that she will be returning to South Africa for two weeks in February 2020. As one of the world’s most well-known restaurateurs and culinary experts, Prue was born in South Africa, and will be visiting the Prue Leith Chefs Academy, and promoting various projects including her cookbooks, novels and ...

Relive Your Favorite Disney Memories Alongside Mickey Mouse in 2020. Grab your Mickey Mouse ears and get ready as Disney On Ice celebrates Mickey and Friends skates into South Africa for the first time. Produced by Feld Entertainment Inc., this production will inspire families to relive their favorite Disney memories and make new ones they will treasure forever. Brought to South Africa by leading local promoter, Showtime ...

From Page to Screen, Now get the whole Book! With compliment of Fox Network Group, we are giving away three copies of the book, to enhance your War of the Worlds Experience. The acclaimed series War of the Worlds, premiered on FOX (DSTV 125), and is currently on a full Broadcast-Battle.  This contemporary reimagining of H.G. Wells’ timeless classic is produced by Urban Myth Films ...

I do believe in Fairies, I do, I do.. Even On Ice, Peter!! With thanks to Pieter Toerien Productions, we are giving away 10 Double tickets to The Imperial Ice Star’s Peter Pan on Ice, to be staged at the Teatro at Montecasino, on Wednesday, 11 December 2019, at 19:30. The world’s premier theatrical ice skating company, The Imperial Ice Stars, returns to South Africa with a ...

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 ...

New SA Film to be Perfect Prelude to Week of Activism It is fitting that Çut-Out Girls opens the 22nd of November, a week before sixteen days of activism for no violence against women and children. This frighteningly relevant and unsettling film follows the lives of six women that become interwoven through the dark actions of two aspiring sportsmen. It is a disquieting film that ...

New Film Lifts the Veil on SA’s Sexual Shenanigans. In the local world of blessers, wealthy, middle-aged men lavish gifts and money on young women in return for companionship and more. But what happens when it all goes wrong? Sexy new comedy Blessers, a topical and very funny look at the naughty lifestyles of Mzansi’s elite, is directed by Rea Rangaka and executive produced by ...

International Tequila Festival comes to Cape Town! Put your Mexican Sombrero’s on and get your dancing shoes out for Cape Town’s first ever International Tequila Festival 2019. The event will feature 30 Tequila, Mezcal and other Agave spirits. The festival will be running over three days. It will be a rocking Mexican fiesta with food, drinks, music and masterclasses showcasing the best Global Tequila & ...

Critically Acclaimed Sci-Fi series to Premiere in SA on 30 October. The eagerly awaited series War of the Worlds, will premiere on FOX (DSTV 125) on Wednesday 30 October at 20:45. This contemporary reimagining of H.G. Wells’ timeless classic is produced by Urban Myth Films in partnership with CANAL+, Fox Networks Group (FNG) Europe & Africa and AGC Television. It is Fox Networks Group’s second production ...

Innovation and enlightenment with Cape Town City Ballet’s SATORI Cape Town City Ballet presents an exciting new trilogy of works with their Spring Season, Satori, which will be performed at the Artscape Opera House from 26 October to 9 November. Satori encapsulates innovation and enlightenment with three inspiring works, two of which are being newly staged alongside an original commissioned work for Cape Town City ...

Random Acts of Comedy Mark Banks has come out of hibernation to bring you his new one-man stand up show – Mark Banks On Ice! Some nights the Russian All-Star Mints will make a guest appearance. This year Mark is turning sixty and would love you to come celebrate his birthday with him in what is his favourite way to celebrate: You staring at him ...

Maak reg vir Fynskrif 2 in Oktober Fynskrif is terug. Die tweede seisoen tel drie maande later op met Van Wyk en Vennote wat aan ‘n draadjie hang na Hans (Chris van Niekerk) se aftrede. Lara (Tinarie van Wyk Loots) is so gefokus op nuwe kliënte werf dat sy nie die gaping raaksien wat tussen haar en Jaco (Jacques Bessenger) ontstaan het nie. Boonop sit ...

Sparkling New Comedy Explores SA’s Blesser Culture on the Big Screen. Although the arrangement is nothing new, ‘blesser’ is a South African term for an older man who has multiple girlfriends he lavishes with gifts, in exchange for sex and companionship. In turn, the girlfriends post photos on social media of expensive shoes, clothes and piles of cash, tagging the pictures #blessed. That’s the subject ...