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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

kykNET gaan saam met die Bokke Japan toe – Ja! Die Rugby Wêreldbeker skop af op 20 September en die Springbok-span, wat pas aangekondig is, vertrek binnekort Japan toe om teen die beste rugbyspanne vir die gesogte titel van wêreldkampioenne mee te ding. Daar wag egter veel meer opwinding as net die Rugby Wêreldbeker op kykers – kykNET stuur ‘n span saam Japan toe om ...

Welkom by Huis Lelieveld! Molly (Lizz Meiring) van Molly en Wors en Ouboet en Wors het haar werk as tandartsassistent verruil vir dié van matrone! In Willie Esterhuizen se nuutste komedie, Huis Lelieveld, kry Molly werk as matrone van die aftreeoord Huis Lelieveld, en kan kykers uitsien om ‘n paar ou gunstelinge, sowel as nuwe gesigte te sien. In die laaste episode van Ouboet en ...

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 ...

An insider’s view on the mystical Okavango premieres on National Geographic.  A view of one of the greatest river systems on the planet, produced by multi award-winning South African film makers Beverly and Dereck Joubert is coming to Nat Geo this September. The Okavango is a river that starts inland and ends inland. It is the only one in the world that goes from nowhere, ...

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 ...

Trailer released for Cavill and Chalotra Stream-Series. Netflix has released the highly trailer of the highly anticipated new series, The Witcher, which was released at the San Diego Comic Con 2019 in July. Based on the best-selling fantasy series of books, The Witcher is an epic tale of fate and family.  Be among the first to get the exclusive scoop on the highly anticipated new ...

Everybody loves a Political Comedy laugh… Small Screen Streaming service, Netflix, has announced chat their new 8-part political comedy, The Politician, will launch on all their platforms, on 27 September 2019. Payton Hobart, played by Ben Platt, a wealthy student from Santa Barbara, California, has known since age seven that he’s going to be President of the United States. But first he’ll have to navigate ...

The Real Version, after 40 Years! With thanks to the Gravel Road Distribution Group, we are giving away a Double ticket to the South African VIP Premiere of Francis Ford Coppola’s Apocalypse Now: Final Cut. Francis Ford Coppola’s exhilarating masterpiece of 1979, Apocalypse Now, returns to the big screen in all its cinematic glory with a striking brand-new 4K, Dolby Atmos©, Dolby Vision © version. ...

All of  us, have one thing in common… We Are On One Global Planet. National Geographic announced that Activate: The Global Citizen Movement, the six-part documentary series from Nat Geo and Procter & Gamble, co-produced by Global Citizen and Radical Media, will premiere 8 September at 20:00. Activate is a multiplatform storytelling partnership and six-part documentary series — bolstered by custom content distributed across National ...

India’s ‘Fabulous Four’ head to SA shores They’ve just performed alongside other globally acclaimed artists in the anthem song for the ICC Cricket World Cup extravaganza and now South African audiences are soon to witness the magic of India’s ‘Fabulous Four’ when YouTube sensations, SANAM, return by popular demand for three concerts around the country on the 24th August at Emperors Palace, 28th of August ...

3rd Album for SA’s most Promising Classical Composers. Friday, 2 August, saw the release of a brand new album by Caroline Leisegang, one of the youngest classical composers in South African history and winner of the iTunes ‘Best of 2015’ Award for Best Classical Album. Her third official offering, My Body of Preludes, comes after the release of her debut album Øyeblikk in 2015, and ...

Ferdie en Danny, en kie, kom terug Ferdie Kruger en die personeel van Die Fransen hotel keer in Januarie 2020 terug vir ‘n vierde seisoen van kykNET se mokumentêre reeks, Hotel. In die vorige seisoen was daar ‘n stryd oor wie burgemeester sou word, Danny se eerste toneelstuk is deur Die Fransen personeel opgevoer, daar was pret met Batcoin en Jaap se troetelskaap het amok ...

‘Net Een Shot…’  Most Famous Last Words, nou Willem Botha Lirieke… Twee jaar sedert sy treffer, Soen & Vergeet ranglyste regoor die land aan die gons gehad het is Willem Botha terug met ‘n splinternuwe enkelsnit met hope skop! Een Shot is beslis dié partytjieliedjie van die jaar. Die treffer sal sonder twyfel elkeen wat jonk van gees is op die dansvloer kry en hou ...

Follow the Herd for a Gigantic content Line Up They are smart. They are family oriented. They remember forever. They have complex emotions and they look after each other. With World Elephant Day approaching on 12 August 2019, National Geographic Wild has lined up a jumbo content block dedicated to these iconic tusked giants. Not only are they the biggest of the big five, they ...

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 ...

Nog ‘n Madiba verhaal, Die, uit ‘n Uitsonderlike oogpunt. “Wanneer ‘n mens twee dekades van jou lewe saam met iemand die pad stap, en jy verloor hulle dan, dan vat dit ‘n tydjie om die impak van daai mens op jou lewe en op die res van die wêreld te begryp. Dit is die geval met my en Nelson Mandela.” – Zelda la Grange Madiba: ...

Bennie Fourie ‘n Ander mens in Nuwe Fliek. Een les wat die lewe graag vir ’n mens wil leer, is dat niks ooit so eenvoudig is as wat dit mag voorkom nie. ’n Feit wat bevestig word deur regisseur Quentin Krog se splinternuwe rolprent, Ander Mens, wat net soos die hoofkarakter glad nie volgens ’n standaard-formule beoordeel kan word nie. Die fliek word aangebied vanuit ...