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Connect with the Fugard’s New Online Platform from 1 June, The Fugard Theatre’s new digital platform The Fugard At Home launched on 1 June, presenting a unique opportunity to access a range of theatrical content on The Fugard Theatre’s website. Following the spread of the COVID-19 virus, the subsequent lockdown, and the current uncertainty about when theatres will be able to safely operate again, The Fugard Theatre has ...

South African No-Crew Feature Film Completed in Lockdown. Principal photography has wrapped on Cabin Fever, a South African feature film created under lockdown conditions, and the trailer has just been released. The world’s first feature film to be created under lockdown conditions, Cabin Fever had no crew and used no specialist movie equipment. Filmed by the cast using only phones and laptops, the script was ...

Vicky Sampson’s Dream Keeps on Keeping on. We are all searching for hope in these uncertain and turbulent times where the Covid-19 pandemic takes its toll on so many different levels. Christien de Klerk of Embrace The Brand Media, had a brainwave just after the lockdown to approach her artists to record an indigenous song which will not only transcends hope, but also encourage people to ...

Here is what you can expect in June on your Netflix and Chill Menu:

The time has come to reinvent our ROAR! In May 2020, 21 artists from across the globe came together online to stand in solidarity with the entire entertainment and live events communities and recorded a unique take on Katy Perry’s hit song ROAR, culminating in the release of an inspiring video today, #ReInventYourROAR. No matter where in the world we find ourselves, and in whatever circumstances, everyone ...

Artists assist those in the medical field through Smile Foundation and Tixsa initiative. Several South African artists are now also offering their services to assist those in the medical field by supporting the Smile Foundation Tixsa’s initiative. This campaign was recently launched and involves the purchase of essential supplies / PPE for those in the medical industry – and anyone from businesses to individuals can ...

Nuwe Musiek Video, en Behind the Scenes Footage. To further celebrate the release of their new sophomore album, Love & Legehness, Van Pletzen have released the Behind The Scenes footage of the making of the music video for their latest single, Dronk op Liefde. Released on 31 March 2020, the video already has close to 200 000 views. Another collaboration with Early B, a true master of legehness, Dronk op Liefde is the ...

Robbie Wessels Bring Moed en Lag in hierdie Tyd. Met ’n splinternuwe album, Die Sluise van die Hemel, slaag Robbie Wessels weereens daarin om aanhangers te laat glimlag met sy humoristiese aanslag en voed hy ook die dieper denkers met liedjies wat elkeen ’n storie vertel. Dié album bevat 12 enkelsnitte, elkeen vanuit Robbie se eie pen, wat aanhangers oor en oor sal wil luister. ...

Brace Yourself for a Horrific Winter Zombies in quarantine hospitals, abandoned windmills filled with scary secrets and survivors of murderous rampages are all headed your way this June, as the films coming up on Frightfan.tv promise to keep you on the edge of your seat. With more terror than ever before on Africa’s first curated transactional video on demand service dedicated to horror, thriller, sci-fi ...

Poppie Nongena Film to Launch on DSTV BoxOffice.   Poppie Nongena, the feature film based on one of the finest African novels of the twentieth century, is set to grace DStv BoxOffice screens in June. An inspiring story of courage and tenacity, the movie explores the brutal and tender journey of a single woman caught between two families. Replete with tumultuous twists and turns, Poppie ...

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 ...

Young SA Artists Unite to Create The Ultimate South African Song Medley. Young South African artists have joined together, in their individual homes and via technology during #LockDown to record The Ultimate South African Song Medley, as a “THANK YOU” to all the healthcare professionals and other essential workers who are putting their lives at risk on a daily basis in order for the rest ...

Ahead of their upcoming album release, Van Pletzen have released a new single & music video.

4de Hermanus Film begin in 2020 na Wêreld-Wye Lof!

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 ...

Nature’s fiercest felines roar onto television screens this February, National Geographic Wild’s Big Cat Month dedicated to nature’s fiercest felines – big cats – is back, showcasing these creatures of magnificent strength, ferocity and beauty that are rapidly facing extinction. Now in its tenth year, Big Cat Month 2020 roars onto screens with premiere’s every Sunday in February at 18:00 CAT. Featuring surprising behaviors and ...

Season 2 of SA's Serial Killer Hunter, Streaming on Showmax this July!

A Newly Imagined Queen Musical Begins Major 2020 World Tour here in SA!

An Experienced Production Team pays off for Yellowbone Entertainment.

The original family drama is coming your way in Feb! M-Net’s first English language drama series in more than a decade, Deon Meyer’s thrilling crime story, Trackers, rocketed to the top of M-Net’s ratings for the year and received rave reviews from critics and viewers alike. Following the success of this magnificent production, M-Net 101 will boost its broadcast schedule with a host of exhilarating local series ...

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 ...

Dazzling Ballet Classic returns to the Johannesburg Stage.

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 ...