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Filming wraps on Showmax’s first original drama
The Girl From St Agnes, Showmax’s first original drama, wrapped on Wednesday, 28 November 2018 after filming in the KwaZulu-Natal Midlands and Johannesburg. The eight-part whodunnit premieres on...
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The Girl From St Agnes trailer release
Showmax has released the trailer for The Girl From St Agnes, their first original drama. At St Agnes, a prestigious all-girls boarding school in the Midlands, the only saint is in the name. When a...
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New Showmax Original breaks all-time viewing record
The Girl From St Agnes, the first Showmax Original drama, broke an important record on its debut on 31 January. The number of unique viewers in the first 24 hours exceeded that of the previous...
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Showmax confirms third Original: Trippin’ With Skhumba
Filming is underway on Showmax’s first travel show, Trippin’ With Skhumba. In each 30-minute episode, the Comic’s Choice Comic of the Year 2017 will get down and dirty with a fellow South African...
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6 things to know about Mashabela Galane, who stars with Skhumba in Showmax’s...
The first episode of Showmax’s third Original, Trippin With Skhumba, premiered on Thursday, 28 February 2019, building on the success of Tali’s Wedding Diary, the most nominated comedy at this...
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The Africa Channel takes Africa’s content to the world
Celebrating a banner year for African content acquisitions, The Africa Channel will air a collection of 20 new prime-time series’ representing premium drama, lifestyle, and news programming from Africa...
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7 things to know about Salesman – this week’s star in Trippin With Skhumba
In this week’s episode of the Showmax Original Trippin With Skhumba, the 2018 DStv Viewers’ Choice Award: Favourite Comedian winner and 2017 Comics’ Choice Comic of the Year visits Salesman’s childhood...
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Inside the making of South African Netflix Original series, Shadow
SCREEN AFRICA EXCLUSIVE: Last year, American entertainment streaming service, Netflix, announced that it will be investing in original African content. The year 2018 saw the release of its first...
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Three reasons to binge gritty Cape Town cop drama, Die Byl
Cape Town is the South African city with the highest murder and robbery rate, so it’s the logical setting for Season 2 of Die Byl, the gritty Afrikaans cop drama that is now available to binge, first...
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New Showmax Original comedy starts shooting in Maboneng
Woke In Progress, Showmax’s second Original scripted comedy, is now shooting in Johannesburg. The fish-out-of-water comedy is set at The Maboneng Marble, where two broke, tryna-be-woke...
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Lockdown season 5 is now shooting in Johannesburg
Season 5 of Lockdown, South Africa’s favourite prison drama, started production last week in Johannesburg, where it’s mostly shooting at Constitution Hill, the historic prison complex where the likes...
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CNN’s Inside Africa visits the shnit Cape Town film festival
On the latest episode of Inside Africa, CNN International meets some of South Africa’s most creative minds during the shnit Cape Town film festival. In addition to hearing from aspiring filmmakers...
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The Snail and the Whale is now streaming on Showmax
The Snail and the Whale, the latest Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler adaptation, is now streaming first on Showmax in Africa. Animated in Cape Town by Triggerfish for Magic Light Pictures, The Snail...
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Julianna Margulies on outbreak thriller The Hot Zone, filmed in SA
National Geographic’s hit scripted drama The Hot Zone is now streaming on Showmax. Golden Globe winner Julianna Margulies (The Good Wife) stars opposite Liam Cunningham (Game of Thrones) in the...
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In conversation with award-winning female DoP, Gaopie Kabe
SCREEN AFRICA EXCLUSIVE: We spoke to award-winning cinematographer Gaopie Kabe about making her way in film, how she continues to thrive as a black female in a male-dominated industry and the process...
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Behind the scenes on Triggerfish-animated Zog
SCREEN AFRICA EXCLUSIVE: UK-based production company Magic Light Pictures recently released a film adaptation of the much-loved 2010 picture book, Zog, animated in South Africa by Triggerfish. “Zog is...
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Somhale wedding takes viewing crown
More than half of the catalogue of TV shows and movies on Showmax, whether measured in hours or number of episodes, is now local content. This deliberate shift to local started more than a year ago...
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Rage, the first Showmax Original horror
In Rage, Showmax’s first Original horror movie, a group of school-leavers descend on a tiny coastal town for a celebration of their freedom. Roxy, Sihle, Kyle, Leon, Tamsyn and Neo party on the beach...
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Inside the making of Trap! Dis My Huis
SCREEN AFRICA EXCLUSIVE: Currently screening on Afrikaans lifestyle channel VIA (DStv 147), new South African TV show Trap! Dis My Huis – co-presented by Amalia Uys and Zoë Brown – is based on the hit...
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