Showmax is bringing a few of finest in local hit reveals this month of November.
Here’s what you may binge-watch…
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‘THE WIFE’ S3
Three episodes each Thursday, from 10 November 2022
The multi-award-winning, record-breaking, Twitter-topping Showmax Original telenovela The Wife is lastly again. The third and closing season centres on two star-crossed lovers: Tswana physician Naledi Montsho and Zulu taxi driver Qhawe. Gaisang Okay Noge (House of Zwide) stars as Naledi reverse DStv Mzansi Viewers’ Choice Favourite Rising Star winner Kwenzo Ngcobo, dubbed “the Woolworths of amadoda” by Twitter, as Qhawe.
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The most seen sequence on Showmax ever, The Wife received 2022 DStv Mzansi Magic Viewers’ Choice Awards for Kwenzo (Rising Star) and Abdul Khoza (Best Actor). At the 2022 SAFTAs, The Wife was up for 10 awards, together with Best Telenovela, and received Best Actor and Supporting Actor for Bonko Khoza and Abdul Khoza respectively. The Wife season 2 lead Khanyi Mbau has simply been nominated as African Social Star of 2022 at The People’s Choice Awards.
Season 3 picks up with Naledi kidnapped and the Zulu brothers’ crimes now front-page information. “This season is going to be the most explosive yet; it’s going to break your hearts and heal them again,” says Yolisa Phahle, CEO of Showmax and MultiChoice Connected Video. “There’s more romance, and more action, and we’re now celebrating Setswana as well as Zulu culture. And in Naledi’s family, the Zulu brothers may have finally met their match…”
Look out for SAFTA winner Wiseman Mncube (eHostela) becoming a member of the solid as Mqhele this season. Other new solid embody Sello Motloung (Blood Psalms) as Naledi’s father, Kgosi; Bongo Maffin’s Stoan Seate as Sefako, Qhawe’s rival for Naledi; Lungelo Mpangase (eHostela, Lingashoni, Mzali Wam) as Xoli, Sambulo’s love curiosity; Mo Setumo (The Queen) as Tshidi, Naledi’s elder sister; and Thabang Lefoa (Skeem Saam) as Tsietsi.
TALI’S JOBURG DIARY
Fridays from 18 November 2022
Tali is coming residence. Economy class. What. The. Actual.
Having shared her marriage ceremony in Tali’s Wedding Diary after which her being pregnant in Tali’s Baby Diary, Tali is shifting again to Joburg in Season 3, decided to get Jayden into the premium preschool, Little Angels Hyde Park, and reclaim her crown, or on the very least the title of Class Mom.
But planning a marriage and even giving delivery don’t have anything on shifting again in together with your dad and mom. Especially if you’re already at your wits’ finish after years of child rearing in lockdown, when Darren embraced the brand new regular a bit an excessive amount of, GoldProp all however dissolved, and your bank cards began bouncing.
At the 2022 SAFTAs, Tali’s Baby Diary was named Best TV Comedy, with awards for Best Actress (Julia Anastasopoulos), Best Supporting Actress (Kate Normington), Best Directing (Ari Kruger & Daniel Zimbler) and Best Editing within the TV Comedy class, and an additional six nominations, together with Best Actor for Anton Taylor, and Best Supporting Actress for Kate Pinchuck. Tali’s Wedding Diary equally received 5 SAFTAs, together with Best TV Comedy and Actress (Anastasopolous).
DONKERBOS S1
Tuesdays from 29 November 2022
When the our bodies of six kids are discovered within the backwater forests of Donkerbos, Limpopo, an ostracised detective (multi-award-winner Erica Wessels) should wrestle together with her darkish previous, her household and a distrustful group to catch the killer earlier than one other baby is taken.
Created by Nico Scheepers (Nêrens, Noord-Kaap) and produced by Nagvlug (Skemerdans, Barakat), Donkerbos is a small-town homicide thriller that switches between English, Afrikaans and Venda.
The star-studded solid contains SAFTA Lifetime Achievement Award winner Thoko Ntshinga (The River), Fleur du Cap winners Sanda Shandu (Skemerdans) and Nicole Holm (Fynskrif), Silwerskerm winners Stian Bam (Racheltjie de Beer), Jacques Bessenger (Fynskrif, Warrior) and Aphiwe Sithole (Poppie Nongena), and multi-award-winners Leandie Du Randt (Vuil Wasgoed) and Wilhelm van der Walt (Fynskrif).
Scheepers’ earlier sequence, Nêrens, Noord-Kaap, received the SAFTA for Editing (for Regardt Botha, Markus Van Schalkwyk and Eva Du Preez), with Channel24 giving it 5 stars and Leon van Nierop calling it “a little gem” and “masterful” in Rapport.
THE SNAIL AND THE WHALE
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The Snail and the Whale has been nominated for 3 BAFTA Children & Young People Awards: Best Animation, Director (Max Lang and South African Daniel Snaddon), and Writer (Max Lang and Suzanne Lang).
Animated in Cape Town by Triggerfish and produced by Magic Light Pictures, The Snail and the Whale follows the wonderful journey of a tiny snail who longs to see the world and hitches a trip on the tail of an enormous humpback whale.
“It’s a lovely surprise to find that, three years after we wrapped The Snail and the Whale, we have been nominated for three BAFTAs,” says Snaddon. “We’re up against such incredible competition [including Hilda and the Oscar-nominated Robin Robin], so it’s a real honour for us all, and I’m so incredibly proud of the teams at Magic Light Pictures and Triggerfish who made it happen.”
Based on the image ebook written in 2003 by Julia Donaldson and illustrated by Axel Scheffler (creators of the trendy basic The Gruffalo), The Snail and the Whale has already received Best Special Production on the 2021 Annie Awards, in addition to prizes from the likes of the British Animation Awards, Cartoons on the Bay, New York International Children’s Film Festival, The Venice TV Awards, and the BANFF Rockie’s Awards.
The Snail and the Whale was voiced by a starry British performing solid together with Sally Hawkins (Paddington, The Shape of Water) as Snail, Rob Brydon (Gavin & Stacey) as Whale, Cariad Lloyd (Peep Show) as Teacher and the late Dame Diana Rigg (Game of Thrones) because the narrator.