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KALEY CUOCO - you know her as Penny-no-last-name-until-she-married-Leonard in The Big Bang Theory but guess what? She really can act. That's not supposed to sound mean. But you know what it's like when someone has been in a long-running award-winning series for so long; they become that character…
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SHOT on location in KwaZulu Natal and Johannesburg, the captivating African crime-drama thriller Reyka begins its eight-episode season on M-Net (channel 101 on DStv) at 8pm on Sunday, July 25. It will also be available on DStv app and Catch Up.  South African actress Kim Engelbrecht (The Flash,…
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HUGH LAURIE can do no wrong, in my opinion, even when he's doing his best to be wrong. Like in Avenue 5, which concludes its season on M-Net 101 on Friday, July 9 and will move all of its nine episodes to Showmax to binge from July 16. I watched it because of Hugh and it became a guilty pleasure.…
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TOWARDS the end of the last century - 1998 to be exact - as a newly minted arts and entertainment journalist, and as such relegated to the most boring of beats, I had the opportunity to become the television reporter for Cape Argus Tonight, when the position became available. It was also around…
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MULTICHOICE announced today that Friends: The Reunion will premiere on M-Net exclusive to DStv on Sunday, May 30 at 8pm and will be available on streaming service Showmax from Monday, May 31, 2021. Its first air date is on May 27, 2021, on HBO Max. Friends stars Jennifer Aniston, Courteney Cox,…
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FIRST on Showmax, the first three episodes of season four of The Handmaid's Tale are available to binge now, with new episodes to follow every Thursday. The cultural phenomenon picks up where we left off, with June’s fight for freedom against Gilead. But the risks she takes bring unexpected and…
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BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN fans will be swept away by Western Stars, the live, intimate concert performance of the 20-time Grammy winner’s 19th studio album, released in 2019. Filmed at the artist’s own ranch, the film documents an intimate gig in a 100-year-old barn, where Bruce is backed by a band and a…
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NOMINATED for a 2020 BAFTA Award for Best Mini-Series, The Victim centres on Anna Dean, a grieving mother who finds herself on trial for attempted murder after exposing the new identity and address of the man she believes murdered her son 15 years ago. On the flip-side of the equation is…
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CALLUM TURNER (War & Peace) was nominated for a 2020 BAFTA as former Special Forces Lance Corporal Shaun Emery in The Capture, who’s accused of assaulting and kidnapping human rights barrister Hannah Roberts – with damning CCTV footage to prove the crime. But as Detective Inspector Rachel Carey…
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WE Are Who We Are, now streaming first on Showmax, is the first TV series from Oscar-nominated Italian auteur Luca Guadagnino (Call Me By Your Name, Suspiria). Caitlin and Fraser are two very different teens, but over the course of one scorching hot summer on the American army base outside…
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