TV

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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EARLY reviews are glowing, with YFM’s resident critic Yazz the Student comparing DAM to HBO’s The Outsider and saying the “eerie” and “unsettling” show feels “different to the South African television landscape.” Fortress of Solitude similarly calls DAM “South Africa’s answer to Sharp Objects and…
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IN the hilarious mockumentary Tali’s Baby Diary, the long-awaited sequel to Tali’s Wedding Diary, an unexpected pregnancy forces Tali (Julia Anastasopoulos, aka SuzelleDIY) into a desperate pivot from Insta-influencer to wholesome momfluencer, as Darren (Anton Taylor) and Rael (Glen Biderman-Pam)…
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THE story follows two androids tasked with raising human children on a virgin planet, after Earth has been destroyed in a religious war. Raised By Wolves has already been nominated for three 2021 Critics Choice Super Awards: Best Science Fiction/Fantasy Series, Best Actor: Sci-Fi for Travis…
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