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A new docco series about the origin of Kwaito premieres on SABC1 on Wednesday 12 August at 18h00. Title: Ezase Zola. Tells the story of eZola township - the birthplace of some of South Africa's Kwaito pioneers. Those featured include Mdu Masilela, Mandoza, Zola 7, Brown Dash, Brickz, Mapaputsi, Mshoza and Mzambiya.
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Prime Video to premiere Muhammad Ali series The Greatest on 4 November 2026. Executively produced by his widow Lonnie Ali. Newcomer Jaalen Best stars as Ali. Described as "the first authorized scripted series about the life of Muhammad Ali." Teaser in the comments. >>
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Prime Video to release new documentary Novak Djokovic: The Wolf in Winter on 20 August 2026. According to the ace: "Tennis has given me so much, but the greatest battles were never only on the court. This documentary is about the moments people didn't see - the doubts, the sacrifices, and the work of constantly evolving beyond the story so many think they know."
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30 Jun 2026 11:05
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Netflix introduces a Watch Your Favourite Books section featuring a library of all series that have been adapted from novels. Arranged into nine interest categories e.g. You're a Nonfiction Fanatic, You Love a Great Plot Twist. Available from 2 June 2026.
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Disney+ to release documentary film about the 2025 Oasis reunion tour, created by Peaky Blinders wizard Steven Knight. Includes the first joint interview with Liam and Noel Gallagher in 25 years. Releases in IMAX and cinemas first, on 11 September, and then on Disney+.
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Nature and TV virtuoso David Attenborough celebrates a century on earth on Friday 8 May 2026 when he turns 100. BBC Earth's marking the occasion with two new series and special episodes from his landmark shows, between 2 and 15 May. New series: Wild London on Friday 8 May at 20h00 and Making Life on Earth: Attenborough’s Greatest Adventure on Friday 15 May at 20h00. See TVSA's New on TV Today for deets on the days.
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South Africa to host the biggest athletics meet ever held in the country on Tuesday 28 April 2026. Broadcasting live on both SuperSport and SABC. It's a World Athletics Silver event titled The Simbine Classic, namesaked by firey-footed Akani Simbine. Deets: on the SABC Sport channel, SABC Plus and SuperSport Variety 1 from 15h00 to 18h00, with highlights on SABC 2 at 22h30. SuperSport also has a build-up from 11h30.
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28 Apr 2026 13:14
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This quote by Mike White in an interview with wmagazine.com on what The White Lotus 4 is about: "It’s a bit about fame, about who has the world’s attention, who is the plus-one, and how that can organize a relationship. Some people are satisfied with the love of just an intimate partner, and some people need the love of strangers and a bigger kind of attention."
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09 Mar 2026 13:32
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Congrats! to Sunrisers Eastern Cape for hitting a win out of the park at Sunday's SA20 final - and thanks to Pretoria Capitals for making it such a thrilling match.
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25 Jan 2026 20:43
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Prime Video releases first image of Sophie Turner (Games of Thrones) as Lara Croft in the Tomb Raider series. Bring on the revival of round coloured sunglasses! See comments for pic. >> Premiere date in the barrel of the gun.
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19 Jan 2026 16:29
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The video game invasion into TV series continues. Prime Video orders two seasons of God of War, based on Playstation's mythology-themed game of the same name. Pre-production underway in Vancouver. Sons of Anarchy star Ryan Hurst cast as lead character Kratos. >>
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The Queen and The River's iconic lawyer Sandra Stein makes a comeback in Season 2 of Law, Love & Betrayal - reprised by Shannon Esra obvs. The gap between the Showmax and Mzansi Magic broadcast no longer exists. Premieres on MM first on Sunday 8 March 2026 at 20h00, and the day after on Showmax. Other new cast: Sparky Xulu and Katlego Lebogang. Trailer in the comments >>
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SABC1 premieres new docco series Vulindlela on Saturday 15 November at 20h00 - about South African musical icon and activist Brenda "MaBrrr" Fassie. Features archived interviews with her, perspectives from those who knew her, her music and... dramatic re-enactments. Brenda Ngxoli plays Brenda and The River star Sphamandla Dhludhlu portrays Chicco Twala, Brenda's creative partner. She died in 2004, aged 39. >>
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Since 2024, many of Suidooster’s outdoor scenes have been filmed in front of Filmscape’s mega LED screen at Atlantic Studios. It's 32 metres wide and six metres high - it's like one giant green screen - scenes can be filmed in front of any vista or in any place. Bianca and Siya’s wedding was filmed using this technology. >>
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07 Nov 2025 16:37
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This quote by Molly Wells on Loot 3: "... billionaires can do whatever they want. They can go to space or commit any crime or purchase a separate yacht to take a sh!t in. They could also end hunger or homelessness or fix the environment, but instead they are hoarding their money. Billionaires don't want the world to change, because they want to have all the power. That's so sus. It's more than sus, Hector. It's immoral. Because people are hurting out there and need help."
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20 Oct 2025 11:54
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This quote by Detective Williams in Season 5 of Only Murders in the Building: "You know what real money buys? I'm not talking yachts or jets or one of those cute little pygmy hippos - that's what I'd get. He'd live in my bathtub, he'd be cute as hell. Anyways, I'm talking real money, the f#ck you kind. THAT money buys the most valuable thing there is. Silence."
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13 Oct 2025 13:07
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This quote by Charles in Season 5 of Only Murders in the Building, when they spied the billionaires: "As the city has changed, so too have those in power. The mafia, as we once knew them, may be no more but the idea of many losing in order for an elite few to win has never been more true. Gone are the velour tracksuits and gold chains, replaced now by boat shoes and Dogecoin."
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BBC Earth premieres new series about whodunnit legend Agatha Christie and her travels to South Africa and Hawaii in the 1920s where she discovered a passion for surfing in Muizenberg and Waikiki. She also visited Canada, New Zealand and Australia at the time. Series starts Friday 16 January 2026 at 19h00. Hosted by David Suchet who played Hercule Poirot in the TV series Agatha Christie's Poirot. >>
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Billionaires are described as "the new mob of New York" in Season 5 trailer for Only Murders in the Building. Yay! Another show that's critical of mad-with-power billionaires who only care about themselves. Loot is another - Season 3 premieres on Apple TV+ on 15 October. Only Murders 5 starts on Disney+ on 9 September. Trailer in the comments. >>
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Global streamer Acorn TV picks up M-Net's 52-episode drama series Summertide for international audiences. It ended in South Africa in January. Still available on DStv Stream and Showmax.
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New series by Breaking Bad creator Vince Gilligan premieres on Apple TV+ on 7 November 2025. Title: Pluribus. Tagline: The most miserable person on earth must save the world from happiness. Described as a "genre-bending" series. Stars Better Call Saul's Rhea Seehorn - Jimmy's Kim Wexler on Better Call Saul.
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Samuel L. Jackson joins the ranks of movie stars slumming it on the small screen with his first lead TV role - as the star of new Tulsa King spin-off NOLA King. He plays Dwight Manfredi's former prison buddy Russell Lee Washington Jr. The New York Renzetti crime family sends him to take Dwight out once and for all. First appears in Season 3 of Tulsa King.
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21 Jul 2025 15:50
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This quote by Gi-hun in the humdinger Squid Game finale: "We are not horses. We are humans. Humans are..." How would You complete the sentence?
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14 Jul 2025 11:58
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Streamer Viu debuted the first K-Drama to be dubbed into isiZulu on Monday 30 June 2025, titled Iqhawe Labafundi (High School: Return of a Gangster). Two more to follow in August: Ezinsukwini Zokuqala (Lovely Runner) and Izidla Mafa (The Heirs). Details in the comments. >>
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This quote from the Squid Game 3 Official Trailer: "Bad people do bad things, but they blame others and go on to live in peace. Good people, on the other hand, beat themselves up about the smallest things." Premieres 27 June. >>
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17 Jun 2025 12:39
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This quote from Prime Video's action spy thriller Citadel - by Mason Kane's grandmother: "Don't go focusing on the things you can't change, only the things you can."
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30 May 2025 10:22
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Five-part Martin Scorsese documentary Mr Scorsese coming to Apple TV+ (date to be confirmed). Described as a film portrait of the writer, director and producer whose first film was released in 1967. His most recent was in 2023, titled Killers of the Flower Moon - currently streaming on Apple. See comments for his full repertoire. How many have you seen? >>
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26 May 2025 14:42
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New Apple TV+ historical drama Chief of War gets two gold stars from us in advance. 1 because it's based on true events, which always blows our hair back, and 2 because it stars hottie Jason Momoa, who's also written and produced it - and has his shirt off :-). Premieres 1 August 2025. Teaser in the comments. >>
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Netflix to premiere new docco series F1: The Academy - about the women's driving academy that runs concurrently with the F1 season. It was created in 2023 to get more women into motorsport and the show covers the 2024 Championship in a similar style to Drive to Survive. Produced by Academy founder Susie Wolff and Reese Witherspoon, under her Hello Sunshine production house. Premieres Wednesday 28 May. 2025's Championship airs on SuperSport on F1 weekends.
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New 12th season of HISTORY's survival series Alone is set in South Africa for the first time - in the Great Karoo Desert. 10 survivalists are dropped off and left Alone, with 10 survival tools and camera equipment to document their survival as they face Cape buffalo, warthogs, scorpions, venomous snakes, baboons, wildebeest and punishing weather. The prize: $500,000. Premieres in the US in June - only airs in South Africa in October :(.
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05 May 2025 16:12
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The music at the end of Episode 6 of The Righteous Gemstones 4 is one of the best tracks we've ever heard! WOW. Other worldly. It's by The Hu - a Mongolian folk metal band - and it's titled Wolf Totem. Awoooooo. See comments for the music vid >>
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This quote from The White Lotus 3 finale - by Luang Por Teera, head of the Buddhist monastery: "Sometimes we wake with anxiety, an edgy energy. What will happen today? What is in store for me? So many questions. We want resolution, solid earth under our feet so we take life into our own hands. We take action. Our solutions are temporary, they are a quick fix. They create more anxiety, more suffering. There is no resolution to life's questions. It is easier to be patient once we finally accept there is no resolution."
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09 Apr 2025 13:57
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A quote by Lottie to Shawna's daughter Callie on Yellowjackets 3: "If you could describe yourself without embarrassment or shame and especially without the fear that you might say something that scares you, what would you say?"
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Two Elif junkies won a trip to Turkey at eExtra's farewell party and finale viewing on Tuesday 25 February. Lotsa shrieks, tears and hugging each other. See comments for pics >>
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Season 2 of sci-fi The Last of Us to air Express from the US on M-Net and Showmax on Monday 14 April at 04h00, repeats at 21h00. The situation: Joel (Pedro Pascal) and Ellie (Bella Ramsay) are settled in the Wyoming commune after Joel saved Ellie from the Fireflies who wanted to kill her to create a vaccine for the Cordyceps fungus. There's uneasy peace. Until newcomer Abby arrives - played by Kaitlyn Dever (Justified, Apple Cider Vinegar). >>
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SuperSport and SABC put down their boxing gloves for two minutes and sign partnership for a SuperSport Schools channel on SABC Plus - launches on Saturday 8 February. Features curated matches from SuperSport's schools and youth coverage on DStv. Will focus on a range of sport including soccer, netball, rugby, athletics, hockey and basketball.
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Tulsa King returns to M-Net for Season 2 on Monday 6 January at 21h00 to pose the question that lingers from Season 1: If Dwight Manfredi's so bad, why do we like him so much? In the Season 2 premiere: As Dwight (Sylvester Stallone) and his crew prepare for the opening of their casino and new weed shop, the law comes knocking.
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26 Dec 2024 15:11
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Did you know? Four Zee World shows are now available with a Sesotho soundtrack: Ringside Rebel (17h00), Love Unbound (17h30), Amulya's Wedding (18h00) and This Fate (18h30).
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47-year-old flower farmer and nuclear engineer Herman Bosman won the R1-million on kykNET's Wie Word 'n Miljoenêr? on Wednesday 20 November. He used his last helpline to ask his 75-year-old mother Vida for help with the final question (owes her bigtime). This was it: Which relics kept in Paris' Notre Dame Cathedral are intact after the 2019 fire? Answer: Crown of thorns. This is the first million to be won in this edition of the show. Season 4, Episode 12.
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21 Nov 2024 11:58
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Western Cape fishing village Hawston features in new kykNET rugby doc Klubhuis (Clubhouse), about the intense rugby scene amongst players who don't play at a provincial or national level. Hawston's an interesting place between Fisherhaven and Hermanus, with an Olympic-sized pool. Arendsvlei star Sherman Pharo (Thys) hails from the village. He's a fisherman by trade - started acting in 2003. Klubhuis premieres 13 December at 20h00 and Hawston headlines Episode 5.
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Nickelodeon extends dubbing of series into isiZulu and Afrikaans to include more titles. First shows to be dubbed were PAW Patrol and SpongeBob SquarePants and now these are being added to NickToons from 16 September: Season 1 of Dora the Explorer, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and Rubble and Crew. PAW Patrol Season 2 and SpongeBob 13 too. >>
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South Africa's famous schmancy Blue Train gets the spotlight in the premiere of World's Most Luxurious, on BBC UKTV on 11 June at 18h10. See more on the series in Tuesday's New on TV Today.
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Netflix releases first look at new Lara Croft series and it turns out it's anime. There's no human cool enough to play her obvs. Set after the Tomb Raider video game Survivor trilogy. Voiced by British actress Hayley Atwell (Agent Carter). Premieres 10 October 2024. >>
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Guy Richie to direct and executively produce new Young Sherlock series for Prime Video after proving he has what it takes to create top notch TV in the Netflix chuckle-fest The Gentleman. Follows the origin story of detective Sherlock, aged 19, played by film actor Hero Fiennes Tiffin. A throwback for Richie who directed the 2009 film Sherlock Holmes.
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30 May 2024 11:50
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SuperSport introduces new multi-screen feature on Channel 199 showing feeds from 10 different live events at the same time. Introduced it for the Premier League's Matchday 38 on Sunday 19 May and will be live again for final match of the DStv Premiership season on 25 May. Will also be live during the Paris Olympics, starting on 26 July. Available on Compact, Compact Plus and Premium.
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New 12-episode kykNET drama Een Keer Om die Son uses time as a structural concept. Follows a family over a year and each eps depicts a month in their lives, with flashbacks to how they arrived in their present. Produced by Ivan Botha and Donnalee Roberts of 17 Films, who've only produced films so far. Premiere date loading.
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Prime Video orders Tomb Raider series, based on the video games, starring kickbutt archaeologist and adventurer Lara Croft. Fleabag writer Phoebe Waller-Bridge to write and executively produce.
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Former Survivor South Africa contestant and yogi Anesu Mbizvo to co-host new season of Top Travel on S3 from 23 March at 20h30. Her torch was snuffed in Episode 11 of Immunity Island (Season 8). She co-hosts with S3 favourite Fezile Mkhize who won the Top Billing presenter in 2018. He also plays paramedic Khensani on Gen.
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Mr Machete and Tarantino signature actor Danny Trejo to host new History Channel series The Unxplored with Danny Trejo. Described as exploring "the fascinating stories surrounding buried artifacts and lost civilizations." Eight eps. No premiere date confirmed yet.
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There are two endings for Reyka 2, but we'll only see one in the season finale on Thursday (29 February). Two endings were filmed to give the producers options for the conclusion.
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