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Kim Engelbrecht (Isidingo, The Flash) to star opposite British actor Iain Glen (Game of Thrones, Downton Abbey) in new M-Net/Freemantle international co-production Reyka. Created and written by former Isidingo head writer Rohan Dickson. Other cast includes Anna-Mart van der Merwe, Hamilton Dlamini, Kenneth Nkosi, Nokuthula Ledwaba, Desmond Dube, Ian Roberts, Fiona Ramsey, Gerald Stein, David Butler and Jessica Hayes. Premieres on M-Net in July 2021.

TVSA Team
01 Dec 2020 16:25

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Kim Engelbrecht | Iain Glen

Production has started on M-Net and Fremantle’s eight-part contemporary crime drama Reyka, which follows a flawed but brilliant criminal profiler, Reyka Gama (Kim).

Haunted by her past, she investigates a string of brutal murders committed by a serial killer in the sugar cane fields of KwaZulu-Natal.

Having been abducted as a child by a farmer named Speelman (Iain), Reyka is traumatised by the experience but this also helps her enter the minds of Africa's most notorious criminals and turn them inside out.

Manipulative and charming, his hold on Reyka, 20 years later, forms part of the backbone of the story, as does Reyka’s relationship with her mother Elsa, played by Anna-Mart van der Merwe.

Reyka exposes secrets and lies, truth and trust, damage, healing and forgiveness.

With a dramatic backdrop of sugar cane fields, tropical beaches, stifling heat, dangerous wildlife, a criminal underworld, and shadowy politics - each place is connected by sugar but divided in so many other ways.

The series is directed by Zee Ntuli (Hard to Get) and Catharine Cooke (The Girl from St Agnes).

It's jointly produced by Serena Cullen for Serena Cullen Productions in the UK (Lady Chatterley’s Lover, Cold Feet) and Harriet Gavshon for Emmy nominated Quizzical Pictures in South Africa.

Executive Producers are Serena Cullen, Harriet Gavshon and Rohan Dickson.

Yolisa Phahle, Nkateko Mabaso, Allan Sperling, Jan du Plessis will executive produce for M-Net, and Julie Hodge for Fremantle. Reyka will be distributed globally by Fremantle.