Season 1
Known Gods is a 26-part South African television drama series centred around four families from different wine farms, with a central theme of good versus evil.
It premiered on M-Net on 15 September 2005 and was later released on DVD. The second season aired on M-Net in 2006.
It also aired in reruns on M-Net Series.
Known Gods premiered on SABC3 on Thursday 8 November 2007, at 20h31.
Synopsis
Deep in a lush valley are four wine farms and four wine families. Four families surrounded by mystery, love... and murder.
Four wine farms - Rossow, Le Fortune des Vins, Smoorberg and Mount Jolley - exist in a crease in time in their valley, almost completely untouched by the outside world.
Until the winemaker on Rossow, Deetlef Koen, is murdered.
Described as a sexually voracious womanizer; a man of reckless extravagance and egocentricity, Koen's murder sets in motion a series of events that rip open the past, forcing the residents of the valley to acknowledge - and accept - their flawed history.
Koen's many lovers, their spouses, a wine writer, an adopted daughter, an estranged ex-wife, a housekeeper, a head worker and the detective sent to investigate the crime - each one's life is irreversibly changed by the violent death.