Binnelanders will be going through the show's scheduled surgery in April when the
Egoli Tribute Show ends.
On Monday, 5 April the series takes over the Egoli timeslot and runs an hour, from 18h00 to 19h00.
New lawyer-type characters arrive on the scene on the same day (which is the official start of Season 6) and the show changes name to: Binneland Sub Judice.
As
broken by TVSA, the newcomer cast includes
Jana Cilliers,
Terence Bridgett,
Maggie Benedict,
Antony Coleman and
Nick Boraine - all of whom are part of the new group of characters who belong to the law firm Rossouw, Paulse and Knight Incorporated (RPK). (More about whose-who coming up soon).
Their intention: to take down At Koster and Binneland Clinic in a legal battle of power.
The action will be happening from new studios that have been built by producers Elsje and Friedrich Stark in a dedictated lot in Randburg, Jozi. The show, cast, writers and crew moved in recently and won't ever leave - when you see the place you'll see what I mean.
It's genuinely a cast and crew's dream. From the outside it looks like a hotel, complete with swimming pool, HD movie screening room and my personal best ('cos I refuse to cook): lunch round those art deco-type wooden tables. A lifetime on the show and you'd never have to worry about what to have for supper ever again.
The view of the studios from the garden (by night natch).
The pool. Not deep enough to dive into apparently.
One is 750 square metres; and the other 500. Both are sound-proofed against thunder and generated against blackouts.INSIDE
Except for this one cable on each of the HD cameras, everything else is radio-controlled, including the lighting and sound booms.
The lights are what are called "cool lights" - energy efficient - they're also designer, imported from Germany.
The new, re-designed Binneland Clinic, which you may have seen on air already. The changes were written in when the clinic got renovated.
A poster on the set wall that caught my eye and made me feel guilty (but hasn't stopped me puffing unfort.)
PS: I thought that it's referring to smoking when I first saw it but now that I'm looking at it again, I don't know? Can you get Herpes from smoking??
There are HD TV's scattered round the set like this one so that the directors and crew can see what's happening, hi-def.
Fast fact: shows that film in HD take longer with make-up because of how intense the clarity /OMG factor is.
The effect of the HD film and bigger square-metre sets on screen. Of course I had to sniff for how much it all costs but no-one would breathe a word. The closest I could get was that the whole of Egoli's budget has now been added to the show.
The corridor to the new action in the show: FPK Incorporated law offices. As you can see from the picture the set-up is multi-dimensional so one room leads off another.
The set structure with most soapie's (and sitcoms) is that each room/location is built round the edges of a studio with cameras in the centre of them all (hope you can picture it!). This means that cameras can't get all dimensions and sides of a room - whereas with this setup cameras can film from most angles, peer in through doors and windows and move past rooms on dolly's.
Pretending to be a camera peering in.
Another new setting: a Bistro in a shopping-type complex, next door to FPK Incorporated.
One location leading to another. They can also change, so some of the rooms transform into others.
The lifts at the complex - without walls between them inside. This is so conversations can be filmed inside each of the lifts, from the lift next door.
One of the lawyer's offices at FPK Incorporated.
Another office, belonging to head honcho lawyer Joeke Rossouw played by Jana Cilliers. She has nutjob tendencies because ...
She's addicted to bonsai. The ones pictured here: not real. Not that it would matter if they were, they don't grow anyway.
For more pics featuring the newcomer actors at the show's launch, check out the Snaparazzi gallery:
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