SA comedian Trevor Noah is to join Jon Stewart and “The Best F*&#ing News Team Ever!” as part of the cast for Comedy Central’s Emmy® and Peabody® Award-winning satirical news show, “The Daily Show with Jon Stewart”. Noah will join the cast from December 2014. Noah will join the talented contributor roster of “The Best F*&#ing News Team Ever!” which includes […]
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Robert Downey Jr. to Join ‘Captain America 3′
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Robert Downey Jr. is on the verge of signing on to “Captain America 3,” with Tony Stark’s Iron Manset to play a key role in bringing the Civil War storyline from Marvel’s comicbooks to the bigscreen and trigger the start of a new phase of movies from Marvel Studios. The actor is in final negotiations to play the billionaire […]
Rockville set to return to SA screens next year
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The drama series, which is produced by power couple Connie and Shona Ferguson was “extremely well received” by viewers when it premiered in 2013, says the show’s publicist Bongiwe Potelwa. “I can’t say much about the show at the moment, because we are still finalising a few things. But it will definitely be back next […]
How the Generations replacement show fared in its first week?
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Skeem Saam replaced troubled Generations on SABC1 on Wednesday, 1 October in what can only be described as The Biggest TV Schedule Change in the history of South Africa. While Generations picks up the pieces after the crisis, Skeem Saam has been settling into it’s primetime 20h00 spot and it’s handling the responsibility very well if […]
M-Net adds weekly Shrien Dewani trial TV coverage
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As of Sunday, 12 October 2014, M-Net and Combined Artistic Productions will add a weekly, one hour long additional Carte Blanche segment to cover the Shrien Dewani court trial. Katy Katopodis, Primedia’s editor-in-chief of Eyewitness News (EWN) and David O’Sullivan will present the segment, while Carte Blanche presenter John Webb will attend the trial in […]
James Bond 24: Dave Bautista Cast As Villainous Henchman
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In August we learned the exciting news that the 24th James Bond film will feature a physically unique and intimidating villainous henchman for star Daniel Craig to battle onscreen. Comparisons were made to class Bond characters Oddjob and Jaws and so the other week we began putting together a list of actors who fit the bill. As it turns out, […]
‘Under the Dome’ & ‘Extant’ Renewed for New Seasons
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Only yesterday we learned Fox was interested in developing more science fiction series for television, having ordered a new sc-fi pilot from Len Wiseman and Scott Rosenbaum. And while Fox is notorious for axing sci-fi shows before they have a chance to find their audience, the move is nonetheless a promising one. Today’s television is dominated by […]
‘Ghostbusters 3′ Will Be a Hard Reboot, ‘Really Scary’
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There’ve been so many different versions of Ghostbusters 3 in the works since the 1990s – one where the original cast gets transported to a hellish version of Manhattan, others involving a younger, hipper cast taking over from the originals – that it would almost be comical if it weren’t so sad. But now it seems that the film is […]
Khanyi’s talk show hits number one
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Khanyi Mbau’s talk show Katch It With Khanyi is officially the number one talk show in South Africa. The show’s been tucked away on OpenView HD’s eKasi+ channel since October last year but on Monday, 15 September it debuted on e.tv at 18h00 and owned the talk show ratings. It immediately took the spot as […]
Mi Casa’s J’Something gets cooking on Mzansi Magic
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Mzansi Magic is once again tapping into cooking television territory with the launch of an exciting cooking show, Something’s Cooking. Set to debut on Mzansi Magic on October 22nd, South Africa’s newest-kid-on-the-culinary block offers a fresh twist on the current cooking show format. How? Something’s Cooking is helmed by none other than Joao da Fonseca […]