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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
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 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 […]
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 […]
When chatting with a journalist friend Robert Downey Jr. mentioned a few days ago as a joke that he’d make Iron Man 4 if his pal Mel Gibson were directing it. It was an offhand remark about a very real movie fans want that exploded into headlines in typical billion dollar franchise fashion. The star, Hollywood’s highest paid actor, […]
Created at the Isart Digital Video Game and 3D Animation/VFX School,L3.0 is another addition to the ever-increasing catalogue of post-apocalyptic short films. Produced by student team of Alexis Decelle, Cyril Declercq, Vincent Defour and Pierre Jury, if you’d ever wondered what WALL-E would have looked like if it was directed by Jean-Pierre Jeunet, here’s your chance. Combining live-action […]
It’s a rotten world for Rick Grimes and co. in The Walking Dead, the AMC zombie drama that has taken TV by storm even as it propels its characters from one miserable situation to the next. Based on the comic books by Robert Kirkman (who is also an executive producer on the series), The Walking Dead had over 20 […]
