Innholdsfortegnelse for 26 Aug 2021 i TV Plus English

Korea may not be the first thing you think of when you hear the words “global television craze”, but the tiny Asian country has a following around the world who crave its productions. Whether it’s a fantastical TV show about a god falling in love with a mortal, or a movie about a greedy family, Korean content is classy. And you can stream these on SHowmax now… PARASITE (2019) This dark comedy film won the 92nd Annual Academy Awards for Best Picture, Director, Original Screenplay and International Feature Film (the first non-English Best Picture winner ever) and follows a poor family of con artists who’re intent on being parasites. The Kims live in a basement – that’s all they can afford thanks to their jobs as pizza box folders, until…

Kenan Season 1 Wednesdays (from 25 August) 1Magic (*103) 18:00 His latest role is one that’s all too familiar to Kenan Thompson in family-centric comedy series Kenan (2021-now): he’s playing a former sitcom star and father. “The difference is that I am happy married and my wife [non-celeb Christine Evangeline] is very much alive,” says Kenan the actor. He’s best known from his sitcom Kenan & Kel (1996-2000) and the 43-year-old has two young daughters. His character Kenan Williams on the other hand is a widower and he’s doing his best to raise his two daughters: bright Aubrey and practical joker Birdie (real-life sisters Dani and Dannah Lane, who played sisters Lacey and Cagney Jeffords in 2020 in comedy series Brooklyn Nine-Nine, 2013-2021). “Kenan is juggling his family and his…

Murder, She Wrote Season 1 weekdays (from 6 September) SABC2 (*192) 14:00 If you’re an ’80s or ’90s child, chances are you still remember the deceivingly cheerful theme song for the hit-series Murder, She Wrote (1984-1996). With 264 episodes and four TV movies over a span of 19 years, Cabot Cove mystery writer and crime solver Jessica Fletcher (Angela Lansbury, the balloon lady in family movie Mary Poppins Returns, 2018) has seen every creative form of murder imaginable. But aside from bringing us a scandalous murder each week, Cabot Cove also helped a number of well-known modern-day actors get their foot in the Hollywood door. GEORGE CLOONEY S1E2 Birds Of A Feather (1984) and S3E18 No Laughing Murder (1988) When George’s chiselled face shows up as an uncredited waiter, he…

When we last saw Gabisile (Baby Cele) in February this year, her lifeless body was rolled in a carpet being thrown into a river by her husband and then-pastor Qhabanga (Siyabonga Shibe). He was convinced that he murdered his wife after he found out Gabisile was the person who killed his other wife Nomcebo (Nombulelo Mhlongo) and their son Khehla ( Thobani Nzuza) and buried them at the church last year. Initially everyone just thought that Gabisile was missing when she didn’t turn up for an important church service. The police started searching for her and found pieces of her clothing that washed up on the riverbank. They scoured the river but didn’t find a body. Cunning Qhabanga was afraid that the police will turn to investigate him, so he…

When James (Dingaan Khumalo) stumbles upon his sister Itseng (Angela Atlang), who’s supposed to be at school in another province, at an office party dancing as a stripper, he has no idea how desperately she needs his help. “Itseng and James are half-siblings who share the same father. Itseng was shipped from school to school with no stable parenting, and these siblings do not have a relationship. James is just an ATM brother to her, sending money when she’s in trouble,” explains Dingaan. But that’s about to change when James forces Itseng to come live with him without knowing what she has actually gotten herself into… A RUDE AWAKENING James is unaware that Itseng isn’t doing her stripper job out of free will – she is part of a human…

Line Of Duty Seasons 1-6 on BritBox At the end of season 5 of British police drama Line Of Duty (2012-now) in 2019, South African fans were left with major questions about the mysterious “H” police corruption ring, which has been plaguing Anti-Corruption Unit 12 (AC12) since season 1. We have been in the dark ever since the ITV Choice channel (previously DStv channel 123) left DStv in 2020. We haven’t been waiting alone. Line Of Duty season 6 has only just come out in the UK this year. And now, thanks to new streaming service BritBox (see more on p14), we can catch up on all the action to date, from season 1. But according to series writer-creator-producer Jed Mercurio (who often cameos as a cab driver in the…

The Good Doctor Season 4 Monday (from 30 August) M-Net (*101) 21:00 There’s an all too familiar sense of anxiety and suffocation that overcomes you when you watch the season 4 première episode of medical drama show The Good Doctor (2017-now). The season starts with a short message saluting the frontline workers and for the audience to “Do your part. Wear a mask”. It’s a sad and powerful opening that prepares you for what is to come. Dr Shaun Murphy (Freddie Highmore, Norman Bates in thriller series Bates Motel, 2013-2017) and the rest of the medical staff at San Jose St Bonaventure Hospital find themselves battling against the COVID-19 pandemic that’s ravaged the world. And it can’t be avoided, not even for our favourite autistic savant doctor. MORE THAN JUST…

Rookie cop Mpho (Junior Singo) will soon be in a destructive moral dilemma as he continues his hunt for answers. The question: who killed his friend Tamryn (Danica Delarey) in July? Desperate to solve the bloody murder case that the police aren’t seemingly very interested in, Mpho will battle his inner demons as he gradually begins to take the law into his hands. “When they met at the commune in September last year, they gelled. They had good, honest conversations and they enjoyed learning from each other,” says Junior. So Mpho was broken when Tamryn was killed by illegal organ traders. “It absolutely traumatised him, especially as he was there when her body was found by Detective Pele (Andile Nebulane),” reveals Junior. FALLING APART Mpho only has one thing on…

We could barely believe our eyes when relatively new fat-cat Mr Mamba (Simo Magwaza) and his trusty henchman Gorbachev (Khulu Skenjana) were shot and killed at the beginning of August. Mr Mamba only made his appearance in October 2020, so when we were told that the character was getting the bullet less than a year after his dramatic arrival, we were gobsmacked. And while his now-ex-wife Boniswa (Lusanda Mbane) is scurrying around in a desperate attempt to get her hands on Mamba’s money, a new family is lurking in the shadows… ready to claim their piece of the lucrative pie. This fortnight viewers will meet the members of the Kubeka family. As with all individuals that make their way through the Newtownian streets, this family of six carries with them…

It’s one thing to attack a woman’s business, it’s a whole other matter when her children are in the firing line. That’s the position Dineo Price (Kgomotso Christopher) is in this fortnight as her step-son-in-law James’s (Robert Hobbs) evil plot against Dineo stepdaughter Felicity (Mary-anne Barlow) and their family business Legacy Investments unfolds. “Dineo is no fool. She is a woman, a mother, a daughter, a sister, a businesswoman. She has had to endure so much in the past, with people judging her and calling her a gold digger, but she’s always come out shining,” says Kgomotso. Her character will have her back to the wall trying to save her world, but that’s only going to spur Dineo on. “Attacking Legacy is a stone in her shoe. Attacking her family,…

You wanted a fur baby, but you got a hell hound. Your four-legged best friend might have been your emotional rock throughout the pandemic, but the chewing, clawing, digging, barking, snapping little maniac is wearing you down, especially when your dreamed-of peaceful outings together turn into The Walk Of Shame. Hold onto your poop bags, because the original Dog Whisperer (2004-2012) Cesar Millan is back, taking on the toughest cases to show how pet parents and their dogs can live in harmony again in his brand-new 10-episode series, Cesar Millan: Better Human Better Dog, Fridays on Nat Geo Wild (*182) at 18:00. But you don’t even need to have a dog to learn from and enjoy the show. “You will learn a natural, simple, profound way of looking at the…

The Resident Season 2 weekdays (from 1 September) e.tv (*194) 20:30 When it comes to the daily lives of the medical staff at Chastain Park Memorial Hospital, slicing and dicing into human bodies is the easy part in medical drama series The Resident (2018-now). It’s the unpredictable personal drama and personality clashes that make being a medical expert difficult – and things will definitely get more complicated and deadly in season 2. “Not everybody gets out alive and what will happen, I hope, will have viewers holding their breath,” says show co-creator Amy Holden Jones (executive producer of single-season medical series Black Box, 2014). “This is going to be tense, and the doctors will be pushed to their limits.” DOUBLE DRAMA By now, we know that whatever can go wrong…

The venue is beautifully set for a garden wedding, the guests are dressed in their best attire, and the couple are ready to tie the knot that will lead them into forever ever after. Even the weather indicates that it’s going to be a beautiful sunny first day of spring… It’s the much anticipated day of Nokuzola (Vuyiseka Cawe) and Zithulele’s (Raphael Griffiths) wedding. They have been through a lot to get here, and it often seemed that they’d never get to the altar. Like when Zithulele recently found out that Nokuzola had an abortion and that she’d been sleeping with his half-brother Nkululeko (Nkanyiso Mchunu). Or when Zithu’s ex Boniswa (Lusanda Mbane) revealed their ongoing hook-ups. But they’ve proven that true love conquers all and they’re about to become…

When widowed paramedic Bab’Gumede (Sifiso Sibiya) arrives to work dishevelled, wearing mismatched shoes, his friends stage an intervention. “They are concerned about his well-being,” explains Sifiso, whose character has been in a bout of depression since his wife MaCele (Monica Thuli Zulu) died from a heart attack in June this year after Bab’Gumede’s illegitimate son was revealed. Rather than sending Bab’Gumede to therapy, his self-appointed matchmaker MacGyver (Mxolisi ZuluBoy Majozi) sets him up on a blind date with young, sassy Amahle (Ntombenhle Gumede). “Considering that he’s lonely, and struggling to take care of himself, MacGyver sets out to find his friend a new wife,” reveals Sifiso. But Bab’Gumede’s happiness about meeting a new love interest is short-lived when his estranged nurse son Calvin (Bhekisizwe Mahlawe) learns that the paramedic is…

When it comes to matters related to fashion empire House Of Zwide, it’s boisterous boss Funani’s (Vusi Kunene) way or the highway. If any of his staff, which include his family members, have any objections, they’re more than welcome to hand in their resignation letters and exit his premises. It’s that simple. But here’s where things get rather complicated this fortnight… Fully aware of the fact that Funani blatantly refuses to renew his contract with his manufactures, the De Villiers family, Funani’s accountant son Nkosi (Wanda Zuma) goes behind the mogul’s back and signs the deal anyway. “Nkosi forges Funani’s signature and continues working with the manufacturers in plain sight,” explains Wanda. Nkosi understands that defying his father is wrong, but he believes that it’s the best decision for the…