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- Shi Nian hopes that interacting with Ji Yan Xin will give her creative material for her comic plot. Coincidentally Ji Yan Xin's younger brother Ji Si Shi, Shi Nian's assistant and their relationship flourishes becomes a catalyst.
- Zhang Xiaofan was orphaned and joined Qingyunmen sect. After rigorous training, he mastered Seven Vessels. Lu Xueqi faced danger but met Baguio who fought demon sect. New perils awaited Zhang.
- Promising young boxer Neo falls for Sli, his manager's daughter. Unaware of the betrayals and secrets, their families face unraveling consequences.
- 'Billy Elliot with sax meets Buena Vista Social Club in Cape Town, South Africa.' 13-Year-old Felix dreams of becoming a saxophonist like his late father, Zweli, of the famous Bozza Boys Band. His mother, Lindiwe, hates jazz, which she blames for Zweli's death. Because of alcohol, he died before her youngest son was born. Felix's world is turned upside down when he wins a scholarship to a prestigious school. Wanting to prove himself, he auditions for the school concert, but he can't read music. Two aging ex-Bozza Boys give Felix a cash course on the saxophone and teach him about his musical roots and his father's past. Through Felix's determination, his mother Lindiwe is able to forgive her late husband and celebrate Felix's musical talent.
- South African women have very different lives, yet are linked together by the force of synchronicity. It's about the strong connections that people share, whether or not they're aware of them. If South Africa's past has been characterized by separation, it seems fitting that 10 years into our democracy we focus on the connections within our diverse multicultural society. This is the central theme of Home Affairs. The focus of the series is women's stories that reflect the diversity of the millions of women found within our country. We focus on nine specific women who undertake journeys of self-discovery and reflection over the 13 episodes.
- Constance Dladla is the daughter of the local pastor in Gamalakhe. She has lived a sheltered and protected life under the strong guidance of her father but she harbours a secret desire. Constance wants to be a singer and wants to sing her own music on an international platform. When we first meet her she has just finished school and is helping her father's secretary, Mrs Batyi with the church administration. The only time she gets to live out a fraction of her dream is when she sings solos in the church choir. Constance enters a local singing competition without her father's knowledge.
- Set against the backdrop of the fantastic Novoland, a series of roles and their predestined tragedy in the Novoland Epic are depicted from Lyu Guichen's perspective as he is growing up in the prairie of the Northern Continent and Nanhuai City of the Eastern Continent.
- A Seemingly invincible family and the school they build from nothing is threatened when a woman driven by revenge will stop at nothing to destroy them and their legacy.
- The strange and cruel supporting actress "devotes" herself to a hypocritical movie star who has a repulsive addiction. Let's see how "the coquettish bitch" bravely fights the angelic bitch and the rose suit, grabbing both career and love.
- When Jessica and her lover, Sophia, escape to a mountain cabin for a week's holiday at the end of the year, Jessica's fiance, Daniel, shows up to surprise her but is actually the one who receives a surprise.
- Krotoa, a feisty, bright, young 11 year old girl is removed from her close-knit Khoi tribe to serve Jan van Riebeeck, her uncle's trading partner.
- Missing persons and kidnapping is on the rise and a special task force team is assembled to pay particular attention to solving these types of crimes.
- The classic South African sitcom about friendship and stokvels: Sweet Harmony (the ladies' stokvel) and Majakathata (the gentlemen's stokvel).
- Forced Love is a romantic comedy based on Shakespeare's 'Taming of the Shrew'. It centres on two people falling in love despite their serious misgivings about one another. Kat and Nonlhe Minola are two Cape Town socialites who rule the social scene with an iron fist. After Kat and Nonhle find themselves in jail, Mbulelo decides to hatch an outrageous plan to get Kat away from Cape Town and in touch with her traditional roots.
- The comedic adventures of a South African law firm.
- Fisher Fashions is owned by Harold Fisher who employs Dino (his cutter and handyman), and a workforce of 5 women - Patsy (the shop floor steward), Xoli, Rochelle, Katrien and Vera. Another regular visitor to the factory floor is January, a freelance designer whom Fisher employs from time to time. Fisher's over-demanding wife Bernice, also pops in and out of the factory - usually to check up on Harold and the girls - and her presence is always certain to provoke conflict of some kind.
- Fate and the choices that five women make while each is fighting for their existence bring them together. Each has to make a decision that will change their lives. 5 women from different walks of life, including Julia Cilliers (Jana Kruger, Karen in Projek Dina), a psychologist who's struggling with feelings of guilt over the death of her child, cross paths when each of them must fight for their survival.
- A South African actress runs into car trouble and finds herself stranded in a small town in the Karoo. Recognized from TV, Hazel is invited to direct the local nativity play but soon faces complications: she's Jewish, and she goes out of her way to include the black community in her Christmas show with results that mix comedy, tragedy, and triumph.
- Krotoa [her Khoi name] was a Khoi girl (c.1643-1674) of the Goringhaicona tribe from the Cape who was taken at the impressionable age of ten or eleven years old into the home of Jan van Riebeeck as a domestic servant. When the young Krotoa moved into the home of Jan van Riebeeck, she became a 'pet' project to his wife, Maria. A tragic heroine - Krotoa: Eva of the Cape. The only recorded female interpreter of her time, was the bridge between the Khoi people and the Dutch settlers. She aided Jan van Riebeeck in his dealings with the Khoi and was instrumental in negotiating the end of the first Dutch-Khoi war. We examine the life of a woman now known as the Mother of the Afrikaaner Nation. Krotoa was directed by Kaye Ann Williams with Uwe Jansch as Director of Photography and producer by Roberta Durrant.
- 13 Weeks to Find Mr Right is a South African comedy-drama television series which revolves around a journalist at a beauty magazine who joins a dating site and documents her experiences to try get ahead at the magazine.
- TV SeriesIt's a world ruled by cards. Chen Mu is a one-star card maker and he got a precious card in a second-hand store by chance. By learning card making theory during the day and studying the precious card at night, he makes rapid progress on card making, and his card is valued by the top student from Dongwei Academy. His life is going through changing without being noticed.
- SOS introduces us to five students who move into a commune together. Jaco, the soapie-addicted rugby player; Kash, the womanizing med student; Colin the political activist; Kit, the spoiled rich girl, more interested in shopping than studying and Marelise, the ex HomeEc student studying Fine Arts without her parent's knowledge.
- Future Imperfect is a talk show that was on air for 6 years from 1995 to 2000 which posed hypothetical scenarios into South Africa's social, political and economic future through South Africa's transition to democracy. The series was facilitated by Judge Dennis Davis.
- A Valentine's day sequel to Home Affairs: A Christmas Story. The Williams family gathers to celebrate Pieter and Benita's wedding. But secrets surface and threaten their happiness.
- Treknet is about Boet Pieterse and John Smith who are friends and fishermen. They live together in Kalk Bay in a little fisherman's house that belongs to Boet and fish every day to sustain their lazy lifestyle. A collection of zany supporting characters make up this group of residents in the small fishing community.
- An intellectually engaging talk show, hosted by a high-level presenter/facilitator who is well-informed on socio-economic and political issues and is able to lend the show credibility with his/her background and knowledge.
- Mentalist Bryan Miles explore the cracks in human perception.
- Drought and Water collide when a diviner's daughter is persuaded by a charismatic stranger that she just might be the solution to his problems.
- Four complicated women share their lives with each other as they live together in an apartment complex. Comedy enfolds as these ladies gym, eat, gossip and try to help each other through life's complicated decisions.
- Dan "Scoop" Schoombie has to fill in for colleague Lucinda and review an art exhibition organised by the bolshy Precious Makathini. He finds himself in trouble when he drops and breaks an exhibit. Dan gets a hot tip from Deep Throat, his mysterious source, that the 3 times winner of the Comrades Marathon is in fact on performance enhancing drugs. Dan engineers a meeting with him, where he manages to "steal" the evidence. The Weekly Bystander's circulation is falling, so the paper's owner, Mr Montgomery, is threatening retrenchment. Dan thinks he could be out on the street, and so decides that a bikini-clad bimbo on the front page will sell papers. To Dan's consternation he hears that sports and crime writer Sparks is going to do an interview with a hooker. When Sparks goes down with flu, Dan ends up interviewing the new mayor under the assumption that she is a lady of ill repute. Featuring Charl Marais. The Weekly Bystander's owner, Mr Montgomery, feels that an agony-aunt column would improve sales. When Norman gets the task, Dan and the other staffers his efforts. When TJ hands the task over to Dan, catastrophe results.
- An investigative TV documentary that unpacks meat production, distribution and consumption in South Africa. From slaughter to supermarket - how fresh is our food and what are we actually eating? The truth is that animals are bred to be killed and to be consumed. That's not the way nature intended it, but the way our consumption driven society dictates it should be. We think it's okay to eat as much meat as we do everyday because we need to survive and stay fit and strong - but is there another way? Can we curb our consumption in order to create a healthier and more humane world? Swallow This takes an in depth look at meat production in South Africa and finds out exactly what we're eating.
- MAZINYO DOT Q depicts the complications of a relationship begun in cyberspace, continued in Gugulethu and ending who knows where! Charles quickly discovers that he is a fish out of water in a South African township. And his relationship doesn't go as smoothly as he had hoped - especially when the vain, self-involved Thembi barely acknowledges his existence! Qondi has to convince her sister to go along with the deception to keep Charles around, while simultaneously trying to find a way to show Charles that it is in fact Qondi who is the perfect woman for him.