From The Wife' to Tali': Best local hits to stream this NovemberShowmax has launched S3 of its biggest show ever The Wife' and is ready for S3 of SA's best comedy Tali's Joburg Diary'
by Nokuthula Ngcobo
13-11-2022 11:33
in Entertainment
Showmax has the best local shows to stream in November, including The Wife' and Tali's Joburg Diary'. Image Supplied
Showmax is bringing some of best in local hit shows this month of November.
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Here's what you can binge-watch
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THE WIFE' S3 Three episodes every Thursday, from 10 November 2022
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The multi-award-winning, record-breaking, Twitter-topping Showmax Original telenovela The Wife is finally back. The third and final season centres on two star-crossed lovers: Tswana doctor Naledi Montsho and Zulu taxi driver Qhawe. Gaisang K Noge (House of Zwide) stars as Naledi opposite DStv Mzansi Viewers' Choice Favourite Rising Star winner Kwenzo Ngcobo, dubbed the Woolworths of amadoda by Twitter, as Qhawe.
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The most viewed series on Showmax ever, The Wife won 2022 DStv Mzansi Magic Viewers' Choice Awards for Kwenzo (Rising Star) and Abdul Khoza (Best Actor). At the 2022 SAFTAs, The Wife was up for 10 awards, including Best Telenovela, and won Best Actor and Supporting Actor for Bonko Khoza and Abdul Khoza respectively. The Wife season 2 lead Khanyi Mbau has just been nominated as African Social Star of 2022 at The People's Choice Awards.
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Season 3 picks up with Naledi kidnapped and the Zulu brothers' crimes now front-page news. This season is going to be the most explosive yet; it's going to break your hearts and heal them again, says Yolisa Phahle, CEO of Showmax and MultiChoice Connected Video. There's more romance, and more action, and we're now celebrating Setswana as well as Zulu culture. And in Naledi's family, the Zulu brothers may have finally met their match
Look out for SAFTA winner Wiseman Mncube (eHostela) joining the cast as Mqhele this season. Other new cast include Sello Motloung (Blood Psalms) as Naledi's father, Kgosi; Bongo Maffin's Stoan Seate as Sefako, Qhawe's rival for Naledi; Lungelo Mpangase (eHostela, Lingashoni, Mzali Wam) as Xoli, Sambulo's love interest; Mo Setumo (The Queen) as Tshidi, Naledi's elder sister; and Thabang Lefoa (Skeem Saam) as Tsietsi.
TALI'S JOBURG DIARY Fridays from 18 November 2022
Tali is coming home. Economy class. What. The. Actual.
Having shared her wedding in Tali's Wedding Diary and then her pregnancy in Tali's Baby Diary, Tali is moving back to Joburg in Season 3, determined to get Jayden into the premium preschool, Little Angels Hyde Park, and reclaim her crown, or at the very least the title of Class Mom.
But planning a wedding and even giving birth have nothing on moving back in with your parents. Especially when you're already at your wits' end after years of baby rearing in lockdown, when Darren embraced the new normal a little too much, GoldProp all but dissolved, and your credit cards started bouncing.
At the 2022 SAFTAs, Tali's Baby Diary was named Best TV Comedy, with awards for Best Actress (Julia Anastasopoulos), Best Supporting Actress (Kate Normington), Best Directing (Ari Kruger & Daniel Zimbler) and Best Editing in the TV Comedy category, and a further six nominations, including Best Actor for Anton Taylor, and Best Supporting Actress for Kate Pinchuck. Tali's Wedding Diary similarly won five SAFTAs, including Best TV Comedy and Actress (Anastasopolous).
DONKERBOS S1 Tuesdays from 29 November 2022
When the bodies of six children are found in the backwater forests of Donkerbos, Limpopo, an ostracised detective (multi-award-winner Erica Wessels) must wrestle with her dark past, her family and a distrustful community to catch the killer before another child is taken.
Created by Nico Scheepers (N rens, Noord-Kaap) and produced by Nagvlug (Skemerdans, Barakat), Donkerbos is a small-town murder mystery that switches between English, Afrikaans and Venda.
The star-studded cast includes SAFTA Lifetime Achievement Award winner Thoko Ntshinga (The River), Fleur du Cap winners Sanda Shandu (Skemerdans) and Nicole Holm (Fynskrif), Silwerskerm winners Stian Bam (Racheltjie de Beer), Jacques Bessenger (Fynskrif, Warrior) and Aphiwe Sithole (Poppie Nongena), and multi-award-winners Leandie Du Randt (Vuil Wasgoed) and Wilhelm van der Walt (Fynskrif).
Scheepers' previous series, N rens, Noord-Kaap, won the SAFTA for Editing (for Regardt Botha, Markus Van Schalkwyk and Eva Du Preez), with Channel24 giving it five stars and Leon van Nierop calling it a little gem and masterful in Rapport.
THE SNAIL AND THE WHALE Stream now
The Snail and the Whale has been nominated for three BAFTA Children & Young People Awards: Best Animation, Director (Max Lang and South African Daniel Snaddon), and Writer (Max Lang and Suzanne Lang).
Animated in Cape Town by Triggerfish and produced by Magic Light Pictures, The Snail and the Whale follows the amazing journey of a tiny snail who longs to see the world and hitches a ride on the tail of a huge humpback whale.
It's a lovely surprise to find that, three years after we wrapped The Snail and the Whale, we have been nominated for three BAFTAs, says Snaddon. We're up against such incredible competition [including Hilda and the Oscar-nominated Robin Robin], so it's a real honour for us all, and I'm so incredibly proud of the teams at Magic Light Pictures and Triggerfish who made it happen.
Based on the picture book written in 2003 by Julia Donaldson and illustrated by Axel Scheffler (creators of the modern class
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