ShowMax

Broadcast on: Online
Active from: 19 Aug 2015

Shows

Texas Rising

Genre: Drama, Period Drama
Channel: ShowMax, History Africa
Summary: Texas Rising is an American period drama television miniseries that details the Texas Revolution against Mexico and the rise of the Texas Rangers.

Jekyll and Hyde

Genre: Drama, Science Fiction, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller, Supernatural, Period Drama
Channel: ShowMax
Summary: Based on the novel and set in 1930's London at a time of glamour, cars and monster movies, this drama focuses on the grandson of the original doctor.

Satisfaction (2014)

Genre: Drama
Channel: M-Net Edge, M-Net City, ShowMax
Summary: Explores modern marriage at its midpoint through the lens of a couple and answers the question, what do you do when having it all is not enough?
Starring: Matt Passmore, Stephanie Szostak, Blair Redford

The Knick

Genre: Drama, Period Drama
Channel: M-Net, M-Net Edge, ShowMax, M-Net City
Summary: Period drama following Dr. John W. Thackery and the staff at New York's Knickerbocker Hospital during the early part of the twentieth century.
Starring: Clive Owen, Andre Holland, Jeremy Bobb

Perception

Genre: Drama, Police Procedural
Channel: M-Net, M-Net Series, ShowMax, M-Net City
Summary: Dr. Daniel Pierce, a talented but eccentric neuropsychiatrist with paranoid schizophrenia, is enlisted by the FBI to assist in solving some of its most complex cases in Chicago.
Starring: Eric McCormack, Rachael Leigh Cook, Kelly Rowan

Mshika-shika

Genre: Drama
Channel: Mzansi Magic, Mzansi Wethu, ShowMax
Summary: Crime drama exploring both sides of the law after a carjacking of a BMW in Mayfair, Jozi, examining how separating the good from the bad is not easy.
Starring: Richard Lukunku, Zuluboy, Terri Ann Eckstein

Soutmansland

Genre: Drama
Channel: SABC2, ShowMax
Summary: The story of a Coloured community, Vlaktevlei, who are ordered to evacuate their land in order to make way for the development of a holiday resort.
Starring: Deirdre Wolhuter, Kevin Smith, Andre Odendaal

It's for Life (2011)

Genre: Comedy
Channel: Mzansi Magic, Mzansi Wethu, ShowMax
Summary: Three friends move into a house to find a squatter living there and as the law doesn't allow them to evict her, it looks like she is there to stay.
Starring: Gugulethu Zuma, Thuli Zuma, Nkuli Sibeko-Botman

Arsenaal

Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Channel: SABC2, kykNET, SABC3, kykNET & kie, ShowMax
Summary: Action thriller which tells the story of Jack Degenaar, a former professor and publisher who suddenly becomes the prime suspect in a murder case.
Starring: Ian Roberts, Elzette Maarschalk, Dirk Stoltz

Boardwalk Empire

Genre: Drama, Period Drama
Channel: M-Net, M-Net Edge, ShowMax, M-Net Series, M-Net Series Zone, M-Net Series Showcase
Summary: From Martin Scorsese comes Boardwalk Empire, set in Atlantic City at the dawn of Prohibition, when the sale of alcohol became illegal in the US.
Starring: Steve Buscemi, Michael Pitt, Kelly Macdonald