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Spinners star and Arendsvlei actor Cantona James headlines new eVod movie Red Zone as Wade Jacobs, a paramedic who gets caught up in gang warfare in Westbury, Joziburg when his gang boss uncle gets shot in a drive-by. Roderick Jaftha (Triptiek, Binnelanders) plays his uncle and Carla Classen (The Estate, 7de Laan) plays Wade's paramedic partner Zahra Ahmed. Loads Friday 28 March 2025. >>
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17 Mar 2025 12:04
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Scandal! undergoes a major change on Monday 10 March with the introduction of this blitz of new characters: Wright Ngubeni as Botsotso, Owen Sejake as SammyDay, Khutjo Green as Kedibone, Danny de Bruyne as De Wet, Bongani Gumede as Ephraim and Botlhale "Nia Brown" Baitsiwe as Tshidi. >>
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05 Mar 2025 17:38
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The Wife star Bonko Khoza takes on the double role of twins in new Mzansi Magic series iThonga. He plays Banele and Sanele who live opposite lives - Banele lives in the light, Sanele in the dark - but their fates are linked. Themes: love, brotherhood and the unbreakable bond of twins. If twins share a soul, where does one end and the other begin? Premieres Monday 3 March at 20h30 - once Umkhokha ends. >>
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10 Feb 2025 11:23
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Ukhozi FM presenter Selbeyonce Mkhize returns to Uzalo after seven years in the role of ... Selbeyonce - a decorated guest host at K-Mash FM.
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07 Feb 2025 10:55
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Dawn Thandeka King, Wiseman Mncube, Katlego Danke, Wonder Ndlovu (Scara on Gomora) and newcomer Thandolwethu Zondi star in new Netflix drama series Go! Created and produced by Kutlwano Ditsele (Gomora, The Herd) and Thuli Zuma (It's For Life, Uzalo, Jacob Zuma's daughter), who's also written it. Directed by Tristan Holmes (Innocent Times). Premieres 21 March 2025. >>
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31 Jan 2025 16:12
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The official profile for Big Brother Mzansi 5 housemate Sipha Lee Mthembu lists his occupation as "Unemployed" but this isn't true - he's an actor who studied at The Market Theatre. He appeared on Champions on Tuesday (21 January) as soccer player Zane "Kideo Kids" Zwane. Makes sense considering he's a hardcore soccer fan.
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22 Jan 2025 12:34
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Thuso Mbedu returns to voice Caribbean sorceress Annette in Season 2 of animated fantasy drama Castlevania: Nocturne on Netflix. Premieres Thursday 16 January. Cool Annette quote: "The sun is rising. Devouring the darkness. It always does."
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15 Jan 2025 11:37
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Hola Mpinji and Housewives star Gabisile Tshabalala replaces Bontle Rampa as receptionist Bubbles Mosipidi on Muvhango from Tuesday 21 January. According to Word of Mouth Pictures, the role was recast because Bontle resigned for personal reasons. (Updated) >>
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14 Jan 2025 16:44
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Survivor Season 1 winner and former jailbird Richard Hatch features in Season 2 of E! reality low House of Villains, starting Sunday 5 January at 19h05. Richard went nude on Survivor - in his birthday suit for his birthday - and served prison time on charges of attempted tax evasion and filing a fraudulent tax return. See comments for full cast >>
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12 Dec 2024 16:31
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The Voice South Africa Season 1 runner-up Gavin Edwards becomes new frontman for rock band Prime Circle. Their previous lead singer Ross Learmonth ducked and dived a year ago citing the usual "creative differences". Gavin fronts their newly released eighth album The World We Know. Speaking of... what happened to the season's winner Richard Stirton? We're off to investigate. >>
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02 Dec 2024 18:16
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Celebrity MasterChef South Africa premieres on S3 on Saturday 30 November at 20h30 with 12 schlebs listed in the comments >> It's the second celebrity edition of the series. The first aired on M-Net in 2015.
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24 Nov 2024 12:26
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Lawrence Maleka out at Big Brother Mzansi and Smash Afrika in as host of Season 5. Smash, real name Afrika Mdutyulwa, hosted the Mzansi Magic music show Massive Music and has had roles on the Netflix comedy Miseducation and Showmax action drama Empini. He's DJ'd at Yfm and 5fm. >>
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21 Nov 2024 16:06
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Somizi to MC Comedy Central's Roast of Pearl Thusi as Roastmaster. On the roasting panel: Donald, Randall Abrahams, Zee Nxumalo, David Kau, Zodwa Wabantu, Phat Joe, Busiswa, Rob van Vuuren, Tol Ass Mo, Lillian Dube and Farieda “Pharoahfi” Metsileng. Filming at Gold Reef City on 21 November, airs Sunday 8 December at 21h00.
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21 Nov 2024 11:25
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TV host and comedian Conan O'Brien to host 97th Oscars on Sunday 2 March 2025. Yawn. We want Chris Rock back.
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20 Nov 2024 13:25
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Kenneth Nkosi headlines new Netflix Christmas comedy movie Disaster Holiday as a workaholic dad who switches his family's Zanzibar holiday for a staycation so he can work. Kenneth's repertoire includes roles on Gaz'lam, Society and Nikiwe, and the movies Tsotsi and District 9. He also hosted SABC1's iconic and influential acting reality search Class Act.
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15 Nov 2024 17:14
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Gold Diggers, How to Ruin Christmas and Soul City star Clementine Mosimane debuts on e.tv's Kelders van Geheime on Thursday 24 October as winemaker and damage controller Nkuli Makeba.
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24 Oct 2024 16:59
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Lerato Kganyago and Skhumba Hlophe to host 18th SAFTAs on Saturday 26 October. Talent search winners present the rest. Nomalanga Shozi and Katleho Sinivasan are on red carpet patrol and Kuhle Adams and Christopher Jaftha host the Craft Awards the night before - on YouTube at 19h00. Main ceremony airs on SABC2 and Mzansi Magic at 20h00, with red carpet at 19h30.
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23 Oct 2024 17:48
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Listing Jozi real estate agent Grahame Diedericks lands cushy gig in BBC Lifestyle's reality low Listing Mauritius. Flashback: he was rewarded a trip there in Jozi Season 2. Now: he's relocated, wearing undersized PI sunglasses and a pink handkerchief. >>
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16 Oct 2024 11:30
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Former Sons of Anarchy star Charlie Hunnam to play murderer and body snatcher Ed Gein in Season 3 of Monsters. Gein confessed to killing two women and ... exhumed bodies from graveyards to make keepsakes from their bones and skin. The Alfred Hitchcock Psycho movies are based on his story. Tom Hollander portrays Hitchcock in the series, Olivia Williams plays his screenwriter wife Alma and Laurie Metcalf plays Gein's mother.
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16 Oct 2024 11:08
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Diepe Waters and former Egoli star Mandi du Plooy-Baard headlines the Afrikaans voice cast of kykNET & kie's new Afrikaans Turkish novela My Naam is Farah. She voices Farah, played by Turkish actress Demet Özdemir (Alya on Kurt en Shura). Premieres Monday 14 October at 20h00. >>
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04 Oct 2024 17:19
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Die Boekklub, Suidooster and Sara se Geheim star Lee-Ann van Rooi to host for the first time on new kykNET talker Waar Daar ’n Wil Is (Where There's a Will). She speaks to personalities who've proven that "where there’s a will, there's a way". Guests include former cricketer Fanie de Villiers, women’s rights activist Lucinda Evans and Miss SA Mia le Roux. Premieres 4 October at 18h30. >>
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16 Sep 2024 17:00
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New to season 2 of the M-Net murder mystery Recipes for Love and Murder are: Wynand Ferreira as Jaco (Officer Regardt Snyman's intense younger brother), Gerard Rudolph as Ricus, a trained psychologist turned mechanic, and Hlubi Mboya as Jackie Baloyi, the new undertaker following the death of Hattie’s husband. Premiere date still loading.
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10 Sep 2024 17:02
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Sibongile Phakathi replaces Umkhokha: The Curse star Gcinile Nkosi in the role of Thandiwe Khumalo on Season 2 of SABC1's The Executives. Sibongile played the recurring role of a warden on all three seasons of Mzansi Magic's Lockdown and portrayed braggy Gloria in the SABC2 sitcom Majakathatha. Her other TV credits include Uzalo, Ngempela and Scandal! >>
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09 Sep 2024 19:21
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Xolile Tshabalala, Buyile Mdladla and Mike Ndlangamandla headline new Netflix Succession-type series Blood Legacy. The late Connie Chiume stars as their mother. Scenario: The CEO of Spear Industries is found dead in the sugarcane fields of KwaZulu-Natal, sparking a fierce battle among his children for the control of the multibillion-rand corporation. Premieres 20 September 2024.
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22 Aug 2024 17:51
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Another Queendom actor flees to e.tv. Sindi Dlathu joins Themba Nbada as a new character on Isiphetho: Destiny. She plays Zanevumla - described as a woman of God with an axe to grind against the Zondo sisters, Connie and Blondie.
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21 Aug 2024 10:42
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7de Laan actress and Diepe Waters star Reandi Grey leads the Afrikaans dub of eExtra's new novela Net 20 Minute (Only 20 Minutes). She voices the character of Melek whose life turns to turmoil when police suddenly arrest her for attempted murder. Other voice cast includes Susan Coetzer, Johan Joubert, Lundi Khoisan, Dirk Stoltz and Altus Theart. Premieres 28 August at 21h30.
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20 Aug 2024 16:40
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Former Rhythm City star Mduduzi Mabaso joins House of Zwide for Season 4 as Msizi, Faith's ex-prison bird brother. He's on a journey from the shadows to legitimacy. Can he do it?
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18 Jul 2024 10:48
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Milly Alcock (young Princess Rhaenyra on House of the Dragon) to star opposite Julianne Moore in new Netflix dark comedy Sirens. She plays personal assistant Simone DeWitt who has a creepy relationship with her billionaire boss Michaela Kell. Based on the play Elemeno Pea by Molly Smith Metzler. Premiere date still loading. >>
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11 Jul 2024 15:10
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Former Craz-e presenter Lee-Roy Wright joins e.tv's The Morning Show, nine years after his kids TV days. He also hosted on SABC2's daily children's programme World of Winners. Between then and now he's been involved with publicity - he's the managing director of PR agency The Platinum Club.>>
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08 Jul 2024 12:48
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Bonang out and Lerato Kganyago in as a headline judge on 2024 season of Miss SA reality low Crown Chasers. She's joined by Leandie du Randt who judged last year too. Guest judges complete the panel for the six eps third season, hosted by reigning Miss SA Natasha Joubert who replaces Zozi Tunzi. Premieres on S3 on Saturday 29 June at 20h30.
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18 Jun 2024 17:11
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Trevor Gumbi replaces Kagiso Madupe as Season 3 host of Mzansi Wethu reality low Wang'kolota. Trevor helps people demand their money and belongings back from those who've "loaned" them. Hopefully they get their stuff back and aren't laughed at! Premieres Sunday 18 August at 20h00.
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13 Jun 2024 16:31
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Poultry farmer and former Shift presenter Kamohelo Bombe returns to host new season of SABC2's Living Land, described as an "agricultural programme", which makes it sound um... agricultural. They need to snazz that up. Season covers the hemp and cannabis industry, rabbit farming (shamepies) and track and trace technology in fishing. The SA Post Office can learn something. Oh wait. Premieres Sunday 2 June at 11h00.
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31 May 2024 17:06
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Rome Flynn, B&B's former Zende Forrester Domínguez, joins Season 4 of Godfather of Harlem as Frank Lucas, a country boy from North Carolina who ventures to Harlem. Things start off Bumpy with gangster Bumpy Johnson, but Frank eventually rose to become Bumpy's fierce defender and right-hand man. >>
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30 May 2024 12:43
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Good Hope FM DJ Carissa Cupido replaces Zoë Brown Anderson on S3's breakfast advertorial Expresso. Zoë married her high school friend-turned-sweetheart (Mr Anderson) late last year and they're immigrating to Australia. Zoë's been with Expresso since June 2015 after winning the Presenter Search on 3. Bon Voyage.
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27 May 2024 11:46
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Shaka iLembe and The Wife star Mondli Makhoba to host new Mzansi Wethu Men's Conference-type talker Vuka Mjita. Each week features a different man who needs a remedy or therapy to deal with a predicament. No-no, Mondli isn't the therapist - action plans are devised by clinical psychologist & author Thabang Tlaka. Premieres Sunday 14 July at 20h00.
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23 May 2024 14:56
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Scandal! actress Makoma Mohale (Tlhogi) to headline Mzansi Magic's historical drama Queen Modjadji in the eponymous role of the Rain Queen Maselekwani (Queen Modjadji), who brought a golden age to the Balobedu tribe in the 1800s. >>
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16 May 2024 18:46
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Former Giyani - Land of Blood star Wiseman Zitha announced to play Mamaila on Mzansi Magic's Queen Modjadji. His character description: King Mugodo’s estranged son who is raised by King Thulare. Premieres July.
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29 Apr 2024 10:51
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Isono: The Sin star Didintle Khunou signed to Generations: The Legacy as Tumelo Gcabashe, a high-powered financial expert with links to business and criminal elites. She debuts in mid-June.
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23 Apr 2024 18:22
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Former YOTV and Mzansi Insider presenter Rorisang Thandekiso to host Wheel of Fortune South Africa when it starts on S3 on Monday 8 April at 19h30.
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07 Apr 2024 21:34
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Zolisa Xaluva headlines new Mzansi Magic crime drama series Code 13 as Jozi detective Bheki Ndlovu, tasked with recapturing six of the city's most dangerous criminals who've escaped prison. Lunathi Mampofu co-stars as Bongi Nkosi, a police detective and Bheki’s lurve interest. Premieres Sunday 14 April at 20h00.
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19 Mar 2024 16:40
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TV personality and foodie Moshe Ndiki to host cooking game show Ready Steady Cook South Africa, Mondays to Fridays at 19h00 on S3 from Monday 18 March. Produced by Primedia Studios and Rose and Oaks Media (The Masked Singer). Reruns will air on SABC1 at 15h30 and SABC2 at 17h30.
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13 Mar 2024 10:23
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Ha! Mzansi Wethu's Sibongile and the Dlamini's have a namesake in real life. Sibongile Dlamini is an extras actress on Umkhokha: The Curse in which she played "Church woman" on Monday 11 March.
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12 Mar 2024 12:33
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Chef Katlego Mlambo joins Zola Nene and Justine Drake as third judge on S3's edition of MasterChef South Africa 5. Flashback to 2015 >> Katlego was nominated for a Best TV Presenter SAFTA for hosting e.tv cooking show Kasi-Licious. >>
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04 Mar 2024 11:49
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Food editor and columnist Justine Drake joins Zola Nene to judge MasterChef SA again, in a rinse and repeat of Season 4. Final judge remains unconfirmed. Gregory Czarnecki judged with them last season - co-hosted with Zola on The Taste Master too. Will he return for S3's Season 5 to make it a carbon copy of the M-Net edition?
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29 Feb 2024 10:48
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Former Bravo! presenter Robbie Kruse to host kykNET's new tiny home reno show Klein Paradys. Teams of two must transform a micro space into a five star paradise. Contestant applications close 29 February - see TVSA Castings for deets. Series premieres late 2024.
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23 Feb 2024 10:30
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Celebrity chef Zola Nene returns to judge on MasterChef South Africa for Season 5 on S3. It's the third series she's judged on, starting with BBC's The Great South African Bake Off, followed by The Taste Master on SABC2 and MasterChef SA 4 when it was still on M-Net. Other judges still to be confirmed.
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22 Feb 2024 10:21
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Former Selimathunzi host turned Expresso presenter Zanele Potelwa to host new 11th season of Tropika Island of Treasure. Is that a Katlego Maboe side-eye we see?
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20 Feb 2024 15:22
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150+ actors have a speaking part on Season 2 of Reyka, small and large roles. According to the production, it took two casting associates, a casting company and casting director Ayanda Sithebe to fill them.
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14 Feb 2024 12:46
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Demi Moore joins movie actors who are now slumming it on TV. Co-stars in new Paramount+ series Landman aka the modern Dallas. She plays Cami, wife to one of the most powerful oil men in Texas.
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09 Feb 2024 13:05
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Kgomotso Christopher joins Generations: The Legacy as Keabetswe Moloi, twin sister to Khumo Moroka. Deets to follow.
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25 Jan 2024 09:38
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