Fargo
Channel: SABC2
TX Time: 20h30
Genre: Comedy-Drama, Period Drama, Anthology
Fargo is a dark comedy-crime drama anthology series based on the 1996 film of the same name and set in 2006 in its first season.
Season 1 follows a drifter named Lorne Malvo who arrives in Bemidji, Minnesota and influences the population with his malice and violence, including put-upon insurance salesman Lester Nygaard.
An original adaptation of the Academy Award-winning feature film, Fargo features an all-new true crime story and follows a new case and new characters, all entrenched in the trademark humour, murder and "Minnesota nice" that made the film a classic.
Billy Bob Thornton stars as Lorne Malvo, a rootless, manipulative man who meets and forever changes the life of small town insurance salesman Lester Nygaard, played by Martin Freeman.
Other key players include Colin Hanks (Dexter) as Duluth Police Deputy Gus Grimly, a single dad who must choose between his own personal safety and his duty as a policeman.
Allison Tolman (Why Women Kill) and Bob Odenkirk (Breaking Bad) play a pair of Bemidji cops and Kate Walsh (Private Practice) stars as a former stripper.
Oliver Platt (The Big C) plays the supermarket king of Minnesota; Glenn Howerton (It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia) is an ambitious personal trainer; and Russell Harvard (The Hammer) and Adam Goldberg (Saving Private Ryan) as members of the Fargo crime syndicate.
Ghosts 2
Channel: BBC UKTV (DStv 134)
TX Time: 19h00
Genre: Comedy
Alison and Mike, a cash-strapped young couple struggling to buy their first home, think their prayers are answered when a distant relative bequeaths them a sprawling country estate.
The catch? The old house is haunted by the ghosts of its former inhabitants.
The restless spirits, horrified that the new owners plan to turn the peaceful pile into a bustling hotel, make plans to oust the troublesome newcomers.
But their bungled efforts have unintended consequences...
Fate intervenes when Alison has an accident which bestows her with a unique gift.
As the doors of crumbling country mansion Button House creak open once more, the haphazard house share between its living inhabitants and its restless dead is settling into a strange kind of daily routine.
But cash-strapped Alison and Mike's plan to transform their unexpected inheritance into a bustling luxury hotel is still a distant dream.
Could the exploitation of their troupe of ghostly housemates bring in the funds they need - or are they setting themselves up for even more chaos?
This season Alison and Mike are trying to find a semi-harmonious routine with the ghostly housemates of Button House: the ghosts have found a way to make their new situation work for them, while the couple are working towards a new money-making venture to fund the house's never-ending renovations.
Without the money to continue the extensive building work and the hotel still a distant dream, Alison and Mike decide to try to rent the place out for events.
In the Season 2 premiere, "The Grey Lady": The fragile harmony at Button House is broken when a ghostly photograph goes viral, forcing Mike and Alison to try a new way of making money.
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