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Fast becoming popular: The local series Spinners won a top award in China last month. Photo: Charlie Sperring

South African series Spinners triumphs at Shanghai TV Festival, winning Best Foreign TV Series award

The local series Spinners won a top award in China last month.

Encounters with Palestine and the environment

These subjects take centre stage at a festival showcasing nearly 50 documentaries

Well red: Nqobile Nunu Khumalo plays the lead in the thriller TV series Red Ink. (Supplied)

Red Ink: True crime television can teach

Author hopes the new series will induce viewers to think about the causes of violence

Dressing the part: Ntokozo Kunene designed the costumes for the Netflix series Classified

Clothing characters in identity

Costume designer Ntokozo Fuzunina Kunene played a big role in the success of ‘Classified’

American rights activist: Mamie Till-Mobley in Mississippi in September 1955. Her teenage son Emmett Till was kidnapped and murdered after he allegedly whistled at a white woman. Photo: Bettmann Archive/Getty Images

TV series ‘Let the World See’ a vital Mississippi story the world must hear

A new television series looks at the life and death of Emmet Till in the 1950s and the bravery of his mother

Flirty camaraderie: Kate Siegel and Zach Gilford star in Mike Flanagan’s Netflix horror series Midnight Mass. (Eike Schroter/Netflix)

Screen Grab: A demon of tedium stalks the ‘Midnight Mass’

Mike Flanagan’s Netflix horror series might make you scream for the wrong reason: its heroes are haunted by self-help bollocks

Ilse Klink, brings her familiar mercurial acting to bear on the role of Shireen. It’s a setup for a fierce character that is sure to develop as the series goes on. (Showmax)

‘Skemerdans’: A mal interpretation of Cape Flats nightlife

Amy Jephta and Ephraim Gordon have written and directed a noir TV series that evokes nostalgia as well as tension and violence

Jane de Wet plays the teenager, Lexi Summerveld, whose body is found near an old mill.

‘St Agnes’ murder series promises more than red herrings

Set in the bubble of Midlands privilege, the series promises depth and cliffhanging twists

Same old story: Soapies such as Generations under-represent poor and working-class characters in favour of aspirational stereotypes

Primetime: The script needs change

South African soapies, as representations of its audience’s desires, fail to take their stories seriously

King of the North Jon Snow.
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5 reasons why Game of Thrones satisfies our needs (apart from sex and violence)

The series meets deeper, more fundamental human needs than just a romp through bedrooms and battlefields

Parliament’s oversight committee on communications was briefed on Tuesday on progress the SABC has made on its turnaround strategy. (Delwyn Verasamy/M&G)

SABC’s censorship of news recalls the days of apartheid

Controlling what TV viewers may see is not in the best interests of the South African public nor the rest of Southern Africa, argues Bheki Makhubu.

Men can’t manage polygamy

Having one household is not a cultural or moral issue – it is just good business sense

Actor Rapulana Seiphemo

Entertainment News: ‘Generations’ star recovering after car crash

From Rapulana Seiphemo being hospitalised after a car crash to Ifani and Cassper Nyovest doing some good, we round up the news that had us talking.

The law

Final act: Axed Generations stars go to court

Fourteen of the 16 Generations actors fired from the local soapie last year have made a final court bid to take the new series off air.

2014’s best television shows return for season 2

Technology, talent and masterful storytelling are just some of the ingredients of 2014’s small screen successes.

2014: M&G’s seven trending topics in SA

Which news trends were most popular on social media for this year? The M&G rounds them up.

Beyonce reacts as Jay-Z carries their daughter Blue Ivy onstage to present the Video Vanguard Award during the 2014 MTV Video Music Awards.

The soaps, celebs and scandals that kept us enthralled in 2014

From body politics to black bodies in chains, from Beyoncé to Banting, these are the stories that sent the internet into overdrive this past year.

‘Generations’ gets a facelift with new cast, storyline

Including a few familiar faces, "Generations" will be back on air, with a rewritten storyline that goes back to the show’s roots, says Mfundi Vundla.

National Assembly speaker Baleka Mbete and Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa.

Soapie actors can strike all they want, we have Parliament

Not only is the National Assembly providing entertainment at the moment, it’s giving SA a taste of how healthy its democracy is, writes Khaya Dlanga.

Earth to Vavi: There are worse labour issues than Generations

Why is Zwelinzima Vavi spending his precious political capital on a boycott of Generations in support of highly-paid actors, asks Verashni Pillay.