Marketing & Media News in South Africa bizcommunity.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from bizcommunity.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Image: Francis Chouler, Lea Vivier and Natasha Loring in DAM
[PRESS OFFICE] The Showmax Original DAM, a small-town psychological thriller set in the Eastern Cape, is now available to binge.
Early reviews are glowing, with YFM’s resident critic Yazz the Student comparing
DAM to HBO’s
The Outsider and saying the “eerie” and “unsettling” show feels “different to the South African television landscape.”
Fortress of Solitude similarly calls
DAM “South Africa’s answer to
Sharp Objects and
The Outsider.” Reviewer Sergio Pereira praises
DAM’s “outstanding production quality… It rivals any international production, and actually looks better than most of the Netflix shows that dominate the Top 10 list,” adding, “More importantly, the cast delivers an equally exceptional performance to rival the production quality and script. They suck you into this small town’s drama, as you fall in love with some, pity others, and detest only a few… You�
Tali’s Baby Diary, the long-awaited sequel to
Tali’s Wedding Diary, are now streaming on Showmax.
Tali’s Baby Diary
In the laugh-a-minute mockumentary
, an unexpected pregnancy forces Tali (Julia Anastasopoulos, aka SuzelleDIY) into a desperate pivot from Insta-influencer to wholesome momfluencer.
Early reviews are loving the new Tali. TV critic Thinus Ferreira says, “A joy to behold…
Tali’s Baby Diary is the best South African TV show of 2021 so far and 100% guaranteed to make you laugh loudly.”
Similarly,
Litnet reviewer Reney Warrington writes, “The first two episodes are even wittier and more over the top than
Tali’s Wedding Diary, but the characters are already drawn with humanity, with heart. The script, the direction, the actors are all on point. Here’s to
WHAT IT S ABOUT:
Tali Babes is back and - surprise! - she s pregnant! While she works on her new look as a momfluencer, Darren and Rael negotiate the choppy waters of the Cape Town property game. And, of course, none of it will be smooth sailing.
WHAT WE THOUGHT:
Tali s Baby Diary on Showmax delivers as the best South African television of 2021 so far – meticulously crafted super-television that shines with incredible quality stitching visible in even the smallest production details of this momcumentary .
As a second or follow-up season to the multiple award-winning
Tali s Wedding Diary, the very DNA of Julia Anastasopoulos and Ari Kruger s TV baby brilliantly shines through in their latest TV stroller that they created, wrote, executive produced, and with Julia once again starring as the self-obsessed and deliciously borderline-delusional Tali.
The insanity of being a parent helped Tali Babes add humour to new show Julia Anastasopoulos returns to play SA s favourite Jewish princess in Tali s Baby Diary . She tells us why the delay between the original show and this sequel turned out to be a good thing Julia Anastasopoulos as Tali Babes, the title character in Tali s Baby Diary . Image: Coco van Oppens/Showmax
It’s been over three years, but SA s favourite Jewish princess Tali Tali Babes Shapiro is back and ready to grace our screens with her heightened, and rather demanding, presence in
Tali s Baby Diary.
The 10-part show is a follow-up to the local mockumentary series