Although Showtime has cancelled their Shaka Zulu series after it was already shot and ready for airing, we are still getting another historical series on the iconic African king but directly from the continent: African Multi Choice Group has released a trailer for their own twelve part saga SHAKA ILEMBE which follows the original story of the legendary African monarch and military strategist, King Shaka, from childhood to adulthood through the 1700s, with Lemogang Tsipa in the lead role of Shaka and Nomzamo Mbatha as queen Nandi.
SIX YEARS IN THE MAKING
Hailed as Multi Choice's biggest ever prime time series it features much
of the country’s wildlife and scenery, including the mountains,
savanna, and coastline of of KwaZulu Natal, home to the majority of
South Africa’s Zulu people. The production has been six years in the
making, consulting historians, academics, and family descendants,
including the incumbent King Misuzulu ka Zwelithini, Prince Mangosuthu
Buthelezi, as well as the late King Goodwill Zwelithini. The show should
launch June 18th down on Mzansi Magic in Africa. Check out the
trailer below, but be warned: there are a lot of naked female boobs in
the series and muscly male pelvises, so watch at your own discretion. The series looks quite stylized visually even though the extremely muscly and toned hunks in the cast look too modern for this kind of genre, but we are not really complaining as they offer a stunning site for sore eyes!
As you remember, Showtime and Antoine Fuqua are preparing KING SHAKA epic TV series which is ready to shoot next month in Africa with Charles Babalola cast in the the title role in the series that follows one
Charles Babalola takes the Zulu throne
man’s personal journey from stigmatized childhood to warrior king! Aïssa Maïga is Nandi, Shaka’s devoted mother who will sacrifice everything to fulfill her son’s destiny, Thando Dlomo is Pampatha, a herder who finds her fate forever entwined with Shaka’s. Thapelo Mokoena is Gendeyana, a Qwabe leader who grows close to Shaka and Nandi, and Warren Masemola is Magazwa, who provides safe haven to Shaka and Nandi but at a cost.
KING SHAKA
tells
the story of the Zulu Empire founder Shaka and his unlikely rise to
power, uniting multiple tribes across vast stretches of southern Africa
in the early 19th century to transform his power into legend, on par
with history’s most seminal figures. The outcast son of a Zulu Chief,
Shaka is a visionary who is prophesied to become a king like none before
him. In ferocious battles that test the body and soul, in alliances
that test the bonds of love and friendship, a complex sociological
system plays out that renders the human cost front and center, for the
victors as well as the vanquished, all in an effort to carve out a
semblance of identity, fulfillment and ultimately, survival.
BBC'S BRAND NEW SERIES
QUEEN OF OZ COMEDY
BBC has announced a number of new series among them is six part QUEEN OF OZ comedy in which Catherine Tate will play
Catherine Tate is writing, producing, starring
Princess Georgiana who is the black sheep of a fictional British Royal Family. A PR disaster, she’s spent her spoilt, party-girl life plastered over the tabloids. On the back of her latest scandal her father, the King, makes the unprecedented move of abdicating his Australian throne in favour of his daughter. It is hoped that giving her some real responsibility will finally be the making of her - and if it isn’t, at least shipping her off keeps her 10,000 miles away from London.
Accompanied by a useless entourage, Queen Georgiana of Australia goes kicking and screaming to a country she has zero interest in beyond the Hemsworth Brothers.
MAYFLIES MINI TV SERIES
BBC
has also ordered two part mini series MAYFLIES: Everyone has a Tully
Dawson (Tony Curran) - the friend who defines your life. In the summer
of 1986, in a small Scottish town, Jimmy (Martin Compston) and Tully
ignite a brilliant friendship based on music, films and the rebel
spirit. With school over and the locked world of their fathers before
them, they rush towards the climax of their youth - a magical weekend in
Manchester, the epicentre of everything that inspires them in
working-class Britain. There, against the greatest soundtrack ever
recorded, a vow is made: to go at life differently. Thirty years on,
half a life away, the phone rings. Tully has the worst kind of news, and
a request that will test their friendship, love, and loyalty to the
limit
CROSSFIRE TRAILER
FOR KEELEY HAWES SERIES
BBC has released a trailer for new Keeley Hawes series CROSSFIRE which is coming up this Autumn. Sunbathing on her hotel room balcony while on a dream holiday with her family and friends, Jo’s world is turned upside down when shots ring out across the complex.
Gunmen, out for revenge, have, in an instant, turned a slice of paradise into a terrifying heart-breaking hell.
A story of survival and resilience, CROSSFIRE is an edge-of-your-seat nail-biting thriller yet also emotional, intimate and relatable. With the unsuspecting holidaymakers and hotel staff forced to make monumental split-second life or death decisions, the consequences will linger long after the final shots are fired.
UNITES RIDLEY SCOTT & STEVEN KNIGHT IN A MASSIVE ENDEVOUR
Two epic series for you today, first up, a collaboration between Ridley Scott and Steven Knight on a massive ten episode WW2 saga ROADS TO FREEDOM based on the war books by Anthony Beevor, translated in more
Russia, France, Crete are just some of the countries in the books
than 30 languages. While most Hollywood war projects focus on the American and British effort, this global project will portray the brutal realities from multiple viewpoints, with characters also from Russia, Germany, France and other countries across the globe. That includes women, and children struggling to survive. The emphasis is on humanity, the characters bound together by one dramatic story. Some of the story lines will be discomforting, but heroic, and the race between East and West to capture Berlin will shed light on what became the foundations of the Cold War.
SHAKA: KING OF ZULU NATION
SERIES ORDERED BY SHOWTIME
If you're as old as your spy, you probably remember a Shaka Zulu series from the 80s, and now we're getting a new one: as Deadline reports, Antoine
Antoine Fuqua will direct the epic series
Fuqua has joined Showtime in the creation of SHAKA: KING OF THE ZULU NATION series about the Zulu Empire chief Shaka and his unlikely rise to power, uniting multiple tribes across vast stretches of Africa in the early 19th century to transform his power into legend, on par with history’s most seminal figures. In ferocious battles that test the body and soul, in alliances that test the bonds of love and friendship, a complex sociological system plays out that renders the human cost front and center, for the victors as well as the vanquished, all in an effort to carve out a semblance of identity, fulfillment and ultimately, survival.
coastline of of KwaZulu Natal, home to the majority of
South Africa’s Zulu people. The production has been six years in the
making, consulting
historians, academics, and family descendants,
including the incumbent King Misuzulu ka Zwelithini, Prince Mangosuthu
Buthelezi, as well as the late King
Goodwill Zwelithini. The show should
launch June 18th down on Mzansi Magic in Africa. Check out the
trailer below, but be warned: there are a lot of 
naked female boobs in
the series and muscly male pelvises, so watch at your own discretion. The series looks quite stylized visually even though the
extremely muscly and toned hunks in the cast look too modern for this kind of genre, but we are not really complaining as they offer a stunning site for sore eyes!
coastline of of KwaZulu Natal, home to the majority of
South Africa’s Zulu people. The production has been six years in the
making, consulting
historians, academics, and family descendants,
including the incumbent King Misuzulu ka Zwelithini, Prince Mangosuthu
Buthelezi, as well as the late King
Goodwill Zwelithini. The show should
launch June 18th down on Mzansi Magic in Africa. Check out the
trailer below, but be warned: there are a lot of 
naked female boobs in
the series and muscly male pelvises, so watch at your own discretion. The series looks quite stylized visually even though the
extremely muscly and toned hunks in the cast look too modern for this kind of genre, but we are not really complaining as they offer a stunning site for sore eyes!
