Series

Archie Madekwe and David Harbour star in Gran Turismo

The Showmax Septathlon: 7 epic sports shows

Try these seven new and classic sports shows and doccies to help you get in shape for couch season. 

Youngins on Showmax

Youngins Season 1 Episodes 34-36: The heist

After Khaya reveals that he saw underaged photos in the principal’s messages, he and his friends plot revenge in episodes 34-36 of Showmax Original Youngins.

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Fellow Travelers on Showmax

Fellow Travelers S1

Follow the decades-long chronicle of the risky, volatile and steamy relationship between the charismatic and ambitious Hawk and the pious and idealistic Tim, who fall in love at the height of the 1950s Lavender Scare.

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The Mommy Club S2 on Showmax

The Mommy Club Season 2 Episode 10 recap: Getting to the bottom of it

In episode 10 of The Mommy Club S2, Hermajesty and Mrs Sande go head-to-head and Nozipho confides in Mrs Mops. New episodes land every Monday on Showmax.

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Nonku, Maria and Jojo on The Real Housewives of Durban S4 now on Showmax

The Real Housewives of Durban S4: Nonku and Slee’s friendship is dead and buried

In the finale episode of The Real Housewives of Durban S4, all is laid on the table at the ladies’ dinner. All episodes are now streaming on Showmax.

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MaBlerh to host The Real Housewives of Durban reunion for the second year in a row

MaBlerh to host The Real Housewives of Durban reunion for the second year in a row. The two-part reunion will stream on 15 May and 22 May 2024. 

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Everything I Know About Love on Showmax

Everything I Know About Love: Five hurdles

Maggie and Birdie are living every kid’s dream: Moving in with your best friend and taking on the grownup world together. But there are five hurdles they could trip over.

Kristen Raath, Celeste Loots, Beata Bena Green and Mienke Ehlers in Wyfie, coming to Showmax

Your initiation into the cool, chaotic world of Wyfie

Feel like we’re almost at midterms but you stopped going to class after you skipped a couple of lectures? Let’s swot up on Episodes 1-24 of Showmax Original Wyfie.

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Nambitha Ben-Mazwi stars as Ndoni in Empini

Nambitha Ben-Mazwi stars in Showmax Original Empini

Multi-award winner Nambitha Ben-Mazwi leads new Showmax Original Empini. The action-packed drama series premieres on Showmax 23 May 2024.

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Gordita Chronicles S1 on Showmax

Gordita Chronicles S1

This coming-of-age comedy series chronicles the life of a Latina reporter as she looks back on her childhood as a chubby Dominican immigrant growing up with her eccentric family in 1980s Miami.

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True Detective: Night Country on Showmax

Truly chilling! True Detective: Night Country

What could have happened to the Tsalal scientists in the latest season of True Detective: Night Country?

Everything I Know About Love on Showmax

Everything I Know About Love S1

Based on Dolly Alderton’s hilarious memoir, this is the platonic love story of 20-something childhood friends Maggie and Birdy as they move into their first grown-up house-share in London with their two friends from university.

True Detective: Night Country on Showmax

True Detective S1-4

Anthology series in which police investigations unearth the personal and professional secrets of those involved, both within and outside the law.

Amo and Mahlatse in Youngins S1 on Showmax

Youngins Season 1 episodes 31-33 recap: Revelations

Amo and Mahlatse become a couple, Tumelo ditches Sefako, and Khaya sees both Sefako and Principal Mthembu in a new light in episodes 31-33 of Showmax Original Youngins.

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Tshepo Matlala as Tshepo in Youngins S1 on Showmax

Interview: Knock knock, it’s Youngins’ Tshepo!

Tshepo Matlala talks about how he brings class clown Tshepo’s jokes to life, and what’s behind the mask, in Showmax Original Youngins.

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Three-time SAFTA winner Siyabonga Thwala stars as Khaya in Empini

Siyabonga Thwala stars in action-packed Empini

Showmax announces new action-drama series Empini, starring three-times SAFTA winner Siyabonga Thwala. Premieres 23 May on Showmax.

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The Mommy Club S2 on Showmax

The Mommy Club S2 episode 9 recap: Mrs Mops’ launch event

In episode 9 of The Mommy Club, Mrs Mops launches her skincare range and Barbra and Mantshi make amends. New episodes every Monday.

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RHODurban S4 on Showmax

The Real Housewives of Durban S4: No apology for Ameigh

In episode 11 of The Real Housewives of Durban Season 4, wounds are opened when Ameigh finally hears the infamous Zama recording.

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Ten Pond Poms S1 on Showmax

Love Downton Abbey? These series should be on your watchlist

Travel back in time with these historical dramas, all packed with family scandals, dirty secrets and skeletons in the closet.

(From left): Woody McClain as Cain, Alix Lapri as Effie, Michael Rainey Jr as Tariq and Gianni Paolo as Brayden in Power Book II: Ghost S3 on Showmax

New seasons of your favourite series, now streaming

The latest seasons of Power Book II: Ghost, Run The World, The Cleaning Lady, Resident Alien and more are all streaming on Showmax.

Widows Unveiled on Showmax

20+ addictive South African reality shows to stream

Stream The Real Housewives of Durban, The Mommy Club, Sports Wives, Widows Unveiled and more of South Africa’s best reality shows on Showmax.

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Thembinkosi Mthembu and Londeka Sishi as Bonga and Nkanyezi in Adulting

The best romantic series on Showmax

All you need is love – and these addictive series, from Adulting to Run The World, The Lovers, Outlaws and Colin From Accounts.

Tokyo Vice S1 on Showmax

How Tokyo Vice went back to the 90s

For Tokyo Vice, now streaming on Showmax, to recreate the story of an American journalist reporting on the yakuza, they had to visit Tokyo itself, then jump back in time to the 1990s.

Sefako and Tumelo in Youngins S1

Youngins Season 1 episodes 28-30 recap: Liars and fighters

Khaya dumps Buhle via text, Amo tells Mahlatse how she feels, Mahlatse punches Sefako, and Amo figures out that Khaya is a rat in episodes 28-30 of Showmax Original Youngins.

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