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Colin Farrell on The Penguin, IMDb’s most popular show globally
Colin Farrell discusses playing The Penguin in HBO’s latest smash hit, currently at #1 on IMDb’s Most Popular TV chart and streaming on Showmax.
Meet Marié Botha in “the best episode yet” of The Penguin
South African actress Marié Botha discusses her role in the HBO limited series The Penguin. Catch her in episode 4, described as “the best episode yet,” now streaming on Showmax
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Based on the DC Comics character, Penguin, this limited series explores the transformation of Oswald Cobblepot (Colin Farrell) from a disfigured nobody to a noted Gotham gangster.
Stealing hearts in Dr Death Season 2: how Dr Death operates
Mandy Moore and Edgar Ramírez talk about how a journalist fell in love with a doctor who was killing his patients in true-crime drama series Dr Death Season 2.
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Investigative journalist Benita Alexander discovers a new subject in world-renowned surgeon Paolo Macchiarini, known as The Miracle Man.
5 must-see moments from Fargo Season 5
Come back for one last con in Fargo as Jon Hamm goes bad, Lamorne Morris upholds the law, and Jennifer Jason Leigh and Juno Temple play wives with knives.
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Golden Globe- and Emmy-winning anthology series about a crime in an unassuming town. This season, housewife Dot finds herself plunged into her past.
Alert: Missing Persons Unit S1-2
Showrunner John Eisendrath and Jamie Foxx are behind this police procedural. After her son goes missing, Nikki Batista joins the Philadelphia Missing Persons Unit, helping find people’s loved ones as she searches for her own.
“This type of story has never been told in Afrikaans.” Koek director
SAFTA and Silwerskerm-winning director and cinematographer Johannes Pieter Nel talks about directing the critically acclaimed crime comedy Koek, now streaming on Showmax.
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Truly chilling! True Detective: Night Country
What could have happened to the Tsalal scientists in the latest season of True Detective: Night Country?
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Anthology series in which police investigations unearth the personal and professional secrets of those involved, both within and outside the law.
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.
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In this powerful HBO crime thriller based on true events, a Western journalist working in Tokyo takes on one of the city’s most powerful crime bosses.
Donna Cormack-Thomson on her breakthrough in Catch Me A Killer
Newcomer Donna Cormack-Thomson talks about her breakthrough role as Micki’s partner, detective Erica Botha. All episodes of Catch Me A Killer are streaming on Showmax.
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True-crime case: The Sixth Commandment
True crime is killing it on screen, but can our entertainment also give victims and survivors back their voices? Time to investigate The Sixth Commandment.
Lorcia Cooper Kumalo from Red Ink on her intentions when choosing roles
SAFTA winner Lorcia Cooper Kumalo talks about her role as Detective Morapedi in Red Ink and her intentions when choosing roles.
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Red Ink Season 1 episode 8 recap: Till we meet again
In the finale of Red Ink, Lucy learns the shocking news about Napoleon, evoking complex emotions. All the episodes are now streaming.
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The Cleaning Lady S3
A marginalised Cambodian doctor in the US struggles to keep her ill son alive. She becomes a cleaning lady for an organised crime syndicate to save him.
The Sixth Commandment S1
Follow the events that unfolded after the real-life deaths of Peter Farquhar and Ann Moore-Martin in a Buckinghamshire village.
Catch Me a Killer: Albert Pretorius as serial killer Stewart Wilken
Albert Pretorius talks about playing the South African serial killer Stewart Wilken, aka Boetie Boer, in Showmax Original Catch Me a Killer.
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Red Ink Season 1 episode 7 recap: What’s in the box?
In episode 7 of Red Ink, Lucy and Kagiso’s efforts to expose a powerful politician’s link to Napoleon put Lucy’s life in danger.
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Red Ink episode 6 recap: Hope eternal
In episode 6 of Red Ink, Lucy seeks answers from Sifiso about a murder, uncovering another shocking revelation. New episodes every Tuesday.
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British prison drama Time: What are you in for?
Find out why Bella Ramsey, Jodie Whittaker and Tamara Lawrence are behind bars in BAFTA-winning prison drama series Time Season 2.
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A tense and gritty British prison anthology series that looks at a new scenario of life in prison. Season 2 focuses on a women’s prison.