29 August 2024
Showmax puts a second season of Koek in the oven
At the kykNET Silwerskerm Festival in Cape Town, Showmax announced they’ve put a second season of Koek [Cake] in the oven. Season 1 has been one of the 10 most-streamed Afrikaans series on the streamer since its relaunch in February 2024 in partnership with Comcast’s NBCUniversal and Sky.
At this Saturday’s kykNET Silwerskerm Film and TV Awards, the Afrikaans series is up for six prizes, the most of any drama series: Best Actress (Cindy Swanepoel), Actor (Stian Bam and Jacques Bessenger), Supporting Actress (Sandra Prinsloo and Llandi Beeslaar) and Supporting Actor (Dawid Minnaar).
When Cape Town housewife Christelle Smit discovers evidence her husband is having an affair with a stripper named Candi Floss, her investigation takes her to a world poles apart from the suburban utopia she knows.
Watch the Koek Season 1 trailer
Swanepoel, who won South African Film and Television and Silwerskerm awards last year as Annelize in Binnelanders, stars as Christelle, with screen legend Prinsloo (The Gods Must Be Crazy) as the brandy-drinking, cigar-smoking, leopard-print loving, kidney-stealing mob boss and strip club owner she’s soon in debt to.
Written by SAFTA- and Silwerskerm-winning showrunner Christiaan Olwagen (Kanarie, Recipes for Love & Murder), the R18 DLNSV Showmax Original is directed and filmed by SAFTA- and Silwerskerm-winning director and cinematographer Johannes Pieter Nel, hailed as “one of South Africa’s most promising young talents” in Leon van Nierop’s rave review in Rapport. Wolflight Films is the production company.
Koek S2 will be ready to devour in 2025.
“Christiaan Olwagen’s concept is just crazy and I’m so thankful to Showmax that they said, ‘Yes, go for it, tell it in your language and don’t be shy, don’t hold back,” says a clearly delighted Swanepoel. “That’s definitely what sets Koek apart.”
“It is such an honour to revisit this character and have another season,” she continues. “Christelle now? She’s edgy, she’s dangerous, she’s hardcore. Don’t mess with her; she’s been through a lot. But she’s also vulnerable; what she did in Season 1 is hectic; it’s not just something one does. There will also be a lot of comical elements meeting the serious elements. That’s the kind of storytelling I love to do and I can’t wait to play her and see where she is now.”
MultiChoice Studios is handling international sales for both seasons.
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