Rahama Sadau Makes Debut as Flawsom Returns to Showmax
Showmax has announced the introduction of new titles that include ‘Cheta’m’ and ‘Sadau Sisters’ to its platform for the year.
This is coming as the streaming platform is set to relaunch next month with a brand-new look, a new app, and a new product suite. This comes after the announcement of the partnership between MultiChoice and Comcast’s NBC Universal and Sky.
In February, Showmax will be releasing a record 21 originals from four African countries, which include five originals from Nigeria, a revamped international content slate, and the continent’s first standalone Premier League mobile streaming plan.
The Nigerian Original content slate features its first epic drama series, ‘Cheta’m,’ directed by James Omokwe; reality TV series ‘Sadau Sisters,’ starring Nigerian actress Rahama Sadau and her three sisters; documentary series ‘Freemen’; romantic comedy movie ‘The Counsellor’; and a new season of the hit drama series ‘Flawsome.’
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Also making their debuts on the streaming platform are adaptations of two South African local bestsellers: Angela Makholwa’s serial killer thriller ‘Red Ink,’ and ‘Catch Me A Killer,’ the memoir of Micki Pistorius, South Africa’s first serial killer profiler.
More from the South African original content slate includes ‘Youngins,’ ‘Wyfie,’ ‘Ekhaya Backpackers,’ ‘Forever Yena,’ ‘Intlawulo’ and ‘Matilda en Matthys.’
class entertainment from the world’s biggest brands plus more African Originals than ever before and the first-ever mobile Premier League plan for Africa.”
Meanwhile, new seasons of the Kenyan Showmax Original hit Single Kiasi and Ghanaian drama series ENO are also expected to launch on the streaming platform.
At launch, international highlights will include Mission Impossible: Dead Reckoning and Spider-Man: Across The Spider-Verse, two of the 10 biggest box office hits of 2023; the second season of Halo, express from the United States; Lawman: Bass Reeves, from Yellowstone co-creator Taylor Sheridan and starring David Oyelowo in a Critics Choice- and Golden Globe-nominated performance; missing persons procedural Found, which was NBC’s biggest launch on Peacock yet; Neill Blomkamp’s #1 US box office hit Gran Turismo; and box sets of classic NBC comedies like The Office and Parks and Recreation.
It’s also been confirmed that box sets of HBO’s House of the Dragon and the second season of the phenomenal HBO hit The Last of Us will be heading to Showmax in the future.
