Couch potato by Danie Jacobs and a family drama filled with intrigue
Family drama filled with intrigue
Neil Sandilands stars in M-Net’s intriguing new drama Desert Rose.
Set on a remote farm in the Northern Cape, it is an evocative, emotional, quirky and cinematic new family-centred drama premiering on M-Net on June 2.
The eight-part drama mixes black comedy, suspense, crime, romance, and music while focusing on the unlikely reconnecting of a father and his children.
Sandilands plays Freddie ‘Fingers’ Greyling, a music star and the absent father of Eben Greyling. Sandilands also wrote and performs much of the music in the series, accompanied by Theo Crous and Georgio Frazer Barry.
When Eben refuses a request from the family’s benefactor Van As to go fishing, it breaks the shackles of a long-time agreement - but the debt will not disappear. Someone has to pay.
Desert Rose tells the story of the disenfranchised and the forgotten in a desert town through the Greyling family. Emotional and rooted in character, it is a love letter to the misfit; to loss, loneliness and eccentricity; to broken relationships, and South Africa itself. Inspired by Americana - highways, diners and gas stations – and thorny family drama with a quirky heart, prepare to explore the crossroads where the ordinary meets the extraordinary.
Couch potato by Danie Jacobs
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Saturday May 21: A surrogate mom becomes obsessed with the new father in When the bow breaks. SABC3, 21:30.
Sunday May 22: Recipes for love and murder reaches its climax with Maria trying to escape the killer. M-Net, 20:00.
Monday May 23: In The List an accountant becomes the prime suspect in a woman’s disappearance. SABC2, 22:00.
Tuesday May 24: Death and the maiden is classic cinema! A political activist is convinced her guest once tortured her for the government. SABC3, 23:00.
Wednesday May 25: The Rocky Marciano Story shows the boxer as a champion in and out of the ring. SABC3, 21:00.
Thursday May 26: Chris tests the latest Porsche in Top Gear. BBC Brit on DStv, 23:05.
Friday May 27: An MP falls in love with his son’s fiancée in Damage. etv, 22:05.
Saturday May 28: Deon Lotz can be seen as Skyfies van der Schyff in Halwe Ton Dinamiet. He is an explosives specialist on a gold-mine. KykNet on DStv, 20:00.
Sunday May 29: A diamond mine collapses in The Ice Road. M-Net, 20:05.