kykNET returns to Cape Town. In this new series of our popular musical sitcom, Alie’s barber-shop in Salt River will undergo a few radical changes. Alie fell ill, you see… had a stroke or something. Now the old geezer’s got to recuperate. He’s even considering retirement.

Amalia Vos, a respected poet, plans to finish her latest work while visiting a childhood friend in her hometown in the countryside. Two weeks later, Amalia commits suicide by overdosing on painkillers. Next to her bed the police find three photographs of her husband, Piet Vos, and a young woman. In the third photograph, they are together in bed.

She looks like an angel. She sings like an angel. She parties like a rock star! Meet Angel Phillips, a feisty girl from a sleepy seaside town who arrives in Johannesburg, the City of Gold, seeking fame and fortune. Angel is enrolled at the National School of Arts for classical piano, but all she wants is a stage, a mike and a rock song to perform.

kykNET’s brand-new tele-novel, Begeertes is a hot erotic novel with lots of intrigue, humour and fervent necking and flirting. The main character in Begeertes is the attractive and ambitious Anton Snyman who earns a pittance hawking clothes, and working as a barman.

Binnelanders is a story of real people living real lives until a ghost from the past threatens to destroy everything they love. Zieg Combrink is a successful doctor and part-owner of an up-market private clinic. Surrounded at home and work by a bevy of adoring and competing women, Zieg seems to have everything a man could want, until his life takes an unexpected turn. First a patient of many years dies, leaving Zieg with a moral dilemma. Then a new nurse arrives at the clinic and appears determined to sabotage him professionally and personally.

A gripping new drama by the creator of Egoli – Place of Gold, Franz Marx.Twenty-year old Elri Dekker has the world at her feet. She’s blonde, beautiful and heiress to a multi-million rand company. But her interest lies with fashion and boyfriends rather than with a mighty business empire.

Young and ambitious, they deal with life and death on a daily basis. They are four African medical students in their final year of study, who share constant competition for top marks, inhuman working hours and the daily emotional battle to ensure professional care for the sick in a Nigerian General Hospital.

Gold’s enduring lure is at the centre of this new drama from the pen of renowned South African writer P.G. du Plessis. An aeroplane disappears without trace while ferrying a cargo of gold bullion from a small mining town. Carstens, the protagonist of Dryfsand, loses his job at the mine because of the incident, which is deemed a heist.

This ambitious family drama reaches out to traditional soap-opera audiences and viewers who yearn for a TV drama series that touches on the real conflicts that people face in today’s Nigeria.

The second series about a Nigerian family living in today’s Lagos continues the twin appeal of its forerunner, reaching out to traditional soap-opera audiences as well as those who long for TV drama unafraid of drawing on reality.

Since its first episode in 1992, Egoli has eclipsed all records in the South African television industry. It became the first programme in any genre to reach 2000 episodes - in just under eight years – on 3 December 1999. Aimed at women of all nationalities between the ages of 25 and 45, with middle or upper incomes, this daily soapie is intensely topical, clicking into current events and newsworthy issues worldwide.

“Ella Blue” is set in the year 1961 and tells the story of a woman's physical, emotional and spiritual journey through the process of race classification in terms of the Group Areas Act of 1950. Ella and her family have lived peacefully for generations in a remote fishing village on the Cape Coast, until the day it is announced that the Census Official is arriving to classify every person in the small, secluded community according to their colour.