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Pendulum have returned with their huge new single ‘Napalm’, featuring Joey Valance and Brae. Check out below, along with our interview with frontman Rob Swire.The rave-rock pioneers are back with the follow-up to their comeback EPs [2021’s ‘Elemental’ and 2023’s ‘Anima’] with another genre-smashing track that layers hard rock and punk on top of their founding dance sound.“The label pretty much came to us saying, ‘Make some more drum’n’bass,” Swire told NME.

Christopher Vourlias South Africa’s Both Worlds is leaning into IP and genre as it brings a packed slate of ambitious scripted projects to Mipcom this week, including an adaptation of the bestseller “The Cape Raider” and partnerships with Federation Studios and actor Djimon Hounsou’s Fanaticus production banner. The International Emmy-nominated production outfit, which recently released the Cape Town-set comedy-drama “The Morning After” on Prime Video, has wrapped Season 2 of “Recipes for Love and Murder”: Global Screen will be introducing it to buyers this week at Mipcom.

Annika Pham Scandinavia’s leading sales outfit REinvent has boarded Norway’s true crime “Escaping Bolivia,” currently filming in Cape Town, South Africa, after an initial shoot in Oslo. Fenomen (“Rod Knock”) and longstanding outfit 4 ½ (“Out Stealing Horses”) are producing for TV2 Norway, in co-production with Germany’s pubcaster NDR and Oslo Film Fund. Helmer Anna Gutto, behind Lionsgate’s “Paradise Highway” starring Juliette Binoche, is concept director, working next to creator and episodic writer Emily Beck, attached to Netflix’s “Royalteen.” Toplining the six-part series are Jakob Oftebro (“Agent Hamilton”), Ella Øverbye, from Dag Johan Haugerud’s “Dreams,” Josephine Tetlie, Lisa Hovden and Danish actor Joachim Fjelstrup (“The Girl With the Needle”).

EXCLUSIVE: 5X Media has signed a wealth of digital talent as the management company and production house’s roster continues to expand.

A rare surviving cast-iron statue of Scotland’s Bard, Robert Burns, has completed a trip from South Africa to a display in Stirling.

receiving chemotherapy treatment, but she’s hoping to make a bit of a comeback in the fall after having “a restful summer” with her husband, Prince William, and their three kids, The Sunday Times reported over the weekend.Middleton’s comment in her June health update about having “good days and bad days” amid chemo “still rings true,” friends of hers told the British newspaper.But The Times reported that Middleton and her advisors are planning possible public engagements on her “good days” over the next few months.Specifically, Middleton “potentially” may join her father-in-law, King Charles III, who also has cancer, and the royal family at the Cenotaph for the National Service of Remembrance on November 10.Royal aides are also reportedly planning for Middleton’s annual televised “Together at Christmas” carol service at Westminster Abbey in December.However, The Times claimed that she definitely won’t join William, 42, at the Earthshot Prize awards in Cape Town, South Africa in early Nov.Still, it was reported that Middleton has been working from home at Adelaide Cottage and meeting with her staff more to plan for her future.With Middleton having no confirmed royal appearances set up for the rest of the year, those closest to her say there’s “no expectation for her to rush back” to public life, The Times reported.“People know and understand it is a long journey to recovery,” a friend of Middleton’s told the paper.The Post has reached out to Kensington Palace for comment.Middleton was barely in the spotlight this summer as she was focusing on her health. In July, she attended Wimbledon with her daughter, Princess Charlotte, and her sister, Pippa Middleton.

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Netflix is at Cape Town’s MIP Africa event this week, and has unveiled a South African version of reality show Love Never Lies and a batch of feature films to delegates in attendance.

Naman Ramachandran African streamer Showmax has set a November 2024 premiere for its latest Nigerian original drama series, “Princess on a Hill.” The announcement came during the 2024 MIP Africa event in Cape Town, part of the Fame Week Africa festival. Co-created by Abiola Sobo and Tolu Ajayi, “Princess on a Hill” explores themes of power and ambition in a corporate setting.

Christopher Vourlias A traditional way of life in the rural hinterlands of South Africa is put to the test when an upscale development arrives on the region’s doorstep in “Carissa,” the feature debut of writing-directing duo Jason Jacobs and Devon Delmar, which premieres Sept. 5 in the Horizons strand of the Venice Film Festival.

EXCLUSIVE: Showmax‘s buzzy South African crime drama Koek is heading for a second season.

Netflix continues to round out is cast for Season 2 of One Piece, adding Charithra Chandran (Bridgerton) as Miss Wednesday in the live-action series is based on Eiichiro Oda’s best-selling manga.

EXCLUSIVE: HBO is in development on the comedy series Flat Tyres from Fifth Season and co-creators Thabo Rametsi and Robbie Leacock.

EXCLUSIVE: One of the buzzier titles set to debut at this year’s Edinburgh Film Festival is Lilies Not For Me, the first feature from American filmmaker Will Seefried, which we can share a first-look clip from above.

Christopher Vourlias The 15th edition of the Durban FilmMart, which ran July 19 – 22 in South Africa’s sun-splashed coastal mecca, wrapped on a high note this week with an invigorating sense of possibility among the industry professionals making the trek from all corners of the continent. The future of film finance in Africa, the prospects of pan-African collaboration and the pressing need to build a sustainable industry in the face of climate change were all on the agenda.

EXCLUSIVE: Love Island has just crowned the winners of season six, its most buzzy season since it launched in the U.S. in 2019.

In January 2023, Deadline reported that Snowpiercer‘s completed fourth and final season would not run on TNT as part of content tax write-offs by the network’s parent Warner Bros. Discovery and that producer Tomorrow Studios was shopping the new season, along with potential prequel and sequel. Almost a year and a half later, Season 4 of Snowpiercer landed at AMC and will debut this Sunday, July 21, with a Comic-Com panel to follow five days later.

Christopher Vourlias Prime Video is set to release its first South African original film, the Cape Town-set crime caper comedy “The Shakedown,” which will be available globally on the streamer Aug. 8. Variety has been given exclusive access to the film’s trailer.

Tourists and surfers are being warned to take extreme caution after an outbreak of rabies among seals on the coast of South Africa. 300,000 UK tourists visit the country every year and its waves are renowned for some of the best surfing in the world.

“America’s Next Top Model.”“She’s not a friendly lady,” Dickinson, 69, said about Banks, 50, on the June 18 episode of “The Bachelorette” alum Kaitlyn Bristowe’s “Off the Vine” podcast.Bristowe, 39, recalled that she had little interaction with Banks when she was on “Dancing With the Stars” in 2020, which was Banks’ first season hosting the ABC show.“You’re too beautiful for her,” Dickinson told Bristowe. “She does not like beautiful women.”Looking back on their history, Dickinson admitted that she “tortured” Banks when they did “ANTM” together in the mid-2000s.“Because, if she was going to be mean to the girls — I saw her ploy, just so I could remain under the radar,” Dickinson recalled.

Prince William and Prince Harry may be in line for the throne, but there's one thing they'll never inherit - their mother Princess Diana's childhood home.The Althorp Estate, which has been in the Spencer family since 1508, will instead go to their cousin Louis, son of Earl Spencer, Diana's brother Charles. Despite having three older sisters, 30-year-old Viscount Althorp, Louis, will inherit the estate due to the aristocracy's system of primogeniture, where titles are passed down to the oldest boy, not the firstborn child.The sprawling 13,500-acre estate is where Diana spent her childhood and was laid to rest after her tragic death in 1997.