Showmax Cooking Up ‘Koek’ Season 2 Following Sky/NBCU-Backed Relaunch
deadline.comEXCLUSIVE: Showmax‘s buzzy South African crime drama Koek is heading for a second season. The series, whose title translates as Cake, stars Cindy Swanepoel as a housewife who finds evidence her husband is cheating with an erotic dancer named Candi Floss, her investigation takes her to a world poles apart from the suburban Cape Town utopia she knows.
Season 1 has been among the ten-most streamed Afrikaans-language series on Showmax since it launched in February in partnership with Comcast subsidiaries NBCUniversal and Sky.
It is the most nominated drama at this coming week’s Silwerskerm Film and TV Award. Swanepoel is up for Best Actress, Stian Bam and Jacques Messenger for Best Actor, Sandra Prinsloo and Llandi Beeslaar for Supporting Actress and Dawid Minaar for Supporting Actor.
The Season 2 announcement is being made at the Silwerskerm Festival. Swanepoel stars as Christelle Smit opposite screen legend Prinsloo (The Gods Must Be Crazy), who plays a brandy-drinking, cigar-smoking, leopard-print loving, kidney-stealing mob boss and strip club owner, who demands Christelle repays her debts.
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