Fashioning Modern Africanism

Discovery launches The Man Who Walked Around the World, award-winning director Anthony Wonke’s new feature documentary about Scotch whisky brand Johnnie Walker. The independent film, created by Something™ Originals and produced by multi-award-winning production company Partizan, tells a powerful story of positivity and resilience - exploring how, over two centuries, the brand navigated floods, flu pandemics and World Wars, while making a stand on racial and gender inequality along the way. “This is the story of Johnnie Walker but it’s more than just a story about whisky, it’s about culture and the universal need to be able to look to the future with hope. That’s what makes it so powerful - it’s not a history lesson, it’s a story for where we are today and what we need to go forward”, says Wonke. The Academy Award-nominated, Emmy and BAFTA-winning director/producer, whose previous documentary subjects include Cristiano Ronaldo, Star Wars and AP McCoy, has spent a large part of his time

  1st seasons of  Alexi Rider, Enslaved, Florida Girls, Jett, L.A.’s Finest, On Becoming a God In Central Florida, & Years and Years CONDOR S2   | First on Showmax | Binge now Based on the James Grady novel  Six Days of the Condor  and the 1975 film adaptation  Three Days of the Condor ,  Condor  follows young CIA analyst Joe Turner, who is drawn into a deadly terrorist plot that threatens the lives of millions. Joe is played by Max Irons ( The Wife ,  The White Queen  - and the son of Oscar winner Jeremy Irons), supported by Oscar winners William Hurt ( A History of Violence ,  Damages ) and Mira Sorvino ( Mighty Aphrodite ,  Hollywood ), Oscar nominee Bob Balaban ( Gosford Park ,  The Politician ) and, for Season 1, by Saturn Award, Kid’s Choice and Teen Choice nominee Brendan Fraser ( The Mummy ,  The Affair ). Emmy nominee Constance Zimmer ( UnReal ,  Boston Legal ) joins the cast this season.  Condor  has an 86% critics rating on  Rotten Tomatoes , which praises its “slick con

LIFE WITH KELLY KHUMALO  | Watch eps 1-6 now; eps 7-13 due 27 August 2020 A household name by 21, Kelly Khumalo is one of South Africa’s biggest music stars. She’s been named Best Female Artist at the South African Music Awards, sold millions of albums, opened for Grammy winner Missy Elliott, and has over 1.7m followers on Instagram alone.    But in recent years, her stardom has been dogged by controversies, from her turbulent relationship with her son’s father, hip hop star Jub Jub, and the conspiracy theories surrounding the death of her daughter’s father, Bafana Bafana captain Senzo Meyiwa to her recent ‘divorce’ from her sister, Zand⁸ie.    Life With Kelly Khumalo  offers an intimate glimpse of the woman behind the headlines: a single mother of two, juggling parenting with the build-up to the release of not just her new album,  Voice of Africa,  but also her first gin, appropriately titled Controversy - both threatened by South Africa’s unprecedented Covid-19 lockdown.     “I'v