(Above: Liam Neeson stars in “The Marksman”)
December has arrived and DStv is dishing out Festive gifts: Comedy Central (DStv channel 122) opens up to Family subscribers for two months, from Wednesday, December 1, 2021, until Tuesday, February 1, 2022.
Keeping with the festivities, a full box set of the off-the-wall comedy series Cinema Toast will start on M-Net (DStv channel 101), and Minki van der Westhuizen will host a special festive food programme on VIA (DStv channel 147) called ’n Woolies Kersfees-Kookstryd Met Minki.
Showmax is also going big this December with the brand new reboot of Gossip Girl XOXO, a local film called Dreams of Gomorrah, and the British drama series Little Birds, along with the long-awaited What We Do In The Shadows Season 3.
Cinema Toast
Season 1 / Episode 1 / Watch from Friday, November
26 / M-Net (DStv channel 101) / 23h00
If you and your friends have ever muted a
movie and provided your own silly soundtrack, you get the idea behind this
anthology comedy show in which brand new 30-minute stories are made out of
footage from classic films. With the voices of Fred Armisen, Nicole Byer, Jake Johnson,
Nick Offerman and more.
The Marksman
November 28, 2021. Movie / M-Net (DStv
channel 101) / 20h05
Rancher Jim Hanson (Liam Neeson) shelters a
Mexican mother and her son who are on the run from a cartel, but when Border
Patrol prepares to deport the boy following Jim’s shootout with the cartel, Jim
sneaks him away to take him to his family in Chicago.
(Right: “Little Birds”)
Little Birds
December 1, 2021
Season 1 / Showmax
Little
Birds is a racy, bold British original drama based
on Anais Nin's infamous erotic short stories. In 1955, heiress Lucy Savage
arrives in Tangier, Morocco, one of the last outposts of colonial decadence,
and experiences a culture shock. Starring Juno Temple, Yumna Marwan, Hugh
Skinner, Nina Sosanya and Raphael Acloque.
(Left: “High Road to China”)
High Road To China
December 3, 2021
Movie / KIX (DStv channel 114) / 19h00
In this classic 1983 adventure film set in
the 1920s, spoilt heiress Evie Tozer (Bess Armstrong) hires drunk, roguish
biplane pilot Patrick O'Malley (Tom Selleck) and his sidekick to find her
missing father in China, before she loses her fortune to Daddy’s scheming
business partner, Bentik (Robert Morley).
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