南アフリカ版This Life
Sadly (or just as expected), the show gone off without trace before making the 2nd series.
なんと南アフリカでThis Lifeのリメイクを放送していたようです。が、視聴率不振で批評家受けも良くなかったため打ち切り。放送したSABC3にも、This Lifeに関するコンテンツは残っていないようです。うーん、どこかで聞いたような話だわ。
Mail & Guardian Online: Africa's first online newspaper: THIS LIFE - SABC3
Warren a la SA...too sexy?
New adult series
By Bob Eveleigh, Entertainment Editor
By Bob Eveleigh
IN the 1996 and 1997 British TV seasons, the big dramatic impact came from This Life, an hour- long soap opera with a difference.
It was very adult in its treatment of the lives, careers and loves of five young London lawyers.
The provocative show proved controversial but regularly won awards for its writing and production.
Now SABC3, working in conjunction with Fremantle South Africa, has brought This Life to South Africa.
While retaining the five lawyers theme, the programme has been adapted to suit South African life and conditions.
As bold and sexy as its UK predecessor, the show, in half-hour episodes, is set to shake up Wednesday night viewing on SABC3 from tonight at 9.30pm, the lead-in slot to the equally outspoken Sex and the City.
This drama is about the “now” time as seen through the eyes of five lawyers who work and live together.
Abena Ayivoh plays Kwezi, who has a brilliant mind, but has yet to take advantage of the new climate for educated black women in the new South Africa.
Amrain Ismail-Essop plays Tashni, an attractive but intense, driven control-freak, while Sisanda Henna is Jabu, soft, sensitive and soccer-mad.
Miles (Sean Michael), the good-looking ladies man, has a dry, self-deprecating sense of humour while, for Warren (Brian Heydenrych), being a lawyer is an enormous privilege.
Viewers will soon find that the emphasis in this series is not on the law per se, but on the quintet of characters, their interaction and their different perspectives and attitudes.
According to producer Thami Ngubeni, at the recent launch of the series in Johannesburg, the drama will deal with the issues affecting modern day South Africans.
“In telling their stories, This Life aims to be enlightening, amusing, confronting and, above all else, honest. I am really glad that SABC3 gave us this opportunity to air this drama.
“It falls in line with what SABC3 stands for – a stylish, contemporary brand that is far from ‘risk averse’.”
Be warned: the content is adult, the language forthright and the situations sexual.
