The Viranova Entertainment Desk covers television, film, celebrity, and the wider entertainment industry.
House of Zwide’s finale was not only the end of a fashion dynasty. It reminded viewers that soapies still build young actors slowly, publicly and emotionally through years of daily routine.
Mnakwethu Season 5 proves that polygamy has become more than a controversial reality-TV premise in South Africa. It is now a recurring television genre built around marriage, culture, trust and household negotiation.
Trevor Noah’s South Africa’s Festival of Comedy is not just another homecoming show. It turns stand-up into a national-team moment and suggests South Africa could become a bigger continental stage for African comedy.
Silwerskerm 2026 shows an Afrikaans screen culture that is broadening across films, documentaries, pilots and industry sessions — but it also exposes anxiety around the future of full-length Afrikaans feature films.
The Polygamist is not just a scandal-heavy Netflix drama. It is built for the way South Africans actually watch: reacting, debating, quoting, screenshotting and dragging every betrayal into the group chat.
Daniel Nyathi’s return to Scandal! is not just a cameo. It is a reminder that proper soapie finales need memory, old shadows and the ghosts of the world viewers have lived with for years.
Dear Sis Dolly brings Drum Magazine’s legendary advice-column legacy to the big screen, turning one of South Africa’s most familiar cultural confessionals into a story about listening, humility and lived wisdom.
