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Showmax Cooking Up ‘Koek’ Season 2 Following Sky/NBCU-Backed Relaunch


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. The show is written by showrunner Christiaan Olwagen ( Kanarie, Recipes for Love & Murder) and directed and filmed by Johannes Pieter Nel.

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