TV series

Die Nuusmakers

2025 · 1 season

A tense, emotionally charged drama that puts you behind the news desk during a national crisis, balancing personal grief with professional duty.

Overview: Adri Joubert has been the cool, calm, reassuring face and voice of the evening news for two decades. But then her husband is murdered, and her life becomes news as a national crisis shakes the country. She is forced to put aside her personal trauma to guide viewers through the state of emergency from behind a red-hot news desk.
How it feels: Tense, melancholic, dark and earnest. Measured and needs your attention.
About: Grief, media, politics, trauma
Content: Mild violence, sexual content and language. No gore.
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Tone: tensestrength 3 of 3
melancholicstrength 2 of 3
darkstrength 2 of 3
earneststrength 2 of 3
Pacing: measured, 2 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention: engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes: grief
media
politics
trauma
identity
Places: big city
workplace
Era: contemporary
Audience: adult
Form: serialised
Content intensity: Gore none
Language mild
Violence mild
Sex mild