Tali is coming home. Economy class. What. The. Actual. Filming has started on Tali’s Joburg Diary, the third installment of the first-ever Showmax Original.
Having shared her wedding in Tali’s Wedding Diary and then her pregnancy in Tali’s Baby Diary, Tali is moving back to Joburg. She is determined to get Jayden into the premium preschool, Little Angels Hyde Park, and reclaim her crown, or at the very least the title of Class Mom.
But planning a wedding and even giving birth has nothing on moving back in with your parents. Especially when you’re already at your wits’ end after years of baby rearing in lockdown when Darren embraced the new normal a little too much, Goldprop all but dissolved, and your credit cards started bouncing.
The first ever Showmax Original, Tali’s Wedding Diary set a (then) record for the most first-day views on Showmax. It was the most awarded comedy at the 2019 SAFTAs, taking home five prizes, including Best Comedy, Best Director (Ari Kruger) and Best Actress (Julia Anastasopoulos). The hit mockumentary was followed by Tali’s Baby Diary last year, which is joint second in the overall rankings at the 2022 SAFTAs. This year it took home five awards, including Best TV Comedy, and is jointly the biggest winner at this year’s SAFTAs.
As Tali, Julia Anastasopoulos (aka SuzelleDIY) won Best Actress, while Kate Normington won Supporting Actress as her mother, Michelle. The series also won for Directing (Ari Kruger and Daniel Zimbler) and Editing (Richard Starkey and Gordon Midgley).
They’re all back for Tali’s Joburg Diary, as are fan favourites Glen Biderman-Pam, criminally overlooked at the SAFTAs as Rael Rosen, and Coconut Kelz, who’ll give Tali a Joburg makeover this season to help her dust the Cape Town off her. Also look out for Naledi Award nominee Sharon Spiegel Wagner as Monique the Beak, the reigning Class Mom at Little Angels.
I am so excited to dive back into the world of Tali.
– Julia Anastasopoulos
“Sketchbook is so very proud of this project and it has been so wonderful to get the clan back together again this year. We’ve already been in stitches on set watching some of the scenes unfold and I think this season is going to be sensational”, says Anastasopoulos.
“I think we all need a laugh after the past few years, so we can’t wait to have Tali back on Showmax in November 2022,” says Nomsa Philiso, executive head of programming at MultiChoice. “It’s going to be the same Tali, with a very different bank balance, in a very different Joburg. Tighten your belt and sharpen those nails. Let the battle for Class Mom begin.”
Other upcoming Showmax Originals include Jahmil X.T. Qubeka’s epic African fantasy, Blood Psalms. A co-production with Canal+ International, starting 28 September 2022. A new season of The Wife, the award-winning telenovela based on Dudu Busani-Dube’s much-loved books.
