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From Cover 16 (Continued on Page 18) Global TV Fare T urkey’s ATV delivers gripping Turkish dra- mas with a focus on strong female lead characters. Lifeline is the story of Nefes, a child bride sold to an abusive businessman. She repeatedly fails in her attempts to escape with her young son. Will Tahir, the younger brother of one of her husband’s business associates, be able to figure out a way to save her? Drama series Foster Mother follows Alev, an ambitious young university student whose mistakes result in an unwanted pregnancy. Alev’s sister Damla takes the baby in. After the girl turns eighteen, tensions flare between her birth parents and her foster mother. In Don’t Leave Me , middle-aged Arzu is happily married with two sons. However, all is not as it seems, as one son was conceived when Arzu was horrifically raped while at university. Secrets haunt Arzu, but she is determined to protect her family. Ali, who spent his youth in prison and never learned to love, meets the equally cold Mavi in Love and Hate (pictured). As they get to know and start to feel affection for each other, will their burdens and secrets crush their budding romance? In Orphan Flowers , Eylül is cast out by her mother and abusive stepfather. She is forced to live in an orphanage, but still manages to form lasting friendships. DISCOP Johannesburg Viewing Booth 11 www.atvdistribution.com ATV Balances Love and Hate ABS-CBN Shows Its Better Half AMC Delivers The Unspeakable Wait for Love With 7A A MC Studios brings documentaries to the next level with its eclectic line-up. Miniseries Unspeakable (pictured) examines the lives of the victims of the 1980s tainted blood scandal. This powerful drama is a deeply personal passion project from creator Robert C. Cooper. This Close is a relationship dramedy created by and starring Shoshannah Stern and Josh Feldman. Twenty-something best friends Kate and Michael, who just to happen to be deaf, are trying to navigate Los Angeles. Even the people closest to them see their disability first, and who they really are as human beings second. The comedy Documentary Now! spoofs the world’s best-known documentaries with an impressive line-up of guests, including Anne Hathaway, Owen Wilson, and Cate Blanchett. It stars Fred Armisen and Bill Hader, and is hosted by Helen Mirren. Eli Roth’s History of Horror showcases A-List writers, directors, and other storytellers who explore themain themes and sources of inspiration present in the horror genre. Featuring the likes of Stephen King, Quentin Tarantino, Jordan Peele, and many more, each one-hour episode will take viewers on a journey examining how horror has evolved and impacted pop culture. Jonestown: Terror in the Jungle looks at the transformation of Jim Jones, one of the most horrific figures to appear in American headlines. This docudrama examines Jones’ transformation from charismatic preacher and civil rights activist into a demagogue who led the biggest mass suicide in American history. www.amcstudiosinternational.com 7 A Media distributes a variety of international fare for free-TV, pay-TV, VoD, and OTT platforms. TheWait For Love is a telenovela about a secret affair between a movie star and a royal prince. As they struggle for happiness, their relationship becomes entangled in deception and shame. In Reina de Flores , Rosa suffers from memory loss after a terrible accident. Her husband looks to Rosa’s sister, Narcisa, for help, but Narcisa does the opposite of helping. Each episode of sports format El Golazo de la Suerte (pictured) pits two families against each other. They will have to prevail in a variety of tests if they want to reach the grand final. T here is no lack of drama in the ABS-CBN line-up, which offers storylines sure to captivate the whole family. The Better Half (pictured) follows the travails of Camille and Marco, a couple whose lives are upended due to an airplane crash. Believing her husband to be dead, Camille meets a new man, Rafael. But Marco later reappears in Camille’s life — now married to a woman named Bianca. Forever My Love is the story of Gabriel and Bianca, who developed a special bond as children growing up in the Zambales region. Bianca left the region when her father needed medical attention elsewhere. Over the years Gabriel works and studies while Bianca becomes a promising athlete. A chance encounter at a triathlon reunites the couple, but will their childhood connection result in true love? Unaware of each other’s existence due to being separated at birth, three identical sisters are reunited by a crime that ends up raising more questions than answers in the series The Blood Sisters. In Asintado , Ana, amember of a rescue team, saves wealthy scion Gael from a collapsed mine. Impressed, Gael hires Ana to be his personal nurse. They quickly fall for one another, but their budding romance is threatened by the return of Gael’s murderous ex-girlfriend Samantha! Two very different families cross paths in The Good Son . When the wealthy Buenavidez family patriarch Victor tragically dies, it is revealed to the family that Victor had an illegitimate son who has been living in poverty. Family, murder, and more come together in this complex dynastic drama. DISCOP J0hannesburg Stand 89 internationalsales.abs-cbn.com A successful photographer’s life begins to go downhill when he takes a picture in a park of something out of the ordinary in Fotografías de un Crimen (Crime In Focus). Hablamos Cuando Regreses (We’ll Talk When You Get Back) takes place after a plane crash that leaves no survivors. Two men with the same name were supposed to be on the flight, but one of them decided not to board. Their respec- tive wives must discover which of their husbands is still alive. www.7amedia.tv November 2018