{"id":10803,"date":"2024-08-30T09:47:59","date_gmt":"2024-08-30T13:47:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvformats\/the-office-getting-south-african-treatment\/"},"modified":"2024-08-30T09:53:31","modified_gmt":"2024-08-30T13:53:31","slug":"the-office-getting-south-african-treatment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvformats\/the-office-getting-south-african-treatment\/","title":{"rendered":"The Office Getting South African Treatment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BBC Studios and the African streamer Showmax have struck up a deal for a South African adaptation of the hit comedy format <em>The Office<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>The Showmax original will be produced locally by Rapid Blue, part of BBC Studios\u2019 international family of production companies. The adaptation will launch on both Showmax and kykNET, DStv\u2019s Afrikaans channel.<\/p>\n<p>The South African edition of <em>The Office<\/em>, which is still untitled, will be its 14th adaption and will be filmed primarily in Afrikaans. Production will begin in 2025.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur very first Showmax original was a mockumentary, <em>Tali\u2019s Wedding Diary<\/em>, so we\u2019re delighted, just seven years later, to start reimagining the most iconic mockumentary of them all,\u201d said Nicola van Niekerk, Showmax\u2019s acting head of content.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are proud to be producing the first African version of <em>The Office<\/em> for Showmax and kykNET,\u201d said Rapid Blue&#8217;s managing director, Ziyanda Ngcaba. \u201cThe format is globally recognized and adored by audiences all over the world.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe relaunch slate included all nine seasons of the American version of <em>The Office<\/em>, which went straight into our top five international series on the platform for the month,\u201d added van Niekerk. \u201cSo we know our audience is going to be as excited to see our hyperlocal version as we are to make it.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BBC Studios and the African streamer Showmax have struck up a deal for a South African adaptation of the hit comedy format The Office.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":350,"featured_media":10806,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[1337,3922,1894,609],"class_list":["post-10803","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-top-stories","tag-bbc-studios","tag-rapid-blue","tag-showmax","tag-the-office","pmpro-has-access"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.7 - 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