Showmax locally is one the most popular paid subscription video on-demand platforms. The platform has created its own niche through its provision of local content unlike other popular streaming platforms which prioritise its international series and films rather than the latter.
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As such, with the beginning of the new New Year and the platform preparing to usher in new content. Showmax has shared its list of the top ten series and films that were the most watched in 2022. Surprisingly, most of the content that made the cut were local shows, documentaries and films more than international titles.
Below is a list of the top local programming from 2022 on Showmax, which includes:
The Wife becomes the most watched series on Showmax
The Wife is the fictional series based on the fictional books by South African author Dudu Busani-Dube based on a taxi-business family, the Zulus and the women each of the brothers fall in love with. While the series had slack for the manner in which it decided to adapt the book into the series.
It seems that the conversations and debates on the matter only made the series more of a must-watch. This is confirmed by Showmax as it shared that:
“The Showmax Original telenovela The Wife ended 2022 the way it started it: at the top of the charts on Showmax. In between, the hit show picked up two DStv Mzansi Viewers Choice Awards and two SAFTAs before earning Kwenzo Ngcobo the People’s Choice Award at the GQ Men of the Year Awards.
Somizi Mhlongo returned with its fifth season in 2022. A season which was hotly anticipated as it was meant to focus on the end of Somizi’s brief but drama-filled relationship with Mohale Motaung. As such, it is no surprise that the reality show was one of the most watched shows on the platform.
As such, in extension, the supporting tell-all by Mohale Motaung also detailing his version of events is tied to the reality show as part of the Top 10 Most Watched Shows on Showmax. As such, Showmax asserted that:
"Can you think of a more talked about breakup than Somizi & Mohale’s in 2022? Living The Dream With Somizi Season 5 told Somizi’s version of their breakup, then Mohale: On the Record let us hear from Mohale himself. Let’s just say the two narratives didn’t exactly line up…"
- The Real Housewives franchises
Showmax is the home of the first local Real Housewives with Johannesburg, the second with Durban and the second African based spin off with Lagos. All three franchises were included as part of the top 10 as it shared that:
“In between, the show set a then record on Showmax, topped Twitter repeatedly, and was one of Showmax’s ten most watched shows two years in a row. It also went on to screen in the US on Bravo, the original home of the hit The Real Housewives franchise, as well as on NBCUniversal’s streaming service Peacock and in 27 countries on hayu.
But Durban had new competition for Africa’s reality TV crown in 2022 from The Real Housewives of Lagos, which trended at #1 on Twitter in South Africa and topped the Showmax charts here, in addition to setting a new record for the most first-day views on Showmax in Nigeria.”
Other shows in the top ten included in alphabetical order include:
Euphoria
Fast and Furious 9
Sex In Afrikaans
The Wife; Behind the Veil
Wrath of A Man
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