{"id":5774,"date":"2017-12-13T15:24:53","date_gmt":"2017-12-13T13:24:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/?p=5774"},"modified":"2017-12-13T15:24:53","modified_gmt":"2017-12-13T13:24:53","slug":"things-quickly-get-tense-when-suzellediy-and-tali_babes-co-star","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/blog\/2017\/12\/13\/things-quickly-get-tense-when-suzellediy-and-tali_babes-co-star\/","title":{"rendered":"Things Quickly Get Tense When SuzelleDIY And Tali_babes Co-star"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Interest in Tali\u2019s Wedding Diary, the first Showmax Original, is reaching fever pitch. Promotional videos for the show have generated nearly two million views in less than a month, with the trailer trending on YouTube for the week of its release. As Channel24 wrote last week, \u201cHer show hasn\u2019t even aired yet but Tali is already a star.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>While @Tali_babes has been an undeniable hit on Instagram, she\u2019s still not as popular as SuzelleDIY, whose YouTube channel has more than 23 million views. Not that it\u2019s a competition, of course\u2026<\/p>\n<p>SuzelleDIY has been very supportive of Tali_babes, following her on Instagram and inviting the bride-to-be onto her YouTube show for an episode called How To Make A DIY Wedding Cake, released today. But while Suzelle starts the episode praising Tali as \u201cgorgeous\u201d and \u201cfabulous,\u201d things quickly get tense as Tali and Suzelle disagree over, well, everything, really.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"How to Make a DIY Wedding Cake (featuring Tali Babes)\" width=\"750\" height=\"422\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/70tIfZBgu44?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Suzelle and Tali are both played by actress Julia Anastasopoulos and co-created with her husband, Ari Kruger, who directs both shows. \u00a0Ari is also known as one of only three South African directors to have directed two Vimeo Staff Picks, the short films Jakkals13 and Focus.<\/p>\n<p>Premiering this Thursday, 14 December 2017, Tali\u2019s Wedding Diary follows a self-obsessed Sandton princess (Julia) who\u2019s moved to Cape Town and is filming the build-up to her wedding to her property-agent fiance Darren (Anton Taylor, star of the popular web series Jozi Shore and the award-winning short Money, Keys, Phone).<\/p>\n<p>At last week\u2019s three-episode cast and crew premiere at The Labia in Cape Town, the packed audience was in hysterics from start to finish, with TVPlus tweeting afterwards, \u201cGreat news. Tali\u2019s Wedding Diary is AWESOME. So funny\u2026 She\u2019s a monster. Shrieking with horror and laughter\u2026 We can\u2019t wait until 14 December to binge the rest\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Tali\u2019s Wedding Diary also stars Lara Lipschitz, who just won Best Actress at NYC Web Fest for her series Chin-Up; three-time Savannah Comics Choice nominee Glen Biderman-Pam; Fleur du Cap Best Actress winner and 2017 SAFTA nominee Kate Normington (Those Who Can\u2019t); and two-time Fleur du Cap winner Guy De Lancey (The Pervert Laura). Look out for cameos from the likes of Top Billing host Lorna Maseko; Nic Smal from Derick Watts and the Sunday Blues; Nicci Saint Bruce (Push Push); members of Al Bairre; and, of course, Gina Collins (Marianne in SuzelleDIY).<\/p>\n<p>Tali\u2019s Wedding Diary is the debut Showmax Original, building on the success of this year\u2019s acclaimed co-productions: iNumber Number with Mzansi Magic and Waterfront with kykNET. \u201cWe\u2019ve already seen a spike in subscriptions directly linked to Tali\u2019s Wedding Diary,\u201d says Showmax Africa head Chris Savides. \u201cIt\u2019s further confirmation that hyper-local content like this is a key differentiator for us.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The eight-episode mockumentary will be available to binge-watch from this Thursday, 14 December 2017 on Showmax, which was just included in the App Store Best Of 2017 list. Save the date; as Tali says, \u201cIt&#8217;s going to be the best day of your life!\u201d<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Tali&#039;s Wedding Diary | Official Trailer | Showmax\" width=\"750\" height=\"422\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/XVwMXLkFxlo?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Jakkals13\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/168812053?dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" width=\"750\" height=\"422\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Focus (Short Film)\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/18455326?dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" width=\"750\" height=\"422\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Interest in Tali\u2019s Wedding Diary, the first Showmax Original, is reaching fever pitch. Promotional videos for the show have generated nearly two million views in less than a month, with the trailer trending on YouTube for the week of its release. As Channel24 wrote last week, \u201cHer show hasn\u2019t even aired yet but Tali is&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/blog\/2017\/12\/13\/things-quickly-get-tense-when-suzellediy-and-tali_babes-co-star\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Things Quickly Get Tense When SuzelleDIY And Tali_babes Co-star<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[97],"tags":[110],"class_list":["post-5774","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-online","tag-showmax","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5774","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5774"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5774\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}