Original title
Die Nuusmakers
Released
5/27/2025
Origin country
ZA
Genre
Drama
Production companies
Both Worlds Pictures
Status
Returning series
Number of seasons
1
Number of episodes
1
Adri Joubert has been the cool, calm, reassuring face and voice of the evening news for two decades. But then her husband is murdered, and her life becomes news as a national crisis shakes the country. She is forced to put aside her personal trauma to guide viewers through the state of emergency from behind a red-hot news desk.
Adri Joubert is the darling newsreader, but both the news and her role as main presenter are in jeopardy. But then a personal tragedy strikes and all her fears fade.
Sports presenter Tersia takes Adri's place as she mourns her husband. Adri and Daniel struggle to believe that Dawid's death was simply an accidental hijacking.
Adri returns as a news presenter. Suspicion grows about the man she and Dawid had an argument with just before Dawid's death.
Luke le Roux's damaging video about Adri's marriage has the public buzzing. Adri's emotional state begins to affect her broadcasts. She calls in Nhlanhla to help her investigate.
Footage confirms that Dawid was not alone in the car. Adri wonders if she has been living with her eyes closed for too long? Was there something in Dawid's life that she was also blind to?
Adri's little cousin Zené joins the news office, and Adri's personal investigation continues. Adri also begins therapy, but Daniël struggles to accept his mother's choices.
Adri and Daniël find out who the woman in the car was and try to determine her relationship with Dawid. Melanie tries to enforce her position at Almal Afrikaans.
Sonia and her children hide, and Adri tries her best to get Sonia to talk.
A flashback to Dawid's retirement party shows how the notebook ended up in his possession. The whistleblower story makes headlines, and Adri wonders if it might be above her hearth.
Adri and Sonia meet, and Sonia insists that what happened the night of Dawid's death was just an accident. Adri puts together a task force to thoroughly investigate the whistleblower story.
With the final bits of the story ready to air, Adri faces a big decision. Meanwhile, Daniël has his own plan about who should hear the full truth.
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