Today’s the day Spinners goes up against Succession in Shanghai

Did you know that tonight, 28 June 2024, the first season of Spinners is up against the Emmy-winning final season of Succession for Best Foreign TV Series at the 29th Shanghai TV Festival’s Magnolia Awards?

The award is one of the biggest accolades in Asia and the Showmax Original will pit itself against:

The BAFTA-nominated All Creatures Great and Small S4
La Storia, named 2024 Series of the Year by The Italian National Syndicate of Film Journalists
Aspergirl, winner of Best Actor for Carel Brown at last year’s Series Mania in the French competition

At the start of this week, the acclaimed Showmax Original was also released on CANAL+ in France, with two episodes every Monday.

Reviews in France are as glowing as they were in South Africa. Le Figaro says Spinners “happily explores new fictional territories and allows you to discover an astonishing motorsport”; Diverto uses phrases like “absolutely captivating”, “breathtaking” and “both spectacular and full of suspense”; Allociné calls it “a gripping thriller… somewhere between Fast and Furious and Gomorra with a little hint of Moonlight”; Le Journal DuManche says, “If we put the film City of God, the Fast and Furious franchise and the Gomorrah series in a shaker… the final cocktail could look like this production!”; and Télé-Loisirs says, “Forget Fast and Furious, the Spinners series has a lot more under the hood than the saga with Vin Diesel and it will make you buzz with pleasure!”

The first African series ever selected for CanneSeries, Spinners follows Ethan (breakout star Cantona James), a 17-year-old driver working for a local gang. Needing to support his younger brother but increasingly disgusted with gang life, Ethan discovers a possible way out via spinning, an extreme motorsport where he can put his driving skills to better use. With a gang war looming, can he turn his life around fast enough?

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