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SCREENWATCH: THE SHORES
THE SHOW: The Shores THE PRODUCERS: Clifton Shores, Clive Morris Productions, Marvista Entertainment THE DISTRIBUTOR: Marvista Entertainment CONCEPT:Constructed reality series following a group of US women as they relocate to Cape Town to work for South African coal magnate Quinton van der Burgh AIRING: TBC
What do you get the billionaire that has everything? In the case of coal tycoon Quinton van der Burgh, boss of mining group Burgh Holdings, you get a shiny new reality series, set among the rich and glamorous partygoers of Cape Town. The Shoresis that new reality show and is duly set in some of the most glitzy and glamorous beachside locations in South Africa. It fol- lows a group of beautiful women who move from the US to work for Quinton van den Burgh, who is also the show’s brainchild. The women for his party-planning and events business, living in a
cliff-side mansion in Clifton Beach. Under the watchful and demanding eye of their billionaire boss, the girls have to prove their mettle in the world of networking and party hosting. The show is in production and Marvista is coproducing and distrib- uting. Better known for its TV movies, series and miniseries this is the
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first time the company has had a reality show on its slate and follows a widening of its remit after an injection of cash last year. “Unscripted is an area that we were looking to get into,” Marvista
CEO Fernando Szew says. “There is a lot of me-too product out there and yet as you go through the TV landscape everyone says that they want something different and a breakout hit in a cluttered market, so there is a disconnect. We wanted something with some proven ingre- dients for success as well as something new and we wanted something international.”
The series is being produced by Quinton van den Burgh’s Clifton
Shores, South African-based producer Clive Morris Productions and Marvista. It is shot on location in South Africa. “The country is already a pro- duction hub for scripted TV and for film so why not take advantage of that infrastructure for a reality show,” Szew says. “Part of the attraction of the show itself is the glamour, the beach and the drama and we can see those elements in numerous reality shows. It also has a fish-out- of-water scenario with the American women in South Africa and we also see them vying for attention.” The show is ‘scripted reality’, that is the cast are given some story- lines and scenarios and then filmed as they react and interact with each other. The producers brought in a doyenne of that fledgling genre to direct, Hisham Abed, fresh from his work on MTV’s Laguna Beach and The Hills. David Kolko, former executive producer at MTV Networks, was also one of the show’s producers. TBI
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