{"id":8127,"date":"2010-05-05T09:50:47","date_gmt":"2010-05-05T07:50:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.whalecottage.com\/blog\/?p=8127"},"modified":"2010-05-05T10:18:39","modified_gmt":"2010-05-05T08:18:39","slug":"league-of-glory-tv-series-scores-for-stellenbosch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chrisvonulmenstein.com\/blog\/restaurant-news\/league-of-glory-tv-series-scores-for-stellenbosch\/","title":{"rendered":"‘League of Glory’ TV series scores for Stellenbosch"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>The new M-Net TV series “League of Glory’, which was written by scriptwriter Bruce Young and directed by\u00a0respected filmmaker Darrel Roodt,\u00a0will be a marketing boost for the university and wine town Stellenbosch.\u00a0\u00a0 The first of 13 episodes will be flighted today at 19h30.<\/p>\n

The series tells the story of three young men Jonathan Grant (Charlie Keegan), Luke Jantjies (Marvin-Lee Beukes) and Kaiser Sigcau (Siv Ngesi), from different walks of life, who all love soccer, and share the goal of “glory through soccer”.\u00a0\u00a0 The three soccer fans play for a township soccer club and are assigned an ex-Bafana Bafana player as a coach to\u00a0train them for a soccer competition.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The coach\u00a0plays an important role in the lives of the soccer players.\u00a0 The series tells the story of how the three stars triumph over adversity, and how each of them face their fears.\u00a0\u00a0 The series is a familiar\u00a0drama with a modern twist, according to Roodt, with a strong emphasis on the world’s most popular sport, being soccer.\u00a0\u00a0 The\u00a0series coincides with the World Cup.<\/p>\n

Nook Eatery on Van Reyneveld Street in Stellenbosch, a\u00a0favourite coffee shop and eatery, was lucky to be selected by the series producers as a location for some of the action.\u00a0 Co-owner Luke\u00a0Grant said he and his\u00a0partner Jessie, the delectable chef of the restaurant, were happy to be involved and helped out with the shoot.\u00a0\u00a0 Multiple scenes were shot at\u00a0Nook.\u00a0\u00a0 Stellenbosch’s beauty is captured in the series, and a wine farm is\u00a0the location\u00a0for the home of the parents of Jonathan Grant in the series.<\/p>\n

FIFA’s strict rules,\u00a0forbidding\u00a0ambush marketing, meant that\u00a0some scenes had to be re-shot when it was discovered that a FIFA soccer ball was used in some of the shots for the series.\u00a0\u00a0This affected Nook too.\u00a0\u00a0 “Upon reviewing Fifa’s regulations around licensing for the World Cup during this time, M-Net and Waterfront Television realised that showing the scenes with the official Fifa ball would be against the regulations” said M-Net, according to the Cape Times<\/strong>.\u00a0 About 9 minutes of the drama had to be re-shot, and thus delayed the start date of the series by a week, to today.<\/p>\n

Chris von Ulmenstein, Whale Cottage Portfolio: www.whalecottage.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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