Watch Recipes For Love and Murder Season 1 on DStv

Local 13 April 2022

Sizzle & spice: Recipes For Love and Murder

Producer Karen Jeynes lifts the lid what went into cooking up Recipes for Love and Murder Season 1

Local 18 March 2022

Tannie Maria’s Sunday Night Delight

Maria Doyle Kennedy talks about making Recipes for Love and Murder Season 1

Local 17 March 2022

Get ready for M-Net’s suspense-filled new series

Maria Doyle Kennedy and Tony Kgoroge lead a strong cast ensemble in Recipes for Love and Murder

Local 19 November 2021

Brand-new international co-production coming to M-Net

M-Net, Acorn TV and Global Screen collaborate for the worldwide release of Both World Pictures’ new 10-part murder mystery series, Recipes for Love and Murder. The series premieres March 2022 exclusively on M-Net (DStv channel 101).

About the show

03 March 2022

Local murder mystery based on Sally Andrew's 2015 novel of the same name. Kindly Scottish transplant Tannie Maria (Maria Doyle Kennedy) shares advice and recipes in a small-town Karoo newspaper. But when her new friend with an abusive husband turns up dead, Maria and risk-taking rookie reporter Jessie September (Kylie Fisher) decide to investigate. The book itself sparked a cooking craze, and now viewers can fall in love with Tannie Maria, the Karoo and those seductive kitchen moments.

Who’s Who

Tannie Maria (Maria Doyle Kennedy)

Maria Purvis has taken to the “Tannie” title like a duck to water. She seems scatter-brained, but make no mistake, those darting eyes are taking in everything. She’s a kind, empathetic, cheerful, polite people pleaser on the surface, but if you want to know what’s really going on with her, try her cooking. Maria longs for passion and companionship, but there’s a dead, abusive husband in her past, and she’s dodging phonecalls from a Scottish policeman. Her pet chicken’s name is Morag.

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Jessie September (Kylie Fisher)

Bright, funny, outspoken 20-something news reporter Jessie is like lightning: brilliant, quick striking, and loud! She’s had to speak up, because nothing in the September family’s lives has come easy, and Jennie has seen all the social injustices of her small town head on. She dresses like a Hell’s Angel on holiday, works like a demon 24/7, and has paid her own way through university while helping her mom and the side. But she’s also desperate for approval and recognition.

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Khaya Meyer (Tony Kgoroge)

Big city cop detective Sergeant Meyer moved to Tannie Maria’s Karoo Town just about a year ago and he has no plans to stay. He comes from a middle-class background and speaks fluent Afrikaans – a fact the locals tend to forget – and as a black cop in a Karoo small town, Khaya is careful to insist on his authority and not to get too chummy – he’s there for the job. He’s 1 of the rare people with the wit to appreciate just how much more complicated Tannie Maria is than she seems on the surface. He kind of fancies her, too.

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Hattie Wilson (Jennifer Steyn)

Hattie rules local newspaper The Gazette with an iron first, she’s a speed demon on the roads, queen of the 1-night stand, and she’s more of a social buzzsaw than a butterfly. Hattie’s not bossy, she’s The Boss, thank you very much. The Gazette survives on advertising so Hattie has a full-time job schmoozing local businessmen. And determined women who know what they want will find a friend in Hattie.

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Piet Kasin (Elton Landrew)

30-something little Constable Piet brings an unusual level of charm and exuberance to his job, and he has a real talent for putting people at ease until they’re revealing far more than they realise. He loves his wife and 2 kids, gardening, opera, good wine, fancy outfits and yoga, and he’s always ready with a deft compliment. Piet’s family were migrant labourers and he studied criminology on a church scholarship, and he’s proud of his Khoisan roots. He stands out in the town like a peacock in a pantry.

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Regardt Viljoen (Arno Greef)

Serious, responsible Constable Reghardt is your salt of the earth, strong, handsome, silent type from the community. He helped raise his younger siblings after his father’s death, following in his footsteps to become a cop, and the men of his family drummed all sorts of nonsense about manliness into his head. While he fancies Jessie, he doesn’t have her depth and he’s not the sort to reflect much on social issues or challenge the culture and traditions he comes from.

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Cornel Van Wyk (Alan Committie)

Local 50-something Spar owner Cornel has ambitions to corner the market on all the Spar franchises in the Karoo. He enjoys the high status that comes with success and he’d like more of that, please. He’s single and childless, rich and ambitious, so why aren’t the local women biting? Perhaps he’s secretly giving off an air of desperation, because all is not well with his business empire.

Watch Recipes For Love And Murder Season 1 from Sunday, 20 March at 20:00 on M-Net (DStv Channel 101)

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