Genre ImprovisationComedy Final episode date 2016 Number of seasons 2 | Creative director(s) Harald Richter First episode date 14 February 2010 Network M-Net Number of episodes 26 | |
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Presented by Nina Swart (S1 + S2), Elize Cawood (S3), Nina Swart + Pedro Kruger (S4) Starring Waldemar Schultz, Pierre Breytenbach, Melt Sieberhagen, Wikus du Toit, Eloise Cupido (only Season 1), Pierre van Heerden, Cindy Swanepoel, Ilne Fourie, Desiré Gardner, Esther von Waltsleben and Martelize Kolver Theme music composer Jolette Odendaal and Mauritz Lotz Similar Egoli: Place of Gold, Binnelanders, Getroud met rugby, Jou Show met Emo en Wicus, Erfsondes | ||
Proesstraat (Proes Street) is an Afrikaans Television-Show which airs on kykNet based on the German improvisational comedy show Schillerstrasse. It is recorded without a script, in front of a live audience and broadcast unedited to a large extent.
Contents
Idea and show structure
The setting of the show is the living room of the main actor Waldemar Schultz who lives on the real street "Proesstraat" in Pretoria, South Africa. The main character is regularly visited by friends and relatives. The participants only know the topic of the episode in advance. The whole plot has to be improvised comically. The cast receive directions from the Regisseur (Director/Presenter) on their ear-pieces, and have to follow the cues, e.g. "Eloise: Tell the others you're pregnant!".
The show mostly airs unedited and things that go wrong are not removed, either.
The original German show was created by Maike Tatzig who is also the show's executive producer.
Debuting on Germany’s SAT.1, ”Schiller Street” (created and produced by Hurricane) has been one of the most innovative and successful comedy formats in the recent years. The concept has already won various national and international TV prizes such as the Rose d’Or Press Prize 2005. SevenOne International, the ProSiebenSat.1 Group’s worldwide programming sales company has sold the format to numerous countries, including France, Italy, Russia, Finland, Norway and Turkey. The Italian adaptation “Buona la Prima” won the national “Telegrolle 2008” and “Gran Premio della Fiction Italiana '08” for best sitcom.
Main cast
Celebrity Guests
They interchange with dozens of other guests and Afrikaans celebrities including June van Mersh, Emo Adams, Tammy-Ann Fortuin, Sean Else, Wicus van der Merwe, Joey Rasdien, Elize Cawood, Tobie Cronje, Karen Wessels, Dowwe Dolla, Marion Holm, Neels van Jaarsveld, Casper de Vries, Shaleen Surtie-Richards and Pedro Kruger.
Production
Awards
Transmission
On 29 April 2010 kykNet announced that all 26 episodes of Proesstraat will not be aired continuously. The channel decided to air the first 15 episodes, take a break of 3 months and re-commence with the final 11 episodes on 7 August 2010. The first season of Proesstraat was extremely favorably received by critics and one newspaper reviewer called it “...deliciously funny.” The final episode of Season 2 was aired on 26 September 2011.