The M-Net soapie Binnelanders is going big. Very big. And that goes for the on-screen action (12 NEW ACTORS AND A WHOLE NEW UNIVERSE TO TELL STORIES IN) as well as behind the scenes.
The cast and crew just moved to their much bigger double story studio and production fascilities in Randburg where screen tests has alread been done to start the much bigger and better Binnelanders production in 2010.
Filming and production of the ''new'' bigger and better and hourlong Binnelanders will start in the new Stark Films production studio on Monday, 4 January 2010.
But before that, fans can look out for a spectacular on-screen New Years Eve soccer party with singer Munro du Toit on Thursday 31 December on M-Net.
But back to the behind the scenes production and what I can reveal here FIRST:
1. 12 new cast members are joining Binnelanders.
2. Massive, beautiful new studios now exist from where the production will amp up its output in terms of screen time to an hour in 2010. The space is so big, almost all of the former sets can fit into just one of the new big studios.
3. The new Stark Films studios are now the most technologically, state-of-the-art film and TV studios that exist anywhere in Africa.
4. All the sets, art department, writers, casting department and production crew has already moved over from Atlas Studios and moved into their new offices.
5. Because Binnelanders is turning into an hour long show, the action will still concentrate around the hospital and Binneland Kliniek, but viewers will see brand-new sets as well as A WHOLE NUWE UNIVERSE in which the stories and characters are set.
