''Hard Copy'' is a South African

television drama In film and television show, television, drama is a category or genre of narrative fiction (or docudrama, semi-fiction) intended to be more serious than humour, humorous in tone. Drama of this kind is usually qualified with additional terms t ...

series created by

Anton Harber Anton Harber (October 27, 1958) is a South African journalist. He is executive director of the Campaign for Free Expression, director of the Henry Nxumalo Foundation an adjunct professor of journalism at the University of the Witwatersrand, and t ...

, Malcolm Purkey and

Jann Turner Jann Turner (born 1964) is a South African film director, novelist, television director and screenwriter. Her feature film directorial debut was the 2009 film ''White Wedding''. Life and career Turner was born to anti-Apartheid academic Rick ...

which follows the fortunes of the staff of a fictional newspaper which - due to the economic pressures of the times - finds itself on the media cusp between delivering news and

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, before changing identity completely in Season 3 and becoming a tabloid.

Plot

This is the life of the staff and owners of ''The Bulletin'', a South African newspaper that finds itself on the media cusp between delivering news and sensationalism. When editors and their journalists find themselves publishing hard copy the dilemmas, intrigues and moments of hysteria they face are varied, vast and inevitable.

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Broadcast

The series was added to SABC3 streaming service

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season 1, 24 November 2020.

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* * * {{Authority control Television series about journalism South African drama television series SABC 3 original programming 2005 South African television series debuts 2016 South African television series endings Television shows set in Johannesburg