Mannequin Pictures Announces Prime Video Acquisition of ‘The World’s Strangest Jobs’ With Schalk Bezuidenhout

Comedy docuseries “The World’s Strangest Jobs,” from Johannesburg-based Mannequin Pictures, one of South Africa’s key production, finance, and distribution companies, has sold to Prime Video the rights to the African continent. Mannequin is now pursuing sales in all other territories. The eight-part series is hosted by comedian and actor Schalk Bezuidenhout. The popular South African comic, a household name in his country of birth, balances SAFTA winning acting work (“Hotel”) with his bread and butter as a comic. Most recently, he formed part of Netflix’s stand-up comedy show, “Only Jokes...