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Universal TV

LAW & ORDER TORONTO: CRIMINAL INTENT

Season 1 - Channel Premiere

Premieres Tuesday 9th June @8pm

Law & Order Toronto: Criminal Intent brings the iconic franchise north, following Toronto’s Specialised Criminal Investigations Unit as they unravel high profile murders.

Continuing shows include NCIS: SYDNEY Season 3 -  Mondays at 8pm, LAW & ORDER: SPECIAL

VICTIMS UNIT Season 27 - Wednesdays at 8pm and THE EQUALIZER Season 5 - Fridays at 8pm.

Bravo

Kandi & The Gang

Premieres Saturday 27th June at 19:00 (Saturdays at 19:00)

Kandi & The Gang pulls back the curtain on the high pressure, highdrama world of Atlanta’s Old Lady Gang restaurant as Kandi Burruss and Todd Tucker juggle family dynamics, demanding staff, and the realities of running a successful hospitality business. A spirited spin-off of The Real Housewives of Atlanta, the series blends workplace chaos with personal ambition, offering a uniquely authentic look at Blackowned entrepreneurship where business, family, and friendships collide.

Continuing shows include Below Deck Mediterranean Season 10 on Sundays at 18:10 and Watch What Happens Live on Monday-Friday at 22:00.

MTV Staying Alive Foundation Rebrands As Shuga Global Following Paramount Split

The MTV Staying Alive Foundation has rebranded as Shuga Global, marking the end of its 27-year association with Paramount and signalling a broader expansion of its partnerships and content strategy.

According to the organisation, the rebrand follows the conclusion of its partnership with Paramount at the end of March 2026. Shuga Global said the transition was made through a mutual agreement based on a shared vision for the organisation’s future direction.

As part of the relaunch, Shuga Global introduced its first project under the new identity, the Mashariki Offscript Podcast. The podcast is hosted by Makena Kahuha and media personality Muchina Maloba. Episodes are available on Spotify, YouTube and other digital platforms.

“Rebranding as Shuga Global signals an exciting new era for our organisation as we continue to evolve,” Shuga Global executive director Wame Jallow said. “Building on the legacy of our ground-breaking Shuga series, our immersive storytelling and engagement with young people is needed now more than ever.

“Young people increasingly face complex interconnected issues, and we will continue to innovate and look forward to working with new partners and supporters to grow our impact on young people’s lives and their communities.”

Shuga Global said its flagship MTV Shuga series has continued to expand its audience across Africa. The Kenyan edition, MTV Shuga Mashariki, returned in 2025 after an absence of more than a decade. The organisation said the first season recorded about 5.3 million views, while the second season, which premiered on Citizen TV in February 2026, has surpassed 8.3 million views on YouTube.

The organisation also announced the development of Shuga Mashariki Shorts, an anthology film series scheduled for release in June 2026.

Shuga Global, formerly known as the MTV Staying Alive Foundation, produces educational entertainment content focused on health and social issues affecting young people. Its MTV Shuga franchise is broadcast in 40 African countries.

Why Canal+ Might Be Looking To Add Sporty TV On DStv?

As reported, MultiChoice is looking to rollout Sporty TV on DStv in the coming months with the company had begun tests on the channel earlier in the year. It was stated at the time that MultiChoice might look to rollout Sporty TV in select markets.

This is because MultiChoice was conducting tests on an East African feed to Sporty TV for consumers in those markets. While no further testing was done for Sporty TV within other markets.

Now it looks like MultiChoice might be looking to debut the channel in Southern African territories. Several consumers have spotted an electronic programme guide of Sporty TV with stuff like La Liga 2025/6, Arsenal TV: Hull City v. Arsenal.

It remains unclear as to why MultiChoice is adding a channel like Sporty TV but we have a couple of guesses.

Firstly, Canal+ bought out the company back in 2025 and they serve as an aggregator of content. Within their other territories, they are notorious for sourcing content from rival broadcasters as seen in France with BEIN Sports and DAZN.

Under the Naspers regime, MultiChoice was very selective in what content gets broadcast on DStv as they strived for originality. SuperSport was positioned as the have it all platform that ESPN and Racing240 didn't overlap with it's existing offering.

But ever since the Canal+ buyout that's no longer the case with NBA that had been picked by SuperSport with other sporting events like World Darts Championship and Winter Olympics not picked up.

SuperSport had been stripped off its acquisition power with most of the decisions now made in France. With the buyout, Canal+ basically integrated it's narratives and creative depth onto MultiChoice.

Canal+ is more focused on catering to the masses and their strategy isn't revolved entirely strived on originality as seen in the past with MultiChoice. But it's a popularity contest as that usually leads to a high retention of consumers.

Think of what happened to WWE after TKO acquired creative control, you have more sponsorships and ads between live matches. And there's more content creators and artists between tapings think of IShowSpeed, Bad Bunny, Pat Macafee and Jelly Roll.

Sporty TV likely fits that area taken up after all they had acquired rights to 104 FIFA matches and have been garnering buzz online. Canal+ is probably eyeing Sporty TV as part of its various strategies in retaining consumers.

Canal+ Might Look To Rollout Viu In K+ Territories

K+ was a defunct pay-TV service in Vietnam, known primarily for holding exclusive broadcast rights to the English Premier League and other major sports properties. It formed part of a joint venture between VTV (Vietnam Television) and Canal+.

Its shutdown marked the end of a 16-year era where K+ was the "undisputed king" of sports broadcasting in the country. But due to various economic factors like piracy, cord cutting and streaming K+ ceased operations in Vietnam.

Canal+ had since been banking on Viu in which they operate alongside PCCW Media Limited. Its a streaming service based in Hong Kong that accumulated 66.4 million subscribers of which 12.2 million serve as paying subscribers.

Canal+ has been using Viu to distribute K+ content across 16 markets in Asia, Africa, Oceania and the Middle East including Australia, Bahrain, Egypt, Hong Kong, Singapore, New Zealand, Malaysia, Myanmar, Oman, Philippines, and Saudi Arabia.

Prior to K+ closure in Vietnam, Canal+ had also shuttered its pay-tv operations in Ethiopia and the buyout of MultiChoice gave them re-entry in the region. The closure of K+ in Vietnam is likely telling a similar tale to its failed Ethiopian business.

Canal+ has a 36.8% stake in Viu with the option of increasing it to 51% giving them majority control. It could be that they're awaiting to buy up the the number of shares before expanding as there's not much they can do with the current stake.

Iqhawekazi uAppi, Brand New Cop Drama Launches On Zee Zonke

Zee Zonke, a Zulu dubbed Bollywood channel operated by Zee Entertainment Enterprises has announced the addition of a new series, Iqhawekazi uAppi. Known in India as Appi Aamchi Collector, the series airs daily at 19:00 from 25 May.

It was originally broadcast in India on the Zee Marathi television channel from 22 August 2022 and concluded on 15 March 2025 after 845 episodes. L

The series ensembled the following actors:

• Shivani Naik as Collector Aparna Suresh Mane

• Rohit Parshuram as Arjun Vinayak Kadam

• Sairaj Kendre as Amol Arjun Kadam 

• Pradeep Kothmire as Hambir Bhaurao Kadam.

Synopsis for Iqhawekazi uAppi 

Aparna "Appi" Mane is an ordinary girl from a humble, rural background. Despite facing deep financial limitations and immense social odds, she remains determined to clear the highly competitive civil service exams to become a District Collector (a high-ranking government administrator).

Her life takes a dramatic and complicated turn when she falls in love with and marries Arjun Kadam, a charismatic but corrupt police officer.

Once Appi achieves her dream and assumes her powerful position as a civil servant, her strict duty to uphold justice directly clashes with her husband's illegal activities, putting her morals, her family, and her marriage to the ultimate test. 

Paramount May Look To Merge CNN With CBS News

Paramount is looking to acquire Warner Bros. Discovery in the coming months as they await regulatory approval. This deal would bring CNN and it's global operations under the mercy of CBS News with it's minimised presence.

CBS News operates a 24 hour channel in the US and has existing deals with some international broadcasters for various programming. Now that it would join forces with CNN, viewers may start to see CBS News bulletins on CNN.

CBS News will not be expanding abroad. Instead, CNN will become the international pipeline that fuels both networks.

Figuring out how to brand a CNN-produced package on a CBS evening broadcast without confusing viewers is a problem executives have actively debated since the deal was approved.

CNN has over 3000 employees while CBS News has less than half and with the Paramount transaction plans are underway to reduce the number of buildings. This would most definitely lead to layoffs particularly for the staff at CNN.

Interesting to note was that Paramount had entered talks with Warner Bros. Discovery back in 2019 over using CNN's global footprint to replace the current ones by CBS News. Now these plans abandoned plans are now set to be in motion.

Paramount had stated if it is able to acquire Warner Bros. Discovery that they would make changes at CNN. One of the reasons some people don't even like this buyout is the amount of political involvement this transaction has.

Donald Trump initially wanted to be involved in the approval process of this deal before stepping aside and Paramount's investors are well acquainted with the US president.

CNN isn't how I would put it an anti-trump channel but they divulge on realism and public opinions some of it toward Donald Trump. With it under Paramount whatever strategy and ideology was given to CBS News will be brushed onto CNN.