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Monday, September 19, 2022

Roundups #95: Cartoon Network Africa Acquired Broadcasting Rights To Lego Monkie Kid, Desperate Housewives Now Drug Dealers Race Against Time On e.tv Nurses Returns For A Second Season On Telemundo Africa

More Lego action coming to Cartoon Network

Last month, Cartoon Network entered a new era with Redraw Your World which was greeted by two CN Movies Hotel Transylvania and The Angry Birds Movie now the channel will be welcoming its first series to the new era, Lego Monkie Kid.

The tale begins when an ordinary boy, Monkie Kid, finds Monkey King's legendary staff, and he becomes the chosen one. Together with his brave and loyal friends, Monkie Kid begins his quest to stop the Demon Bull King and his army of Bull Clones from taking over the city.

The series is set to air in the coming month on Cartoon Network.

Housewives making its linear debut on e.tv

e.tv has released a new locally-produced drama series, HouseWives, on its eVOD service last year with the story that revolves around desperate housewives starting a drug cartel that unspooled on its video streaming offering first.

HouseWives - produced by The Milton Empire (TME) with Siphosethu Tshapu as executive producer, Siphosethu Tshapu as head writer and Sevetian Su Ong Maslamoney as director of photography - consists of 26 episodes and filmed two seasons over 3 months.

In HouseWives , the lives of three housewives are changed forever when their husbands are killed by a drug cartel boss. Akhona Khumalo (Sive Mabuya), Summer Pietersen (Angela Lieveaux), and Lawrencia "Lolo" Ntsimane (Gabisile Tshabalala) are left with the heavy debt left by their spouses' criminal activities and are forced to work for the Colombian drug cartel leader to pay off the debt - however, they end up deciding to outsmart the cartel boss and open a syndicate of their own.

The series replaces Is'phindiselo on 2 October at 20:00.

Nurses is back for a season 2

Initially, Telemundo an international channel owned by NBCUniversal home to Spanish telenovelas dubbed in English for viewers in Africa had planned to air the first season of Nurses when Meet The Family comes to a close next month.

Nurses follows a story of women in which María Clara whose responsible for driving the main plot: a love story full of ups and downs. A failed marriage, a divorce, raising her two children, and falling in love again--with a younger man. Not to mention her vital work.

Don't miss the final episode of Meet The Family on 11 October at 21:00 CAT with Nurses S2 airing 16 October in the same timeslot.


 

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