Multiple E! Branded Channels Are Likely Set To Close Internationally Soon As Bravo Debuts In Africa

During the week, it was reported that NBCUniversal would be shuttering E! Entertainment from Africa's shores after 21 years on the air. With Bravo set to replace the channel on DStv in October, at the time of publishing NBCUniversal hadn't stated why E! Entertainment is being discontinued.

But if we could guess, it likely has to do with E! Entertainment being spun off from NBCUniversal. With the channel folded under Versant, NBCUniversal can't distribute E! Entertainment in Africa besides that it has seen a rapid decline in Europe.

Bravo being a reality tailored brand has a well established presence in Canada, Australia and New Zealand. For sometime, E! Entertainment had been distributing various content from Bravo including the Below Deck franchise; Married to Medicine and Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen.

For the most part, NBCUniversal hadn't stated what is to become of Live From The Red Carpet or E!'s remaining shows. But from what we've seen with various rebrands over the years, these shows will gradually be phased out cause in the end E! Entertainment doesn't have much going on.

If there's one thing E! Entertainment demise in Africa suggests is that NBCUniversal is looking to retire the brand soon. Viewers should expect for more feeds to get phase out in favor of Bravo because with E! Entertainment folding under Versant this would only leave Bravo for reality content under NBCUniversal.

Aside from Africa, NBCUniversal had also been managing the feed for the brand in Balkans, Benelux, France, Greece and Cyprus, Israel, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Scandinavia, Serbia and Slovenia. It's likely we'll be seeing more of these feeds close down in favor of Bravo in the not-so-distant future.