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Drafted Version: What To Expect On Warner Bros. Discovery Africa In June 2023?

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Recap To The Year: Boomerang Africa Troubleshooting Switch To Cartoonito

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Boomerang was folded under Cartoonito across Africa by the end of March offering shows like Toads And Friends, Batwheels and Bugs Bunny Builders alongside former Boomerang shows like Looney Tunes Cartoons, Masha And The Bear and Zig & Sharko. The switch has been met mixed reviews from consumers outside the residing region for keeping something like Looney Tunes Cartoons aboard a brand acknowledged for the preschool market while others point toward the troubled switch out of Boomerang. It's no secret that Cartoonito's rollout in the market was met with some technicalities while France took a few days to switch out of Boing. In Africa, it took Cartoonito several weeks to erase Boomerang from across their channel and months if you include Facebook. As seen a few days ago, the last place Boomerang reside which was Facebook has officially switched to Cartoonito as seen with the 24 hour platform on DStv as well as YouTube. Although consumers may not see it now, these chan

Reminder: Doodsondes Returns For A Fifth Season Likely After Roekeloos Dade On e.tv

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Announced in 2022, Doodsondes (Yasak Elma) is being eyed as one of the most anticipated shows of 2023 set to launch on e.tv after the new series Roekeloos Dade . It stars Şevval Sam, Eda Ece, Biran Damla Yılmaz and Murat Aygen in leading roles. In season 5, Cagatay cheats on Yildiz with Kumru, a model and their neighbor. Yildiz is disheartened after she learns of this. She starts making her own shampoo and wins an award for it. At the ceremony she publicly disgraces Cagatay and Kumru. She divorces Cagatay and marries Doğan, Kumru's father, this is a paper marriage to teach a lesson to Kumru and Cagatay. Doodsondes currently has 6 seasons with the final season set to debut in Turkey later in the year and with season 5 later in the year on e.tv it's likely that the final season will only be made available by 2024. Doodsondes launched in 2019 on eExtra for the first two seasons with later seasons being made available to e.tv. Since it's launch, it happens to be one of th

CuriosityStream Boasts Sub Growth Via International Distribution

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CuriosityStream in the first quarter saw progress in its direct-to-consumer business, bolstered by new distribution agreements with international launch partners. As with its Q4 2022 earnings, Curiosity didn’t reveal its total paid subscriber count (in Q3 it reported total subs dropped to 23 million). But CEO Clint Stinchcomb said on an earnings call the company added “several million paying subscribers” through bundled distribution partnerships across five continents. New launch partners include Amazon’s Prime Video Channels in India, Mexico’s Izzi Telecom, Fetch TV in Australia, and Ziggo, the largest MVPD in The Netherlands, among others. Curiosity didn’t go into too much detail about the individual agreements, but Stinchcomb noted these distribution deals are typically multi-year agreements with a fixed fee. “We expect meaningful improvement in our revenues from distribution partners moving forward as our full product set – from localized channels to integrated app offerings

"Becoming Xtraordinary": Da Vinci And Bear Grylls Debut Trailer For New Docuseries

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Global family entertainment streamer Da Vinci and Bear Grylls‘ production company BecomingX have debuted the first trailer for docuseries “Becoming Xtraordinary.” The series features interview-driven stories of success from Julia Roberts, Roger Federer, Courteney Cox, Channing Tatum, Olympic gold medallists, Nobel laureates and more. Co-produced by Chrome Productions, “Becoming Xtraordinary” comprises three seasons of 10 episodes each, all presented by Grylls and guided by in-studio hosts Mwaksy Mudenda (“Blue Peter”) and YouTuber Evan Edinger. The first season will premiere on May 28 and will be available across Da Vinci’s linear and video-on-demand platforms. Grylls said: “There are no shortcuts to success, but there are some secrets. We wanted to create a series where families around the globe can hear first-hand from some of the world’s greatest achievers and realize that they too can attain extraordinary things.” Estelle Lloyd, Da Vinci co-founder, COO, and series executiv

How Glow TV Might Look Should It Be Reinstated On The Openview Platform?

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Glow TV was a South African based community channel operated by Nismedia which featured various reality shows, drama series and movies from the heart of India. It was also dubbed the home of Little Bheem, Get Real With Denver Naicker and Emperor Ahsoka. Last month, the party involved in the distribution of Glow TV announced plans to take legal action against eMedia Investments for the removal of the channel on the Openview platform while StarSat similar to DStv remains unscathed following the termination. Unlike eMedia's 4 channels currently seen on DStv, Glow TV has no other outlet to continue supplying the lineup of content as the only other alternative StarSat which was thought to be such at the time despite having little views opted not to renew their agreement. Glow TV is back on DStv and StarSat but as a 1 hour segment Glow TV Plus on Soweto TV airing former Glow TV soaps such as Love Or Poison and Complicated Love. Chances are this is what we might expect should the

Vice, Home To Dark Side Of The Ring And F**k That's Delicious On eXposed Files For Bankruptcy

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Vice Media filed for bankruptcy on Monday, punctuating a yearslong descent from a new-media darling to a cautionary tale of the problems facing the digital publishing industry. The bankruptcy will not interrupt daily operations for Vice’s businesses, which in addition to its flagship website include the ad agency Virtue, the Pulse Films division and Refinery29, a women-focused site acquired by Vice in 2019. A group of Vice’s lenders, including Fortress Investment Group and Soros Fund Management, is in the leading position to acquire the company out of bankruptcy. The group has submitted a bid of $225 million, which would be covered by its existing loans to the company. It would also take over “significant liabilities” from Vice after any deal closes. A sale process follows next. The lenders have secured a $20 million loan to continue operating Vice and then, if a better bid does not emerge, the group that includes Fortress and Soros will acquire Vice. Still, the dreams that Vice ex

Insidus Games: Travel Through The City Of Quahog In Family Guy's Uncensored

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Freakin’ sweet! Come spend some time with the Griffins in this outrageously funny game based on the hit Fox TV show. Play as the eccentric Peter Griffin, the brilliantly sadistic baby Stewie, and other favourite characters in mini-game episodes based on hilarious situations. Re-visit Peter’s Quahog, including Spooner Street, Goldman's Pharmacy, The Drunken Clam, and City Hall. Take on the mysterious Giant Chicken, fulfil Quagmire's jungle fantasy, and blast into a space-age adventure as ROBO-Stewie. Capturing memorable moments and non stop humour, this game accurately represents the TV show you love. It’s funny, it’s uncensored, it’s just plain wrong! (Requires A J2ME Holder) Download Now

Introducing Entertainment Box

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Spun off from Pop-Up Channel (upcoming attractions), this is basically a content page which leverages content from Insidus and Insidus Plus. It's not a news section as seen with Pop-Up but more of an entertainment section featuring content with no particular timeframe. We rolled out our pages during the year and promised to rollout more in the coming future and this formed part of those plans. As of right now, not much content is available on Entertainment Box but we will add more overtime. Unlike Pop-Up Channel, the content here sticks for a much longer duration and we feel that this is something that's been long overdue. Some of the stuff covered include eExtra's Kuiertyd, WWE, cartoon games and more. The link is currently viewable across our sites.