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August 2021 On Curiosity Channel Africa | Super Science Mondays | History Lovers Tuesday | Wildlife Wednesdays | Travel & Adventure Fridays | Human Story Saturdays | Best Of Curiosity Sundays

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SUPER SCIENCE MONDAYS METEORITE MEN Brand New Episodes - premieres 02 August 2021 CAT: 22:00 Episodes: 6x 60 mins – ends 06 September 2021 For thousands of years, meteorites have slammed into the Earth's surface carrying an invaluable record of the origins of our solar system. But finding meteorites on Earth, some buried over centuries by thick layers of dirt and sediment, is no easy task. Meteorite hunters Steve Arnold and Geoff Notkintravel to some of the most remote locations around the world to explore the scientific and financial value of meteorites. Featuring treks in Chile, Sweden, Australia, the US, Mexico, and more, these meteorite men meet with top scientists, geologists, astronomers, and meteorite experts to reveal a deeper understanding of how meteorites have helped to build our solar system and shape our planet. THE WORLD OF BRIDGES Brand New Series - premieres 09 August 2021 CAT: 19:00 Episodes: 4x 60 mins (stacked back-to-back premieres) Bridges are cultural

New Channel Alert: MyChannel Africa Launches On DStv

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On Friday, MultiChoice silently introduced a new Portuguese entertainment channel which is said to replace Record TV or TV Globo in various African markets on DStv and this comes at a time tvN is scheduled to close on the platform . MyChannel Africa is a general entertainment space, which will broadcast diverse content, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. The channel is of Brazilian origin, it's fully spoken in Portuguese, it brings proposals, programs and faces known to the local public. The channel will offer soap operas, reality shows, series, movies and auditorium shows such as Genesis, Proof Of Love, Top, Power Couple and A Hora Do Faro. Basically, TV Globo and Record TV recieved a new shed of paint with all shows starting from the very beginning. Record TV recently shuttered the Ugandan feed while the feed in Angola was suspended till further notice so this channel is basically there to make up for the loss. This new version is available to DStv Premium, Compact+ and Compact

August 2021 On WarnerMedia Africa | Women's Month With Leading Woman On TNT And Cartoon Network | New Series: The Jungle Beat | More

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TNT: Three developments occur on the channel first is Leading Women featuring Scarlett Johansson's Lucy, the second might be a stunt called Mob Ties with the the last being Robin Williams' classic film The Price Of War. For some reason, they haven't mentioned a TNT Original Movie this month. Cartoon Network: Women's Month Consisting of series and movies from the D.C. Superhero Girls franchise including Lego's Brain Drain and Galatic Wonder. Craig Of The Creek Season 3 - New Season In the fictional suburban Baltimore/DC area town of Herkleton, Maryland, a boy named Craig Williams and his two friends, Kelsey Pokoly and John Paul "J.P." Mercer, have their many adventures in the titular creek, described as a kid utopia of untamed wilderness in which tribes of children reign over tree forts and dirt bike ramps. Adventure Time: Distant Lands Together Again Finn dies and arrives in the Dead Worlds, and he attempts to get to the 50th Deadworld to meet Jake

New Series Alert: Date My Family Makes It's Free-To-Air Debut On eReality

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Date My Family is a South African reality lifestyle romance television series produced by Connect TV for Mzansi Magic. The show has also been viewable through Mzansi Wethu, Africa Magic and Honey. The series aims to help singletons find their love interest by setting them on dates with their potential partner's closest friends and families. The series might be part of the new eKasi block on eReality as the show is slated for 25 July which is on a Sunday. P.S: Hawaii Five-O replaces MacGyver on e.tv Read Also: - Could Star Life and Rewind be the first channels to go off air on Openview? -  SABC plans to launch a second sports channel and revive SABC Encore -  Is SABC working on a reality channel? -  Unbundled DStv package coming soon -  What we might expect from SABC's streaming service -  Could Star Plus and Star Life be rebranding soon? -  eMedia Investments might delay eVOD but here's some possible details about the platform -  Could Openview be the reason for

Updated 19 July: tvN Is Working On Becoming A Permanent Channel Following It's Closure On DStv

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tvN is the third pop-up channel to exit DStv following ZooMoo and Timeless Dizi Channel's exit back in June and March respectively with TLNovelas scheduled to close in August where a new program will be allocated. tvN has put up a channel termination on the EPG informing viewers that channel will stop airing by the end of July and thanking viewers for their support. This came after the channel was extended for a month . Even though the channel will stop airing on DStv. CJ ENM has expressed interest in bringing back it full-time with the brand unveiling a batch of programs they had hoped to show viewers but that's not happening or at least not on DStv. Could it be possible that StarTimes (StarSat) will pick it up? MultiChoice has host several pop-ups that are permanent on StarTimes such as WarnerMedia's Toonami, Televisa's TLNovelas and SPI International's Dizi with Blue Ant Media's ZooMoo being a permanent fixture on Zuku TV. Timeless Dizi Channel st

Could MultiChoice Be Prepping Up A Rival To Timeless Dizi Channel On StarTimes?

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Aktüel Televisyonu (Actual Television often stylised as aTV) is a Turkey's most popular entertainment channel which is owned by Kaylon Group. Besides Turkey, the channel is viewable in some parts of Europe. aTV is home to shows viewers may be familiar with through Timeless Dizi Channel such as Black Money Love (Kara Para Ask), The Red Scarf (Al Yazmalım), Karadayi, The End (Son) and Ezel. Last year, MultiChoice rolled out three telenovela channels out of those channels only 1 didn't have any original content in this case Timeless Dizi Channel. So maybe viewership had nothing to do with its demise but originality the second last channel in Dizi's position being Glow TV was told that they weren't performing well and MultiChoice refused to provide any stats. Thereafter Star Life comes in with original content part of which have been viewable on Glow TV. Perhaps the reason for MultiChoice not wanting such channels is due to streaming since most of their partners ar

SABC, e.tv And DStv Ratings For June 2021

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SABC 1: Uzalo (Drama) - 8 024 208 Generations the Legacy (Soap) - 6 468 962 Generations the Legacy (Repeat) - 6 154 395 Skeem Saam (Drama) - 5 840 007 Zulu News - 3 973 900 Xhosa News - 3 872 578 Nyan Nyan (Reality) - 3 764 925 Judas Kiss (Movie) - 2 945 746 Now or Never (Documentary) - 2 884 266 Shay'iround (Reality) - 2 809 260 Lip Sync Battle (Various) - 2 676 991 Instapreneurs (Reality) - 2 558 572 Skeem Saam (Repeat) - 2 451 778 Uzalo (Repeat) - 2 411 197 Live Amp (Music) - 2 365 635 Siswati/Ndebele News - 2 336 340 Uzalo Omnibus - 2 267 505 Ubettina Wethu (Various) - 2 251 826 The Ranakas (Reality) - 2 226 921 Khumbul' Ekhaya (Magazine) - 2 118 704 SABC 2: President Ramaphosa's Address to the Nat - 4 734 276 Muvhango (Drama) - 3 981 941 Speak Out (Actuality) - 1 835 930 7De Laan (Soap) - 1 174 559 Kelebone (Drama) - 876 484 Nuus - 872 537 Our Wedding Story (Reality) - 813 321 Voetspore (Magazine) - 776 757 Ses/Tsw/Sep News - 768 544 Muvh

August 2021 On ViacomCBS Africa (Entertainment) | New Seasons & Episodes On Comedy Central And MTV

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Comedy Central: MODERN FAMILY SEASON 10 WEEKDAYS FROM 16 AUGUST @ 21:00 In Season 10 of "Modern Family," Haley (Sarah Hyland) reconnects with her old flame Dylan (Reid Ewing), but their reunion has accidental consequences. Alex (Ariel Winter) is about to graduate from college but expresses fear of living in the real world. Luke (Nolan Gould) clashes with Phil (Ty Burrell) regarding the idea of Phil teaching in Luke's school. Cam (Eric Stonestreet) and Mitchell (Jesse Tyler Ferguson) raise Cam's nephew Cal (Marcello Reyes) and worry about their daughter Lily's (Aubrey Anderson-Emmons) odd behavior. Gloria (Sofia Vergara) suspects Manny (Rico Rodriguez) is gay. Claire (Julie Bowen) considers accepting a job at another company and fights with Jay (Ed O'Neill) about it. Jerry (Ed Begley, Jr.) drops by with news about DeDe (Shelley Long). The season also stars Jeremy Maguire as Joe, Chris Geere as Arvin, and Elizabeth Banks as Sal. Guest stars for the season inc

Why eMedia Investments Stopped Distributing Turkish Dramas In English?

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Kuiertyd was introduced in October 2018 on eExtra offering a mix of reality, lifestyle and drama series from kykNET as well as some Turkish dramas which was the reason for the Afrikaans block's success. The first dubbed Turkish show Gebroke Harte (Paramparca) pulled almost half a million viewers following its debut on eExtra. From what I remember these dramas didn't get this much attention when they were available in English. So pretty much eMedia Investments is the reason Afrikaans folks are giving dubbed programming a chance. From what I remembered most would either 7de Laan or binge watch Devious Maids or Game Of Thrones. Besides distributing international content, eMedia Investments has catalogue of original programming ranging from Imbewu, Rhythm City and Scandal. If you look at these dramas none of them are in Afrikaans so dubbing these Turkish dramas is sort of their way of making up for the times wasted and eMedia doesn't have any of its own Afrikaans reality sh