Development Alert (Rumour): Mother By Chance Initially Slated For Zee World Has Reportedly Been Acquired By Zee One

Last year, it was reported that the family drama Mother By Chance known by the title Sanjog was slated to launch on Zee World. After being a no show, there's finally an update and to viewer's dismay the show will be allocated on Zee One instead.

Mother By Chance follows the lives of two mothers from different backgrounds takes a turn after their daughters get swapped accidently at the time of birth. Seven years later, they are still confused about their daughters and their contrasting personalities.

It starred Shefali Sharma as Amrita Kothari, Rajneesh Duggal as Rajeev Kothari, Kamya Panjabi as Gauri, Rajat Dahiya as Gopal, Sonyaa Ayodhya as Rakshita and Ishaan Singh Manhas as Inspector Alok Agarwal.

Produced by Rashmi Sharma under the banner of Rashmi Sharma Telefilms, Mother By Chance is an Indian Hindi language drama television series that premiered on 22 August 2022 on Zee TV. It went off air by 25 November 2022 with 72 episodes each with a 21 minute duration.

As mentioned, Mother By Chance was initially set for Zee World sometime in 2023 but as luck would have it Zee One will be getting more premium entertainment.

New Series Alert: Play Room Expands The Sesame Workshop With Abby's Flying Fairy School And Amazing Adventure

Last year, eMedia Investments acquired rights to Takalani Sesame a South African adaptation of Sesame Street after SABC held rights for over a decade. Now Play Room will be adding more shows from the franchise with Abby's Flying Fairy School And Amazing Adventure.

Synopsis for Flying Fairy School

Fairy Abby Cadabby visits the flying fairy school with her friends Trautsichnicht and Blögg. Teacher Frau Funkelnase teaches her students all kinds of interesting facts. Together, students and teacher use educational rhymes and songs to solve the problems.

The nine-minute segments focus on rhyme, reasoning, problem-solving, and cooperation. It debuted in season 40 and ran through season 45, though season 43 was the last to feature any new editions.

Synopsis for Amazing Adventure:

"Together with their magical basket, they take off on amazing adventures to incredible locations, learning all about different careers. With a new job mission at each place, Abby—who’s got a brand-new, updated look—uses her confidence and humor as she and Rudy overcome obstacles and persevere until their mission is complete." 

Amazing Adventures debuted by season 49 and is the first animated series to be produced entirely by Sesame Workshop's in-house animation team.

Abby's Flying Fairy School will broadcast on weekdays at 06:15 while Abby's Amazing Adventures airs 25 minutes later at 06:40 on Play Room replacing Thomas And Friends and reducing the timeslot of Oddbods.

Development Alert: Miraculous: Tales Of Ladybug And Catnoir Returns On The Disney Channel For Season 6 And Season 7 With Specials

The animated series, “Miraculous – Tales of Ladybug & Cat Noir” has been a huge hit across the Disney Channels and Disney+ around the world, and it’s been announced today by ZAG and Method Animation that Disney Branded Television has acquired seasons six and seven of the globally renowned series, “Miraculous – Tales of Ladybug & Cat Noir”, as well as three original animated specials.

The new season and specials will be available on Disney Channels worldwide and will be released on Disney+ globally afterwards.

“Miraculous – Tales of Ladybug & Cat Noir” follows the adventures of two seemingly typical teens with secret identities, Marinette and Adrien, who magically transform into superheroes Ladybug and Cat Noir to save their city of Paris from unexpected villains! 

The two new seasons, each consisting of 26 x 22-minute episodes and original specials, are produced in collaboration with Disney Branded Television, Brazil’s Globosat, Italy’s KidsMe, and France’s TF1.

The announcement was made today by Jeremy Zag, Founder and CEO, ZAG, and Julien Borde, President, Mediawan Kids & Family, who said in a statement:

“We are excited to continue working with Disney Branded Television to create first-class content  for Miraculous fans everywhere.  Our audiences resonate with this coming-of-age series about ordinary kids learning the importance of believing in themselves and understanding that you don’t need to be a superhero or wear a mask to reach your dreams and overcome fears!”

Julien Borde, President of Mediawan Kids & Family added:

“We are thrilled to continue the wonderful adventure of the two most famous superheroes among children with ZAG and our long-standing partner Disney Branded Television. The Miraculous universe continues to expand, captivating an increasingly vast and demanding fan community. These new adventures will meet their expectations and are poised to surprise and inspire dreams.”

The new season is currently in production for a fall 2024 launch, and in this new season, the superheroes are facing a new and skilful enemy! Meanwhile, their alter-egos, Marinette and Adrien, have never been closer but are still keeping secrets from each other. Set in a revitalized eco-friendly Paris, our heroes are about to experience a school year full of emotions and revelation.

The first of the three specials, “Miraculous World: Paris, Tales of Shadybug & Claw Noir”, is already available on the Disney Channel and Disney+ in the US and showcases Ladybug and Cat Noir discovering a parallel world where the holders of the miraculous of the Ladybug and the Black Cat are evil while the holder of the miraculous of the butterfly is a hero! The second of the three specials (title TBD) is currently in pre-production.

The new season and specials will deliver exciting new visuals, produced via the gaming platform Unreal Engine, the world’s most open and advanced real-time 3D creation tool for photoreal visual and immersive experiences.

Important Notice: Featured Attractions And Popular Attractions Are Shutting Down + An Update On Ad Units

Insidus Lite

We are currently reviewing the offering of Insidus Lite and as such had opted to scrap both featured and popular Attractions effective immediately. They will remain intact for the time being as we work on launching more products.

What future awaits featured attractions?

We currently offer featured posts and are looking to integrate the content across our website.

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We currently offer popular posts on the bottom of our website's homepage each of them are labelled in case you're looking to get more updates on that label.

Update on ads

We recieved complaints about problematic as units or spams for instance and had worked with the technical department to resolve the matter. Currently, we are looking to replace these units to avoid further problems from ever occuring.

Adventure Time Series Bible (PDF)

Adventure Time is the quintessential goofball buddy comedy, and it was every bit as goofy and fantastical when creator Pen Ward was pitching it. Here are some of the most clinically algebraic excerpts from the deck that was used to pitch the show, broken out by:

• Finn The Human Boy

• Jake The Dog

• Princess Bettie Bubblegum

• Marceline The Vampire Queen

• The Ice King

• The Lich King

• Ooo and The Awesome Fort

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Could MultiChoice Look Into Another Restructure/Revamping Of The SuperSport Channels?

In the month of February, MultiChoice will be revamping the Showmax streaming service which now serves as a joint venture with Comcast's NBCUniversal. It will feature various shows from Universal, DreamWorks Animation and Telemundo alongside a revamped sports offering.

Last year, MultiChoice decided to do away with Showmax PRO which served as a digital version to SuperSport's linear offering on DStv. It featured PSL, La Liga, UEFA Champions League, Moto GP and Formula One all of which had been folded on DStv Stream.

MultiChoice looks to prioritise Premier League as part of the revamped Showmax streaming service which will feature all 380 matches live. With the winding down of sports on Showmax one has to wonder when the pay-tv platform will look to hit it home.

SuperSport offers over 10 sports channels which is more than Sky Sports in the UK can offer. Majority of channels are tailored for football with various others for tennis, motorsports, golf and rugby but the thing about Sky is majority of this don't have their own platform.

For several years, MultiChoice has been struggling to sustain their top tier bouquets over the likes of Netflix and IPTV. This has led to channels being cut down if consolidated on lower tailored bouquets as the pay-tv company looks to rollout an unbundled package.

Similar to AddMovies, sports will serve as an add-on and not like a standalone service as seen in parts of Europe. Again, with the decline of linear consumption it wouldn't seem far fetched if MultiChoice were to look at restructuring the sports line-up on DStv.

Earlier, they opted not to acquire AFCON granting the rights to SABC and StarTimes. According to sources, they want put more emphasis on European football which kind of brings questions pertaining to the future of PSL and La Liga standalone services.

As mentioned, Sky Sports doesn't have that much of a wider linear offering if anything it's more like how SuperSport previously set up their content. Instead of golf and tennis operating as separate entities it's more like how SuperSport Variety is currently set up.

If anything, Sky Sports' linear offering revolves on dominance which is football, rugby and cricket while some other sports are packaged like SuperSport Variety.

With SuperSport prioritising European football, perhaps La Liga and PSL will be folded under one channel, SuperSport Football Plus. SuperSport Premier League could serve as the linear counterpart to the one boarding Showmax while non-performing channels fold under SuperSport Variety.

Summary of possible outcome for SuperSport 

• SuperSport PSL and La Liga become SuperSport Football Plus

• SuperSport Tennis and Golf are folded under SuperSport Variety reducing repeats

• SuperSport Blitz, Grandstand, Premier League, Action, Rugby, Variety 1-4, Cricket, Motorsports and Schools remain intact.

• In total, SuperSport would be operating 14 channels with Ginx TV, 2 ESPN channels and Racing240 MultiChoice has 18 sports channels.

Could NBCUniversal Acquire The Real Housewives For E! Entertainment Or Could It Fold Under M-Net Once 1Magic Exits DStv?

During the week, we recieved word from various DStv consumers that MultiChoice will be axing both M-Net Essentials (ME) and 1Magic by February 2nd, 2024. In an enquiry, we were able to retrieve confirmation of the terminations which comes weeks before the demise of Emmanuel TV.

Since then, several DStv customers are looking to cancel or migrate to a cheaper price plan. This puts their Compact+ tier under junk status while their Compact consumers have access to ESPN, Comedy Central and Disney Channel.

While Me was basically an outlet to access content from M-Net, 1Magic had garnered prestige for shows like The River, Unmarried and Being Bonang. It was also the home to reality franchise The Real Housewives by Bravo TV with consumers left in the dark about the fate of the franchise.

As mentioned, it was reported that Me would be exiting alongside 1Magic leaving M-Net as the only other contender for the franchise. 1Magic catered for a different target group so either way consumers on M-Net may not be very welcoming of the inclusion of Housewives.

MultiChoice in partnership NBCUniversal will be rolling out a revamped Showmax streaming service. It had been speculated that MultiChoice probably wants to prioritise Universal TV also owned by NBCUniversal in place of Me as both reside within the same package.

When Me and 1Magic cancellation were reported no word on a follow-up for either brand was announced as seen when M-Net City and VUZU were axed.

Several content from Me can be viewed on Universal TV and this included Magnum Pi, The Equalizer, Chicago PD and NCIS: Los Angeles. If anything, could it be possible that The Real Housewives may end up on E! Entertainment I mean it wouldn't seem that far fetched.

E! Entertainment had been airing content from Bravo TV for a while now and this included shows like Below Deck Mediterranean, Million Dollar Listing and Watch What Happens Live With Andy Cohen. Similar to Telemundo, the channel has been running short of new content.

The Real Housewives could help build up the schedule with the number of adaptations already produced. It would align NBCUniversal closer to their own assets as the latter would often get scooped up M-Net.

MultiChoice will be sharing more updates about these channels by next week.

February 2024 On DreamWorks Across Africa | Trollhunters: Tales Of Arcadia | Home: Adventures With Tip And Oh | Dinotrux | Valentine's Day Stunt

NEW EPISODES

TROLLHUNTERS: TALES OF ARCADIA

Ordinary high-school-teen-turned-Trollhunter, Jim Lake Jr., faces new challenges in his continued battle to protect his hometown of Arcadia and the fantastical world he inherited to defend that lies beneath the surface. In the must-see Part 2 of the epic saga, "DreamWorks Trollhunters," Jim's risky decision to enter the Darklands unearths new startling discoveries that have him and his friends facing gripping consequences and racing to end the battle against evil.

From Monday 5th February

Weekdays at 8.30pm

NEW EPISODES

HOME: ADVENTURES WITH TIP AND OH

The intergalactic escapades of dynamic duo Tip and Oh reach new heights as these best friends head off on new adventures that push the residents of Earth and Boovsworld to their limits in music- filled episodes of DreamWorks "Home: Adventures with Tip & Oh." There is no part of the galaxy that is out of reach as the pair find themselves on a mission to save Pig from a far off cat-planet, attending a wild alien prom, on safari on the plains of Boovsland and in a deep sea battle in the depths of Lake Michigan.

From Monday 5th February

Weekdays at 9pm

NEW EPISODES

DINOTRUX

Welcome to a world of giant creatures that are half dinosaur, half construction vehicle and all awesome in DREAMWORKS DINOTRUX. Meet Ty Rux, a massive Tyrannosaurus Trux, and his best friend Revvit, a razor-sharp Reptool. Together, the Dinotrux and Reptools join forces for the first time ever to build a bigger, better world and battle back against the biggest and baddest of them all: D- Structs, who threatens to wreck everything they've built.

From Monday 5th February

Weekdays at 11.30am

Weekends at 6am

VALENTINE’S DAY STUNT

14th of February

7am - 9am and 3.30pm - 5.30pm

Madly Madagascar

Your favourite Madagascar pals go on a wonderful adventure. Alex's favourite holiday, Valentine's Day, brings hilarious surprises andexcitement for the entire gang. Get ready to fall in love.

The Adventures of Puss In Boots - Mermaid

To prove he’s a ladies’ man, Puss rescues a mermaid from athief who instantly falls in love with Voice Guest: Maria Bamford as him … and becomes his worst nightmare.

Dawn of The Croods – It Crushes / Rebel without a Paws

The world's first family is back and funnier than ever in this all- new family sitcom! School, slumber parties and elections aresome of the hilarious wonders of the modern life The Croods are discovering!

The Peabody and Sherman Show – Favour for Christine / Lady Godiva

Peabody, the smartest dog in the world, and his boy Shermanhost a zany late-night comedy show broadcast from theirswanky penthouse in front of a live studio audience.

New Paramount Merger Scenario Has Skydance Reportedly Mulling All-Cash Bid For National Amusements

The Wall Street Journal reported this afternoon that Skydance, with backing from other investors, is considering an all-cash bid for National Amusements. The Shari Redstone-led company controls nearly 80% of Paramount shares and is the gatekeeper for any M&A deal.

Redstone became non-executive chair of Paramount’s board after spending years engineering a merger of CBS and Viacom, with the combined company rebranding as Paramount Global in 2022. She has reportedly grown increasingly interested in fielding offers for the company in recent months. Like many of its media peers, Paramount has lost significant value due to cord-cutting, streaming expenses and concerns about its debt.

Skydance and Paramount declined to comment. Reps from National Amusements and Paramount did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

The future of Paramount has been a fixture of industry conversations over the past month or more. Sources first reported that Skydance and RedBird Capital were taking a look at National Amusements, with that news giving Paramount shares a big boost, though they have been relatively flat in the intervening weeks.

Paramount shares perked up a bit after the latest report, but have been flat today. At $14.25, they are worth less than half what they were after the Viacom-CBS merger closed in December 2019.

One of the backers of the current bid by David Ellison’s Skydance is Ellison’s father, Oracle founder Larry Ellison, according to the WSJ report. The bid for control of National Amusements centers on Paramount Pictures, which Skydance has collaborated with extensively, financing several Mission: Impossible installments and 2022 megahit Top Gun: Maverick. The fit at Skydance of other core Paramount assets like CBS, its two-dozen-plus local TV stations and the cable TV assets is less clear.

One industry vet told Deadline the new report appeared to be “a little early” in the process given the extent of due diligence involved, including the data from Paramount+ and other streaming operations. “It’s not unusual for companies to leak these kinds of reports if they’re looking to boost their share price or get the attention of other potential suitors,” the source added.

In addition to its Paramount stake, National Amusements also runs a string of movie theaters. Byron Trott, Chairman and Co-CEO of BDT & MSD Partners, has been helping NAI evaluate its strategic options. Trott’s firm made a $125 million preferred equity investment in the company last spring.

While privately held firms like Skydance are circling Paramount, fellow media giant Warner Bros. Discovery has also expressed interest in a potential team-up. While WBD chief David Zaslav discussed a combo over lunch with Paramount CEO Bob Bakish just before Christmas, the talks have not progressed in the new year.