Entertainment Inside Us (Insidus)

NEW CHANNELS: eReality was introduced as a member of the eFamily of channels owned by eMedia Investments and began broadcasting on 19 November on Openview. The channel positions itself as a broadcaster of "the world's most popular reality programmes, featuring real-life stories, fascinating personalities and human emotion in its rawest form." The channel includes shows themed around crime, paranormal activity, nature, adventure, medical anomalies, outrageous obsessions and bizarre behaviour. EXCLUDED: OneZED is a general entertainment channel and home for family viewing where authentic local stories meet international narratives. The channel will be available to all DStv customers in Zambia on DStv Channel 172 from Monday, 1 April 2019. DStv customers will find the best of Zambian entertainment in ONE place with a mix of talk shows, dramedies, music shows and documentaries on OneZED. THE HD PURGE: SABC News (DStv 404) which is carried on MultiChoice's

From Monday, 1 April, eExtra viewers will enjoy a revamped schedule with their favourite eBella telenovela titles moving to the channel to create a weekday guilty pleasure afternoon block. This will be followed by a serving of some court drama, the Afrikaans and viewer favourite ‘KuierTyd’, and other riveting local and international series. This merger of the two channels will give our audiences the best of both with a 24-hour entertainment offering. “eBella built a loyal following over the last year and gave us the opportunity to showcase and test new content that celebrates the lives of women around the world,” says MD of e.tv channels Marlon Davids. “Following the success of eBella, we are excited to incorporate our viewers’ most-loved telenovelas and series into our main schedule on eExtra. This move gives us the opportunity to provide eExtra viewers with a bigger and bolder content offering throughout the day, with all their favourite shows in one place.” The day

SHIMMER AND SHINE NEW EPISODES 13 May At 07:15 CAT When Zeta gets ahold of a magical painting gem, she creates lots of troublesome art that the girls must get under control. / When Leah accidentally wishes for the day to last forever, the kids must find a way to make the moon come up to end the day. The girls partake in a Zahracorn Race. Zeta and Nazboo enter with a tiny, speedy Zahracorn named Tickles. / The girls take Adara's Zahracorn to the salon, but must track her down when she gets spooked by all the salon magic. RUSTY RIVETS NEW EPISODES Weekdays At 08:45 CAT Ending 3 May Liam and Emily accidentally set the Rivet Sub on a course out to sea with the two kids inside. / Rusty and Ruby must a find a way to pop the mega bubbles that have scooped up Bytes and Mrs. Rivets before they float up into space! When Liam gets trapped inside an ancient elephant temple, Rusty and Ruby enlist the bots to breach the temple and find him. Ultimately, they undertake the recue w

ATCHOO! NEW EPISODES 6 May At 13:30 CAT Teodor Green is a nice 9 years old boy who has a very particular way to express his emotions: since he was born, when feeling a strong emotion, he sneezes and turns into an animal. He can't control the sneezes and can't predict what kind of animal he'll turn into, but with the help of his friends he’ll always get out of it. This time there are trips to the forest, Mythological creatures, camping at the ‘Wolf Park’; Teo gets a job, goes to a dance party and gets to be teachers assistant for a day. What could go wrong. THE WILD THORNBERRYS NEW EPISODES 13 May At 05:05 CAT Traveling the world with her family and making nature documentaries, 12- year-old Eliza Thornberry has a secret: she can talk to animals. With every new step in their exotic adventures, they never know what to expect -- after all, it's a jungle out there. • Donnie gets lost in the Rain Forest he was brought up in. Eliza realizes he may be heading h

NOOBEES NEW EPISODES 6 May At 17:45 CAT Silvia, a young girl who was never interested in video games, decides to help her brother achieve his dream of becoming a professional gamer. Together they create the NOOBees to compete for the grand title in the Professional Video Game League. KNIGHT SQUAD NEW EPISODES 13 May At 16:10 CAT Ciara, a princess and Arc, a drifter have managed to keep their secret identities at Knight School, but for how much longer? The Phoenix Squad attempt to magically adjust Sage’s unpleasant attitude, but their plan backfires when they mistakenly turn Buttercup evil. Prudence learns of Arc and Ciara’s secrets, she agrees to have her memory wiped before accidentally exposing them to the entire kingdom! GAME SHAKERS NEW EPISODES 27 May At 17:20 CAT Babe and Kenzie, with their partner - rapper Double G and his son Triple G; all continue to learn life lessons while keeping their gaming company, Game Shakers, on trend. The Game Shakers haven't

eExtra the South African digital satellite television channel supplied by eMedia Investments on their Openview platform as well as MultiChoice's DStv and On Digital Media (ODM) Starsat switches back to 24 hour channel from April. The reason for the switch has to do with the shutdown of the unsuccessful female based channel eBella. Several if not most of eBella shows will be transmitted on eExtra in April as a "weekday guilty pleasure afternoon block" on the channel. eExtra hasn't been schedule wise for sometime now which has built a major impact on the brand. You'll find some new content on this channel get the late night treatment similar to what Turner U.S. and International does with Cartoon Network and Boomerang where 2-3 shows get attention while others which are on an indefinite hiatus for some reason get the death treatment by being put weekday mornings or nights with no repeats most of the time and if there was they'd put it at a time les

As the name is suggests FlavourTV is some of food/cooking channel meaning it could be South Africa's first ever food/cooking channel. Not much details is given about the channel except that it was made in South Africa. There's no telling if this is true or just a sham to get the media's attention. As Yatish Bipulprasad stated the channel will launch on DStv with a new show starring him and the Mayor of Durban Hot Sauce (lol). So basically this channel will be a rival to Discovery Inc's Food Network and BBC Studios' BBC Lifestyle. There's no telling how good the channel might be that is if its real. It was possibly commissioned by DStv as the pay-tv service is open for channel proposals (even tv shows) you've had successful ones like Moja Love (female base), TV Mall (Business, not sure for viewership) then you have non-performing channels like Voov (who watched it better yet who was it for exactly) and ANN7 (the Gupta owned channel was unorgan

The Canadian LGBT+ network OUTtv commissioned a bran new show titled "Fak Yaass" which is slated for an early 2019 release.  Fak Yaass is a series that tells the 'true' story of Nico Nicolakis' big Greek family and their journey of accepting Nico no matter his sexuality. Showing the clash between old tradition and the new age, millennial Nico struggles with the idea of returning home, somewhere he's always felt judged and unworthy. With the help of his friends, Anton and Jill, we'll watch as Nico's heart begins to let his family in and we'll see his family accept him for who he is, until a secret family scheme may ruin that forever. According to one of the crew members which has yet to be confirmed the series will air in South Africa along with Canada, New Zealand and Australia.(pictured below) Not only that the channel teased its return with more bold, diverse and LOCAL shows a few days after the channel closed.(pictured bel

Thanks to MultiChoice Kenya we finally know that PBS Kids will be a permanent addition to the DStv Platform. MultiChoice added kids content from America's PBS Kids to its DStv Catch Up service as part of the pay-TV operator's DStv Now streaming service and stated it might be used elsewhere if there's a demand for it. There's no response as yet from MultiChoice on when PBS Kids will be added. The channel will be available to all DStv subscribers as stated by MultiChoice Kenya. In South Africa, the channel is accessible from Easyview (cheapest package only found in South Africa). PBS Kids is the children's programming brand of America's Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) that is broadcast as a kids programming block on PBS in the United States, but it is also a digital video channel streaming kids content as part of a video app that PBS launched in January 2017. The content which is seen on the channel is currently available on DStv's