Gebroke Harte Season 3 Coming In July To eExtra

Gebroke Harte (Paramparça) produced by Endemol Shine Turkey is set to return for a third and final season on the Kuiertyd block through eExtra.

The final season shows the different lives of the characters, Cihan is seen embarking, and exhausted with flashbacks of his earlier events, Dilara marries Harun and both live with their child, Alas, in Cihan's home, siblings Hazal and Ozan become business partners, and Cansu prematurely marries Deniz and expects a baby, However she loses her baby because of her Parkinson's disease.

Gebroke Harte Season 3 replaces Doodsondes at 19:00 from Monday 20 July. eExtra is available on OpenView channel 105, DStv channel 195 and StarSat channel 489.

Animal Kingdom Coming Soon To e.tv

Animal Kingdom is an American drama television series developed by Jonathan Lisco. It is based on the 2010 Australian film of the same name by David Michôd, who is executive producer for the series, alongside Liz Watts who also produced the movie.

The series features a 17-year-old boy, who, after the death of his mother, moves in with his estranged relatives, the Codys, a criminal family clan governed by matriarch Smurf. Ellen Barkin portrayed the leading role of Janine "Smurf" Cody in the first four seasons, played by Jacki Weaver in the 2010 film.

Animal Kingdom is currently in its fourth season which can be seen on M-Net and M-Net City which can be found through MultiChoice's DStv platform. The series was renewed for a fifth season on July 2019 on TNT.

Season 1 airs Monday 12 July at 22:00 on e.tv

StarSat/Startimes Launches Another Local Channel, ST Eyethu

StarTimes launched two new channels this month CBeebies and ST Eyethu. As usual where silent about these channels existants on the platform.

ST Eyethu (channel 401) is a lifestyle channel dedicated to Zulu family households. There is a large variety of programming that will broadcast on this channel.

From shopping and English entertainment to Zulu dubbed dramas and local shows, we have a huge variety of programming for everyone in the family but mostly aimed at kids and mothers. This is primarily a Zulu/English channel with room to grow.

This channel joins the other local channels found on the platform including SABC 1-3, e.tv, OnseTV, Inpas TV, Soweto TV and 1KZN TV just to name a few.

The channel is available is Local, Max Package, Special Package and Super Package.

SuperSport And School Sport Live Partnership

School Sport Live (SSL) is a platform on YouTube that films and LIVE streams schoolboy rugby and other school sport. Games can be watched in real time but they are also archived on our channel and can be viewed at a later stage. DStv Now also supplies the brand on channel 241 at times.

Since the Covid-19 hit the market you've seen a lot of businesses and schools shut down across the country including sports with repeats playing for the first quarter of 2020 and a few live sports returning the second quarter of the year under tight conditions.

Even though these matches can be viewed through YouTube and the DStv Now service. It's possible that SuperSport might make a dedicated channel for it through cable in future. If they do it may be different from what viewers often see through the DStv Now service.

Da Vinci Kids Ramps Up More Content To Further Boost Their Lineup

Da Vinci Kids owned by Azoomee is adding a further 5 shows to the three recently announced. Bringing the total amount of new content to eight.

Search It Up, is a BAFTA-nominated series of animated shorts designed to help families learn about online safety. Search It Up was created by Azoomee and is supported by the NSPCC, covering topics from cyberbullying to protecting personal information, and much more.

Hope Works, a series of short films to inspire the values of kindness, tolerance and understanding in children around the world. Produced by BBC Studios.

Aliens - The Big Think, the hunt for aliens is on! After a distinguished career in cosmology Professor Martin Rees, the Astronomer Royal, has taken up the search for extra-terrestrials. Looking for aliens is no longer science fiction - it's a question that's engaging some of the greatest minds in science.

Which Universe Are We In, until very recently the whole idea of the multiverse was dismissed as fantasy. Horizon asks whether multiple universes exist and, if so, which one we are actually in.

Pincode S2, in search of scientific knowledge, the colourful crew zoom through the universe in the Umflier, a craft that moves through space, time, volume and dimension. Every episode deals with a different science topic in an exciting and understandable way.

Da Vinci Kids can be viewed through StarSat in South Africa and StarTimes for the rest of Africa alongside MultiChoice's DStv.

New Channel Alert: Kix Coming Soon To DStv

KIX is the ultimate destination for Asian action entertainment. KIX offers action fans a mix of heart-pumping action movies, fun celebrity game shows, compelling reality series and Asian-focused fight events, bringing on-screen excitement to every home!

The channel is owned by Celestial Tiger Entertainment . Its programming is targeted towards 18- to 45-year-old adults. The channel airs a combination of Asian content (notably Korean shows) with Western programs and attracts a core target audience of international viewers skewed toward male viewers.

This was one of the channels being hyped about from MultiChoice including the the four local channels alongside Netflix and Amazon partnership.

According to the info provided by MultiChoice, they describe it as an action movie channel. So ir might be used for englEng dubbed Japanese action movies or action movies in general. There's no details on when the channel is expected to launch on the platform or channel number

Is Moja Love Running Out Of Content?

Channel 157 Moja Love is bringing back movies

In an effort to reduce the channel’s repeats ratio and increase viewership, Moja Love will be launching Moja Kung FU movies block with latest Asian blockbuster movies dubbed in USA English.

The addition will happen this July

Since the lockdown has began, the viewership for Moja Love has been interesting. Shows like Uyajola 9/9, Single and Mingle, The Way Nginakhona etc. have definitely kept the viewers watching and the numbers keep growing.

However, it wouldn't be pleasant to keep on watching repeats because of content not being available so is the next resort movies ? Old movies perhaps ? This could be interesting.

The Way Ngingakhona has pulled of 826K views just in season 1. The reunion show special hosted by Nomsa Buthelezi has been rated number 3 on the channel behind Mamazala 1,02 million and Single And Mingle at number 1 with 1.01 million viewers.

Hopefully with the movies coming to Moja Love, the views will remain like that.

Disney XD Shutting Down In The UK, How Does This Affect Africa?

Disney has confirmed that, from October 1st, its Disney+ D2C service will be the exclusive UK home for content from Disney Channel, Disney XD, and Disney Junior – effectively ending the carriage of the linear channels by UK pay-TV platforms BT TV, Sky and Virgin Media.

As some are already aware the launch of Disney+ has led several markets to cutback on some if not all Disney Channels mostly Disney XD. The reason Disney's contract wasn't renewed is because the pay-tv operator sees Disney+ as a threat.

Now in Africa, where Disney remains silent on when or if the streaming platform will be made available in the market has experienced similar effects to other markets.

MultiChoice, a South African platform has signed an agreement with Netflix and Amazon but details of the agreements are yet to be announced but this likely reduces the chances of channel cancellations but that doesn't mean that they won't remove a channel.

My likely guess would be that if Disney+ makes its way to the market there's chances it might take away Disney XD  now that Disney has shut production of original content for that channel leaving it with nothing but reruns in the coming future and Disney+ supplies reruns already.

Since 2018, Disney XD alone hasn't brought any new shows all they've done is air new episodes of their remaining shows along with reruns of selected animated series with Amphibia coming from Disney Channel. As some may not know Disney XD Africa is using the same feeds as other countries excluding the United States, Asia and Latin America.

Disney Africa has shown signs of its distance from XD like their YouTube Channel. It stopped being active from July 2017 and since then all the XD shows on YouTube moved to Disney Channel YouTube account while Junior programs have it's branding through that platform all of XD programs have Disney Channel's branding instead. Even in their upfront, they were very silent in presenting new content for the channel.

In most markets that already have Disney+ the main target was mostly Disney XD and viewers were directed to Disney Channel and Disney+ since content from that channel can be viewable on those platforms. So if Disney XD were to shutter in Africa then Disney+ would be the reason for the decision.

It doesn't seem like Disney has plans to to place any long time investments on the channel e.g. Pokemon. The United States and UK both created an animation block on Disney Channel which also does reruns of XD remaining animation and this happened long before the UK announced the channel's termination so how long will it be till Africa follows with XD since this market also manages the channels in Africa as well.

More Factual And Educational Content Will Be Making It's Way To Da Vinci Kids Africa

Since the channel's launch in 2013 through the African market, the channel has managed to make a major impact in the market providing the best in factual and educational content for children. The channel has been described as the kids version of Discovery Family which is currently available through MultiChoice's DStv alongside StarTimes Media and ODM's StarSat platforms.

Da Vinci Kids, was known for being repetitive as well in nature that was until the UK SVOD service Azoome acquired the brand earlier this year. The channel has recieved a boost in content offering.

The channel is set to introduce three new shows including the eighth and possibly final season of Horrible Histories and all this content can be found on Azoomee or better yet they were always available on that platform so yeah Azoomee could be using Da Vinci to repeat content seen on their streaming platform as well.

Marvellous Makes, this kids show brings to life the love and joy of creating things with plasticene and simple household objects. It's not about making things perfectly, but it's about getting creative and having a go! Arts and Crafts.

Horrible Histories, the channel is set to air it's eighth season. A group of British comedians show the sides of history they don't teach you in school. From the 'Savage Stone Age' to the 'Troublesome 20th Century', you see the full side to history.

Clean Eating: The Dirty Truth, Dr Giles Yeo investigates the latest diet craze and social media sensation - clean eating. In a television first, Giles cooks with Ella Mills, the Instagram entrepreneur behind Deliciously Ella, one of the most popular brands associated with clean eating, and examines how far her plant-based cooking is based on science.

Hands Up, a series of digitally accessed art projects for young kids commissioned by the NSPCC. Get your hands up and make some beautiful arts and crafts! Arts and Crafts.

Da Vinci Kids is available on MultiChoice's DStv and GOtv platforms in South Africa and across Africa alongside StarSat in South Africa and StarTimes for the rest of Africa.