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Star Life: The Fate Of My Identity And The Evil Eye Has Been Revealed

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If anyone has been following the news circulating in the web. Star Life was suppose to air My Identity and The Evil Eye earlier in the year but due to lockdown regulations both these shows were delayed. My Identity has been delayed for the second time in a now filling up its spot at the moment is A Perfect Lie but now that's being snatched for the long-awaited show, The Evil Eye. The Evil Eye (Nazaar) follows the life of an evil Daayan, who worship the mother goddesses Kali and Durga. But as a devil, she was cursed by gods and captured into the human world. Jatinder Bhardwaj and Ankur Nayyar take up the lead role with Monalisa set to follow. The series airs everyday at 22:00 CAT/21:00 WAT/23:00 EAT from 28 November Star Life is available on DStv, Starsat (SA) & StarTimes (ROA) and OpenView

Zirc Media's Idents For Their New Channel On DStv

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Ziric Media is an upcoming channel intended to broadcast on DStv . The channel will be modern, stylish, powerful smooth, dynamic and unique. The channel will have trends, events, history, fashion, travel, action, lifestyle and sports.

Upcoming Shows For Kids Networks In Africa

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Now you'll see why critics say Disney Channel is dominating animation and part of them are speculation and the ones in brackets are for streaming services. Cartoon Network: The ones in brackets moved to streaming and are uncertain at this point - (Tiny Toons Looniversity) - (Unicorn: Warriors Eternal) - (Naked Mole Rat Gets Dressed) - (Unlimited Squirrels) - (Cat The Cat's Show The Show Show With You) - Batwheels - Elliott From Earth - The Heroic Quest Of Prince Ivandoe - We Baby Bears - (Infinity Train) - (The Fungies) - (Tig N Seek) Boomerang: - Lucas The Spider - The Mysteries Of Master Moley - Agent Binky - Mush-Mush And The Mushables - The Misadventures Of Master Foley Disney Channel: Animation and live-action - Pup Academy - Hamster And Gretel - Ghostforce - School Hacks - Bia - Vikingskool - Best Bugs Forever - The Unstoppable Yellow Yeti - The Secrets Of Sulphur Springs - Disney Fam Jam - Marvel's Moon Girl And Devil Dinosaur - The Ghos

ViacomCBS Africa Should Consider Reconstructing And Perhaps Streamlining It's Channels

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ViacomCBS (formerly Viacom) has been in the market for approximately 15 years with its reality skewed brand, MTV being their longest running channel within the market. Other channels they manage is Comedy Central, BET, Nickelodeon, Nick Jr, Nicktoons, MTV Base and in South Africa, MTV Music 24. Former channels include BET Jazz, VH1 and VH1 Classic. Now to get back to the topic, streaming has taken over people's lives especially in the United States where millions of consumers dump cable in favor of this phenomenon. Netflix started the trend and has been dominating for over a decade now they have competition such as HBO Max, CBS All Access (soon to be Paramount+) and Disney+. These competitors host a bunch of linear channels for international markets and since these platforms launched it had their affects towards those channels which led some markets to cutback on channels. Disney Africa aligned their channels not much to streamline there, WarnerMedia Africa doesn't have mu

Three New Telenovelas Coming In November 2020 To TLNovelas Africa

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Seriously soapie stories Keep an eye out for 2 new faces in the soap world in November.  Telenovela tears, tantrums and trysts 3 brand-new telenovelas are coming to the tlnovelas channel (DStv 133) this November. Expect glamour, betrayal, the strange geometry of love triangles, family legacies of pain, and a toy shop-owning playboy who’s about to learn a tough lesson about growing up… I Plead Guilty S1 Francois' glossy life is falling apart. This high-flying lawyer treasures his daughter, Natalia, but his marriage with his wife, Roberta, is falling apart. Francois feels stuck because Roberta’s father, Mauro, owns the law firm he works at. He is on the path to make some terrible mistakes. But he’ll need to keep it together, because while Natalia is fleeing her boyfriend’s attempts at date rape, she runs over a prominent football player in a hit-and-run accident that destroys his career dreams. Baby girl needs a lawyer! Starts Monday, 9 November, airs weekdays at 16:05 CAT/15:05

November 2020 On TNT Africa | Guns Akimbo | Altered Identity | Reporting For Duty

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GUNS AKIMBO On the frst Saturday of November, TNT Africa brings its monthly TNT Original Movies special with the premiere of Daniel Radclife’s new flm: Guns Akimbo. The flm is written and directed by Jason Lei Howden (visual efects, writer, and director), who has worked on visual efects on The Hobbit flms, as well as War on The Planet of the Apes) and previously written and directed Deathgasm. Radclife leads the cast in this action-comedy thriller alongside Samara Weaving (Hollywood, Ready or Not) and Rhys Darby (Flight of the Concords, Yes Man). Following the successful premiere of the frst TNT Original Movie, Escape from Pretoria, this time, Radclife embodies Miles, a video game developer who inadvertently becomes the next participant in a real-life deathmatch that streams online. Initially, Miles’ lifetime of running from his problems pays of as he manages to elude his frst opponent but, when his girlfriend, Nova, is kidnapped, he must fnally stop running and overcome his fears to

Power Returns For A Fourth Season On e.tv

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James "Ghost" St. Patrick (Omari Hardwick), a wealthy New York night club owner who has it all, catering to the city's elite and dreaming big, lives a double life as a drug kingpin. In the fourth season premiere, having been arrested for the murder of Agent Knox, Ghost faces threats from multiple angles. The feds begin to build their case and Tasha scrambles to get bail. Tommy gets used to his new role and enlists help in recovering Tariq. Season 4 airs Wednesdays at 22:00 from 4 November on e.tv Read Also: - eToonz better e.tv kiddies lineup needs more variety if it wants to succeed - e.tv ratings for September - Three new telenovelas for eExtra -  OpenView is opting for streaming

November 2020 On Curiosity Channel | Specials And More Specials | New Series

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SUPER SCIENCE MONDAYS SECRETS OF THE UNIVERSE Brand New Documentary Special - premieres 23 November 2020 CAT: Mondayat 22:00 Episodes: 1 x 60 mins The 20th century witnessed an astonishing revolution in physics, from unlocking the secrets of the atom to solving the mysteries of the cosmos. It was also the century when radio and television became widespread, so for the first time, we were able to see who the greatest minds really were. THE SECRET RULES OF MODERN LIVING: ALGORITHMS Brand New Documentary Special - premieres 30 November 2020 CAT: Monday at 22:00 Episodes: 1x 60 mins In this coding special, Professor Marcus du Sautoy lifts the veil on The Secret Rules of Modern Living: Algorithms. Our lives are touched by Algorithms every day. They are ubiquitous –yet most of us are unaware of their extraordinary impact on our everyday lives. HISTORY LOVER TUESDAY THE STORY OF WALES New Episodes – continuing from October CAT: Tuesdays at 21:00 Episodes: 2x 60 mins -ends 10 Nove

SABC Is Planning To Launch A Streaming Service In 2021

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The SABC's plan to roll out its own bespoke entertainment VOD streamer comes at the same time as the country's ANC-led government and the financially struggling broadcaster are crafting controversial plans and possible legislation changes to try and force private pay-TV companies and subscription video-on-demand services to pay the SABC through harvesting their customer databases to tack on compulsory SABC TV Licence fees. What is means is that the SABC and the government want to amend the existing legislation so that the South African Broadcasting Corporation will get paid money from the likes of DStv and Netflix South Africa at the same time that the SABC might be running its own video streaming service. Only about a third of South African TV households still bother to pay their annual SABC TV Licence fee of R265 with the beleaguered SABC that is owed billions over many years in outstanding licencing fees. Besides millions of viewers who have abandoned the SABC, a growing