Entertainment Inside Us (Insidus)

BET used Sunday’s BET Awards in the United States to launch a new logo designs as part of a rebrand at the ViacomCBS-owned network. The new look stretches across the brand's properties. Mooski at Sunday’s BET Awards red carpet BET “The Black consumer has recently become one of the most coveted audience segments; we are thrilled for brands to begin to see what BET has known all throughout our 40 year history,” said Kim Paige, EVP Chief Brand Officer at BET. “It was time to leverage the brand equity we have built throughout the years to re-envision how we show up as the only brand that represents the fullness of the Black experience. For us, this is no standard brand evolution, it is a brand revolution, in solidarity with the cultural shifts driven by the Black community.” The logo keeps the familiar B, E, and T and the star from previous incarnations, as research showed they were recognizable to viewers — even when rearranged, Paige said. After early feedback about the new imag

In the end of the 2020 financial year, eMedia Investments announced their new streaming services, eVOD which is set to be released later this month. Then a user decided to do some research on this platform which lured them to a restricted site and also spotted a channel 114 on the Openview platform known as eVOD NOW before getting scrapped. The site for eVOD had all the relevant details about the platform available. This could be fake but the whole concept of the platform seems very real. Some of the details I predicted are free such as the no monthly fees policy, Catch Up section and the huge resemblance to e on Demand. There's even a section called Fast Forward where viewers get to watch a current show on this platform before airing on TV. Read Also: -  SABC Encore could be one of the two SABC channels launching on Openview -  Could Openview be the reason for SABC Education's delay on both DStv and  StarSat  (updated 25 June) -  eReality is getting local reality shows

From 30th June, some of the Disney Channels went black including ESPN 1 & 2 on channels 220 & 221 and FOX on channel 131 with subscribers asking StarTimes (StarSat) on what's occuring with these channels. While Zuku TV which is located in West Africa thought how cool would it be to removal ALL Disney Channels ranging from FOX, National Geographic & Wild, ESPN and Baby TV. That platform rolled out eight new channels: FilmBox replaced FOX, Discovery Channel and Animal Planet replaced National Geographic and Wild, Planet Fun replaced Baby TV, Baba TV Uganda could have replaced FOX News and for some reason ESPN 1 & 2 were replaced with two completely different channels which are Diamond TV Zambia and Star Life . Unlike Zuku TV, StarSat didn't remove any channel they silently changed channel numbers before reverting them back: FOX (131 to 400), ESPN 1 (220 to 418) and ESPN 2 (221 to 419). Starsat didn't state the reason for the temporary channel number

Kuzgun first made its debut on Timeless Dizi Channel on DStv and left viewers in a cliffhanger as MultiChoice chose to end the pop-up channel before the series could get closure. Now South African viewers can rejoice as the rumors about the show's presence on an e.tv channel becomes a reality as Kuzgun will return on eExtra this time it will be dubbed in Afrikaans under the name Voelvry for the popular Afrikaans block, Kuiertyd. Voelvry, tells the story of a mother's anguish, a father's hopelessness that caused horrific chain of events that led Kuzgun to become a lean, mean, fighting machine. Baris Arduç, Burcu Biricik and Hatice Aslan take up the lead roles. The first season which debuted in 2019 consists approximately of 71 episodes each being 1 hour. The first season will likely air on the rebooted Timeless Dizi Channel on StarTimes in English. The first episode is said to air on Monday 12 July at 12:25 on eExtra thereafter Deur Dik En Dun takes up it's timeslot

SABC Sport's general manager Gary Ruthbone held an interview with SAfm Radio on Monday to discuss about the Chief-Wydad games. Within that interview, he also mentioned that the SABC plans to have two sports channels at some point and are looking to possibly revive SABC Encore. SABC Sport is currently viewable on Openview, TelkomONE and SABC's DTT platform. For some reason it's not available on any pay-tv platform alongside SABC Education . It wouldn't be surprising if two supposed sports channels used the numbering system and format like ESPN and were to be referred as SABC Sport 1 (the current SABC Sport channel) and SABC Sport 2. SABC Encore lasted about 5 years on DStv after the platform decided it wasn't worth the value and killed it for about a year now and SABC mentioned this revival a year ago and it's interesting that they're still considering it now that they plan to launch their own streaming service . Perhaps Encore will be one of the tw

CBS Reality: EXTREME SALVAGE SQUAD Season 1 Channel Premiere Final episode on Sunday, 1st August, at 18:40 and 22:50. Repeated on weekdays at 09:30 and 18:40, from 16th to 25th August. Any job, any time... Enter the high-stakes world of marine recovery and rescue with Extreme Salvage Squad. Based in the Whitsunday region of North Queensland in Australia, the team tackle time-critical, dangerous salvage missions where one mistake could mean serious injury or financial disaster. They are faced with a region devastated by a recent category 4 cyclone that caused massive damage and left the area littered with broken vessels and vehicles. But filled with true Aussie grit and a determination to see the job done, the team meet every challenge head-on - and know how to have a little fun along the way. Stuffed with tension, excitement and camaraderie, this series is all about overcoming adversity to help keep one of the world's most beautiful coastlines in the best possible condition.

Disney Channel: BIG CITY GREENS Premiere episodes Weekdays from Monday 5th to Friday 16th July at 19:05 The Green family is back in July, for more fun in the Big City! Premiere episodes from season two of Big City Greens air on weekdays from Monday 5th to Friday 16th July at 19:05. In this second season Cricket, Tilly, Bill and Gramma continue to go on epic journeys through the city and into the hearts of their neighbours. Cricket earns a role in Big Coffee’s new TV commercial, Bill trades his pickup in for a cutting-edge electric car and Gramma convinces the neighbours she's a witch. There's no such thing as an ordinary day in the Big City when you're with the Greens! In the first of this month’s premiere episodes, Chipocalypse Now (Monday 5th July at 19:05), Chip Whistler tears down the buildings around the Greens’ house to build a new Wholesome Foods store. Can the Greens thwart Chip before he destroys their home? Premiere episodes of Big City Greens air on Disne

TNT: ALTERED IDENTITY They say, don’t judge a book by its cover – but for this month’s TNT special, let’s add, don’t judge a character until you’ve watched the entire movie. This July, TNT is bringing you all those movies with characters that you will get to understand as you delve deep into the flm. Who am I really? Where do I come from? Who should I trust? are the main questions the characters constantly ask themselves because no one is who you think they are. TNT brings four whopping channel premieres. In Avengement, Scott Adkins plays an escaped convict out for revenge. Guy Pearce plays a professor who may be a killer in Spinning Man. In The Boondock Saints, two Irish Catholic brothers become vigilantes and wipe out Boston’s criminal underworld in the name of God, and Before the Devil Knows You’re Dead ofers a classy, classic heist-gone-wrong drama. Saturday, 3 July 18:05 – I, Robot (2004) 20:00 – Avengement (2019) channel premiere Saturday, 10 July 18:30 – Lucy (2014) 20:0

Channel24 has learnt that MultiChoice is testing the waters in regards to possibly unbundling its channels in the future. After 25 years, the paid-TV service is conducting a test that entails breaking up its combined entertainment and sports channel offering and unbundling it. The move aims to offer DStv subscribers a much cheaper, yet still premium, collection of entertainment channels in a so-called "skinny bundle", alongside an optional add-on package of sports channels. Through a drafted plan below you can see how DStv Flex will be arranged. Everyone gets the entertainment pack and has an option to Add-Movies or Sports. Read Also: - Could Openview be the reason for SABC Education's delay on both DStv and  StarSat (updated 25 June) - tvN stays for another month and ZooMoo stops airing on DStv - TNT might get another rebrand - Is Discovery Science launching on DStv? - FOX on Starsat and DStv might be rebranding to Star sooner than expected -  Dizi might retur