Entertainment Inside Us (Insidus)

Zee World, a Bollywood based entertainment channel operated by Zee Entertainment Enterprises which is home to a variety of original productions based in India will be rolling out the highly anticipated romantic drama, Radha Mohan (Pyar Ka Pehla Naam: Radha Mohan). Based on Zee Tamil series Yaaradi Nee Mohini, the series follows Mohan, a charming flute player, turns bitter after the death of his wife Tulsi. Radha, who has loved him since their childhood, decides to bring back hope and happiness in his life. The series stars Neeharika Roy, Shabir Ahluwalia, Sambhabana Mohanty, Keerti Nagpure, Pooja Kawa, Reeza Choudhary and Swati Shah. Everyday Novelas: -  Queen Of The Night and How Do I Say This? coming respectively to Timeless Dizi Channel and Zee World -  Nurses returns for a season 3 -  New Series Alert: eMedia Investments Acquired Broadcasting Rights To Turkish Romcom, Aşk Mantık İntikam -  Close To My Heart coming soon to Star Life Just like most Zee TV's soaps

Zee One, a Bollywood entertainment channel home to various productions from Zee TV and eExtra, a telenovela centered channel owned by eMedia Investments will launch respective programs, Second Chance (Mazhi Tuzhi Reshimgath) and Hart Van Goud (Baraj). Second Chance follows Yash, a rich businessman in search of true love. When he meets Neha, a beautiful woman, he faces several obstacles in winning her over. It stars Prarthana Behere, Shreyas Talpade, Myra Vaikul, Kajal Kate, Sankarshan Karhade, Sheetal Kshirsagar and Aanand Kale. Hart Van Goud follows Nazim and Nehir who meet on an online dating site. Hesitant to meet Nazim, Nehir sends him a picture of herself while Nehir sends a different picture thinking she's too young. Fate leads Nehir to meet her potential suitor in person. Openview Plus: -  Ratings for SABC 1-3 and e.tv for December 2022 -  e.tv to rollout a rebroadcast of Die Put -  eExtra scrapped the launch of 4 telenovelas -  Verdeelde Liefde to return with a s

TNT: Last year, the channel hosted a segment known as TNT Original Movies offering fresh and well crafted masterpieces like Hero Mode, Escape From Pretoria and Gun Akimbo. Fast forward to 2023, it never existed instead we have cinema based films like Jumanji: Welcome To The Jungle, Suicide Squad and in March, Venom. The following stunts are also anticipated to rollout within the month: - And The Winner Is - it looks like competition to see which film is better modern Mad Max or the original film Suicide Squad. - TNT Hit - likely a replacement to TNT Original Movies with the film Venom. - Never Give Up - Blood Diamond and a yet to be confirmed film joins the lineup. DStv Flex: - Virtual Reality offers a new opportunity for African filmmakers -  Ratings for DStv from December 2022 -  Big Cat Sunday this February on National Geographic Wild -  CBS Reality acquired rights to Killer's Caught On Camera Cartoon Network: Taking to account this is a school holiday and most chann

Boomerang is a 24 hour family based children's channel operated by Warner Bros. Discovery that is home to shows like Zig & Sharko, Mr. Bean and Grizzy And The Lemmings and it's even a branded mascot for franchises such as Looney Tunes, Scooby-Doo and Tom And Jerry. In 2021, Warner Bros. Discovery unveiled plans to produce content for girls, preschoolers and families so there came Cartoonito. A new preschool destination consisting of original content like Batwheels alongside other shows like CoComelon and Lucas The Spider. Since then, several markets already supply a daily programming block on various Cartoon Network and Boomerang channels while others went as far as operating a standalone channel to assist with some of the content while as build the offering. For a while, it had been long speculated that Warner Bros. Discovery was planning to give Boomerang the axe after plans were underway to build Cartoon Network's family offering with whatever remains of Boomer

During the week, Warner Bros. Discovery in France announced the launch of a new preschool brand, Cartoonito. A brand which operates as a linear channel and a programming block on various Cartoon Network and Boomerang channels. Some of the shows expected for the preschool counterpart come from supposed brands above including Lucas The Spider, Thomas And Friends, Mush Mush And The Mushables, Interstellar Ella, Batwheels and Bugs Bunny Builders. Cartoonito will be standing beside Boomerang as seen in the UK and Italy as opposed to a replacement as seen in Latin America and soon parts of Europe. In a recent, development it was confirmed the channel would replace Boing instead. Insidus  Games: -  Buzz Lightyear Star Command -  Pink Panther:  Pinkadelic  Pursuit -  Spider-Man Toxic City -  Baby Felix Halloween Take to account, several Boomerang feeds are already being phased out for Cartoonito. Is it possible that Boing too is being phased out completely or is it possible for Boom

Boomerang is expected to be obsolete by March 2023 in Central Eastern Europe which consists of regions like Poland, Hungary, Denmark, Romania, Russia, Belgium and likely Austria, Germany, Switzerland basically most of the regions which got a Cartoonito domain. As reported during the week, it appears Africa which is still awaiting confirmation from Warner Bros. Discovery alongside France which has very much been confirmed are expected to rollout the Cartoonito Channel within the period of the above-mentioned regions. Since then, Boomerang Africa has boosting it's preschool offering accompanied by Cartoonito with France expected to use Boing to supplement the Cartoonito offering while Boomerang in that region remains intact. Insidus  Games: -  Buzz Lightyear Star Command -  Pink Panther:  Pinkadelic  Pursuit -  Spider-Man Toxic City -  Baby Felix Halloween Although we have yet to see a rebranded YouTube channel for Boomerang Africa or even a dedicated YouTube channel for

Another division ceases to exist Hello Sunshine is shuttering its kids and animation business as part of a strategic decision to focus Candle Media’s kids and animation efforts under Moonbug, the family production studio the corp snapped up for a near $3 billion in November 2021.  Hello Sunshine will collaborate with Moonbug on future kids and animation projects. As a result, a few individuals will be departing Hello Sunshine over the coming weeks. The Blackstone-backed Candle Media, which is also co-run and co-founded by Tom Staggs, acquired Reese Witherspoon’s Hello Sunshine in August 2021 for $900M. Regular Nick: - Cartoonito to get a dedicated channel in France -  Da Vinci Kids plans  co-viewing  future -  PBS Kids has yet to rollout the new logo in other countries -  Disney renews 3 adult animated series through 2025 Another show bites the dust M-Net has cancelled the long-running Idols with the upcoming 19th season on its Mzansi Magic (DStv 161) channel which will b

Last month, Telemundo unveiled a batch of upcoming attractions for the African market. Unfortunately, they have to be yet to be released or produced quite the contrary they don't have any original programming to rollout on the channel leading to acquisitions. For several years, they have been working with Colombian broadcaster on shows like Nurses, Law Of The Heart, The Scent Of Passion, The Chosen Granddaughter and soon to be launched Don't Let Money Seperate Us. As seen through several outlets this past week, Telemundo International acquired Ana's Revenge (also known as Her Mother's Killer or La Venganza de Analía) by Caracol Television. Take to account, Telemundo has worked with them on Hidden Passions. DStv Flex: - The River cancelled after 6 seasons on 1Magic -  Virtual Reality offers a new opportunity for African filmmakers -  Ratings for DStv from December 2022 -  Big Cat Sunday this February on National Geographic Wild Analía is a beautiful young

Few hours ago, eMedia Investments unveiled the social platforms for their long anticipated pay-tv platform, Openview Ultra. A competitor to the current DStv and StarSat platforms operated individually by MultiChoice and StarTimes (with On Digital Media). Openview Ultra as expected is coming on with two add-on packages similar to AddMovies on DStv. Instead of movies, viewers will be treated to two optional entertainment packages Pride (also known as Ultraview Pride) and Spice (also known as Ultraview Indian). The Pride Bouquet is set to cater to the LGBTQ community with brands like FUSE and OUTtv offering reality, lifestyle, drama series and movies. Something which MultiChoice has been depriving DStv consumers with on a 24 hour basis and likely will look into overtime. The Spice Bouquet is a Bollywood based package basically a rival to the DStv and StarSat Indian bouquets with channels such as Zee Family and Star Select. Although not much has been specified about the brands my guess