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Novela E Plus, a dedicated telenovela channel tailored for StarTimes which features various English dubbed shows from Latin America, Turkey and Asia had acquired broadcasting rights to the 2022 Korean melodrama Eve (also known as Eve's Scandal). Eve tells the story of a chaebol family divorce lawsuit that shocks the entire nation, of which, at the center of the lawsuit is Lee La-el, the daughter of the chaebol family who seeks vengeance against those that killed her parents when she was a child. It starred Seo Yea-ji as Lee La-el/Kim Sun-bin, Park Byung-eun as Kang Yoon-gyeom, Yoo Sun as Han So ra, Lee Sang-yeob as Seo Eun-pyung and Lee Il-hwa as Jang Moon-hee. The series debut last year on Korea's #1 entertainment channel tvN and spawned 16 episodes each with a 1 hour duration. It was part of the APAN Star Awards where Yoo Sun was presented with the Excellence Award, Actress in a Miniseries at the time. Eve would eventually make its African debut on Novela E Plu

During the year, eMedia Investments was scheduled to air the youth drama Annekan Die Swa Kry on eExtra but was silently added onto eVOD after failing to launch on the channel and now another local production titled Blind Eye had been snubbed by the streamer. Zandile, a young vibrant auditor with the Auditor General is driven to root out corruption wherever she finds it. She is dispatched to go and verify assets of a notorious municipality before its audit begins. Standing in the way is Gogo Dlamini, a fearless and corrupt businesswoman. The film starred Noxolo Mathula as Zandile, Thembi Mtshali as Gogo Dlamini and Siyabonga Melongisi Shibe as Nhlanhla. Mengameli Nhlabathi served as director whose previous work include Double Life (BET) and Swartwater (SABC 2). Blind Eye was screened at the 30th African Diaspora International Film Festival and won the Roma Short Film Festival which took part last year and a few months ago it was also screened at the ADIFF Chicago 2023. A

EXCLUSIVE PREMIERE  Becoming Xtraordinary presented by Bear Grylls          SERIES PREMIERE (10 x 30’) From October 01 I Sundays at 20:00 Get ready to be inspired and motivated by the incredible journeys of the world's most exceptional individuals! From Julia Roberts to Roger Federer, Courteney Cox to Channing Tatum, you'll gain insights and inspiration from today's most accomplished individuals. Our captivating 10-part docuseries takes you on a journey through their lives, as we uncover the secrets to their success and explore the qualities that set them apart. Don't miss out on this opportunity to learn from the best at Da Vinci and unlock your full potential.  Genres: Documentary, Educational, Interview, Public Affairs, Self Improvement Presenter: Bear Grylls - British Adventurer, Survivalist, and TV host. Recipient of Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Host for a Daytime Program, Daytime Creative Arts Emmy Award for Outstanding Interactive Media for a Da

SUPER SCIENCE MONDAYS Oops, I Changed the World  Returning Series  02 October 2023  CAT: 20h00 Episodes: 15 x 60 mins Oops I Changed The World! tells the fascinating stories of accidental and surprise inventions that have transformed our lives. 02/10 The Beat Goes On  09/10 Flash of Success  16/10 Get A Grip  23/10 How Saran Wrap Saved D-Day  30/10 Sleeping on the Job  Attack of the Zombie Fungus New Special  Premieres 23 October 2023  CAT: 22h00  Episodes: 1 x 30 mins We think of fungi as the bottom of the food chain, the recyclers in the circle of life. But fungi are predators. They feed on life. And there are more out there than we ever knew. As we spread into every corner of planet Earth, they are also discovering us –and that we might be the perfect host. Breakthrough New Special  Premieres 23 October 2023  CAT: 22h30  Episodes: 1 x 30 mins Breakthrough takes a deeper look at some of the recent developments in physics, astronomy and other sciences. This episode details

During the week, eMedia Investments added the first 10 episodes to the highly anticipated Turkish romcom Wie Laaste Lag ( Aşk Mantık İntikam ) to the eVOD streaming service with the series slated to rollout on eExtra in the coming weeks and not 6 months as seen with past shows. Based on the Korean drama Cunning Single Lady, Die Wie Laaste Lag follows a couple who gets divorced after several years of marriage. But things change when the man suddenly gets rich, with his ex-wife starts working with him. , It starred Burcu Özberk, İlhan Şen, Zeynep Kankonde, Günay Karacaoğlu, Süleyman Atanısev, Mehmet Korhan Fırat, Ceren Koç, Emir Güler, Sevda Baş, Mehmet Yilmaz, Burak Yörük and Melisa Döngel. The series was broadcast between 2021/2 with total of 42 episodes each consisting of 2 hours. It joins other programs from the FOX brand including Dokter Ali (Mucize Doctor), Doodsondes (Yasak Elma), Om Elke Draai (Her Yerde Sen) and Daai Crazy Somer (Son Yaz). Wie Laaste Lag is slate

Play Room offers a world of learning and fun combining education and entertainment in a uniquely local package carrying original South African and international content, including favourite animation titles dubbed in Zulu.  The channel is operated by Ngwato Nkosi Group who also manage other brands on the DStv platform including news channel Newzroom Afrika and movie channel Movie Room which launched a year ago. , Play Room is set to go live on DStv channel 300 from November 6 featuring educational content which promote physical movement and creative thinking for viewers aged 4-6 in the morning and live-action shows for tweens in the afternoon. Game Shakers and Paw Patrol both of which hail from Nickelodeon were the first confirmed titles set to join Play Room's line-up at launch. Game Shakers revolves around two seventh graders, Babe and Kenzie who create a video game app called "Sky Whale" for their school science project. When the game proves to be wildly

eKasi+ (now eExtra) was a general entertainment channel operated by eMedia Investments that distributed various archived alongside first run local productions like eKasi: Our Stories, Backstage, I Love South Africa and Tropika Island Of Treasure. Part of the reason this brand never worked out had to with viability as Openview wasn't profitable at the time for eMedia Investments. Another would be the lack of new content as eKasi+ local offering was very repetitive to a point where eMedia had to build an international portfolio. Now serving as eExtra, it had seen a lot of success with consumers particularly for their local infused international dramas which was spun off onto a standalone network ePlesier and folded under a tile for the eVOD streaming service. In the last years, eMedia Investments had been building their original portfolio to better take on brands like SABC and MultiChoice which had seen success with those endeavours for decades. Before all of this cont

During the month, Zee Entertainment Enterprises and MultiChoice unveiled South Africa's first Zulu dubbed Bollywood channel, Zee Zonke . Amidst that period, the pay-tv company was rumoured to have more multilingual projects in development with Play Room slatted for November. Although, not much details is shared on the number of projects said to be in development for the pay-tv company one project that wouldn't come as a shock to some consumers would be a Zulu adaptation to the current SuperSport Liyu which is applicable to consumers in Ethiopia. SuperSport Liyu since March 2022 has been regarded as the foray to football with the Ethiopian Premier League with select matches from La Liga, Serie A, Premier League, Europa League UEFA Champions League and the UEFA Conference League. In keeping with the packed football calendar, the channel supplemented football with occasional marathons and athletics, none of which clash with live football broadcasts. A Zulu dubbed v

NEW EPISODES BOSS BABY: BACK IN BUSINESS Season 1 ended with Boss Baby on a career high. He had taken down Frederick Estes and the Consortium of Ancients and was summoned to the Board of Directors for what could only be the culmination of his journey at Baby Corp – to be named CEO. But Season 2 starts off with him being dragged back down to earth when he’s blamed for every bad thing that’s ever happened to Baby Corp and fired. Now surrounded by regular babies Boss Baby must get his mojo back in order to return to Baby Corp. To do he assembles a new field team of regular babies, which he’s determined to whip into shape. Meanwhile the Bubbeezzee corporation - a company dedicated to making babies easy – emerges and Boss soon realizes they are not about increasing baby love but destroying it., From Monday 2nd October Weekdays at 6am, 4pm, 9pm. Weekends at 8am, 1pm, 4pm,9pm NEW EPISODES DAWN OF THE CROODS The world's first family is back and funnier than ever in this all-new