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.