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Isibaya Is Coming To An End On Mzansi Magic

Some confirmation from Nomsa Philiso, channel director for Local Entertainment Channels at M-Net, that Isibaya will be ending this year.

"It's always sad when a show that was popular and loved ends, as it is the case with Isibaya. However, times change and television is about adopting and adapting.

"As Mzansi Magic, we are thrilled about the new partnership with Black Brains Productions. They will be bringing in fresh content that is innovative and captivating. Furthermore, the other exciting element is the fact that this is their first telenovela production. It is great opportunity for Black Brains to broaden their base and creativity.

"Our platforms are fundamentally created to help producers to grow and reach new frontiers."

Isibaya will be replaced by new telenovela Diepsloot towards the middle of 2021.

Laws Of The Heart Coming Soon To Telemundo Africa

Telemundo Africa will be introducing it's first new telenovela of 2021. This time it comes from none other than Colombia's RCN Television. The name of this telenovela is called Laws Of The Heart.

Laws Of The Heart (La Ley Del Corazon)The series takes place in a successful law firm specialized in family law, dedicated to cases ofp separation and in general to family conflicts and couple Pablo Domínguez, a partner lawyer at the firm Cabal-Ortega-Domínguez and associates, is going through a difficult situation in his life when separating from his wife Jimena. Suddenly, the lawyer meets his colleague Julia Escallón, who is about to marry Camilo Borrero, but the fate will give an unexpected turn in the life of the woman on the day of their marriage and by things of the Life, will end up very close to Pablo and facing him the courts.

The series creator Mónica Agudelo Tenorio passed away and this 2 season telenovela is dedicated to her.

Since the show's inception, they've been several adaptations of the series including Televisa's Por Amar Sin Ley and ABC's Big Law. They also managed to accumulate 11 awards alongside 21 nominations.

Catch the first season weeknights at 21:00 CAT/20:00 WAT/22:00 CAT from 15 February which comes around the time as Close Enemies Season 2 debuts.

Telemundo is available on DStv and GOtv

Doodsondes Season 3 Coming In March On e.tv

For those without eExtra, you might have been watching it weekdays at 10:30 on e.tv in order to catch-up which seems kind of odd as most of the population aren't home at that time so Doodsondes (Yasak Elma) is joining Bittersoet (Kara Sevda) in you snooze you lose scenario.

If you don't want to fall behind make sure you get OpenView if you want to watch it freely or get DStv and Starsat to pay for it alongside other channels.

Here's a brief summary of season 3:

A long time passed after the disappearance of Ender and the Arguns' life has completely changed. Sahika took over the management of the house and established a fear empire. She took Yigit to her side and now, she's trying to conquer everything. The only thing she didn't consider is that Yildiz, who disappeared on the night of Ender's disappearance, will suddenly return. Besides, Yildiz will not come alone.

Catch season 3 weekdays at 17:30 on e.tv and 4 hours later on eExtra from Monday, 15 March replacing Deur Dik En Dun

Several Channels Are Missing On Starsat

As usual, Starsat failed to engage with the media regarding the upcoming developments occuring on the platform. Apparently several viewers noticed a bunch of other channels went missing on the platform and the channel go as follows:

Fine Living: Discovery made the decision to remove the channel as part of a strategic alignment meaning you could see more changes coming from their stable. Pretty much Real Time is the channel's successor kind of like how Discovery Science was snatched for Discovery Family.

St Eyethu: nearly a year after this outdated local channel launched on the platform it was discretely taken off. According to StarTimes, they're working on the content there.

SA Music and Soul Playlist: both these channels are currently available on OpenView. After an intense battle, StarTimes promised to bring fresh content which implied that these channels were phased out from their portfolio.

St Africa and WAP TV: no actual details were given regarding their removals for St Africa it could be in relation with St Eyethu.

StarTimes joins eMedia Investments and MultiChoice that witnessed the loss of several channels during the course of 2020 except theirs came a little later than the other two.

Two Music Channels Reportedly Removed From Starsat

Starsat started off the new year discreetly by removing two music channels from their platform without any notice, SA Music And Soul Playlist.

At that time many viewers have filed complaints regarding these channels across their media pages and the admin is seemingly ignoring and deleting comments.

In a recent conversation with the channel providers, they confirmed that both these channels can be found on OpenView and are no longer available on Starsat meaning that you'll need to get that platform to enjoy those channels.

Of course, Starsat managed to reply after a couple of days. They seemingly confirmed their demise by stating that they're sourcing out fresh content.

Last year viewers witnessed the loss of several channels. Could 2021 be a continuation to last year since Starsat is not upfront with the media on upcoming developments.