August 2021 On Curiosity Channel Africa | Super Science Mondays | History Lovers Tuesday | Wildlife Wednesdays | Travel & Adventure Fridays | Human Story Saturdays | Best Of Curiosity Sundays

SUPER SCIENCE MONDAYS

METEORITE MEN
Brand New Episodes - premieres 02 August 2021 CAT: 22:00
Episodes: 6x 60 mins – ends 06 September 2021
For thousands of years, meteorites have slammed into the Earth's surface carrying an invaluable record of the origins of our solar system. But finding meteorites on Earth, some buried over centuries by thick layers of dirt and sediment, is no easy task.
Meteorite hunters Steve Arnold and Geoff Notkintravel to some of the most remote locations around the world to explore the scientific and financial value of meteorites. Featuring treks in Chile, Sweden, Australia, the US, Mexico, and more, these meteorite men meet with top scientists, geologists, astronomers, and meteorite experts to reveal a deeper understanding of how meteorites have helped to build our solar system and shape our planet.

THE WORLD OF BRIDGES
Brand New Series - premieres 09 August 2021 CAT: 19:00
Episodes: 4x 60 mins (stacked back-to-back premieres)
Bridges are cultural monuments. Their construction has completely changed over history and impacted the lives of everybody that uses them.

HISTORY LOVER TUESDAYS

JOHN RABE
Brand New Documentary – Premieres 17 August 2021 CAT: 21:00
Episodes: 1x 30 mins
He is revered in China as a Buddha, as the 'Schindler of Nanking'. But his deeds have barely been recognized in the West. The German John Rabe, a Siemens manager and fervent admirer of the 'Führer', saved the lives of more than 200,000 Chinese in 1937.

SECRETS OF THE THIRD REICH
Brand New Series – Premieres 31 August 2021 CAT: 21:00
Episodes: 5x 30 mins - ends 28 September 2021
What happened to trainloads worth of Nazi-gold at the end of WW2?

WILDLIFE WEDNESDAYS

DOUG TO THE RESCUE
Brand New Episodes - premieres 04 August 2021 CAT: 21:00
Episodes: 4x 30 mins – ends 25 August 2021
A team of animal rescuers, led by aerial cinematographer Doug Thron, travel into the devastation left by natural disasters to rescue lost animals and reunite them with their owners. From hurricanes to wildfires, they go into the hardest hit areas - relying on nothing but each other and the supplies they carry on their backs –to conduct a search-and-rescue mission to find animals that are lost or left behind. The team’s secret weapon is a specialized drone carrying a sophisticated array of cameras equipped with infrared technology that detects the heat signatures of warm-blooded animals. Once safely retrieved, Doug and team use social media to help find the pet’s grateful owners.

TRAVEL & ADVENTURE FRIDAYS

ANTHONY BOURDAIN, PARTS UNKNOWN Brand New Episodes – premieres 06 August 2021 CAT: 21:00
Episodes: 4x 60mins – ends 27 August 2021
Anthony Bourdain travels the world uncovering lesser-known places and exploring their cultures and cuisine.

TRAVEL MAN
Brand New Episodes – premieres 06 August 2021 CAT: 20:00
Episodes: 18x 30mins – ends 01 October 2021
Travel Man is Richard Ayoade's chance to show us where we're going wrong by having the most culturally efficient holiday possible.

HUMAN STORY SATURDAYS

4TH and FOREVER ALCOA
Brand New Series - premieres 14 August 2021 CAT: 23:00
Episodes: 8x 30 mins – ends 02 October 2021
In the shadows of the Smoky Mountains lives a football dynasty. Alcoa High School is southern Appalachia's true football powerhouse..

BEST OF CURIOSITY SUNDAYS

WHAT WENT WRONG
Brand New Series - premieres 01 August 2021 CAT: 19:00
Episodes: 4x 60 mins (stacked back-to-back premieres)
Small errors in the construction of buildings and vehicles can lead to a disaster.

TERROR!
Brand New Episodes - premieres 15 August 2021 CAT: 19:00
Episodes: 6x 60 mins – ends 19 September 2021
This groundbreaking series revisits significant terrorist attacks that changed history.

LEGENDS OF SPEED
Brand New Series - premieres 22 August 2021 CAT: 19:00
Episodes: 3x 60 mins – ends 05 September 2021
Legends of Speed is not just a chronology about happenings in racing, but a profound view on the humans behind the wheel.

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New Channel Alert: MyChannel Africa Launches On DStv

On Friday, MultiChoice silently introduced a new Portuguese entertainment channel which is said to replace Record TV or TV Globo in various African markets on DStv and this comes at a time tvN is scheduled to close on the platform.

MyChannel Africa is a general entertainment space, which will broadcast diverse content, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. The channel is of Brazilian origin, it's fully spoken in Portuguese, it brings proposals, programs and faces known to the local public.

The channel will offer soap operas, reality shows, series, movies and auditorium shows such as Genesis, Proof Of Love, Top, Power Couple and A Hora Do Faro.

Basically, TV Globo and Record TV recieved a new shed of paint with all shows starting from the very beginning.

Record TV recently shuttered the Ugandan feed while the feed in Angola was suspended till further notice so this channel is basically there to make up for the loss.

This new version is available to DStv Premium, Compact+ and Compact customers on channel 515.

In other developments, MultiChoice will be introducing two Maisha Magic channels (one is yet to be confirmed) and a Mozambique entertainment channel likely to make up for the loss of SIC International but this channel is local and it wouldn't shock me if it were to be made available in Southern Africa.

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- BET gets a makeover
- Will Cartoonito be the future of Boomerang in the UK and EMEA?
- Is Discovery Family going off air on DStv possibly for Discovery Science?
- Could Warner Bros. Discovery form a new kids brand?
- Australia launched BBC Kids, could it perhaps expand in more countries?

August 2021 On WarnerMedia Africa | Women's Month With Leading Woman On TNT And Cartoon Network | New Series: The Jungle Beat | More

TNT:
Three developments occur on the channel first is Leading Women featuring Scarlett Johansson's Lucy, the second might be a stunt called Mob Ties with the the last being Robin Williams' classic film The Price Of War. For some reason, they haven't mentioned a TNT Original Movie this month.

Cartoon Network:
Women's Month
Consisting of series and movies from the D.C. Superhero Girls franchise including Lego's Brain Drain and Galatic Wonder.

Craig Of The Creek Season 3 - New Season
In the fictional suburban Baltimore/DC area town of Herkleton, Maryland, a boy named Craig Williams and his two friends, Kelsey Pokoly and John Paul "J.P." Mercer, have their many adventures in the titular creek, described as a kid utopia of untamed wilderness in which tribes of children reign over tree forts and dirt bike ramps.

Adventure Time: Distant Lands Together Again
Finn dies and arrives in the Dead Worlds, and he attempts to get to the 50th Deadworld to meet Jake. After stopping the scheming of Life and Death's son, New Death, Finn and Jake are reincarnated.

Boomerang:

Lamput Season 3 - New Season
Lamput is an orange gooey creature that escaped from the laboratory of Specs and Skinny. They try to catch Lamput but never succeed because of Lamput's ability to shape shift.

The Jungle Beat - New Series
The series follows the adventures of a monkey in extreme weather conditions.

Happy Feet 2
Follows a young penguin that has struggled to find himself now he faces a new mission.

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- Is Discovery Family going off air on DStv possibly for Discovery Science?
- Could Warner Bros. Discovery form a new kids brand?

New Series Alert: Date My Family Makes It's Free-To-Air Debut On eReality

Date My Family is a South African reality lifestyle romance television series produced by Connect TV for Mzansi Magic. The show has also been viewable through Mzansi Wethu, Africa Magic and Honey.

The series aims to help singletons find their love interest by setting them on dates with their potential partner's closest friends and families.

The series might be part of the new eKasi block on eReality as the show is slated for 25 July which is on a Sunday.

P.S: Hawaii Five-O replaces MacGyver on e.tv

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- What we might expect from SABC's streaming service
- Could Star Plus and Star Life be rebranding soon?
- eMedia Investments might delay eVOD but here's some possible details about the platform
- Could Openview be the reason for SABC Education's delay on both DStv and StarSat? (updated 25 June)
- Voelvry coming in future on e.tv
- Kamer 309 delayed on eExtra
- Other shows coming soon to eToonz?
- e.tv is filming a new boxing drama
- Nickelodeon returns to e.tv 
- SABC planning to reduce Muvhango

Updated 19 July: tvN Is Working On Becoming A Permanent Channel Following It's Closure On DStv

tvN is the third pop-up channel to exit DStv following ZooMoo and Timeless Dizi Channel's exit back in June and March respectively with TLNovelas scheduled to close in August where a new program will be allocated.

tvN has put up a channel termination on the EPG informing viewers that channel will stop airing by the end of July and thanking viewers for their support. This came after the channel was extended for a month.

Even though the channel will stop airing on DStv. CJ ENM has expressed interest in bringing back it full-time with the brand unveiling a batch of programs they had hoped to show viewers but that's not happening or at least not on DStv. Could it be possible that StarTimes (StarSat) will pick it up?

MultiChoice has host several pop-ups that are permanent on StarTimes such as WarnerMedia's Toonami, Televisa's TLNovelas and SPI International's Dizi with Blue Ant Media's ZooMoo being a permanent fixture on Zuku TV.

Timeless Dizi Channel started from scratch on StarTimes when the pop-up was terminated on DStv so if tvN had to become a permanent fixture there I'd expect them go the same route thereafter new content will be added.

There's chances that the content on tvN will still be available on Showmax. The streaming service already distributes content from other parties which had a platform on DStv ranging from Adult Swim, ITV Choice and OUTtv.

Update: The channel termination banner is removed it looks like some good news is coming and it also looks like Multichoice will be relaunching some pop-up channels.

Read Also:
- Could another Turkish brand rollout on DStv?
- Will Timeless Dizi Channel relaunch on DStv?
- Maisha Magic Movies and Maisha Magic Plus might launch on DStv in South Africa
- TNT might be rebranding next year
- BET gets a makeover
- Will Cartoonito be the future of Boomerang in the UK and EMEA?
- Is Discovery Family going off air on DStv possibly for Discovery Science?
- Could Warner Bros. Discovery form a new kids brand?
- Australia launched BBC Kids, could it perhaps expand in more countries?