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Paramount+ Launches Live TV Channels And Boomerang Africa's Demise Has Seemingly Been Confirmed

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Paramount+ got a lot on their hands

As viewers in South Africa and the rest of Africa await the launch Paramount+, the President and Chief Executive Officer at ViacomCBS Streaming, Tom Ryan, revealed the reason behind the creation of Paramount+’s Live Channels and how it can impact viewers:

“Even in the era of on-demand, there is clearly a strong consumer appetite for reimagined linear channels that provide effortless, lean-back entertainment. Inspired and informed by the winning model Pluto TV pioneered and popularized, these highly curated channels underscore the power of our unified streaming organization and serve as a product differentiator in the SVOD space, by offering subscribers yet another way to experience and discover programming on Paramount+.”

Paramount+ is available 24/7 to subscribers and is supported on the Paramount+ app. It will also see the addition of new channels, including one dedicated to movies and another one that will play RuPaul’s Drag Race all day long – both of which will become available later this month.

The channels range from 24/7 Laughs, Adult Animation, All Day Drama, Animation Favorites, Black Voices, Crime & Justice, History & Undiscovered, Kids & Family Fun, Nostalgic Hits, PAW Patrol, Preschool Corner, Reality TV: Competition & Shores, SpongeBob Universe, Star Trek, Survivor, The Challenge and TV Classics.

Cartoonito is coming...just not today

A month ago, WarnerMedia EMEA picked up rights to Spookies for the long awaited streaming service HBO Max and the upcoming linear station Cartoonito. This only confirmed the brand's return within that region.

Earlier this month, Boomerang was folded under Cartoonito in Latin America with some parts of Africa through Canal+ expected to undergo the same procedure and that wasn't the case for now (might surface 22 December).

As seen in a recent advertisement Boomerang is present in their latest channel list and not Cartoonito.

Is it possible that the "upcoming linear station" is actually a replacement channel?

Judging by the facts, it's possible as WarnerMedia is growing Cartoon Network's family offering. Most people consider Cartoonito another Nick Jr. but that's not the case here.

Cartoonito is Boomerang Lite which makes up 80% if not more of Boomerang. Kind of like how the lite versions of Facebook, Instagram and Twitter operate will be the same for Cartoonito.

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January 2022 On CBS Africa | CBS Reality Becomes A Daycare Center With Kathryn Mewes | CBS Justice Dives Down To A Brand New Season Of Coastal Killers | More

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CBS Reality:

The channel is now available in HD from 10 December

THE THREE DAY NANNY
Season 1 - 3
Channel Premiere
Weekdays at 09:30, 13:35, 18:50 and 23:20 from 10th to 28th January.
The Three Day Nanny follows professional nanny, Kathryn Mewes, as she answers the cries for help from desperate parents. Across this series, Nanny Mewes will help families struggling with fussy eaters, temper tantrums and sleepless nights. Using her unique three day plan of action, Kathryn moves into households which are being ruled by tearaway tots to give parents the tools they need for a happy home.
With twenty years of experience, Nanny Mewes champions the viewpoint of the child. By bridging the gap in communication, Kathryn empowers the parents with the skills they need to eﬀectively interact with their children.

MOTORWAY PATROL
Season 9 - 12 & 15 - 19
Channel premiere.
Weekdays double bills at 11:10, 14:50 and 00:15 from 7th January to 17th March.
Motorway Patrol is back with a fresh batch of heart stopping and sometimes comic stories as we sign up for another season on the beat with the fearless cops on Auckland’s motorways. The latest collection of stories delivers a brand new helping of life and death moments and motorists who seem to have left their brains in neutral.
The award-winning programme has been granted total access to the men and women who patrol the vital routes through New Zealand’s biggest city.

CONFESSIONS: ANIMAL HOARDING
Season 1
Channel Premiere.
Weekdays at 07:30, 12:45 and 21:35 from 17th January to 9th February.
An intimate portrayal of people and animals aﬀected by hoarding and the challenges of confronting this unusual psychological condition. Delve into the hearts and minds of individuals aﬄicted, the family members and friends who want to help prevent their loved ones from spinning further out of control. Discover the toxic conditions and witness the impossible challenge of trying to care for so many pets at once.
With no existing protocol, the series coordinates task-force style mediation by psychologists, animal welfare experts, veterinarians, friends and families, and provides safe opportunities to explore the compulsive caregiving, digging deep into the desire for love and paralyzing fears of loss to understand how the problem grew so extreme and to provide tools to put a healthy plan for rehabilitation into action. In most cases, the problem is not addressed until it becomes a crime...until now.

CBS Justice:

MURDER: FIRST ON SCENE
Season 1, episodes 1-5. Channel premiere.
ORIGINAL TRUE CRIME SERIES
DStv 170
Sundays at 20:00 from 30th January until 27th February.
“Murder: First on Scene” provides an in depth look at how perpetrators are brought to justice, from the moment their crime is discovered, to the moment they are behind bars.
The series follows the timeline of ten real life murder cases, uncovering the intricate nature of the investigations and the ingenious methods used to catch the killer. Each case is brought to life through personal testimonials and stylised reconstruction.
Each episode starts with the discovery of a body and the introduction of the crime scene. The viewer is subsequently invited to witness the twists and turns of the murder enquiry through the eyes of specialists; from detectives, forensics oﬃcers and medical examiners to cyber security experts, entomologists and prosecutors, who battle against time to identify and analyse the body, ﬁnd and preserve crucial evidence, and eventually apprehend and sentence the killer.

COASTAL KILLERS
Season 3. Channel premiere.
ORIGINAL TRUE CRIME SERIES
Weeknights at 19:00 from 31st January until 11th February.
Every summer, thousands of holidaymakers ﬂock to the British seaside to enjoy the warm weather, pebble beaches and amusement arcades. But there’s a dark side to the British seaside, a sinister underbelly where sins are washed away by the tide. The quaint and idealistic seafront is also stalked by killers who, like the sea itself, have no respect for human life.
This new series of Coastal Killers takes viewers on a journey to the cliﬀ’s edge, where the land meets the sea, and where life meets death. At ﬁrst glance, our seaside towns are all fun fairs, candy ﬂoss and breezy promenades. Equally, when the carousel stops turning and the lights along the shorefront go out, there emerges from the darkness an underworld of murder and mayhem.

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MultiChoice And M-Net Expand Their Offering To Angola And Mozambique With The Launches Of Maningue And Kwenda Magic, Could There Be More To The Story?

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Through a press release from their showcase, MultiChoice finally unveiled the local Mozambican entertainment channel joining DStv by the end of FY22 and this time it is joined by Kwenda Magic for viewers in Angola.

Maningue Magic was first unveiled in the MultiChoice's previous financial records of course name didn't come up at the time. The new channel is set to deliver a range of local content from reality, lifestyle, music, dramas and quiet possibly movies.

Kwenda Magic comes as suspicious I mean it's not like MultiChoice to just ghost a channel. We already know that viewers will get weekly comedy shows and a dubbed telenovela but that sums up the whole channel.

Recently, I came across a Kwenda Magic page on Facebook and interesting enough the channel is using the page which was abandoned by Jango Magic.

Coincidence, Jango Magic dubs several shows and offered comedies like Kwenda Magic. From what I remember about this channel, it launched in the 2010s era and somewhere along the lines the trail was dead after that.

No promotion no Nada, it lived the rest of its existence away from the tabloids until today that is. So if I had to guess Kwenda Magic might be replacing Jango Magic.

To even out the playing field, MultiChoice duplicates the channel in other regions which offer a Portuguese package seeing that there's no local content present there.

Due to costs Maningue Magic remains in its strains, viewers there have experienced a shortage in channels and there hasn't been much compensation to go around. Just a bigger hole at the tip of your pocket.

Maningue Magic channel 503 and Kwenda Magic channel 502 launch from 17 January 2022.

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MAKING MOVES!!! Moonbug Expands Its Linear Offering To Europe While Genius Brands International Preps Their Global Expansion Killing Off A Certain Brand

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Moonbug Expands Its Linear Offering To Europe, Could Africa Follow?
London-based Moonbug Entertainment is expanding its footprint in the MENA region through a new partnership with Orbit Showtime Network (OSN).

On December 12, the pay-TV operator will launch a Moonbug Kids linear channel and streaming hub aimed at preschoolers. The new network is designed to give viewers 175 hours of content.

The series range from CoComelon, Blippi, Morphle, Little Baby Bum, Mia’s Magic Playground, Go Buster, Playtime with Twinkle, Arpo, Gecko’s Garage and Supa Strikas.

This isn’t Moonbug’s first foray into MENA. Earlier this year, it partnered with Etisalat to launch its brands on the telecom company’s e-Junior VOD service and a year ago MultiChoice's Showmax.

Kartoon Channel's Parent Company Is Taking Over
Genius Brands International has entered into an agreement to acquire a 28.6% stake in Germany’s Your Family Entertainment (YFE). The deal, which is still subject to YFE shareholder approval, will see the distributor/broadcaster rebranded as Genius Family Entertainment.

YFE’s kids networks will now also operate under the Kartoon Channel! Worldwide banner. Former Disney exec Paul Robinson has been appointed as managing director of Kartoon Channel! Worldwide, effective immediately. Reporting to Kartoon Channel! president Jon Olwerther, he’s based in London and charged with overseeing the brand’s global expansion.

YFE has more than 4,000 films and episodes of animated and live-action content from both European and US producers in its catalogue.

Moving forward, non-violent content and themes like sustainability will be a focus for its growth. The company will continue to be run by its current management board, which is comprised of CEO Stefan Piech and COO Bernd Wendeln. Genius Brands’ new EVP and GM of global franchise management Kerry Phelan will supervise the global rollout of consumer products based on channel content. Moving forward, Genius plans to invest as much as US$7.8 million to expand YFE’s digital and linear footprint globally.

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After 14 Years, FX Returns To South Africa + e.tv Fills The Decks With More Repeats + tvN Expands Their Offering With A Music Channel

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FX returns to Africa after 14 years

Disney has announced that FX is now being classed as its own global brand across Television, Hulu, Star+ and on Disney+ internationally.

Now all FX content — original to streaming or second window to cable — will be organized in an “FX” section on any Disney streaming platform inside and outside of the U.S.

The change has come into effect and will include new original scripted content, in addition to any library titles from FX., which currently contains more than 170 seasons and 1800 episodes of television.

In a statement, FX’s John Landgraf said:

“We realized a decade ago that FX would soon no longer be primarily a location, but a rather branded mark of quality that would travel across multiple distribution platforms. For 20 years, we have worked tirelessly to make the FX mark synonymous to the consumer with original programming that is distinctive and excellent as well as entertaining. This change furthers the natural evolution of FX and we are grateful to the company and our partners at DMED for their belief and investment in FX branded programming. We are confident that the FX brand, wherever the consumer finds it, will continue to deliver the highest quality programs any service has to offer.”

In the statement, Rebecca Campbell, chairman of Disney’s direct to consumer and international said:

“With more than a billion hours of FX programming viewed on Hulu since the launch of the FX hub, we’ve further cemented Hulu as the home for stories that impact culture, inspire conversation, and connect with viewers in meaningful ways and we’re excited to see the brand evolve to connect with international audiences on Disney+ and Star+. FX’s award-winning adult programming is vital to our services both domestically and internationally and we want to shine a brighter light on the brand within our excellent and rapidly growing portfolio of general entertainment programming for adult audiences.”

FX is going to continue to double down on creating new original programming, with a target of 30 shows (25 scripted and five unscripted) in 2022. Many of which will be exclusive to Hulu and internationally on Disney+.

Alert: e.tv makes a U-turn

As eMedia set of channels except eToonz for some reason gear up for the big day. It's become a tradition for them as well as several brands across the world to halt their primetime selection as several viewers are on holiday.

While other channels continue regular viewing e.tv on the other hand will make several adjustments:

• Deur Dik En Dun is set to conclude on the 23rd of December and on the final days. The show is set to start an hour early (16:45) replacing Days Of Our Lives.
• Movies are set to replace the Deur Dik En Dun as viewers gear up for the launch of Droom Velore on 10th of January.
• S.W.A.T. concludes 21st of December with Beat Shazam, The Big Bang Theory and movies taking up 20:30 - 23:00. Imbewu is not affected by the changes.
• Mzansi Magic's Our Perfect Wedding replaces Ultimate Braai Master at 18:00 everyday Saturday from 8th of January.

tvN becomes a music channel

tvN's parent company in Asia expanded their set of channels earlier this month with a dedicated Korean music channel, tvN Music while is likely home to acts such as BTS, Twice and BLACKPINK.

Earlier in the year, tvN made their debut on DStv as a pop-up channel and featured a selection of Korean content ranging from drama series to reality shows.

Despite only existing as a pop-up, the brand managed to attract an array of fans. Should it return one would hope to see more variety not that there was anything with wrong with this version.

More linear channels have extended their primetime offering to weekends. With that in mind perhaps they could slot in tvN Music alongside tvN Movies. Let's face it repeats are not a necessity on top of not getting high ratings so all this would benefit the channel in the long run.

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Insidus: Entertainment Inside Us

Paramount+ Launches Live TV Channels And Boomerang Africa's Demise Has Seemingly Been Confirmed

January 2022 On CBS Africa | CBS Reality Becomes A Daycare Center With Kathryn Mewes | CBS Justice Dives Down To A Brand New Season Of Coastal Killers | More

MultiChoice And M-Net Expand Their Offering To Angola And Mozambique With The Launches Of Maningue And Kwenda Magic, Could There Be More To The Story?

MAKING MOVES!!! Moonbug Expands Its Linear Offering To Europe While Genius Brands International Preps Their Global Expansion Killing Off A Certain Brand

After 14 Years, FX Returns To South Africa + e.tv Fills The Decks With More Repeats + tvN Expands Their Offering With A Music Channel

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