History Channel Unveils New Look In Latin America, No Indicator If The Same Will Happen In Africa And The Rest Of Europe?

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From February 15th, the History channels owned by A+E Networks in Latin America will undergo a makeover aligning their logos with the main market and making them the first to do so.

According to Miguel Brailovsky, the premiere of a new look in is part of a brand new visual concept for viewers. Innovative design makes direct reference to brand positioning. The new logo will be the axis of renewal, which holds its traditional golden H and presents a link that linking past, future and history.

The logo is built with a H sans-serif (with a more modern morphology representing the past) inside a H serif (more light and contemporary representing the future). The result of the new graphic package seeks to reflect the brand with an innovative vision, close to the audience and flexible to changing needs of digital platforms and all screens.

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“We are very pleased to present a more modern and digital image of History brands in line with the evolution of our brand and our ecosystem, which allows us to get closer to our audience on each and every screen” he said Miguel Brailovsky, Senior VP of Content History Latin America brands.

There's no indicator if this will occur in other markets particularly Europe where some markets on top of closing Lifetime haven't updated the channel's logos since its introduction in 2020. All I know is that the parent company has been an absolute mess.

In 2019, they got into a carriage dispute with MultiChoice and things haven't been the same for the company since then. The brand was so open with new content and now it just feels like they've thrown in the towel. Honestly, I wouldn't be shocked if the company was auctioned off.

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Wrede Stad And Blue Venom Girl Omnibuses Gets Switch Timeslots On eExtra, A Repeat Of Vierspel Vuurspel Surfaces On e.tv And Brothers Returns For A Second Season This March On Novela E Plus

More Kuiertyd updates

According to sources, Wrede Stad will now air at 14:55 instead of 21:50 on eExtra from February 12th. The timeslot was currently reserved for the Indian horror Blue Venom Girl.

Through an updated guide provided later in the week, Blue Venom Girl will move to Wrede Star previous timeslot 21:50 perhaps to appease viewers as the current format is mostly filled with Bollywood series on a platform where Glow TV, Star Life and Zee One exist.

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In other developments, Vierspel Vuurspel is scheduled to air at 23:00 on e.tv from February 21st after its mini debut from last month replacing Begeertes.

Cardo is back for a second season of Brothers

Novela E Plus, a Filipino entertainment channel currently available on StarSat are set to launch the second season of the highly anticipated series Brothers (Ang Probinsyano).

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Following the abrupt ending of the first season, viewers got into a brawl with the channel. As stated by Novelas E Plus, the series aired in its entirety with repeats on the StarTimes ON app or St Novelas E.

In the second season of Brothers, Tomas Tuazon is revealed as the head of the drug syndicate Cardo battles. Don Emilio Syquia gets fed up with Tomas taking control of the drug syndicate for himself and orchestrates events that would pit Cardo against Tomas.

The second debuts March 21st while the Phillipines are currently in the ninth season of Brothers meaning viewers in Africa are behind by 7 seasons.

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Roundups #12: Love, Victor Cancelled After Three Seasons By Hulu, Captain America Meets Black Adam In New Amazon Film RedOne, Possible Renewals At Nick Jr. And Popular 90's Animated Series SWAT Kats Is Back With New Series

Love, Victor comes to an end on Hulu

In distressing proof that nothing pure lasts forever, Love, Victor is signing off for good. Hulu announced during this week’s Television Critics Association’s Winter Press Tour that the upcoming third season of beloved gay teen drama will be its last.

The series will conclude with the June 15 release of all eight episodes of season 3. The series, written by Isaac Aptaker and Elizabeth Berger, began as a spin-off of the 2018 Greg Berlanti-produced film Love, Simon, based on Becky Albertalli’s YA novel. Love, Simon was the first gay teen rom-com to be released by a major Hollywood studio.

Source: Them

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Chris Evans and Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson join forces for new Amazon film, RedOne

Chris Evans and Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson will be starring together in the upcoming Amazon film Red One. Red One is set to be a globe-trotting holiday comedy film, leaning into a genre which Johnson has been finding success in between his
Jumanji films and the recent Netflix title Red Notice . Jake Kasdan, who directed the two new Jumanji films, will be directing Red One and it is a project being an original vision from Seven Bucks President of Production Hiram Garcia . Red One is written by well-known Fast & Furious scribe Chris Morgan.

Red One is expected to release for the holiday of 2023. Kasdan will also serve as a producer on the film with Morgan, as well as Seven Bucks' Hiram Garcia and Dany Garcia. Previously, Seven Bucks and Kasdan's partnership on Jumanji films lead to massive box office successes through a pair of films which will lead into a third effort together.

Source: ComicBook

List of possible renewals on Nick Jr.

According to Preschool Series News & Galore, the following will live for another day:

- Paw Patrol renewed for 10th season
- Blaze And The Monster Machines renewed for 7th season
- Bubble Guppies might get a 7th season or end with its current season
- Blue Clues & You might get a 4th season with new movie
- Paw Patrol might get a 10th season with a new movie coming out and spin-off
- Santiago Of The Seas might get a 3rd season
- The Adventures Of Paddington renewed for 3rd season

SWAT Kats reboot is in development

India’s Toonz Media Group is teaming up with Christian and Yvon Tremblay to produce a new show inspired by the brothers’ classic animated series SWAT-KATS. The reboot, entitled SWAT-KATS Revolution , will target kids ages five to 11 and feature a host of new characters battling evil alongside the brand’s beloved feline fighters.

Source: Kidscreen

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Investing Locally, Could StarTimes Be Following The Same Route As MultiChoice?

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Last year, StarTimes and MultiChoice lost several premium international as more content heads over to streaming. It was also the first in many years both brands hit the dry spell on the basis of additions.

MultiChoice had been working around the clock to keep viewer's minds at ease with more local productions such as HONEY and Big Brother Mzansi. As good as all of this may sound, the content comes at a price as seen with April's prices:

DStv Premium - R839p/m
DStv Compact+ - R549p/m
DStv Compact - R429p/m
DStv Family - R309p/m
DStv Access - R120p/m

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StarTimes on the other hand remained silent from last year with garbage like C12 to keep viewers at ease and channels sourced by eMedia Investments and the SABC have since then been viewed as premium assets.

Pay-tv platforms exist to give consumers alternatives to them but StarTimes seem to be taking advantage of their offering. Is this StarTimes way of investing into the African market perhaps?

Not long ago, they picked up rights to CAF games and dubbed The Blood Sisters to Zulu.

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The Risks of Disney’s Quick Fix for Subscriber Growth

Disney has figured out an ingenious way to jump-start its streaming subscriber growth—give people less of a choice! Since late December, Disney has automatically included Disney+ and ESPN+ in one of its Hulu offerings, at a slightly higher price than it previously charged, we learned today. Ingenious! It’s a reminder that the customer-unfriendly DNA of the television industry still lurks in the genes of companies like Disney.

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There’s only one reason you take this action, and it’s to juice subscriber numbers. The strategy is working so far. Disney executives said the bundling—which they called a “strategic decision,” whatever that means—accounted for half of the surprisingly strong North American subscriber additions for Disney+ in the quarter. And sure, it’s a good deal for consumers right now: Even after the price raise, the bundle implies a hefty discount on all three services. But it’s a slippery slope. Forcing people to take services they don’t necessarily want is how the cable TV became a cash-printing machine, before steady price rises eventually alienated so many customers it went into a decline that is still underway.

Still, TV executives across the industry will surely take heart from Disney’s move. There have been straws in the wind for a while that executives at companies like Discovery—which today said it got regulatory approval to buy HBO Max’s parent, WarnerMedia—would like to offer packages of different streaming services. The current arrangement, low-cost services with lots of programming, is a money-losing proposition. Done right, bundling could offer a solution to streaming’s poor economics. But if it is mishandled—and who would rule out that happening!—it may play into the hands of companies like Netflix and Amazon, which tend to follow a more consumer-friendly approach.

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