Animal Themed Series 'The Pet Rescuers' And 'Animal Embassy' Heading To Da Vinci Kids Africa + More - March 2022 Highlights

Kids Programmes
The Pet Rescuers – PREMIERE
From March 16th – Wednesdays 18:55 (Repeats Thursdays 19:35 & Sundays 18:00)
The Pet Rescuers follows the adventures and challenges of a devoted team on a mission to give abandoned pets another chance at a happy life. This heart-warming series will take you on an extraordinary journey and restore your faith in humanity.

Animal Embassy – PREMIERE
From March 20th – Sundays 18:25 (Repeats Thursdays 18:55 & Fridays 19:35)
Entertaining and informative, this series will take you behind the scenes of Loro Parque - one of the world’s best zoos. Packed with engaging characters - both animal and human, Animal Embassy reveals the unshakeable devotion to conservation and animal welfare.

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Continuing Kids Programmes
Doki – Saturdays 09:00
Darwin & Newts – Sundays 09:00
Wild Kratts – Every day 08:05
Superhero Sprinter Galore – Every day 08:50

Monthly Special
International Women’s Day
Tuesday, March 8th from 13:00 to 20:25
13:00 Art with Mati and Dada – Lange 13:10 When I Grow Up – Sound Editor, Forest Manager, AI Computer Scientist and Space Technician 13:55 One Stop Science Shop – Microscopic Revelations and Environmental Science 14:20 Mind Blowing Breakthroughs – Marie Curie - The Invisible Rays 14:45 Do You Know? – X-ray and Sock, and Maddie, Space and You - Space Robots 15:20 Make Me a Super – Stop a Bullet and Master Invulnerability, and Riding the Wave and Manipulating Water 16:10 Did I Mention Invention? – Cellphone Inventor and Girls Who Code 16:55 Absolute Genius with Dick and Dom – Derbyshire, Widdowson, Herschel and Curie 18:55 Horrible Histories – Formidable Florence Nightingale, Home Vids and Fierce Females 20:25 Xploration Nature Knows Best – Sticky Science

Early Morning with Da Vinci
Every day from 06:00
06:00 Do You Know? 06:30 Siesta Z 06:45 The Treehouse Stories 06:55 Mily Miss Questions 07:05 Marvellous Makes 07:10 PinCode 07:30 Darwin & Newts 07:50 Addison 08:05 Wild Kratts 08:30 Kosmix 08:45 The Fixies 08:55 Superhero Sprinter Galore

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More Hoarders Coming Your Way On CBS Reality Africa And Killer Cases Is Back For More Shocking Stories On CBS Justice - March 2022 Highlights

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HOARDERS: BURIED ALIVE IN MY BEDROOM
Season 1 & 2
Channel Premiere
Weekdays at 07:30, 12:45 and 21:35 from 9th to 25th March.
Hoarding is reaching epidemic proportions in the UK. Around 1.2 million people across the country are classed as hoarders but what drives a person to hoard and what devastating effects can it have on a person’s life? In this brand new documentary series no stone will be left unturned as we explore this extreme compulsion to stockpile tons of unnecessary items that’s making people’s lives a misery. We’ll see that behind every hoarder is a fascinating and deeply personal mystery to unearth within their clutter and this series will uncover the clues to reveal why they are unable to throw anything away.

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TURQUOISE FEVER
Season 1
Channel Premiere
Weekends at 08:40 and 19:45 from 12th March to 2nd April.
Just north of Las Vegas a real fortune awaits. The unforgiving Great Basin Desert may not seem like an ideal place to strike it rich, but buried beneath the barren landscape is a treasure worth millions. The challenge is knowing how to find it. For three generations the Otteson family has been unearthing some of the most sought-after turquoise in the world. Turquoise Fever follows the clan as they battle inhospitable conditions and intense dangers from their base of operations in Tonopah, Nevada. From detonating explosives on treacherous slopes to the pressure of meeting the demands of international buyers, every day is a wild adventure and there is always a thin line between failure and success.

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KILLER CASES
Season 2. Channel premiere.
Weeknights at 20:00 from 21st March until 1st April.
All the emotion, drama, and suspense of America’s most chilling murder trials are captured on Killer Cases. Weaving together interviews and gripping footage, it’s an immersive true crime roller coaster in two acts. At first, viewers play armchair detective as they hear from police officers, forensic experts, witnesses, and sometimes even the defendants themselves. Then—with cameras inside the courtroom capturing every twist—the legal drama unfolds as the evidence stacks up and the final verdict is revealed. It’s a journey through the criminal justice process, and every case has its own fascinating backstory where a combination of love, sex, betrayal, and greed ultimately prove fatal.

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WORLD’S MOST EVIL KILLERS
Season 6. Channel premiere.
Weeknights at 19:00 from 7th March until 1st April.
“World’s Most Evil Killers” delves into the gripping real life stories of the world’s most prolific killers. Each episode focuses on one notorious killer and features authentic first-hand accounts of their behavior, from detectives who ran the case, journalists who reported on the stories, relatives, and at times survivors, alongside series experts who provide analysis. These criminologists, crime journalists and psychologists examine how the infamous killers made headlines both nationally and internationally and why they still continue to evoke fear and fascination in the public eye. We investigate the triggers that drove them to kill, delving into their insatiable appetite for murder and the chilling legacy they have left. We uncover what has given them a place in the list of the World’s Most Evil Killers and retell every chilling tale using a combination of compelling interviews, narration, archive footage and stylised reconstruction.

Continuing channel premiere is Released To Kill

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Paramount+ Launching In South Africa By 2023

Paramount+ video streaming service from ViacomCBS will launch in South Africa next year, very likely in conjunction with MultiChoice as a so-called "hard bundle" app. However, pricing and details for the streamer's rollout in 2023 are still to be worked out.

The launch of Paramount+ – that bundles an extensive library and new content ranging from Paramount Pictures films, Paramount+ Originals, Nickelodeon, MTV and CBS Studios – will follow after the launch of The Walt Disney Company's Disney+ streamer in South Africa within months, expected anytime from June 2022.

It means South African video consumers will get Disney+ next , followed by Paramount+, and then likely WarnerMedia's HBO Max (that will contain Discovery+), and possibly NBCUniversal's Peacock, although WarnerMedia and NBCUniversal are yet to say anything publicly about expanding into Africa.

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Paramount+, Disney+ and HBO Max will join the existing streaming services already present in South Africa, all battling to grow their market share and to scale their subscribers bases like Netflix SA, Amazon Prime Video, MultiChoice's Showmax, Apple TV+, eMedia's eVOD, Vodacom's Video Play, VIU, Britbox SA and Acorn TV.

The South African launch of Paramount+ will be as a stand-alone app and through connected TV sets, but will very likely also be in partnership with the MultiChoice Group, which has existing deals to carry Netflix and Amazon Prime Video as apps on its DStv Explora Ultra decoder.

ViacomCBS, which this week rebranded as Paramount, already has so-called "hard bundle" deals in place with pay-TV operators like Comcast's Sky in the United Kingdom carrying Paramount+, and Sky Showtime as a joint venture in Europe with Comcast and Vivendi's Canal+ that will launch Paramount+ in France in December in a similar way as well.

Tom Ryan, president and CEO of streaming at Paramount, for the first time at the company's latest investors' presentation this week, confirmed that Paramount+ is coming to Africa.

With South Africa as the most sophisticated television market on the continent, it's a shoo-in that Paramount+ will be launching in South Africa next year, in the way that Disney+ will this year.
"We're leveraging our global footprint to bring Paramount+ to new markets with enormous potential," he said. "We're deploying hard bundles, where we work with a local provider to give their customers immediate access to Paramount+ as well as direct-to-consumer (DTC app), and a la carte distribution."

Paramount is also creating new and cheaper "mobile-only" plans for markets where mobile devices dominate streaming consumption – something else that will likely be a defining feature when Paramount+ comes to South Africa next year.

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"Beginning in 2023, we'll turn out sights to Asia, Africa and the Middle East," Tom Ryan said during the investors' presentation, "building on our momentum to bring Paramount+ to every region of the world."

"Our global expansion underscores an important lesson in streaming: The stories we create are only as powerful as the audience they reach. So in addition to expanding Paramount+ to more people, we're also enhancing the service itself."
Raffaele Annecchino, Paramount president & CEO for international networks, studios and streaming, in a statement about the launch of Paramount+ in partnership with Canal+, said that Paramount is "strategically creating a streaming model for long-term growth".

"Our subscription video-on-demand (SVOD) premium services allow us to expand our streaming business in more than 60 markets, as we build our momentum toward expanding Paramount+ in all the markets across the world".

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DreamWorks Channel Will Stop Airing On StarSat In South Africa And StarTimes Across Africa From Thursday And What Future Does The Pay-TV Platform Have?

Two years after the DreamWorks Channel owned by NBCUniversal launched in South Africa through StarSat And The Rest Of Sub-Saharan Africa through the StarTimes platform. It seems like the pay platform will be closing more international channels.

DreamWorks Channel goes off air this week as seen in the conversation:

DreamWorks Channel was unveiled alongside a bouquet of other channels in May 2020 before coming live in August offering series such as All Hail King Julien, The Adventures Of Puss In Boots and Dawn Of The Croods alongside other content like Casper Scare School and George Of The Jungle.

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Since its inception, DreamWorks Channel was added to 8 more territories with Latin America being the 9th territory scheduled to launch the channel later in the year.

For a couple of years, it was believed StarTimes was the only alternative for the channel but that's not entirely the case as DreamWorks Channel can be viewable on Canal+ in some parts of Africa particularly Ethiopia and Rwanda.

StarTimes customers can continue watching the best of DreamWorks through Netflix and Showmax or relocate to the relevant regions for Canal+. South African viewers can easily view the content on eToonz (Openview 130/DStv 311).

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As far as replacements go I doubt the platform is in any rush to source out alternative channels if anything I wouldn't be shocked if we got to see more closures. It's not like the channels which have been removed so far got replaced or anything of value was added in the last year.

These closures seem odd it's almost like they're ready to throw in the towel and leave other platforms to consume their clients. It seems as if they're adapting to a new business model which focuses on the local market. It could explain the additions of C12 and Jib TV.

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The year has just started and I wouldn't be shocked if National Geographic was removed before it officially exits the market by 2023/4. Even the likes of Baby TV, Timeless Dizi Channel, FilmBox, Da Vinci Kids, Toonami and ESPN.

StarTimes could try investing in their own brands and use those outlets to licence content as seen with St Rise, St Kung Fu, St Novelas, Novelas E Plus and Star Kids. If no replacement or decent channel is launching viewers will find other ways to indulge.

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ViacomCBS Is Getting A New Name: Paramount

The media behemoth — which was created through the merger of CBS and Viacom in 2019 — said the rebrand is meant to focus on the company’s goal of becoming a major player in streaming. It is also, plainly, just a better name.

Paramount intends to “turn streaming into a sustainable business for the future,” Paramount CEO Bob Bakish said during an investor event this afternoon, “and know this, we are committed to that future and creating that value.”

PARAMOUNT PLUS WILL GET EXCLUSIVE STREAMING RIGHTS BY 2024

The company intends to hit 100 million streaming subscribers by 2024 — up from its previous goal of 65 million to 75 million during the same timeframe. The company plans to further its international expansion and offer mobile-only plans in some regions to hit its aggressive subscription goals. It’ll also start streaming all Paramount movies exclusively on Paramount Plus starting in 2024 in the US, following their theatrical runs.

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“We’ve got the passion, the vision, and the discipline to deliver,” Bakish said.

Paramount includes major TV networks, like CBS, Nickelodeon, and MTV; the publisher Simon & Schuster; and its titular film studio. But the company is increasingly focused on streaming, where it has three key brands: Showtime, Pluto TV, and Paramount Plus.

Announcing its fourth-quarter 2021 earnings today, Paramount highlighted the rapid growth of its streaming brands. It now has more than 56 million combined streaming subscribers, and streaming revenue is up 48 percent year over year, hitting $1.3 billion in the holiday quarter. Streaming subscription revenue was up 84 percent, while streaming advertising revenue was up 26 percent.

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Paramount announced a huge lineup of upcoming shows and movies headed to its main streaming service to keep that momentum going. That includes a second season of Halo, a Sonic TV series focused on the Idris Elba-voiced Knuckles, and new titles from hits kids properties.

There’ll be a Blue’s Clues movie, a Paw Patrol movie sequel and spinoff TV series, a Dora the Explorer revival, and even a Baby Shark movie (though some films will head to theaters first). Taken together, the company is making a major play to become a must-have subscription for families with young kids.

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