The Possible Reason Behind eToonz, eMovies, eMovies Extra And eExtra's Demise On DStv

MultiChoice has decided to part ways with the channels after almost 5 years following their failure to renew the contract with eMedia Investments for the channels.

As some are aware, eMedia Investments hasn't been profiting from these brands ever since their induction on DStv. They went from earning earning over R200 million with eNCA to less than R150 when eExtra, eMovies, eMovies Extra and eToonz were added.

During the years, the red brand has experienced their frustration with the pay-tv company. Take for instance the oral hearing set by ICASA, eMedia Investments boasted about how popular their channels were and MultiChoice not taking that into consideration left them with peanuts.

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At the time Afro Worldview was on air, the company found out that the controversial news channel was making more money than eNCA despite them operating the most watched news station on their platform.

Negotiations are held behind closed doors so no one really knows what happens during those meetings.

eMedia Investments confirmed that MultiChoice opted not to carry those channels but what led to the decision in the first place. Is it possible eMedia Investments was demanding for more money and MultiChoice packed their bags or was the issue just with the content?

I mean the way MultiChoice was pick to just replace them actually implies that the issue may or may not have been money but content.

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- SABC Encore and SABC Children channel might be in development
- Could eNCA launch on Openview?

MultiChoice focuses more on content than performance when deciding how much money a company generate from their stock and these 4 channels despite being very reliable lacked one thing and that was originality.

Despite their dominance, eMovies had a stack of content from M-Net Movies and Studio Universal, e.tv played second fiddle to eExtra which played second to Zee TV and eToonz doppelganger was just metres apart but that all changes from March 18th.

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EVIL🔞: "Gloomy Sunday" The Song That Caused Suicides

If you're under 18 then this isn't for you

“Gloomy Sunday,” came to existence during one of history’s bleakest moments. Written in 1933 by Hungarian pianist and composer Reszõ Seress against the backdrop of the Great Depression and an increasing fascist influence in Hungary, and originally recorded in 1935 by Pál Kalmár, the song is something of a plea for mercy as humanity is at its worst. Seress’ original published lyrics were titled “Vége a világnak,” or “The World Is Ending,” and reflected a growing sense of horror and despair at the state of the world. A key sample lyric translates to “Meadows are coloured red with human blood/There are dead people on the streets everywhere,” just to give a frame of reference for the level of darkness that Seress’ composition harbored. No wonder it’s been blamed for anywhere between 17 and over 100 suicides.

To hear “Gloomy Sunday” is to be blanketed in tragic beauty. The song’s minor key melody is at once incredibly catchy and ominously dark, crafted to evoke a sense of despair that transcends language. While Seress’ song became an international hit, eventually being recorded by Billie Holiday in what’s now probably the most famous version of the song, one need only hear the emotion in Kalmár’s gently aching voice to know the pain behind the verses. (Not to mention the vintage crackle of the nearly 90-year-old song gives it a particularly ghostly quality.) Yet its origins stem from something as simple as a breakup, Seress having written the song after the end of a relationship. That the song delved so deep into such harrowing personal feelings initially proved to be an obstacle for the songwriter in his attempt to have it published. One publisher reportedly said, “there is a sort of terrible compelling despair about it” about his reluctance to publish the song.

And yet, in spite of this, “Gloomy Sunday” eventually became a hit. More than that, it became a standard, recorded in many languages by countless artists, including Billie Holiday, Sinead O’Connor, Mel Tormé and Sarah Vaughn. But to hear the lore about the song, it’d seem to have some kind of sinister power over the people who hear it. It’s not even corporeal, but it has a massive body count. Some of the various accounts of its supposed, morbid misdeeds include: a shoemaker whose suicide note quoted the song; a girl in Vienna drowning while holding its sheet music; a man who shot himself after telling loved ones the song wouldn’t leave his head; a woman in London who overdosed while listening to “Gloomy Sunday”; sheet music was found in the apartment of a shopkeeper in Berlin who hanged herself—the list goes on, and those are only the apocryphal accounts that have managed to live on in the near-century since the song came into being. It’s a merciless fiend of a song, almost supernatural, like the video in The Ring you see before you die. Which, perhaps, makes my repeated listens to the song over the past week ill-advised. If it did, in fact, cause the carnage attributed to it.

Because of the epidemic of suicides in the aftermath of the song’s release, and possibly because of it, Hungarian authorities supposedly discouraged broadcast of the song. A more extreme version of the song was that it was banned, and an even more extreme one yet was that it was even banned in the US and UK, where its popularity spread. None of this, at least according to Snopes, can be corroborated, but it’s entirely understandable if broadcasters and the government were a little on edge because of what they were hearing. And to be fair, it is a mournful song. Gloomy, even! It’s not at all surprising to hear that deathrock icons Christian Death later covered it or, for that matter, doom metal band Pallbearer, whose version is actually quite stunning. But it does take a certain frame of mind to hear this song and not feel a sense of dread. “Terrible compelling despair” doesn’t seem at all exaggerated in describing the song, though that doesn’t mean it’s bad. It’s quite pretty, and its earliest versions, particularly in the original Hungarian, are utterly haunting.

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In some sense, the monstrous stories about “Gloomy Sunday” wreaking havoc seem to be a distraction from the genuine sadness surrounding the song. The landscape in which it was released was one of the darkest of the 20th century, as prosperity declined and iron-fisted hateful authoritarians rose. And we’re in a landscape now, globally, that mirrors the era in too many ways. And Hungary, up through the ’80s, had one of the highest suicide rates of any country in the world, which suggests that “Gloomy Sunday” was merely a reflection of the despair that surrounded it, rather than its cause. Most tragic of all, however, Seress himself dying after jumping off of a building in Budapest in 1968, which makes it the sole concrete connection among all of the stories out there. (There is also a story about the woman who broke up with him, initially inspiring the writing of the song, dying herself after hearing it, though there’s no evidence or documentation of this, just secondhand telephone games with the dead.)

Given all the baggage that “Gloomy Sunday” carries, it’s a song that’s easier to analyze than enjoy. Can one simply listen to a song that’s supposedly such a powerful, overwhelmingly dark presence without context. Can it be enjoyed for what it is? It can, possibly. But with the flood of information that’s already been disseminated, there’s more context than song, at this point. In 2019, it can’t be separated from its reputation as “The Hungarian Suicide Song,” for better or for worse. To hear it, however, it’s impossible to shake the lingering eerie feeling that it leaves with you. Beware of its hitchhiking ghosts.

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Roundups #25: Akshay Kumar Lives The Street Life In Zee Studios Upcoming Film Bachchhan Paandey, The Second Season Of Telemundo Africa's Upcoming Series Hidden Passions Is Available To Stream On WLEXT, Apple & Onion Ending After 2 Seasons On Cartoon Network And Sandra Oh Stars As Amanda In The Supernatural Horror Umma

Bachchhan Paandey starring Akshay Kumar and Kriti Sanon will be out March 18th

Starring superstar Akshay Kumar in and as Bachchhan Paandey, the highly anticipated action comedy is set to release in theatres this Holi, 18th March 2022.

The trailer showcases a story of action, comedy
and crime. Packed with strong performances, the
trailer boasts of an amazing background score, top-notch action, Akshay Kumar's signature comic finesse and Arshad Warsi's outstanding.

Directed by Farhad Samji, the trailer takes audience through the heartland of India with larger-than-life visuals and Akshay Kumar in a never-seen-before avatar. Audiences can also expect great performances from talents including Kriti Sanon, Pankaj Tripathi, Sanjay Mishra, Abhimanyu Singh, Arshad Warsi and Jacqueline Fernandez.

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- Two new series coming to Zee World: Luck In My Fate and Beauty And The Beast
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Hidden Passions is available on WLEXT

WLEXT the no. 1 platform for telenovelas from Mexico and Latin America which also offer a range of international dramas and movies have uploaded the second season of Pasión De Gavilanes.

Taking place 20 years after the first season, the Reyes and Elizondo family will face new challenges that threaten their family. The death of a teacher shakes the family as evidence points to one of the sons of one of the couples as the possible culprit, triggering a series of heartbreaking events that will, once again, put their love and loyalty to the test.

In other telenovela based news, Telemundo will be airing The Scent Of Passion within the next month and My Heart Beats For Lola will begin in a few days.

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Cartoon Network cancels another series

Apple & Onion focuses on its titular characters Apple and Onion and their adventures in a settlement inhabited by anthropomorphic food.

According to series creator, the series would be ending after the second season but the season wasn't filmed in the manner of a finale.

Killing Eve star is back for more horror

Golden Globe winner Sandra Oh serves as executive producer and stars in the supernatural horror Umma which follows Amanda (Oh) and her daughter living a quiet life on an American farm, but when the remains of her estranged mother arrive from Korea, Amanda becomes haunted by the fear of turning into her own mother.

It is scheduled to be released on March 18, 2022.

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Viewership Stats 17-24 February: Zee One And Glow TV's Viewership Plummets Giving Star Life An Advantage Over Zee World And Star Life

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Zee World viewership goes as follows:

Twist Of Fate (Rerun) - 1.6
King Of Hearts (Rerun) - 1.6
My Heart Knows - 1.9
Can You See Me? - 1.7
These Streets (Finale) - 0.9
I Do - 1.0
Twist Of Fate - 3.1
Once There Was A King - 2.4

Total: 10,1 million (including Can You See Me and not repeats) and 9,3 million (including These Streets and not repeats)

Notes
- Twist Of Fate reruns decreased by 0.3 million.
- My Heart Knows decreased by 0.2 million while Twist Of Fate decreased by 0.1 million.
- I Do and Once There Was A King viewership remains the same as the previous week.
- These Streets finale gained 0.3 million viewers.
- Zee World has the most viewers on the list.

Star Life viewership goes as follows:

Geet (Rerun) - 0.9
A Lockdown Love Story - 2.0
Dream Girl - 1.7
Happy Hearts - 1.1
Never Say Goodbye - 1.9

Total: 6,7 million (excluding reruns)

Notes
- Geet rerun decreased by 0.1 million viewers.
- A Lockdown Love Story gained 0.7 million viewers.
- Dream Girl and Never Say Goodbye gained 0.3 million viewers.
- Happy Hearts decreased by 0.1 million viewers.
- Star Life is the second most watched channel this week.

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- Studio Dragon unveil a set of Korean dramas launching on tvN
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Zee One viewership goes as follows:

Guddan - 2.6
Sacred Ties - 2.1
The Heir - 0.6
Lies Of The Heart - 1.1
My Golden Home - 0.1

Total: 6,5 million

Notes
- Guddan viewership decreased by 0.3 million viewers.
- The Heir and My Golden Home remains the same from the previous week.
- Lies Of The Heart viewership decreased by 0.2 million.
- Zee One is the third most watched channel this week.

Glow TV viewership goes as follows:

This Is Love (Rerun) - 0.6
A Touch Of Love - 1.0
Emperor Ashoka - 1.1
A Love To Die For - 0.9
True Love (Rerun) - 1.0

Total: 3 million (excluding reruns)

Notes
- This Is Love viewership decreased by 0.1 million.
- A Touch Of Love and A Love To Die For viewership remains the same.
- Emperor Ashoka viewership decreased by 0.4 million.
- True Love gained 0.4 million viewers.
- The brand with the most repeats.

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Don't Miss The Season Finale Of Crown Of Tears Next Month Followed By The New Series Simply Maria + Rumoured Shows On TLNovelas Africa

We finally got a break

Simply Maria was the first new series unveiled for the new year alongside two Portuguese series which at the time had no release dates. Then Overcoming Fear and Keeping My Family Together joined the lineup with release dates added beforehand.

While viewers have to wait another two months to view Overcoming Fear and Keeping My Family Together. Simply Maria will arrive much earlier than the two as the series is allocated in the slot currently reserved for Crown For Tears.

Crown Of Tears season finale will air on Sunday 10 April at 12:00 CAT and Simply Maria premieres at 17:20 CAT from Monday 11 April.

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Rumoured developments for TLNovelas

As viewers were waiting on the channel to confirm several details regarding the above shows. It didn't stop them from browsing the web and stumbling across a post related to the Mexican brand.

According to the info provided, other titles which might make air on the channel soon include Mujeres De Negro (Woman In Black) and Juro Que Te Amo (Oath Of Love).

Woman In Black follows the rich coastal town of Encino Blanco, three married couples spend the weekend at Coral Beach while their husbands go on their already traditional fishing trip on a yacht. Not far from the pier, the yacht suddenly explodes. Only chips remain on the surface. In seconds they lost their husbands, and they have to go on with their lives without them...just as they planned.

Oath Of Love follows Violeta Madrigal whose family lost their fortune by the people who previously seemed to love and respect them. Justino Fregoso is the most powerful of the Madrigal family's former friends, who made his fortune through shady deals that ended the stability of the Copper Company, owned by the family Madrigal.

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- In March, E! will also be hosting the Oscars live from the red carpet and launch the cover bands
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- Synopsis for TLNovelas upcoming series Simply Maria

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