New Series Alert: Eureka Coming Soon To Disney Junior Africa Alongside A Brand New Season Of Raven's Home On Disney Channel Africa - September 2022 Highlights (Final Version)

DISNEY CHANNEL
                    
AMPHIBIA
NEW EPISODES
Monday - Friday from 5th September at 17:50

The third season began with Anne and the Plantars transported from Amphibia to Anne’s hometown of Los Angeles where the frog family had to learn about the modern world and try to find a way home – all while hiding their identities as talking frog people.
In one of the new episodes of Season 3, “The Root of Evil” – Anne and the Plantars get stuck in a strange village of plant lovers.
Then in “The Core & the King” – King Andrias confronts the demons of his past.
Catch the new episodes of Amphibia on Monday, 5th September at 17:50 on Disney Channel.

Raven’s Home
Season 5 Premiere
Monday – Thursday from 12th September at 17:00

Season 5 of Raven’s Home kicks off with Raven taking a trip to San Francisco. When Raven’s father, Victor, has a health scare, Raven and Booker return to San Francisco to help him. Booker fails to babysit his cousin and must fix things before Raven finds out.
Then Booker realizes he likes San Francisco and decides to stay a while.
Watch Season 5 premiere episodes of Raven’s Home from Monday, 12th September at 17:00 on Disney Channel

DISNEY JUNIOR

EUREKA!
Series Premiere
Saturday & Sunday from 10th September at 12:00
Brand-new adventures with Disney Junior’s inventor Eureka.

Meet Eureka, an 8-year-old girl who lives in the village of Rocky Falls, a fun place where both dinosaurs and humans live. Eureka is an inventor who uses her imagination to make new inventions, With the help of her best friends Barry, Pepper, Murphy the Mammoth and Dipply the Dinosaur. Eureka is always thinking up new ideas on how to solve problems in fun, new inventive ways!
In the first of the season episodes “Tusks, Trouble and All” (Saturday, 10 September) – Eureka and her friends, Pepper and Barry, free a woolly mammoth.
Then in “Absoflutely Fabulous” – Eureka tries to befriend a flute player in her class by inventing a new flute.
Catch episodes of new series Eureka! On 10th September at 12:00 on Disney Junior

PJ MASKS
New Episodes
Monday to Friday from 5th September at 10:00
Brand-new episodes of Season 5 with everyone’s favourite crime-fighters, the PJ Masks.
In the first of the new episodes, Mystery Mountain breaks out of its dimension and floats over the city. Meanwhile Romeo challenges Carly and Cartoka to a race,
but it’s all part of a sneaky plan to steal speed crystals stranded in the middle of nowhere. Will they be able to be back on time?
New Episodes of PJ Masks on 5th September at 10:00 on Disney Junior

THE CHICKEN SQUAD
New episodes
Monday to Friday from 12th September at 14:00

Inspired by Doreen Cronin’s popular children’s books, “The Chicken Squad” follows a trio of young chicken siblings—Coop, Sweetie and Little Boo—and their retired search and rescue dog mentor, Captain Tully, as they team up on problem-solving adventures in their backyard to help their animal friends.
In the first of the new episodes, when Captain Tully goes missing, the Squad goes on a quest to find their mentor.
After the Fire Chickens rescue the Chicken Squad, the Squad is eager to find a way to help them in return
Find new episodes of The Chicken Squad on 12th September at 14:00 on Disney Junior
 
ALICE’S WONDERLAND BAKERY
Programming Stunt
Monday to Friday from 19th September at 18:30
Find all your favourite episodes of Alice’s Wonderland Bakery
Alice, the great-granddaughter of the original heroine and a budding young baker at the enchanted Wonderland Bakery, each episode features two 11-minute stories about Alice’s recipe adventures with her best pals—Fergie, a white rabbit; Hattie, her madcap friend; and Rosa, the Princess of Hearts.
Season 1 episodes of Alice’s Wonderland Bakery on 19th September at 18:30 on Disney Junior

DOC MCSTUFFINS
10th Anniversary Celebration
Monday to Friday from 26th September at 18:00
“Doc McStuffins” premiered in March 2012 and since then has become one of the most beloved preschool television properties of all time. It tells the story of a young girl who aspires to be a doctor like her mom and communicates with and heals broken toys and stuffed animals.
Each episode follows Doc and her much-loved stuffed animal friends Stuffy, Lambie, Hallie and Chilly as they diagnose and nurture a toy in need.
Catch episodes of Doc McStuffins from 26th September at 18:00 on Disney Junior

 

Laid-Off HBO Max Execs Reveal Warner Bros. Discovery Is Killing Off Diversity and Courting ‘Middle America’

Adam Manno

Former HBO Max executives say the streaming service has been left with few people of color to oversee its diverse slate of programming as Warner Bros. Discovery continues its ongoing corporate reshuffling.

The platform reportedly laid off close to 70 people this month. That includes the entire teams overseeing unscripted, kids and family, and international content, according to two former HBO Max execs who asked not to be named.

Those three divisions, responsible for buying shows from production companies and creators and working closely with them during production, are now completely gone.

One former employee says as many as 13 people of color previously in charge of developing shows like The Gordita Chronicles and the Spanish-language docuseries Menudo: Forever Young have been let go, likely influencing the types of shows and movies that are greenlit moving forward. Among those laid off are Jen Kim, an Asian woman who served as the senior vice president of the international team, and Kaela Barnes, a Black woman who worked under Kim.

“I don’t think anyone knows just how white the staff is,” one former executive told The Daily Beast.

Former HBO Max staffers say there are barely any non-white people left in the upper ranks of content, with one naming Joey Chavez, an executive vice president of drama, as one of the few people of color still there. Because HBO Max and the original HBO channel operate somewhat independently, one former executive conceded that “there may be one Black woman on the HBO side. Maybe.”

The layoffs have “amplified the lack of diversity at HBO,” another former executive told The Daily Beast. “HBO is the most homogenous part of this umbrella. Instead of trying to figure out how to integrate some of the [Max] executives into HBO, they just made this sweeping cut of three divisions: kids, family, and international. A lot of Black and brown people lost their jobs.”

Ever since parent company Warner Bros. merged with Discovery earlier this year, employees at Warner have grappled with the changing values of the newly created company. Discovery CEO David Zaslav was charged with helping Warner crawl out of a $50 billion hole. He came in like a wrecking ball, tearing up CNN’s $300 million streaming service CNN+ and vowing to pull the Warner-owned news channel away from “advocacy” journalism.

More changes have come in the past couple of weeks.

Earlier this month, it was announced that Batgirl, the $90 million film planned for HBO Max starring Afro-Latina actress Leslie Grace, would be shelved completely in favor of a tax write-off. Over the weekend, CNN media correspondent and host Brian Stelter, a frequent target of right-wing criticism, was fired from the network.

Former Warner employees believe these changes are just as much about business as they are about reshaping the ideological perception of Warner properties. It all points to the same end, they say: A rejection of left-wing or highly diverse content in favor of more homogenous, Middle America-friendly fare. The lack of diversity in content staff might just make that goal easier.

“HBO is the most homogenous part of this umbrella. Instead of trying to figure out how to integrate some of the [Max] executives into HBO, they just made this sweeping cut of three divisions: kids, family, and international. A lot of Black and brown people lost their jobs.”
In a statement to The Daily Beast, HBO highlighted shows like Euphoria, Rap Sh!t, A Black Lady Sketch Show and Los Espookys, all of which are led by diverse characters.

“HBO and HBO Max have always shown a commitment to diverse programming and storytellers, and always will,” the company said.

An internal graphic comparing the audiences of Discovery+ and HBO Max showed a stark demographic difference between the two streamers. Where HBO Max is popular with diverse groups, single people, and drivers of hybrid cars, Discovery+ is popular with white, married people who drive SUVs, minivans, and “traveling buses.” HBO Max viewers are on TikTok and Instagram, while Discovery+ viewers use social media platforms Facebook and Twitter, with the added caveat, “if any.” HBO Max viewers have no kids. Discovery+ viewers are either “empty nesters” or have grandchildren. Discovery may be trying to pull HBO into its orbit as it focuses on what it does best.

HBO Max’s reality offerings presented an obvious sticking point for the new bosses. Where Discovery properties like TLC and HGTV send camera crews out to film what they can find, HBO Max’s offerings are more carefully crafted. They’re sometimes buoyed by stars like Selena Gomez or Steph Curry, who have the power to command big paychecks, and they’re noticeably sleeker, with smoother edits and more complicated camera set-ups adding to their budgets.

One former exec describes Discovery+ as a “more general audience platform that doesn’t have the specificity that HBO Max was tailored to. I think Discovery is just a very ‘all’ audience, [they] don’t wanna make things that are political, topical, alienate Middle America—more Chip and Joanna,” they said, referring to the home renovation show Fixer Upper: Welcome Home hosted by Chip and Joanna Gaines.

Leslie Grace in Batgirl

HBO Max
“If David Zaslav had his wish, he would just program Chip and Joanna all day long,” the executive said. “There was just a massive, ‘We don’t need you. You’re not offering the things we’re focused on.’”

The change in perspective could also partly explain why so many titles have recently disappeared from HBO Max’s platform. Our sources agree that the removals are mostly related to money. The company can claim a tax break for the costs associated with certain shows as long as it promises to stop profiting off them, which means taking them down altogether.

“They’re canceling a lens of perspective that I don’t think exists when you look at Discovery-branded shows,” one former staffer said.

Speaking of the company’s plans to combine HBO Max and Discovery+ into one giant streaming service in the near future, the laid-off exec said: “Don’t be surprised if there’s a new name for the platform.”

Overall, there’s a sense that HBO Max’s executives of color were just another casualty in the company’s quest to get itself out of debt, content quality be damned.

“In terms of people seeing themselves reflected, whether it’s ethnic or LGBTQ, when you have people who are diverse, the lens with which they evaluate [content] factors in things that I think my white colleagues just don’t think about,” one former executive said.

“It’s deep,” said another. “What are they going to do with this disproportionate amount of people of color that were let go? They need to replace them in some capacity. Or do they not care? That’s what we’ve been told, that they just don’t care.”

Adult Swim Reveals Rick And Morty Season Six Southern Africa Premiere Date

Adult Swim, the leader in adult animation, announced today that the two-time Emmy® Award-winning comedy series Rick and Morty will premiere globally and across the multiverse, starting on Sunday, 4 September at 11:00 p.m. ET/PT. Rick and Morty enthusiasts across southern Africa can catch the new season from Monday, 5 September, just 24 hours after the US premiere, on Netflix.

“It’s hard to overstate the impact of Rick and Morty. More than a hit show, it is truly a global phenomenon,” said Michael Ouweleen, president of Adult Swim and Cartoon Network. “As we prepare to launch this soon-to-be iconic season, we will be giving fans a unique way to be part of the fun – so keep your eyes peeled.”

Rick and Morty was the #1 comedy across all cable in 2017, 2019, and 2021 and has been in the Top 10 watched list on HBO Max since its launch. Lifetime to date, Rick and Morty has been viewed over 10B times globally, across linear, digital, and streaming.

Rick and Morty is the Emmy® Award-winning half-hour animated hit comedy series on Adult Swim that follows a sociopathic genius scientist who drags his inherently timid grandson on insanely dangerous adventures across the universe. Rick Sanchez is living with his daughter Beth’s family and constantly bringing her, his son-in-law Jerry, granddaughter Summer, and grandson Morty into intergalactic escapades.

It’s season six, and Rick and Morty are back! Pick up where we left them, worse for wear and down on their luck. Will they manage to bounce back for more adventures? Or will they get swept up in an ocean of pee! Who knows?! Pee! Family! Intrigue! A bunch of dinosaurs! More pee! Another can't-miss season of your favourite show.

Rick and Morty stars Justin Roiland (Solar Opposites), Sarah Chalke (Scrubs), Chris Parnell (Saturday Night Live), and Spencer Grammer (Greek). The series is created by Dan Harmon (Community) and Roiland, who also serve as executive producers.

 

Reruns Graveyard: Hustlers + Voëlvry + Wrede Stad + Verdeelde Liefde Coming Soon To e.tv

For several months, e.tv South Africa's independent free-to-air channel on top of most watched English network has been loading up on repeats following the addition of local content which led to a cutback in international series on weeknights.

Honestly the lineup is an absolute mess as Craze has suffered the same effect as most of the primetime is currently viewable on eToonz through the Openview platform. Even the movies has been reduced to ashes imagine primetime on eMovies.

At least with eToonz, the primetime is noticable and I'm not saying eMovies sucks but considering how often "new" is advertised across their portfolio it can be irritating to often browse your TV Guide and distinguishing between premiere and repeat if new can be left in the dark.

I know e.tv has reasons for making these adjustments who can blame them as MultiChoice has seen a further cut of premium international channels as their suppliers want to function independently. Although eMedia never had these brands content was very much accessible.

In the end, it's not over and out for e.tv as the channel had inherited various content from the other e.tv channels with most of it from eExtra but point being made there's still something to watch even though it's not what some would find as a delight especially on the Openview platform.

Here are 4 shows set to air on the channel between 2022/3:

1. Hustlers

Set in Johannesburg, we follow fading superstar Kitt Khambule, who crashes and burns at her comeback concert. Broke and desperate she goes on the run to avoid creditors. Back home and licking her wounds, she takes street urchins Baby and Thuli through a journey, which eerily mirrors her own, to the height of stardom.

The series is set to replace The Blacklist at 22:00 from 5 September.

2. Voëlvry

Kuzgun's family life changes completely as a result of the caliper held against his father, who is a police officer. Kuzgun will fall into a bondage, pain, anger, and struggle that will last 20 years. Kuzgun is a mafia-style crime drama that tells the story of the Bilgin and Cebeci families.

The series is set to replace Vierspel Vuurspel at 23:00 from 7 September.

3. Wrede Stad

Aired on eExtra last year, Follows the life of Seher and his children. When Seher and Agah make an encounter, the lives of their families become complicated as tension and scandal arises between the two families.

The series is rumoured to replace As Die Skoen Pas.

4. Verdeelde Liefde

Caught between two families, Zeynep was born in the slums and raised by a rich family. Living in bad conditions, her family give her up for adoption in exchange for money. In the mist of her struggles she meets Mehdi.

Currently streaming on eVOD and will be accessible by next year as a replacement to the fourth season of Doodsondes.

Redraw Your World: Cartoonito Is Coming!!! As The Brand Gets More Airtime On Boomerang Africa

Home to creative, caring, curious, and courageous kids, Cartoonito is the new dedicated early morning block on Boomerang Africa where little ones can enjoy trusted characters and friends will also have an afternoon block.

As of 1st September, Cartoonito will not only be viewable at 6:30 CAT every morning but 12:00 CAT as well with shows like Dino Ranch, Lucas The Spider, Kingdom Force and Thomas And Friends: All Engines Go!.

Cartoonito launched in April and since then has given to be a valuable addition to Boomerang which has since then constructed their offering to cater for preschoolers with the likes of Legends Of Spark and Masha And The Bear which has also been dominating the circuit.

Amy Friedman, the head of kids and family programming at Warner Bros. talked on the success earlier in the year:

"We are having a blast serving our littlest viewers. Inviting an audience in and giving them beautiful, meaningful, educational, visually stunning musical fare is really important for the business, but it’s also important for the creative community. We launched with 15 titles, and we have many, many more coming.”

Notes:

This is Cartoonito at the moment even on weekends

06:30 CoComelon
06:33 CoComelon
06:35 CoComelon
06:37 CoComelon
06:40 CoComelon
06:45 Dino Ranch
06:55 Dino Ranch
07:05 Thomas & Friends
07:15 Thomas & Friends

What's coming from Thursday 1st September

12:00 Dino Ranch
12:10 Dino Ranch
12:25 Kingdom Force
12:35 Kingdom Force
12:45 Thomas & Friends
12:55 Thomas & Friends

What's seen on the weekends

12:00 Thomas & Friends
12:10 Thomas & Friends
12:25 Lucas The Spider
12:30 Lucas The Spider
12:40 Dino Ranch
12:50 Dino Ranch