What To Expect On Nick Jr. Global In October 2022?

Paw Patrol: Two-week Full Channel Take Over &
Premieres
When: 07/05/2022 – 08/05/2022 Premiere Ep: #201
When: 14/05/2022 – 15/05/2022
When: 01/10/2022 - 14/10/2022
Premiere Ep: #202
Premiere Episode: #906, 821-824, 826, 905, 907-908
Slot: Everyday
When: 21/05/2022 – 22/05/2022
Themed Stunt Time: 08:15am/pm; 02:15am/pm Premiere Ep: #203
Premiere Time: 10:30am/pm, 04:30am/pm
Slot: Saturday-Sunday Time: 17:10,20:45(CET)

*each premiere will have a themed stunt before it for a duration of two hours, please see excel highlights for exact info

Anna & Friends: New Episodes
Premiere: 17/10/2022 – 31/10/2022* Episodes: #139-160 Slot: Monday-Friday Time: 06:15am, 11:10am/pm, 18:10pm

*will continue in November

Blaze and the Monster Machines: New Episodes
When: 07/05/2022 – 08/05/2022 Premiere Ep: #201
Premiere: 17/10/2022 – 21/10/2022 When: 14/05/2022 – 15/05/2022
Premiere Ep: #202
Episodes: #620-624
Slot: Monday-Friday When: 21/05/2022 – 22/05/2022
Time: 08:45am/pm, 12:20am/pm, 04:15am/pm

Weeklong Halloween Premieres
Show: Blaze & The Monster Machines Premiere: 24/10/2022 Episode: #625 Slot: Monday Time: 06:55am, 12:00am/pm, 04:15am/pm
Show: Blue’s Clues & You Premiere: 25/10/2022 Episode: #304 Slot:Tuesday Time: 06:55am, 12:00am/pm, 04:15am/pm, 07:10pm
Show: Baby Shark’s Big Show Premiere: 26/10/2022 Episode: #111A Slot: Wednesday Time: 06:55am, 12:00am/pm, 04:15am/pm, 07:10pm
Show: Bubble Guppies Premiere: 27/10/2022 Episode: #601 Slot: Thursday Time: 06:55am, 12:00am/pm, 04:15am/pm, 07:10pm
Show: The Adventures of Paddington Premiere: 28/10/2022 Episode: #225 Slot: Friday Time: 06:55am, 12:00am/pm, 04:15am/pm, 07:10pm

Halloween Stunt
When: 31/10/2022
Episodes: Blaze and the Monster Machines #203, 625; The Adventures of Paddington #120, 225; Baby Shark’s Big Show #111A;
Barbapapa #107B; Santiago of the Seas #119;
Bubble Guppies #412, 601; Blue’s Clues & You #119, 304; Paw Patrol #217B, 319A, 623B; Butterbean’s Café #114 Slot: Monday Time: 12:00am/pm

 

Roundups #95: Cartoon Network Africa Acquired Broadcasting Rights To Lego Monkie Kid, Desperate Housewives Now Drug Dealers Race Against Time On e.tv Nurses Returns For A Second Season On Telemundo Africa

More Lego action coming to Cartoon Network

Last month, Cartoon Network entered a new era with Redraw Your World which was greeted by two CN Movies Hotel Transylvania and The Angry Birds Movie now the channel will be welcoming its first series to the new era, Lego Monkie Kid.

The tale begins when an ordinary boy, Monkie Kid, finds Monkey King's legendary staff, and he becomes the chosen one. Together with his brave and loyal friends, Monkie Kid begins his quest to stop the Demon Bull King and his army of Bull Clones from taking over the city.

The series is set to air in the coming month on Cartoon Network.

Housewives making its linear debut on e.tv

e.tv has released a new locally-produced drama series, HouseWives, on its eVOD service last year with the story that revolves around desperate housewives starting a drug cartel that unspooled on its video streaming offering first.

HouseWives - produced by The Milton Empire (TME) with Siphosethu Tshapu as executive producer, Siphosethu Tshapu as head writer and Sevetian Su Ong Maslamoney as director of photography - consists of 26 episodes and filmed two seasons over 3 months.

In HouseWives , the lives of three housewives are changed forever when their husbands are killed by a drug cartel boss. Akhona Khumalo (Sive Mabuya), Summer Pietersen (Angela Lieveaux), and Lawrencia "Lolo" Ntsimane (Gabisile Tshabalala) are left with the heavy debt left by their spouses' criminal activities and are forced to work for the Colombian drug cartel leader to pay off the debt - however, they end up deciding to outsmart the cartel boss and open a syndicate of their own.

The series replaces Is'phindiselo on 2 October at 20:00.

Nurses is back for a season 2

Initially, Telemundo an international channel owned by NBCUniversal home to Spanish telenovelas dubbed in English for viewers in Africa had planned to air the first season of Nurses when Meet The Family comes to a close next month.

Nurses follows a story of women in which María Clara whose responsible for driving the main plot: a love story full of ups and downs. A failed marriage, a divorce, raising her two children, and falling in love again--with a younger man. Not to mention her vital work.

Don't miss the final episode of Meet The Family on 11 October at 21:00 CAT with Nurses S2 airing 16 October in the same timeslot.

 

The Twisted Origin Story Of RealityXtra

RealityXtra is a European based channel owned by AMC International in partnership with Paramount serving as an extra by name to CBS Reality as its lineup is filled with content once seen by its predecessor CBS Drama.

The channel was brought in at the time AMC International had begun reviewing their offering in various markets and as seen with RealityXtra it's nothing like the sister channel CBS Reality as it's funneled with scripted content like CSI: Miami, Bosch, Charmed and Touched By An Angel.

Almost as if they were kind of rushing the introduction of RealityXtra and I know most of its existence should be coming from CBS Drama as AMC International had chosen it to replace the channel but what if I had to say that the channel shares a close connection to CBS Reality.

CBS Reality (known as Reality TV) was launched back in 2002 as part of a joint venture between UPCtv and Zone Vision in the UK and after 4 years got an additional channel, Reality Extra and although many believe this could have a connection to RealityXtra it might not be the case.

I get the naming is similar you have Reality Extra and RealityXtra but there's indicators that AMC International could have thought of RealityXtra without dwelling so much on the past.

They have a programming block on one of their brands HorrorXtra and other than that look at the content. I mean Reality Extra was a disciple of Reality TV as the programming coordinated with each other but that's not the case with CBS Reality and RealityXtra.

As mentioned above, the content is way too different making them random than just a mere spinoff and honestly with the way things are with CBS Reality retaining the CBS brand would it be far fetched if the channel were close and RealityXtra took its place.

There's been officials in the UK mentioning how there's another reality channel known as Really which has somewhat a similar feel to CBS "Reality" even though from my angle it wouldn't be hard to differentiate from the two. One is yellow another orange one has two "l" the other got an "lt" instead.

Point being made it has been speculated that this Really channel is the cause of having CBS Reality retain its status but from my perspective wouldn't RealityXtra make an ideal replacement to CBS Reality I mean other content might as well move to Legend with the rest under this brand.

RealityXtra is one way they could however try to phase out CBS without clashing with Really.

From Lifetime To fliekNET: A Look At Various Channel Changes On MultiChoice's DStv + Possible Future Channel Closures

2022 has proven to be a dramatic year on cable as MultiChoice has seen a shed of various channels from Russia Today's blackout to the carriage feud with eMedia Investments over their 4 TV channels we look at the list of channels that went off air during the year.

Terminations

Tellytrack - February 2022

Supplemented with Racing240

Russia Today - March 2022

eAfrica - March 2022

Lifetime - May 2022

ITV Networks - June 2022

Supplemented with Hilaal TV

fliekNET - July 2022

Supplemented with kykNET

Zhejiang TV - July 2022

Supplemented with CCTV-4 and KIX

CMC TV - July 2022

Supplemented with CCTV-4 and KIX

New channels

Racing240 - January 2022

Replacement for Tellytrack

DreamWorks - March 2022

Replacement for eToonz supposedly

Hilaal TV - June 2022

Replacement for ITV Networks

NHK World-Japan - July 2022

INX Prime - August 2022

Movie Room - August 2022

Replacement for eMovies and eMovies Extra supposedly

Possible/rumoured terminations with estimations

CBS Reality - Fall 2022

CBS Justice - Fall 2022

JimJam - Fall 2022

Nicktoons - Fall 2022

eMovies - Early 2023

eMovies Extra - Early 2023

eExtra - Early 2023

eToonz - Early 2023

Discovery Family - TBC

Travel Channel - TBC

Possible new channels including scrapped batches

SABC Education

Two SABC channels

Untitled Via duplicate channel

The Racing Partnership (TRP)

CBS Justice May Not Be The Only Channel Out For The Count On DStv Even These Two Channels Are Likely To Get Chopped Across Africa

During the past week, I shared my suggestions on CBS Justice as AMC International review their offering across various regions which has led to the reduction or discontinuation of several channels. As seen in these regions, these changes include several other brands namely CBS Reality and JimJam.

CBS Reality is a factual entertainment channel home to various unscripted content like Judge Judy, Cheaters, Animal Hoarding, Hardcore Pawn and Women On The Force and as seen in other regions crime shows like Forensic Files, Killer Siblings and The Real Prime Suspect.

The longest I've watched this channel practically anything with the CBS brand you notice the repetitive nature and I know this is common in most markets but the channel is funneled with too much old programming which is often the reason a channel's lifespan is cut short.

JimJam seems to be lurking in the shadows of these two as the preschool brand has seen themselves get a variety of content which date back to 4-8 years. Some notable series include Thomas And Friends, Guess With Jess, Olivia and Noddy In Toyland.

All of which can be viewed on DreamWorks Channel and CBeebies.

Although there hasn't been much confirmation about CBS Reality's future. There is a lot of signs pointing toward the phasing out of the brand as seen in Poland and the UK in which the current offering tries to limit any mention of CBS.

JimJam's availability has seen declines on various cable providers across the world not that it isn't available in many homes but when various platforms similar to DStv internationally pull the rug from down under then you know something is up.