Timmy Turner's favorite comic book hero, The Crimson Chin, has been captured! Now it's up to him to come to the rescue. With a little help from his wacky Fairy Godparents, Cosmo and Wanda, Timmy will transform into Cleft, the Boy Chin Wonder and enter the pages of a comic to save the day! It's one cleftastic adventure!
Cosmo, Wanda and Timmy Turner set out on a zany new adventure as they are pitted against their nemesis, Mr. Crocker, and evil anti-fairies who have broken into Dimmsdale. On the unluckiest day of the year, Friday the 13th, it's up to Timmy and his Fairy God Parents to use their quick wit and bountiful wishes to defeat the anti-fairies and foil Crocker's plan to take over the world.
Just prior to Friday the 13th, Crocker performs a dastardly experiment that will once and for all prove that fairies exist. But his experiment backfires and turns Timmy's world into the Anti-World where everything is opposite even Timmy and his Fairy Godparents! And now, Anti-Cosmo, Anti-Wanda, and Anti-Timmy are hatching a sinister plan to stop the earth from turning to make it Friday the 13th forever. With their powers slowly dwindling as the dreadful day approaches, the real Timmy and his Fairy Godparents must travel through the Anti-lands and save the rest of the world from the evil Anti-Fairies.
WWE® (NYSE: WWE) and MultiChoice today announced a major broadcast partnership that will see Showmax – the leading streaming service available in the region – become the new home of WWE Network in Africa.
The partnership incorporates all WWE Premium Live Events, including WrestleMania®, as well as WWE Network’s vast library of original and archived programming available to stream on-demand.
Additionally, SuperSport, the sport broadcasting subsidiary of video entertainment platform MultiChoice, will continue to broadcast live weekly episodes of Raw®, SmackDown® and NXT® as well as all of WWE’s Premium Live Events in a multi-year extension.
The weekly programming will continue to be broadcast 52 weeks a year, captivating fans with a unique combination of edge-of-your-seat action, unpredictable drama and world-class athleticism. SuperSport recently launched a brand-new localized WWE content series called JAMBO WWE, and the expanded WWE and MultiChoice partnership will see additional partnership initiatives leveraging WWE IP announced during the term.
“Showmax Pro is the market leader and a perfect home for WWE content,” said Matt Drew, WWE Senior Vice President, International. “By delivering our premium live events including WrestleMania, we believe this partnership will expand our audience and deliver even more to WWE fans throughout the region.”
Barry Dubovsky, Chief Operating Officer at MultiChoice Connected Video, added: “Adding WWE to the Showmax platform is an exciting development that we know our entertainment and sport-loving African subscribers are going to enjoy, making WWE even more accessible and affordable.”
Showmax is an African streaming service that combines the best of local content, first and exclusive international series, the best kids’ shows, and live sport from SuperSport. In addition to WWE, Showmax subscribers can stream the full entertainment catalogue, including original African fantasy series Blood Psalms; all episodes of Steinheist, the docuseries about South Africa’s biggest corporate scandal; Diiche, a Showmax Nigerian Original limited series; Journey of the Beats, a 10-part docuseries on the origin and evolution of Afrobeats; Kenyan political drama series, County49, and original thriller series, Igiza.
Subscribers can also watch brand-new episodes of the second season of the Emmy darling White Lotus plus other fan-favourite HBO and Emmy-winning shows such as Euphoria and the third season of the Showmax Original telenovela, The Wife.
Showmax is also the only place to stream all episodes of Reyka, the South African smash-hit show that was recently nominated for two International Emmy Awards – one for Best Drama Series, and one for lead star Kim Engelbrecht.
The service is available throughout sub-Saharan Africa and to selected diaspora markets worldwide. For a free trial, visit www.showmax.com.
Showmax can be streamed using apps for smart TVs, smartphones, tablets, computers, media players and gaming consoles with data consumption management available using the bandwidth capping feature.
MultiChoice and M-Net decided to the halt the distribution of Novela Magic to consumers in South Africa with the channel expected to go off air from 27 November as it will be supplemented by two other channels ahead of time, Magic Showcase and CineMagic.
Novela Magic offered a lot of content from Mzansi Magic which is enough justification to have it removed but the brand existed for multiple brands as well including Africa Magic, Maisha Magic, Zambezi Magic, Pearl Magic and Maningue Magic.
While as Mzansi Magic and kykNET can make up for the chunk of SA content alongside kykNET & Kie, kykNET Lekker and Mzansi Magic. Viewers will basically lose access to content from the above-mentioned brands with Access receiving the most blows.
Africa Magic hosts a ray of linear channels none of which can be viewed on the Access package so it's bye bye to The Johnsons, Zuba and Battleground unless you plan to upgrade to the Family package in order to continue watching these shows or Easyview better yet.
Magic Showcase is a general entertainment channel which will be sourcing out content from Mzansi Magic such as Being Bonang and The Imposter while as supplying content outside of that namely Zuba, Arendsvlei and Legacy.
All this kind of gave me an idea for another channel which is hovered with rebroadcasts and basically a waste to Compact bouquets, Mzansi Wethu.
As much as MultiChoice refuses to acknowledge the fact Mzansi Wethu is basically how Magic Showcase could have been had they made it accessible to more consumers. I know I say this channel sucks a lot but maybe there is a way to keep it onboard.
In July, kykNET introduced their Turkish offering on kykNET & Kie which kind of helped give the channel its own identity as opposed to being viewed as kykNET+. Mzansi Wethu could do something similar but instead of sourcing Turkish they go for African.
Africa Magic Family already supplies Isibaya to their audiences so what's the harm in getting Battleground and Zuba onto Mzansi Wethu as it can help reduce that repeat tier tendancy for those using the Compact bouquet.
MultiChoice and M-Net will be rolling out two new 18 hour entertainment channels Magic Showcase and CineMagic to their Easyview customers later in November. Prior to its launch, it was announced Novela Magic will no longer be accessible in South Africa.
Novela Magic launched in November 2020 as Africa's first Pan-African telenovela channel featuring content from Africa Magic, Mzansi Magic and Zambezi Magic namely Zuba, Isibaya, The Johnsons and Brotherhood Brethren.
The channel was meant to be used as a gateway to content that was restricted from certain regions but as seen in the past years the channel offers a large chunk of Mzansi Magic which is what led to its demise for consumers in South Africa and freedom from execution in other countries.
Magic Showcase is set to rectify that error but to less DStv customers as MultiChoice is trying their best to limit the amount of repeats accessible on a package as seen with kykNET Lekker, Maisha Magic POA and Moja 9.9.
Consumers who wish to see further seasons of Zuba and Battleground can tune into Africa Magic Family and Urban while the large chunk of SA content on the channel can be accessed through Mzansi Magic, kykNET, Mzansi Wethu, kykNET & Kie and kykNET Lekker.
Comedy Central and MTV were added respectively to Compact and Family bouquets to make up for the cancellation of Novela Magic. Access customers welcomed a further two channels to their package last month, BET and Moonbug Kids.
