TAMS: Television Ratings For SABC 1-3, e.tv And DStv For December 2022

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SABC 1:

Uzalo - 5 190 596
Generations the Legacy - 4 104 634
Generations Soap - 3 576 722
Skeem Saam - 3 575 190
Skeem Saam Repeat - 2 323 406
Xhosa News - 2 053 214
Uzalo Repeat - 2 048 018
Zulu News - 1 966 104
Soccer Build-up - 1 855 415
Fifa World Cup Qatar 2022: Build up - 1 742 008
Uzalo Omnibus - 1 698 042
Sgudi Snaysi - 1 660 294
Judas Kiss Repeat - 1 554 088
Last Chance Music Experience - 1 547 507
Muvhango Repeat - 1 529 209
Fifa World Cup Qatar 2022: Argentina Vs Spor - 1 459 354
The Braai Show with Aka - 1 401 099
Fifa World Cup Qatar 2022: France vs Mor - 1 396 850
Skeem Saam Omnibus - 1 343 661
Spring Fiesta - 1 316 864

SABC 2:

Muvhango - 1 548 055
Kgatelopele - 786 740
7De Laan - 764 955
Bone of My Bones - 736 496
Majakathata Repeat - 705 325
Muvhango Omnibus - 672 089
Nuus - 616 357
Majakathata - 614 738
Leihlo La Sechaba - 586 163
Phamokate - 576 567
Skeem Saam Repeat - 535 392
Vutha Repeat - 509 095
Ses/Tsw/Sep News - 484 646
Imvelogy - 470 556
Soccer Wrap - 469 041
Monk Repeat - 469 119
Morning Live News - 450 740
Fifa World Cup Qatar 2022: Ghana vs Urug - 449 850
Fifa World Cup Qatar 2022: Morocco vs Sp - 443 578
The Estate Repeat - 436 683

Openview Plus:
- Could international series be making a comeback on e.tv?
- eExtra scrapped the launch of 4 telenovelas
- Verdeelde Liefde to return with a second season on eExtra
- Imbewu has been cancelled on e.tv after 5 seasons

SABC 3:

Fifa World Cup Qatar 2022: Japan vs Spain - 519 808
Serengeti - 471 921
The Amazing Spider-Man - 455 286
Fifa World Cup Qatar 2022: Cameroon vs B - 442 645
Spider-Man 2 Movie - 419 711
Soccer Wrap - 412 617
Premier League Manchester City vs Everto - 407 236
Tropika of Treasure - 388 008
Spiderman Yent - 387 075
On Point News - 377 313
The Estate Repeat - 361 749
The Estate Omnibus - 317 563
The Lost World - 298 970
Madagascar 2: Escape to Africa Movie - 290 413
News - 289 308
7De Laan Repeat - 279 889
Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs Movie - 279 425
Twilight Movie - 278 805
Generations the Legacy Repeat - 273 285
Spider-Man 3 - 259 030

e.tv:

Scandal - 4 017 097
House of Zwide - 3 123 660
Imbewu - 2 139 908
The Black Door - 1 851 207
Durban Gen - 1 635 594
Big Momma's House 2 Movie - 1 619 820
The Powerball Draw Quiz - 1 560 133
E.TV News - 1 549 126
Isono - 1 533 338
Big Momma's House Movie - 1 523 149
Big Mommas: Like Father Like Son Movie - 1 475 866
The Medallion - 1 394 698
Imbewu Repeat - 1 352 904
Durban Gen Repeat - 1 314 627
Scandal Repeat - 1 277 663
House of Zwide Repeat - 1 226 574
Newsnight - 1 138 316
Inhlawulo - Damages - 1 131 887
Bad Boys Movie - 1 084 671
Around the World in 80 Days - 1 062 985

DStv:

* Between households and 18-49 years of age

MZAN Gomora - 912 173 & 1 079 016
MOJA Uyajola 9/9 - 670 983 & 796 929
MZAN Uthando Nesthembu - 640 181 & 752 616
MZAN The Queen Movie - 620 601 & 736 305
MZAN Diep City - 553 799 & 676 477
MZAN The River Movie - 550 747 & 647 279
MOJA X-Repo - 518 780 & 627 054
MWET The Wife Movie - 503 368 & 645 911
MWET Lingashoni - 478 744 & 591 056
MWET The River Repeat - 469 890 & 523 761
MWET The Queen Repeat - 463 879 & 510 963
MWET The Queen Repeat - 453 021 & 468 865
MWET The River - 411 586 & 517 550
MZAN Date My Family - 406 259 & 485 781
MWET Lingashoni Repeat - 392 448 & 411 478
MBIO Umacala Wami - 380 643 & 336 847
NEWA Daytime Update - 355 122 & 450 897
MOJA Mamazala Real - 351 731 & 416 581
MBIO Oksalayo Ngiyashisa - 343 848 & 353 398
MWET Gomora Repeat - 343 779 & 406 638
MBIO Sekoloto - 339 186 & 215 329
MOJA Khuzeka - 339 035 & 407 778
MZAN Imboni Yama Tekisi - 335 842 & 391 980
MBIO One Time Pin - 335 462 & 281 586
MBIO Kasi Loving - 334 251 & 420 881
MZAN Grootboom and Sons - 333 384 & 389 923
CHNO Uthando Lodumo - 333 298 & 447 166
MOJA Rea Tsotella - 331 045 & 387 811
MOJA Umakhelwane - 327 056 & 377 390
MBIO Pearls of Wisdom - 325 346 & 405 443

Fans Believe eMedia Investments Is Planning To Revive The International Content Slate On To Top Of Leveraging eVOD's Library To Supplement Isono, Imbewu And Durban Gen On e.tv

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Last year, eMedia Investments confirmed to sources that the medical drama Durban Gen would wrap up in the first of quarter of 2023 after accumulating close to 3 million viewers monthly and being the top 10 watched shows on the channel.

Joining the lineup would be Imbewu as eMedia Investments confirmed to sources this past week that the popular soap opera won't be picked up for a sixth season once it finishes broadcast on the channel also within the first quarter of the year.

eMedia Investments is said to be replacing Imbewu with another program but could  hasn't confirmed as much with the likes of Durban Gen with Isono also expected to reach its climax within the same period.

Openview Plus:
- eExtra scrapped the launch of 4 telenovelas
- Verdeelde Liefde to return with a second season on eExtra
- Imbewu has been cancelled on e.tv after 5 seasons

Sources close to eMedia believe that e.tv will undergo some lineup changes within the next quarter of the year to include content from eVOD's library and possibly revive the international content slate on the channel.

eVOD has been producing a bunch of original content like Splintered Pieces, uMbali and Eye For An Eye most of this has yet to be seen on any of eMedia's linear channels. On top of Housewives getting scrapped amidst its premiere on e.tv in 2021.

In an interview with Helga Palmer, eMedia's head of local programming she mentioned that Imbewu was put in a highly competitive timeslot. I mean it was the reasons eNews airs at 8pm on e.tv as Generations follows in the same timeslot on SABC 1.

Practically, all their channels follow a similar pattern I mean Daai Crazy Somer airs weekdays at 17:35 and eExtra's Kuiertyd airs an hour later. Turning to eExtra's Bollywood slate, they air as early as 14:00 all the way to 16:40 with Star Life and Zee World resuming primetime from 18:00.

The idea of Housewives relaunching on that timeslot doesn't seem far fetched as the current 22:00 timeslot were content similar to such hasn't been productive and isn't expected to have that much viewers.

eMedia Investments:
- MultiChoice and eMedia Investments plan to combat load shedding get a lot of attention
- Ultraview Pride and Ultraview Indian coming soon to Openview
- Could SABC be unveiling another two channels for Openview Ultra?
- Glow TV to stop airing on the Openview platform from next month

Same goes for if they plan to revive the international content slate I wouldn't be shocked as movies returned to the 8pm timeslot on Sunday pausing production of Housewives as the viewership for movies was plummeting.

Films used to occupy at least 3-5 slots within the top 10 watched shows on the channel now movies struggle to even make it to the top 20. They even tried rebranding the Saturday night family movies slot in the hopes to save their viewership.

This purposed lineup would be another way for eMedia to streamline their offering as MultiChoice has to been turning to more short form series for M-Net and 1Magic while as having some minor exceptions like The River and Lingashoni.

Roundups #137: Disney Renews Family Guy, The Simpsons And Bob's Burgers Through 2025, Dulas To Stream On eVOD This Valentine's Day And Twitter Now Comes With A Dedicated Hacker's Account, GOD MODE

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Fox hands two-season extensions to ‘The Simpsons’, ‘Family Guy’ & ‘Bob’s Burgers’

The three shows, all produced by Disney Television Studios’ 20th Television Animation, have each received two additional seasons to take them through the 2024-25 broadcast cycle.

The renewals guarantee seasons 14 and 15 for Bob’s Burgers, the 22nd and 23rd seasons of Family Guy and the 35th and 36th seasons for The Simpsons, extending its standing as the longest-running scripted series in television history.

“Across 750 episodes of The Simpsons, 400 episodes of Family Guy, and 250 episodes of Bob’s Burgers, we couldn’t be more proud to continue delivering these three animated hits with the most brilliant teams in animation,” said Marci Proietto, EVP of 20th Television Animation.

“Our relationship with Fox over the past three decades has allowed this trio of shows to thrive, grow and deliver immeasurable moments of hilarious and irreverent entertainment for fans, and we are absolutely thrilled that Fox is doubling down on each of these iconic shows.”

Regular Nick:
- February on Disney Channel and Junior
- The Twisted Timeline Of Sammy And Raj to rollout on Nicktoons in Africa
- Moonbug Kids To Distribute New STEAM Focused Series, Ocean Explorers
- New Bear Grylls series is coming soon to Da Vinci Kids

eMedia Investments to launch their first local production of 2023 next month

Last year, it was announced that uMbali will be returning for a second season to the platform but we all that's not entirely new as it's another way expand the duration of a product unlike this production streaming February 14th, Dulas.

A notorious township thug comes back from prison after being sabotaged by his girlfriend and best friend. He hid millions in a grave before getting arrested, but when he returns to the graveyard it has changed completely and now every other tombstone looks like his.

Thabo Malema, Mpho Molembo and Keke Mputhi star in the leading roles.

Aside from Dulas, eVOD will also be rolling out it's second Turkish drama titled Om Elke Draai a few days prior (February 9th). This Turkish romcom stars Furkan Andic and Aybuke Pusat in the leading roles.

Everyday Novelas:
- Nurses returns for a season 3
- The origin story of Forbidden Passion
- New Series Alert: eMedia Investments Acquired Broadcasting Rights To Turkish Romcom, Aşk Mantık İntikam
- Close To My Heart coming soon to Star Life

No one's privacy is safe or at least what Twitter reps say

A new Twitter whistleblower has emerged, supporting last year’s surprising testimony about the dismal state of the company’s privacy protections and saying the company continues to violate its legal obligations under new owner Elon Musk.

The former employee has told members of Congress and staff at the Federal Trade Commission that any Twitter engineer can activate an internal program until recently called “GodMode” and tweet from any account today, three months after Musk’s takeover […]

The new whistleblower said that following internal objections about the program, engineers changed its name to “privileged mode.” The whistleblower said the purpose of the program was to allow Twitter staff to tweet on behalf of advertisers unable to do it themselves […]

The new whistleblower complaint says the GodMode code remains on the laptop of any engineer who wants it. All they would have to do is change a line of the code from FALSE to TRUE and run it from a production machine that they could reach through an easily accessible communications protocol known as SSH.

Google:
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- Malverde: Legend or Myth, a look at other patron saints
- 7 things you didn't know about Tom's Diner
- Inside the enduring mysteries of Elvis Presley's tragic fate

Roundups #136: CoComelon's Nina To Get A YouTube Spinoff, Ultimate Braai Master Returns For An 8th Season On e.tv And FilmRise & Blue Ant Int’l Producing True Crime Series With CBS Reality

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CoComelon to recieve another spinoff

Moonbug Entertainment is showcasing Mexican culture with Nina (working title), a spinoff of its popular CoComelon franchise that features one of main character JJ’s best friends.

Mexican-American toddler Nina has been part of the CoComelon crew since 2019. In her own series for preschoolers, she and her family’s culture, traditions and daily lives will be showcased through three-minute nursery rhymes. Nina is set to launch on its own standalone YouTube channel later this year.

Moonbug was spurred to create a new Nina-centric extension of CoComelon by audience research showing that the CoComelon brand is popular with Black, Hispanic, Asian American and Pacific Islander families, says senior creative director Meghan Sheridan.

Regular Nick:
- Operation Ouch returns for a new season on Da Vinci Kids
- Several Cartoonito domains have been registered
- February on Disney Channel and Junior
- New Bear Grylls series is coming soon to Da Vinci Kids

Get ready to sink your taste buds this February on e.tv

Tapfuma Makina joins the Trace Studios produced series in which several teams of two will once again compete against each other - this season across venues in the Western Cape - to see who South Africa's latest braai champions are, in 13 episodes starting on e.tv on Saturday 5 February at 17:00.

Tapfuma Makina who has presented various TV series and is also known as a TV sports news anchor on e.tv and a radio host, has a B.Sc degree in biochemistry and microbiology, and says he's excited to be a part of Ultimate Braai Master as the new host.

This season plans to "showcase the wealth of produce celebrated in the region, from free-range dairy and grain-fed cattle, to fresh grown organic vegetables from farm to braai to table".

Openview Plus:
- eExtra scrapped the launch of 4 telenovelas
- Verdeelde Liefde to return with a second season on eExtra
- Imbewu has been cancelled on e.tv after 5 seasons
- A look at former NBC soap, Passions

More crime and investigation awaiting CBS Justice

Killers: Caught On Camera, which is being produced by back2back productions and CBS Reality, explores how detectives use footage from home secruity cameras, dashcams and CCTV to catch criminals.

The series was co-developed between Blue Ant’s sales arm and back2back, with FilmRise taking exclusive distribution rights in the North America and the Caribbean, and CBS Reality taking exclusive broadcast rights in the UK and Africa. Details of the rights acquired by Nordic-based streamer Viaplay and Germany’s Seven.One were not immediately available.

Ben Barrett, who joined Blue Ant after it acquired Drive, brokered all pre-sales and investment for the project, with additional financing from CBS Reality, Seven.One Entertainment Group and Viaplay Group.

DStv Flex:
- Trafficked With Mariana Van Zeller returns for a third season on National Geographic
- Brand new seasons of your favourite shows coming to History
- February on The Home Channel
- February on HONEY

Roundups #135: Genius Brands Rolls Out A Music Division, A Rebroadcast Of Die Put Makes Way To e.tv's Line-up And Chaos Reigns At BBC News Ahead Of Merger With BBC World News

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Kartoon Channel becomes a music division

Genius Music, which launched this month, already has a library of more than 8,000 tracks stemming from its own original brands and also from IPs it has inherited through recent acquisitions of companies including WOW! Unlimited Media and Your Family Entertainment.

According to a release, Genius Music plans to distribute and license these assets on streaming channels and music platforms. One of its first projects will be to develop and monetize original music for animated series Shaq’s Garage (co-produced with Ireland’s Telegael), which is slated to premiere on GB’s Kartoon Channel!

Former Saban Brands music supervisor Juan Carlos Quintero will oversee the division and serve as an executive music producer, with an eye towards making new content that spans a variety of genres. Quintero brings more than 20 years of experience as a music producer/composer with him to Genius Music, having managed production music libraries for companies including Warner Chappell, Café Moondo, Megatrax and 5 Alarm Music. And during an eight-year stint at Saban Brands, he worked on kids brands such as Power Rangers, Digimon and Popples.

Regular Nick:
- Operation Ouch returns for a new season on Da Vinci Kids
- Several Cartoonito domains have been registered
- February on Disney Channel and Junior
- New Bear Grylls series is coming soon to Da Vinci Kids

More drugs and violence is coming to e.tv

Directed by Sinan Öztürk, it is an acclaimed series with four seasons completed. Die Put is set in the dangerous Istanbul neighbourhood Çukur and revolves around a ruling mafia family and a prodigal son who needs to return home to save his family. Of course, there is also a beautiful girl and some romance in addition to the drama, danger and family secrets.

Viewers can expect a gripping first season of Die Put, with the Koçova family (a family that is often closely related to crime) that rules the neighbourhood of Çukur. The Koçovas have their own set of rules and one of these is that drugs cannot be produced, used or sold in Çukur.

In the series, the newcomer, Vartolu is determined to break the ban and after his initial attempts to negotiate with the Koçova family is rejected, he attacks the family and the neighbourhood. But, just as he thinks he has broken the Koçova family and brought them to their knees, something unexpected happens.

Openview Plus:
- eExtra scrapped the launch of 4 telenovelas
- Verdeelde Liefde to return with a second season on eExtra
- Imbewu has been cancelled on e.tv after 5 seasons
- A look at former NBC soap, Passions

More cuts awaiting the new version of BBC World News

In three months’ time, BBC World News and BBC News Channel are due to complete their merger to create a single service for audiences in the UK and around the world. But, according to BBC sources speaking to The Sunday Times, the service could end up with “the softest launch, so as to be indiscernible”.

Under the BBC’s proposals, the new TV news service would offer opt-outs for viewers in the UK, carrying simulcasts of news programmes on BBC One and BBC Two. Outside of these simulcasts, the BBC is due to retain a back-up facility allowing the channel to breakout of the international schedule to show UK-specific breaking news.

The report cites sources within the BBC who say bosses are not able to say how this break-out stream will work. Staff fear the service will be under-resourced. On the new service, presenters will be expected to manually work the autocue.