SuperSport United FC has been sold to a Bloemfontein businessman for R50 million, paving the way for the rebirth of the beloved Bloemfontein Celtic. The announcement, broken by renowned sports journalist Robert Marawa, confirms that the club will now operate under the new name "Celtic United."
The sale marks the end of an era for SuperSport United, a Tshwane-based club that has been a fixture in the Premier Soccer League (PSL) since 1994, known for nurturing top talent and delivering competitive performances.
The move signals a revival for Bloemfontein Celtic, a Free State giant with a passionate fanbase known as Siwelele. However, The club’s former owner, the late Petros Molemela, died with the title deed, and the new owners are unable to legally use the name hence the launch of Celtic United.
Founded in 1969, Celtic had competed in the PSL until financial woes forced it to sell its status to now Royal AM in 2021.
This transaction underscores the fragile financial landscape of South African football. According to a May 2025 report by the Daily Maverick, over 40% of PSL clubs operate at a loss, highlighting the unsustainable model that has seen historic teams like Wits and now SuperSport relinquish their top-flight status.
Following Dolunay's rollout on the now defunct StarSat platform in South Africa, the series will soon be made available to stream on eVOD as Volmaan. It stars Özge Gürel as Nazmiye "Nazlı" Pınar, Can Yaman as Ferit Aslan and Hakan Kurtaş as Deniz Kaya.
Volmaan was broadcast on Star TV from 4th July 2017 and concluded on 31st December 2017 with 26 episodes. Star TV is home to shows like Bittersoet, Voelvry (currently seen on eExtra), As Die Skoen Pas and Deur Dik En Dun.
Synopsis for Volmaan
Volmaan (Dolunay) revolves around Nazlı, an amateur cook and Ferit Aslan, a young, successful, handsome, and organized businessman. Nazlı needs a job immediately to pay the rent of her apartment that she shares with her sister and her best friend. She accepts the proposal to work in Ferit’s house as his private cook upon her professor’s recommendation.
At the same time, she meets Deniz, whom Ferit treats as his younger brother, and becomes fast friends with him. Deniz soon falls in love with Nazlı, but she doesn’t reciprocate his feelings. The relationship between these three gets even more complicated after Ferit proceeds to take custody of his nephew, Bulut, following his parents’ death. This is obstructed by Bulut’s aunt, Demet and her husband, Hakan who simply want to exploit the child for their nefarious gains.
In other developments, Blink Kant Bo is scheduled to return for a second season on eExtra from 4th July after being allocated on eVOD.
Star Life is set to rollout its first supernatural drama within the year titled The Evil Eye Returns following the controversial drama Evil Affairs in 2024 that was moved to late nights on the channel. Known as Jaadu Teri Nazar – Daayan Ka Mausam in India, it is meant to serve as a sequel series to The Evil Eye.
The series premiered on StarPlus on 18 February 2025 and since then over 100 half hour episodes had been released. It starred Khushi Dubey as Gauri Sharma Pratap Singh, Zayn Ibad Khan as Vihaan Pratap Singh alongside Daavansh, Monalisa as Mohana and Ayush Shrivastava as Harsh Pratap Singh.
While Star Life has yet to announce a date, The Evil Eye Returns will likely air within the 10PM CAT timeslot which is where a lot of supernatural shows reside. It being considered a spin-off or sequel to The Evil Eye may not prove to be controversial as Evil Affairs.
Synopsis for The Evil Eye Returns
A Daayan (witch) named Kaamini gives birth to a child fathered by Ravikant Pratap Singh and proclaims him as "Daavansh", the one who holds the key to her immortality. Meanwhile, a girl is born as a "Reevavanshi", the chosen one destined to destroy the Daavansh and the entire Daayan community. A wise woman (Prathamvanshi) from "Prathamvansh" prophesies that this girl will bring about their downfall.
Fearing for her daughter's safety, the girl's mother names her Gauri, strips her of her powers, and buries them, knowing they will return to her when the time is right. To protect Gauri from the Daayans, she entrusts her to the river, believing that divine forces will safeguard her. Enraged, Kaamini kills Gauri's parents.
Meanwhile, Ravikant invites Kaamini to meet their son, Vihaan, but his wife, Veena Pratap Singh, seizes the baby and escapes using magical crystals given by the Reevavanshis. In revenge, Kaamini kills Ravikant. However, Veena manages to trap Kaamini, turning her into a statue using the magical crystals. Before being petrified, Kaamini warns that her son, Vihaan, will inherit her powers and one day resurrect her. Veena raises Vihaan as her own, determined to protect him from his dark destiny.
For saving his family from the evil continuous haunts of Daayan, Vihaan forcefully marries Gauri. Sunehri an evil dayan knowing the truth of Gauri as a Rishwa, tries to kill her. But failed in her attempt. At a time Vihaan enslaved her and Gauri unknown of her powers kills Sunehri.
Cartoon Network has announced the international premiere date for its eagerly awaited original animated series The Wonderfully Weird World of Gumball. Produced by Hanna-Barbara Studios Europe, the series will launch on Monday 6 October across EMEA, Latin America and APAC and on HBO Max (excl US). In recognition of this announcement, Cartoon Network has also unveiled the vibrant main title sequence, designed by acclaimed Jack Sachs – who also created the new logo.
Welcoming audiences back to Elmore – a place where the laws of reality are a joke and family life is anything but ordinary - The Wonderfully Weird World of Gumball continues the surreal humour and wild storytelling of the multi- award winning The Amazing World of Gumball. Created and executive produced by Ben Bocquelet, this quarter-hour animated comedy series blends an eclectic mix of media styles – including 2D & 3D animation, CGI, puppetry, photorealism and live action – into a wildly imaginative world defined by its vibrant visual style and sharp meta humour.
Matt Layzell and Erik Fountain serve as Executive Producers and Series Directors. The Composer for the series is Xav Clarke and Joe Sparrow serves as Art Director. The stellar voice cast includes Alkaio Thiele as Gumball, Hero Hunter as Gumball’s younger brother Darwin, Kinza Syed Khan as younger sister Anais, Teresa Gallagher as his mother Nicole, and Dan Russell as his father Richard, and many more.
Ahead of this premiere, Cartoon Network will be celebrating all things Gumball over the summer by airing the very best moments of The Amazing World of Gumball every day. Starting in July audiences can rediscover the joy in the dysfunction of the Watterson family: Gumball, the dynamic and optimistic 12-year-old, his right-hand man, younger brother, and conscience, Darwin, the loveable stay-at-home Dad, Richard, the tireless overworked and yet resilient mum Nicole, and little sister and the smartest of the bunch Anais.
The Amazing World of Gumball is famed for its humorous depictions of the imperfect realities of growing up where everything ordinary becomes extraordinary. The animation was created in 2011 when Ben Bocquelet decided to take some rejected characters he had created for commercials and put them together in one series set inside of a school! Some of the characters in Elmore are based on Ben Bocquelet’s real family!
With self-referential and meta comedic roots from Monday 21 July* audiences can follow the misadventures of Gumball, Darwin and the other quirky residents of Elmore, including; Gumball and Darwin’s classmates Tina, the scary T Rex, with anger issues; Carrie the Emo dressing depressed ghost, and Banana Joe the class clown who laughs at everyone, their teachers Miss Simian whose been teaching second graders for 300,000 years, and Principal Brown a big furry “slug” in love with Miss Simian.
Everything you need to know about The Amazing World of Gumball in Numbers:
• 294 episodes of The Amazing World of Gumball, across 6 seasons as well as its 2 miniseries ‘Darwin’s Yearbook’ and ‘The Gumball Chronicles’.
• 90 weeks of production to produce 420 minutes (7 hours) worth of animation for The Amazing World of Gumball
• The Amazing World of Gumball episode ‘Xmas’ was the longest episode to animate, taking over a year and episode ‘The Nobody’ was the quickest episode to produce, taking 138.4 days.
• 41,040 post-it notes and 500 red pens is used by the studios on average per season.
• Aired in more than 185 countries, over 450 million homes and in 33 languages
• 543 new characters and costumes designed in Season 2 alone of The Amazing World of Gumball.
• 38 Award wins including ANNIE Award, BAFTA Children’s, International Emmy, Pucinella, British Animation Award, ASTRA Awards and Kidscreen Awards.
• #1 Rated Show on Cartoon Network globally.
• #1 Cartoon Network show in viewing minutes on owned YouTube channels globally.
Nicktoons France will be a localised version of Nickelodeon's Nicktoons channel, which brings viewers the most popular animated series and exclusive new animated shows produced by Nickelodeon, as well as acquired animated content.
NickToons will broadcast 24/7 and is a sub-feed of Nickelodeon's Nicktoons Global pan-regional feed, with a localised French language track. The channel, also known as Nicktoons France, will be operated by Paramount Networks Europe, Middle East, Africa & Asia (EMEAA). The channel will launch with the broadcast of the Tales Of The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles : Légendes des Tortues Ninja episode "Splinter et April affontent un poisson rouge" ("Splinter and April Fight a Goldfish").
NickToons is set to replace Nickelodeon Teen (previously Nickelodeon 4Teen), Nickelodeon France's localised TeenNick channel for teens and tweens, which will closedown after 10 years of service at the end of the broadcast day on Monday 14th July 2025.
Nickelodeon channels in France can't abbreviate "Nickelodeon" to "Nick" due to domestic language policies, along with "Nick" sounding similar to a French profanity.
