Could Canal+'s MultiChoice Give HGTV The Boot?

With only a few days left in 2025, MultiChoice and Warner Bros. Discovery have yet to come into an agreement over the fate of its 12 channels. These include Discovery Channel, TLC, TNT, Cartoon Network, Cartoonito, CNN, Travel Channel and HGTV.

If these brands do get removed from DStv, some brands like Discovery Family for instance is less likely to resurface on another platform. As I mentioned, further content is on Discovery Channel.

There's also a possibility that this may extend to include HGTV.

HGTV was launched in South Africa by July 2019 and since it's inception it isn't viewable in most parts of Africa in which MultiChoice operate. Part of the reason is similar to what happened to BBC Earth's operations in these markets - it was just not viable at the time.

Now that Canal+'s is looking to slash costs at the company it's very likely that if a new agreement is reached some brands may not form part of this offering. In this case, it could as well be HGTV not because of consumer preferences but cost cutting.

MultiChoice had lost close to 3 million subscribers in the past two years and as a result they're operating income had plummeted.

Under previous management, they would have fought for HGTV but under Canal+ pricing is another factor. And if HGTV were to shutter it's less likely that StarTimes would snatch those rights and they could as well opt for alternatives e.g. Real Time.

Development Alert: The Curse Won't Be Replaced With Another Telenovela Once It Concludes On TLNovelas Across Africa

With a few days left in 2025, TLNovelas will be starting of 2026 with even lesser shows once The Curse concludes. 

According to the programme guide, It Had To Be You and Love To Death will soon air as a double bill while Fall Into Temptation remains as is. Usually when TLNovelas does this it implies that a major shakeup could be on the cards.

It wouldn't be shocking, when TLNovelas launched in Africa all their shows aired in double bill form and as time passed this was further reduced and aligned with Las Estrellas in Mexico and TLN Network.

Of course, this change appears to be very confusing for It Had To Be You and Love To Death because if you analyse the new schedule. You would find that It Had To Be You and Love To Death start almost an hour early at 15:00 WAT and 16:35 WAT respectively.

Fall Into Temptation comes on 10 minutes later at 18:10 WAT.

January 2026 On Nickelodeon And Nicktoons Across Europe And Africa | New Season Including Tyler Perry's Young Dylan | Returning Shows Including Max & The Midknights | More

Nickelodeon 

The Loud House - returning 

2026-01-27 9x08a Hologram Jam

2026-01-28 9x09b Sick as a Dad

2026-01-29 9x12a Swimming Fools

2026-01-30 9x12b Stage Combat

Tyler Perry's Young Dylan - new season

2026-01-05 5x01 The Wrap Battle - season premiere

2026-01-06 5x03 Sharing is Caring

2026-01-07 5x04 Yours, Mine, and Also Mine

2026-01-08 5x05 Really Young Nova

2026-01-09 5x10 Betting On Booder

2026-01-12 5x02 Red Tales

2026-01-13 5x06 Trippin'

2026-01-14 5x07 The New Kid

2026-01-15 5x08 Star-Crossed Lockers

2026-01-16 5x09 Keep It On The DL

2026-01-19 5x12 Dream Team

2026-01-20 5x13 Funcle - series finale

2026-01-21 5x11 Crush Groove

Nicktoons

* Please note that items listed in bold have already been broadcast in Africa 

Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

2026-01-15 1x26a Insane in the Mama Train

2026-01-22 1x26b End Game - season finale

Bubble Guppies - new series, channel premiere

2026-01-04 3x22 The Running of the Bullfrogs!

2026-01-11 3x18 Swimtastic Check-Up!

2026-01-18 3x19 Gobble Gobble Guppies!

2026-01-25 3x21 Puddleball!

Dora the Explorer - new series, channel premiere

2026-01-02 8x07 Kittens in Mittens

2026-01-09 8x08 Dora's Great Roller Skate Adventure

2026-01-16 8x09 Dora's and Sparky's Riding Adventure!

2026-01-23 8x10 Dora's Museum Sleepover Adventure

2026-01-30 8x11 Dora's Ice Skating Spectacular

Harvey Beaks - new series, channel premiere

2026-01-07 2x19 Princess Wants a Mom / Rage Against the Michelle

2026-01-14 2x20 Break The Lake / The Amazing Harvey

2026-01-21 2x21 The Late Late Afternoon Show with Harvey Beaks / Grunicorn

2026-01-28 2x22 Photo Finished / Squashbuckling

Wallykazam! - new series, channel premiere

2026-01-07 1x14 Snow Place Like Home

2026-01-14 1x15 Play It Again, Stan

2026-01-21 1x16 A Tiny Problem

2026-01-28 1x17 The Switching Stone

Max & the Midknights - new season

2026-01-26 2x01 So Slayeth the Prophecy - season premiere

2026-01-27 2x02 Here Be Dragons

2026-01-28 2x03 Thoroughly Malevolent Millie

2026-01-29 2x04 Fens & Enemies

2026-01-30 2x05 Dark Knight of the Soul

Nella the Princess Knight - new series, channel premiere

2026-01-08 2x17 Cici Saves the Day / Big Little Rides

2026-01-15 2x18 Piece of Cake / Tale of Two Nellas

2026-01-22 2x19 The Queen's Court / Perfect Picture

2026-01-29 2x20 The Great Sparkle Quest / Twinkle Twinkle Family Vacation - series finale

Rusty Rivets - new series, channel premiere

2026-01-06 1x24 Rusty's Plant Predicament / Rusty's Beach Day Delay

2026-01-13 1x25 Rusty's Dancing Suit / Rusty Bee Good

2026-01-20 1x26 Robo Rusty / Rusty's Kitty Catastrophe - season finale

2026-01-27 1x01 Rusty's Rex Rescue / Rusty's Park N' Fly - season premiere

Planet Sheen - new series, channel premiere

2026-01-03 1x02 Is This Cute? / The Boy Next Dorkus

2026-01-10 1x03 What's Up Chock? / Joust Friends

2026-01-17 1x04 Sheen for a Day / Well Bread Man

2026-01-24 1x05 Cutting The Ultra-Cord / Trial By Jerry

2026-01-31 1x06 Keeping Up with the Gronzes / Torzilla

Shimmer and Shine - new series, channel premiere

2026-01-06 4x26 Zahra-Zkunked / The Sorcerenie - series finale

2026-01-13 4x01 Oceans Collide / Par-Tea Time - season premiere

2026-01-20 4x02 Welcome to Zahramay Skies

2026-01-27 4x03 Pets To The Rescue / Runaway Rainbow

Sonic Prime - new season, channel premiere

2026-01-12 3x01 Grim Tidings - season premiere

2026-01-13 3x02 Dome Sweet Dome

2026-01-14 3x03 No Escape

2026-01-15 3x04 Nine's Lives

2026-01-16 3x05 Home Sick Home

2026-01-19 3x06 The Devil is in the Tails

2026-01-20 3x07 From the Top - series finale

Top Wing - new series, channel premiere

2026-01-03 1x26 Flying Banana Bandits! / Penny's Chillin' Playdate - season finale

2026-01-10 1x01 Time to Earn Our Wings - season premiere

2026-01-17 1x02 Race Through Danger Canyon / Rod's Beary Brave Save

2026-01-24 1x03 Penny's Polar Bear Rescue / Shirley Squirrely Flies Away

2026-01-31 1x04 Lemon Pirates / Treasure Map Mission

Transformers: EarthSpark - new specials, channel premiere

2026-01-24 Hometown Heroes

2026-01-25 Legacy of Hope

Winx Club - new series, channel premiere

2026-01-07 6x23 The Anthem

2026-01-14 6x24 Legendary Duel

2026-01-21 6x25 Acheron

2026-01-28 6x26 Winx Forever - season finale

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When users search for my site, Google and whomever it may concern usually regard Insidus as a spelling mistake for Insidious. To clear up any confusion, from now on will be using both Insidus and Entertainment Inside Us.

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Discovery Family's Uncertain Future On DStv

As some already know, MultiChoice might be losing an additional 12 channels by 31 December 2025 as Paramount looks to axe BET, MTV Base, CBS Reality and CBS Justice. Warner Bros. Discovery for about a month now has been trying to find a resolution.

If these two aren't able to reach an agreement, consumers will be missing out on Death By Fame, Still A Mystery and Looney Tunes Cartoons. Unlike Cartoon Network and TNT that are viewed on Canal+ Afrique and Azam TV in other African hits the cuts will have a major impact on Discovery Family.

Since the channels exit on StarSat in 2021, MultiChoice was the only provider within Africa to offer the brand. If these channels were to shut down its very unlikely that another broadcaster would revive Discovery Family.

As MultiChoice outlines that talks between Warner Bros. Discovery are still ongoing as they haven't come into an agreement over the pricing. But as seen with past disputes such as that of A+E Global Media with History and Lifetime it's likely that more channels could exit soon.

Discovery Family could form part of those cuts cause ever since Discovery Science was axed in most parts of Europe. The channel had been leaning it's offering toward Discovery Channel and reruns of older shows making it feel zombified.

If MultiChoice was paying Warner Bros. Discovery half a billion for these 12 channels I'd imagine under the Canal+ regime they likely want to pay less. As MultiChoice has lost close to 3 million DStv subscribers and they've been slashing costs.

Canal+ could opt for a partial renewal where the only thing left of the company would be TLC, Discovery Channel, Cartoon Network, Cartoonito and CNN. Everything else from Discovery Family, Food Network, Travel Channel and HGTV go dark by 2026.

With the likes of Netflix, MultiChoice should have worked on becoming more flexible rather than bundling all these brands (e.g. Travel Channel) that are likely getting very little notice from subscribers.

Under new management, MultiChoice is probably looking at the performance of these brands to see whether they're viable. For all anyone knows, Food Network, HGTV, Discovery Family and Travel Channel could as well be reduced to just Real Time.