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May 2021 On Discovery Channel And Discovery Family Africa | 3 New Series Alert | Several Returning Shows Including Deadliest Catch And Flying Wild Alaska | More

Expect more highlight merges at least ones that make sense. In this case on channel transmits part of its shows to another and is owned by the same company.

Discovery Channel:
Deadliest Catch S17 (New season)
TX Date: May 25
TX Time: 20:00 CAT
Day: Tuesday
It's the deadliest job on earth: crab fishing off the Alaska coast on the icy Bering Sea. These adventurers risk their lives as they battle Arctic weather, brutal waves and a ticking clock for big money in this modern- day gold rush.

Chasing Classic Cars S12 (New season)
TX Date: May 9
TX Time: 20:00 CAT
Day of week: Sunday
Gain instant membership to the exclusive club of elite car restorers and multi-millionaire collectors as this series follows Ferrari expert and master car restorer, Wayne Carini, on his personal mission to uncover, restore and sell classic cars.

Naked And Afraid S7 (New season)
TX Date: May 5
TX Time: 20:00 CAT
Day: Wednesday
One man and one woman are dropped into the middle of the unforgiving wilderness for 21 days. Totally naked, the complete strangers battle the elements and stave off starvation, dehydration, and vicious predators to see if they have what it takes to survive this punishing challenge.

Discovery Family:
Into Alaska S1 (Brand New)
TX Date: May 3
TX Time: 21:00 CAT
Tx Day: Monday
Alaska's National Wildlife Refuges are the last untamed places in America. Into Alaska gives an up-close look at the bears, moose and other wildlife inhabiting the stunning Kenai Peninsula and Kodiak Island, along with the men and women who protect it.

Fail Army S7
New Season
TX Date: May 18
TX Time: 20:10 CAT
Tx Day: Tuesday
Videos of frantic and spectacular fails from around the world.

Raw Recruits S1 (Brand New)
TX Date: 17-May
TX Time: 17:40
Tx Day: Monday
A group of Britain's toughest teens go through one of the most intense soldier training programmes in the world. Following the recruits of Army Foundation College in Harrogate as they begin their basic army training.

Flying Wild Alaska S2 (New Season)
TX Date: May 27
TX Time: 21:00 CAT
Tx Day: Thursday
This series follows the unconventional Tweto family that rules Alaska's most dangerous skies. Operating their family- run airline, Era Alaska, they battle unforgiving Alaska weather and terrain to transport life's necessities to one of the most remote and extreme regions of America.

Shark City (Brand New)
TX Date: May 7
TX Time: 15:10 CAT
Tx Day: Friday
Chief Shark Officer Andy Samberg takes us on a tour of a mysterious underwater world in the protected waters of the Bahamas, where different species of sharks fight for food and struggle to survive. It's shark-eat-shark, and shark- eat-pretty much everything else too.

Amakhosi Studios Forges Partnership With Starsat Rise

Amakhosi Studios is proud to announce that through its partnership deal with South African based Starsat Rise (St Rise) Channel 120 it will now be exporting local content and talent.

The channel will be available in 42 countries including Zimbabwe with all local shows premiering on the 25th of May as part of the African Day Celebrations. For the first time since independence, we are celebrating with 100% Zimbabwean content and talent which will be available on Satellite Television to African audiences.

It has almost been a year since the first Covid 19 Lockdown which has meant that Zimbabweans who love local content have been short changed as they cannot access quality local live entertainment. Zimbabwean content creators and artists themselves are failing to earn money from their creative entertaining works through live shows. Through this partnership Amakhosi Studios and Starsat Rise channel 120 seek to change the economic challenges COVID-19 has brought to the arts entertainment and cultural industry.

Interested content creators and artists may bring their ideas, concepts and finished works to Amakhosi Studios for export.

Email: amakhosistudios@gmail.com

BOING Africa Gets A New Bounce In Its Step!

There’s a little more blue in the clouds, a little more ray in the sunshine, and a lot more colour all around! That’s because WarnerMedia’s cartoon-based kids’ entertainment channel, Boing, is gearing up for a fresh look and feel as of the 10th of April.

The channel, which airs across households in 19 African countries for girls and boys aged four to 14 years old, is home to a range of spontaneous and humorous franchises and popular comedy and action shows such as international animated hits like Sonic Boom, Dragons and The Jungle Bunch; 90’s classics including Codename KND, Dexter’s Laboratory and Johnny Bravo; and other channel favourites, for example, Angelo Rules, Uncle Grampa and Oswaldo.

Working closely with children from the core target market, the channel has redesigned its playfulness, introducing a new chameleon-like logo. A massive icon library that can be changed and adapted according to the brand's modernised visual language has been developed and features over 320 graphical elements, including 150 Boing brand stickers aligning the shows kids love with the channel. With just the right amount of childhood chaos, the new, flexible logo can be updated into many different variants working across all the different platforms on which the channel is featured, giving Boing viewers in Africa something to look forward to every single day.

“The new-look Boing is a fun-filled playground where kids can take ownership of the brand, finding themselves surrounded by a palette of stickers, icons, and other doodles allowing fans to add their own element of chaos to create unique looks that reach a new level of excitement and fun,” says Ariane Suveg, Kids Content Director for France and Africa. “With this new fun-filled identity, Boing is now even more connected and in step with the world of our young viewers: Dynamic, inclusive, and constantly evolving!”

The channel has kept its promise and has managed to match local African kids’ taste by acquiring exclusive programmes. In April, viewers can look forward to Boing Sunday Marathons at 13:30 CAT every week, including the maddening misadventures of Oswaldo, the escapades of a group of ten-year-olds in Codename KND, everyone’s favourite Uncle Grampa, the exciting tale of Maurice the penguin in The Jungle Bunch, and ending the month with the sweet-talking 11-year-old in Angelo Rules.

- Toonami Africa deserves better

Toonami Rebranded In France Last Year And Why The African Feed Needs To Follow?

Toonami started on a rocky road in 2017 through the now defunct cable provider Kwesé TV and managed to gain popularity after a year. Few months after its removal, the channel resurfaced on Cell C's streaming service, Black which suffered the same fate as the cable provider.

Not much was known about the version Black distributed but Kwesé TV's version included content from DC Animation, selected content from Cartoon Network and an ongoing stack of anime.

In 2019, MultiChoice launched a knockoff version of the brand for a limited period dedicated to DC Animation and a year later Toonami resurfaced in that same format.

Even though Toonami was seen as a pop-up through DStv. WarnerMedia had some luck and forged a deal with StarTimes to bring the brand onto their platform FULL-TIME.

Since then, it's been bombarded with repeats and viewers have been making requests for fresh content and they chose Dragonball Super which ended its run on Cartoon Network.

In other parts of the world such as France, Toonami underwent a rebrand to include content for a mature audience making it more edgier with the introduction of AEW Dynamite and Adult Swim at weeknights with DC Animation and anime occupying the rest of the schedule.

WarnerMedia EMEA's status on this channel is kind of quo, but from my point of view most channels that are not on DStv don't get much hype or media attention not that it's impossible but if you have a provider that keeps things discreet these are the consequences.

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Get ready for some next-level action! From Monday, the 19^thof April, WarnerMedia’s TOONAMI channel will be getting a fresh branding and identity overhaul, establishing the channel in a more grown-up dimension, asserting itself progressively more amongst young adult superhero and anime enthusiasts.

The new-fangled TOONAMI, the Home of Superheroes, has upped the ante and will now also offer young adult superhero enthusiasts across Africa a 24-hour programming line-up, jam-packed with top-rated animated and anime-focused content. Fans will be taken to the mysterious world of DC Comics franchises for the best of iconic heroes and heroines from film and series including Batman, Superman, The Green Lantern, Young Justice and The Justice League, as well as popular animated series such as Teen Titans and anime-focused programming like the international hit anime phenomenon, Dragon Ball Super.

With a new design, brand new colours and a layered visual effect, the newTOONAMI identity, developed by WarnerMedia's in-house creative team, was produced by South African company, Wicked Pixels - a multi-award-winning studio specialising in high-end animation, visual effects and motion design. The new simplified logo is a modernised reinvention of the old with a nod to the ‘80s and is calibrated to accompany the brand across all linear and non-linear platforms. The innovative visual dressing, embodying four themes, will resonate with young adults. These pillars reference 2D styling representing comic books and manga, 3D styling aligning the brand with the gaming world, bringing spectacular action into play, and connecting the audience with the contemporary digital communication codes through pictogram, shapes, and visual puns.

Like any Hollywood blockbuster, the refreshed TOONAMI will be adorned with a musical theme, composed especially for the channel by Africa's first Music and Audio Agency, Audio Militia. The award-winning agency collaborated with WarnerMedia to produce the new soundtrack, mixing four different orchestrations to accompany the channel's new look and feel.

“Adult Animation is arguably the fastest-growing animation category with the most headroom for growth, and our refreshed TOONAMI channel reflects this change, targeting young adults with action and animation content,” says Guillaume Coffin, Head of Affiliates & Advertising France, Benelux, Middle East, Turkey, Africa & General Manager for Turkey. “TOONAMI, the only channel entirely dedicated to superheroes, meets the growing demand for die-hard superhero and anime enthusiasts alike, offering plenty of pulse-raising, action-packed series, new, exclusive movies and original documentaries for millennials.”

Newly added to the channel, to kick start the channel refresh, is the anime series,Fire Force, based on the Japanese manga series of the same name. In this new series, the city of Tokyo is plagued by a deadly phenomenon: spontaneous human combustion! Luckily, a special team is there to quench the inferno: The Fire Force! With new member Shinra and his devil footprints, they're going to save the city from turning to ash.

May 2021 On Nickelodeon, Nick Jr And Nicktoons Africa | 2 New Series Alert! | New Seasons & Episodes Including ALVINNN!!! And The Chipmunks And Paw Patrol | Ongoing Stunts | More

NICKELODEON:

GOLDIE'S OLDIES S1
NEW SHOW
14yr old Goldie's life is turned upside down when her family moves in with her Grandpa Maury and his three 70 something, totally bonkers housemates. Goldie's landed herself the ultimate insta-family!...If she can keep everyone together.

ALVINNN!!! And The Chipmunks S5
NEW EPISODES
5 ALVINNN!!! and The Chipmunks, featuring international superstars Alvin, Simon and Theodore, takes us on a roller coaster ride of music, laughter and stories geared to entertain The Chipmunks' four generations of fans.

THE CASAGRANDES S2
NEW EPISODES
The Casagrandes tells the story of Ronnie Anne, an independent, adventurous, 11-year-old who explores city life with her big, loving, multi-generational Mexican- American family.

READY SET DANCE S1
NEW TO NICKELODEON!
READY SET DANCE will get you moving and grooving! Join Freeze and Twirl for great songs and cool moves!
READY SET DANCE is inspired by the real-world in studio program and is about watching, following and joining in. Animated hosts FREEZE & TWIRL connect the audience with the world of dance all designed to get the world moving one pre-schooler at a time!

NICK JR:

PAW PATROL S7
BRAND NEW EPISODES!
PAW Patrol is a preschool series starring a pack of six heroic puppies: Chase, Marshall, Rocky, Zuma, Rubble, and Skye, who are led by a tech-savvy 10-year-old boy named Ryder
WEEKDAYS 3 –14 MAY
15:00 WAT/ 16:00 CAT/ 17:00 EAT

ABBY HATCHER S3
BRAND NEW EPISODES
Abby Hatcher is an animated preschool series that follows Abby and her friends the Fuzzlies, amazing and quirky creatures that live in her family's hotel!
EVERYDAY FROM 10 TO 22 MAY 10:00 WAT / 11:00 CAT / 12:00 EAT

DEER SQUAD S1
BRAND NEW EPISODES
The adventure-rescue show follows four, lovable, enthusiastic and heroic deer friends who protect the animals of Central Forest and the humans who inhabit Platinum City, a futuristic metropolis surrounding their woodland home.
WEEKDAYS 17-28 MAY 2021
15:40 WAT/16:40:CAT / 17:40 EAT

PREMIERE MARATHON
Premiere Episode: Pups Save the Chalk Art /Pups Save a Hot Potato
The Mini Patrol and the Pups race to the rescue to save a local mural before the rain comes. // Farmer Al and Yumi find out their garden is full of holes and their one-of-a-kind potato is missing. Now the pups must find the potato thief!
SATURDAY 29 & SUNDAY 30 MAY
12:00 WAT / 13:00 CAT/ 14:00 EAT

NICKTOONS:

SPECIAL DAYS IN MAY
Themed episodes of various shows on the following days:
1 May: Workers Day
12:55 WAT / 13:55 CAT / 14:55 EAT
9 May: Mothers Day (ZA)15:00 WAT / 16:00 CAT / 17:00 EAT
13 May: ID EL FITR 10:00 WAT / 11:00 CAT / 12:00 EAT
14 May: ID EL FITR (Holiday)10:00 WAT / 11:00 CAT / 12:00 EAT
15 May: International Day Of Families 12:55 WAT / 13:55 CAT / 14:55 EAT
27 May: Children's Day (Nigeria) 14:25 WAT / 15:25 CAT / 16:25 EAT

THE BEST OF ALVINNN!!! AND THE CHIPMUNKS
It’s the best of ALVINNN!!! And The Chipmunks with a specific theme each weekend, planned just for you!
Weekends 1 To 30 May At 12:55 WAT / 13:55 CAT / 14:55 EAT
1st Week: Teachers (Worker's Day)
2nd Week: Imagination / Having Fun
3rd Week: Family (Int. Day Of Families)
4th Week: Competition
5th Week: Technology

SQUARE ROOT OF FRIENDS
Check out all the weird and wonderful characters that make bikini bottom the incredibly fun place it is!
Weekdays 17 To 28 May At 14:25 WAT / 15:25 CAT / 16:25 EAT

DOUBLE DARE ORIGINALS S4
NEW EPISODES
WEEKDAYS 10 TO 21 MAY AT 15:55 WAT / 16:55 CAT / 17:55 EAT
Double Dare is a test of brains, speed and stamina. Two teams of contestants answer questions and perform outrageous "physical challenges", all under the watchful eye of host, Marc Summers. In the final round, they climb, slip, and slide through the wildest obstacle course on TV. It's no wonder that this show has proven to be an international success, Double Dare dives directly into the heart of childhood!

TMNT – HALF SHELL HEROES
NEW EPISODE ALONGSIDE REPEATS
SUNDAY 23 MAY AT 16:50 WAT / 17:50 CAT / 18:50 EAT
Sunday May 23 is World Turtle Day and what better way to pay homage to our four legged, hard shelled reptiles than to give the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles their own stunt!
Join us as we see our four heroes travel to unexpected lands, encounter alien portals and brave the bizarre. You may even see the turtles themselves transform.

SUNDAY MARATHONS
From 15:00 WAT / 16:00 CAT / 17:00 EAT
We’ve packaged your Sunday laughs into neat mini- marathons! Enjoy the very best in comedy animation handpicked just for you, right here on NickToons!

2 May - The Penguins Of Madagascar
9 May - (Mother’s Day) The Fairly OddParents
16 May - The Adventures Of Kid Danger
23 May - Ollie’s Pack
30 May - Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles