What To Expect On HONEY In May 2023?

Sangoma, Khanyisa!
Season 3
TX: Saturday 11 February – 6 May
Season 4
TX: Saturday 13 May – 5 August
WAT 16:30 | CAT 17:30 | EAT 18:30 
13 Episodes  
PG13  
60 minutes 
Genre: Reality
People are always looking for that voice in their lives to confirm that they are on the right track. We feature renowned, Mkhulu Rametsi who helps people find that voice. Each episode sees a person in need who presents their problems to Mkhulu Rametsi. Accompanied by their loved ones and friends, each person hopes to walk out with an answer to their problems.

Yes, I Have HIV 
Season 2
TX: Saturday 13 May – 5 August
WAT 15:00 | CAT 16:00 | EAT 17:00   
13 Episodes   
30 minutes   
Genre: Reality  
The spectacular Nozi Qamngana-Mayaba, a popular HIV activist, helps people reveal their HIV-positive status for the first time to their loved ones. She meets with each person to unpack their journey and how they contracted the virus. She helps families with an expert to face the truth and find a new way of living positively with the disease. 

My Horror Love Story: Zambia
Season 1
TX: Saturday 11 February – 6 May
Season 2
TX: Saturday 13 May – 5 August
WAT 16:00 | CAT 17:00 | EAT 18:00 
13 Episodes  
PG13  
30 minutes 
Genre: Reality
What happens when the love you thought was precious turns out to be bitter and painful? We hear directly from women whose fairy tale relationships turned into nightmares. In a sit-down with the women and those closest to them, we relive the moments when they knew that their love story was now a horror.

7 Colours
Season 4
TX: Sunday 12 February – 7 May
WAT 16:00 | CAT 17:00 | EAT 18:00
Season 5
TX: Sunday 14 May – 6 August
WAT 16:30 | CAT 17:30 | EAT 18:30
13 Episodes  
PG13  
60 minutes  
Genre: Reality
7 Colours is a loved South African meal. Most families pride themselves in being able to prepare the best version of this meal. In this show, we put that theory to the test. Three teams will go head-to-head to cook the perfect 7 colours plate, they will also host each other in their homes. The teams judge each other and the ones with the most points take the prize with Lillian Dube and Moshe Ndiki as the hosts.

Mama Vs. Makoti 
Season 2
TX: Saturday 11 February – 6 May
WAT 17:00 | CAT 18:00 | EAT 19:00  
13 Episodes  
PG13   
30 minutes   
Genre: Cooking
A man’s wife and mother cook his favourite dish. He decides whose plate wins his heart. Hosted by Nomsa Buthelezi-Shozi, the mama and makoti go stove-to-stove in the kitchen to prove who cooks the best plate. In the end only one wins.

Yes, I Have HIV: Zimbabwe
Season 1
TX: Saturday 13 May – 5 August
WAT 20:00 | CAT 21:00 | EAT 22:00  
13 Episodes  
30 minutes  
Genre: Reality
Phyllis Mavushe, a popular HIV activist, helps people reveal their HIV-positive status for the first time to their loved ones. She meets with each person to unpack their journey and how they contracted the virus. Mavushe also helps families with an expert to face the truth and find a new way of living positively with the disease.

This Money Will Change My Life 
Season 2
TX: Sunday 12 February – 7 May
WAT 17:00 | CAT 18:00 | EAT 19:00  
13 Episodes  
30 minutes  
Genre: Reality game show
In a fiery gameshow hosted by Scoop Makhathini, four contestants plead their case for the chance to win R25 000 — hard cash. The audience chooses the winner.

OTHER FRESH CONTENT 
Where Are You?
Season 1
TX: Sunday 14 May – 6 August
WAT 16:00 | CAT 17:00 | EAT 18:00
13 Episodes  
30 minutes  
Genre: Reality
A reality show that follows the lives of families whose loved ones vanished without a trace. How have they coped so long with loss and its impact on their lives? We see all the emotions as they try to locate their loved ones. Will they find their family members? Dead or alive?

A Prisoner Stole My Heart
Season 1
TX: Saturday 13 May – 5 August
WAT 15:30 | CAT 16:30| EAT 17:30
13 Episodes  
30 minutes  
Genre: Reality
We meet women who share the real-life experience of falling in love with a convicted offender. They take us through the highs and lows of the relationship, how they maintained romance from prison and how their lovers are in the real world.

Ask The Cook
Season 1
TX: Sunday 14 May – 6 August
WAT 15:00 | CAT 16:00 | EAT 17:00  
13 Episodes  
30 minutes  
Genre: Cooking
A light-hearted cooking show for hopeless cooks and foodies to level up their cooking skills. Chef Asisipho Burwana is self-taught and the life of any room he steps into. He helps viewers figure out the best ways to make tasty meals over a good chat.

My Botswana Plate
Season 1
TX: Saturday 11 February – 6 May
WAT 15:30 | CAT 16:30 | EAT 17:30  
13 Episodes  
30 minutes  
Genre: Cooking  
We explore food from Botswana in this upbeat cooking show hosted by a popular food blogger, Chef Rachel. She explores the most exciting recipes made with ingredients that are simple and accessible no matter where you are. Viewers get all the thrilling tips and tricks on the key to Tswana cuisine.

My Zim Plate   
Season 1
TX: Sunday 12 February – 7 May
WAT 15:30 | CAT 16:30 | EAT 17:30  
13 Episodes  
30 minutes  
Genre: Cooking  
We explore Zimbabwean food in this upbeat cooking show hosted by a popular food blogger, Chef Bernadette. She explores the most exciting recipes made with ingredients that are simple and accessible no matter where you are. Viewers get all the thrilling tips and tricks on the key to Zimbabwean cuisine.

I Got Out Alive  
Season 1
TX: Sunday 12 February – 7 May
WAT 17:30 | CAT 18:30 | EAT 19:30  
13 Episodes  
30 minutes  
Genre: Reality
Survivors speak on their most horrific stories. Abductions, near-death experiences, crime, xenophobia, abuse, car accidents, church cults and even fraud. We hear directly from victims and their loved ones who helped them survive and get out alive.

My Horror Love Story: Zambia
Season 1
TX: Saturday 11 February – 6 May
Season 2
TX: Saturday 13 May – 5 August
WAT 16:00 | CAT 17:00 | EAT 18:00 
13 Episodes  
PG13  
30 minutes 
Genre: Reality
What happens when the love you thought was precious turns out to be bitter and painful? We hear directly from women whose fairy tale relationships turned into nightmares. In a sit-down with the women and those closest to them, we relive the moments when they knew that their love story was now a horror.

Yes, I Have HIV: Zambia
Season 1
TX: Sunday 12 February – 7 May
Season 2
TX: Sunday 14 May – 6 August
WAT 18:00 | CAT 19:00 | EAT 20:00  
13 Episodes  
30 minutes  
Genre: Reality
Paul Banda, a popular HIV activist, helps people reveal their HIV-positive status for the first time to their loved ones. He meets with each person to unpack their journey and how they contracted the virus. He helps families with an expert to face the truth and find a new way of living positively with the disease.

Honey is available on DStv channel 173

Schedule Alert: A Rebroadcast Of Meet In Love Coming Soon To Zee World

Debuted later in 2022, The story revolves around Meet, a young energetic tomboy who is the sole breadwinner of her family. Meet is a nonconformist and works as a delivery agent. Follow the story of Meet and how she overcomes male dominance in her society and the patriarchal thinking that she was raised with.

A second season is expected to rollout later in the year as of right now. Viewers can witness all the drama from the very beginning when Meet In Love replaces Gangaa in the coming weeks.

It is based on the Odia series Sindura Bindu from Zee Sarthak, the show stars Ashi Singh and Shagun Pandey in the lead-roles with other members such as Abha Parmar, Vaishnavi Macdonald, Sharain Khanduja, Ravi Gossain and Pratham Kunwar.

SEGA To Acquire Angry Birds Company Rovio

Sega, the Japanese-headquartered video game company best known in the West for its Sonic the Hedgehog franchise, is acquiring Angry Birds developer Rovio, the companies announced today. The Finnish headquartered mobile games developer will be acquired for €706 million (around $775 million), which The Wall Street Journal notes represents a roughly a 19 percent premium over its share price at close on Friday. The deal is expected to close by the end of September.

In a press release, Sega said it hopes to use “Rovio’s distinctive know-how in live service mobile game operation, to bring Sega’s current and new titles to the global mobile gaming market.” It sounds like a similar aim to what Sega’s rival Nintendo has been doing with its franchises, with smartphone releases like Mario Kart Tour, Pokémon Go, and Super Mario Run. Sega also wants to help Rovio “expand its platform outside of mobile gaming.”

“Among the rapidly growing global gaming market, the mobile gaming market has especially high potential, and it has been Sega’s long-term goal to accelerate its expansion in this field,” said Haruki Satomi, president and group CEO of Sega parent company Sega Sammy holdings. In a statement, Rovio CEO Alexandre Pelletier-Normand specifically called out the company’s Beacon platform, which is designed to help develop games-as-a-service products.

Rovio is best known for its work on the Angry Birds franchise, which launched in 2009 and is claimed to be the first mobile game series to have reached 1 billion downloads. In total, Rovio says its games have been downloaded over 5 billion times. Angry Birds has since been adapted for the big screen twice (once in 2016 and again in 2019), but more recent entries in the franchise have struggled to make a similar impact.

Sega isn’t the first company to have expressed an interest in acquiring Rovio. The mobile game developer had previously been in discussions to be acquired by Israel-based Playtika, but talks officially came to an end in March 2022. Rovio has been a publicly traded company since 2017. 

Rovio’s acquisition by Sega is the latest example of an independent mobile gaming titan being hoovered up by a more traditional games giant. Candy Crush developer King was acquired by Activision Blizzard in a $5.9 billion deal that completed in 2016 while Zynga, the company behind FarmVille, was bought by Take-Two for $12.7 billion last year.

New Series Alert: Two Wives Coming Soon To St Novelas Plus

Yvonne, the typical homemaker who prioritizes her family over everything, is married to Victor. They have a son, and they are the epitome of a happy family, until Yvonne discovers that her husband is having an affair with another woman named Janine.

Based on the 2009 Korean drama of the same name, St Novelas Plus a general entertainment channel home to various English dubbed soaps from Latin America, Turkey and Asia is set to welcome a brand new family drama titled Two Wives.

Kaye Abad, Jason Abalos and Erich Gonzales star as the lead protagonists within the show. Other cast members include Patrick Garcia, Rayver Cruz, Daniel Matsunaga, CX Navarro, Faye Alhambra, Isay Alvarez-Seña, Robert Seña and Tanya Gomez.

Two Wives debuted on Phillipine broadcaster ABS-CBN on October 13, 2014 and concluded March 13, 2014. The series has accumulated 105 episodes each with a 30-45 minute duration.

The series debuts 25 April at 21:40 on St Novelas Plus. The channel's distributor ABS-CBN is also home to various shows seen on StarTimes including A Soldier's Heart, The Blood Sisters, The Law Of Revenge, Brothers, A Love To Last and Double Kara.

New Series Alert: Rajjo Coming Soon To Star Life

Star Life, a general entertainment channel owned by Disney Star offering movies, drama series and reality shows from across India is said to be rolling out a new series in place of one of the channel's oldest series Laxmi in the coming weeks titled Rajjo.

Based on the Bengali series Aalta Phoring, Rajjo follows an aspiring athlete from a village and a businessman who meet each other amid a calamity and gradually fall for each other. However, they have to deal with societal boundaries to be together.

Celesti Bairagey stars as Rajjo Thakur, Rajveer Singh stars as Arjun Singh Thakur, Gungun Uprari stars as Manorama "Manno" Dhaki, Pakkhi Hegde stars as Madhumalti Pratap Thakur and Surjit Saha stars as Bunty Chaudhary.

The show was initially promoted with the title Udti Ka Naam Rajjo, before it was modified to Rajjo. It debuted on StarPlus on 22 August 2022 and concluded on 5 March 2023 with a total of 190 episodes each with a 21 minute duration.

Rajjo will soon be one of the few shows on the channel to get a 1 hour allocation (45 minutes) as other shows such as Anupama, Lost In Love and Close To My Heart are currently occupying 30 minutes with rumours of more timeslots getting halved.

Rajjo airs weekdays at 6pm CAT on Star Life replacing Laxmi from 4 May

Development Alert: Two Shows Both Titled Annekan Die Swa Kry Has Been Silently Added To eVOD Ahead Of Premiere On eExtra

Aşk Mantık İntikam follows a couple who gets divorced after several years of marriage. But things change when the man suddenly gets rich, with his ex-wife working with him. It stars Burcu Özberk, İlhan Şen and Zeynep Kankonde.

Based on the Korean drama Cunning Single Lady, it stars Burcu Özberk, İlhan Şen, Zeynep Kankonde, Günay Karacaoğlu, Süleyman Atanısev, Mehmet Korhan Fırat, Ceren Koç, Emir Güler, Sevda Baş, Mehmet Yilmaz, Burak Yörük and Melisa Döngel.

During the month, there's been a bit of mixup with sources implicating Roekeloos Dade formerly slated on eExtra will now air on e.tv after Daai Crazy Somer while Om Elke Draai rolls out on the channel in it's place after #DisComplicated.

After awaiting confirmation of the identity of Annekan Die Swa Kry, to no one's surprise you'd think the romcom Aşk Mantık İntikam was the mysterious addition that failed to launch on eExtra but quite the contrary apparently eMedia's team mistook it for Kardeşlerim.

The story revolves around four siblings who lose their parents due to unfortunate circumstances and try to build their lives together. But soon the truth surrounding their parent's death slowly starts to unravel and nothing will remain the same.

It stars Fadik Sevin Atasoy, Celil Nalçakan, Su Burcu Yazgı Coşkun, Yiğit Koçak, Aylin Akpınar, Onur Seyit Yaran, Melis Minkari, Recep Usta and Cihan Şimşek.

Annekan Die Swa Kry is also a seasonal program as seen with Chrysalis, Die Put, Elif and Doodsondes. eMedia Investments is currently airing the first season on eVOD while the whole of Turkey are awaiting on the third season later in the year on ATV.

As seen in recent weeks, no one at eMedia Investments bothered to even promote this show. My guess has to do with the fact the above-mentioned error made on their side. Consumers have one show available on display but are viewing something else.

My hunch is that Aşk Mantık İntikam will likely be retitled following this confusion while as Kardeşlerim will likely adapt onto the tag Annekan Die Swa Kry.