Africa: Why The ACME (Night) Block Will Likely Launch Cartoon Network With Cartoonito Relaunching On Boomerang?

Earlier this year, WarnerMedia announced plans to expand their kids offering across their brands to include programs for preschoolers, girls and families.

A month ago, they unveiled preschool and family content in the form of a programming block on Cartoon Network called Cartoonito and ACME Night (respectively) featuring a variety of content from their archives and other studios.

ACME: Batman: Caped Crusaders, Gremlins: Secrets Of The Mogwai and Unicorn: Warriors Eternal
Cartoonito: Little Ellen, Batwheels and Bugs Bunny Builders

Cartoonito which is adapted from WarnerMedia in Europe has started taking swing internationally while ACME which is likely from the fictional company originating in Looney Tunes cartoons hasn't started as of yet.

While Cartoon Network in the United States got both these brands sharing occupying the space on their channel. It's possible that Cartoon Network in Africa will only pick up ACME leaving Boomerang with Cartoonito.

ACME on Cartoon Network

As mentioned earlier (in italics), the ACME block features shows such as Batman: Caped Crusader and Unicorn: Warriors Eternal which may seem a bit edgy for the family and preschool friendly Boomerang.

Cartoon Network has an ongoing history with DC Animation and have positioned themselves well for the job with the likes of Power Rangers and Teen Titans GO! which would require intense supervision and superior intellect.

Cartoonito finds Boomerang or Boomerang finds Cartoonito

In Africa, WarnerMedia has picked up rights to several preschool series of which none have been credited as Cartoonito but Boomerang such as Lucas The Spider, Thomas And Friends: All Engines Go and, True And The Rainbow Kingdom.

Firstly, the U.S. only put Cartoonito on Cartoon Network and HBO Max in the hopes that it could be successful and get a large audience reach which is where Boomerang doesn't fit unlike Africa and the rest of Europe.

Boomerang in Europe already incorporate preschool content into their lineup (some of which are on Cartoonito) which has been successful so it wouldn't be a hassle to get there than it would on Cartoon Network.

Cartoonito on Boomerang vs. Boomerang on Cartoonito vs. the conclusion

Boomerang days might be numbered with WarnerMedia working on launching more family based programming on Cartoon Network and Cartoonito covering preschoolers the channel is going through an identity crisis.

Since part of the channel is preschool maybe that will be all of what Boomerang has to offer in future making it easier to swipe the branding for Cartoonito.

Boomerang in the United States is the equivalence of Boing in Africa without Tom and Jerry, Looney Tunes and Scooby-Doo keeping it alive so unless WarnerMedia has some alignment plans I don't see any place for the channel on their stable.

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TLNovelas Remains Silent As A Shelter For Love Becomes A No Show And My Sweet Curse Gets More Airtime + See What MultiChoice Say About The Supposed Pop-Up Channel

TLNovelas was originally scheduled to close on DStv by the end of August but didn't apparently the reps at MultiChoice stated it's not a pop-up which means that tvN, Dizi and ZooMoo were just a piece of meat.

On top of not being a pop-up as advertised last year, TLNovelas failed to air A Shelter For Love as promised but instead chose to screen different episodes of My Sweet Curse in as follows (in CAT):

Episode 37 & 38 air at 6:35
Episode 47 & 48 air at 9:45
Episode 57 & 58 air at 12:55

Viewers reached out to MultiChoice and StarTimes for an explanation but neither had a response to why TLNovelas airs 30 episodes of My Sweet Curse a week and why the channel fails to update their schedule to not list A Shelter For Love.

Viewers started showing concerns for the brand worrying that it might booted like EVA and FOX Life which both offered a schedule packed with repeats before their closure within the 2020/21 period.

Firstly, the channel hasn't started airing reruns to past programs so I doubt that will be the case since the parent company Televisa is merging with Univision to form Televisa-Univision so if anything a rebrand could be on the cards rather than a deletion.

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November 2021 On CBS Africa | New Series On CBS Justice Exploring The Consequences Of Death | More Shows Return For New Adventures This Halloween On CBS Reality And Justice

CBS Reality:

TRAFFIC COPS
Season 10 & 11.
Channel premiere.
Weekdays at 11.10, 14:50 and 23:45 from 1st to 15th November. Repeated Saturdays and Sundays at 08:40, 19:30 and 01:25 from 20th November to 25th December.
Traffic Cops follows the police units at the frontline in the fight against crime and disorder, catching those using the streets to break the law.
With hazardous high speed chases and dangerous drivers, the traffic cops' pursuit skills are tested to the max every day, tackling cases like a convicted drug dealer leading officers on a 140 mile per hour chase down the A1, one the UK’s busiest motorways.

BORDERFORCE USA: THE BRIDGES
Season 3.
Channel Premiere. Exclusive to CBS Reality.
Continues on weekends at 08:40, 19:30 and 01:25,
Until 14th November.
Repeated weekdays at 09:30, 18:40 and 22:55, from 15th to 26th November.
The 2,000-mile border that separates Texas and Mexico is the busiest international boundary in the world. On the United States side, Customs and Border Protection officers have the job of keeping goods and people flowing in both directions while making sure that guns, drugs and other contraband don’t make it across the border. The challenge is daunting: on one side is the ruthlessly-efficient Mexican drug cartels; on the other, the biggest – and most lucrative - drug market on earth. Borderforce USA: The Bridges follows CBP officers stationed at 12 of the 28 international bridges that straddle the border and documents the immense challenges that the officers face on a daily basis.

SKY COPS
Season 1 & 2.
Channel premiere. Exclusive to CBS Reality.
Weekdays at 11.10, 14:50 and 23:45 from 16th to 30th November. Repeated Saturdays and Sundays at 07:05, 20:20 and 00:35 from 28h November to 2nd January.
Sky Cops is a thrilling documentary series that follows the adrenalin filled world of the sky police, as they hunt down and capture hardened criminals and keep the peace, all from the sky.
Filmed using cutting-edge technology, viewers get a never-before-seen glimpse into the unique world of policing by helicopter as seen through the eyes of the pilots and police. A truly new perspective, Sky Cops reveals the fight against crime from the sky.

PARANORMAL NIGHTSHIFT
Season 1
Repeat. Exclusive to CBS Reality.
Repeated on weekends at 07:05, 20:20 and 00:35 until 27th November.
Each hour-long episode on Paranormal Night Shift presents three stories of supernatural encounters, each more terrifying than the last! Personal testimonials are the heart of each story. A
narrator keeps the plotline moving, but the vast majority of the storytelling is done by the men and women who have lived through it.
These interviews are first hand intimate peeks into the spine tingling world of those who work the witching hour.

CBS Justice:

A WEDDING AND A MURDER
Season 2. Channel premiere.
Weeknights at 19:00 from 8th until 17th November. Continues at 19:00 and 20:00 on 18th and 19th November.
A wedding is supposed to be a joyous celebration of love, not the scene of a deadly crime. "A Wedding and a Murder" explores shocking true stories of engagements, weddings and honeymoons that tragically ended in death. Each episode delves into a real life instance of matrimonial murder. The killer could be anyone – from the bride or the groom, to a family member or even a wedding guest – leaving investigators scrambling to identify the culprit. The motives and outcomes may differ, but in each case, a couple’s happily ever after quickly turned into an unimaginable nightmare.

A LIE TO DIE FOR
Season 1. Channel premiere.
Weeknights at 21:00 from 8th until 16th November. Continues at 21:00 and 22:00 from 17th until 19th November.
"A Lie to Die For" reveals the shocking stories of individuals who resorted to murder to prevent others from exposing their lies. These killers got themselves so deep into deception that they took drastic measures to silence the truth and avoid getting caught. Each stand-alone episode takes viewers through the riveting developments of the case as investigators uncover the deadly lies that spiraled out of control.

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tvN's Parent Company CJ ENM Joins The Anime Business As They Partner Up With Toei Animation

Korean entertainment powerhouse CJ ENM has entered into a strategic partnership with leading Japanese animation studio Toei Animation as it continues to expand its global footprint. Under the agreement, the two companies will collaborate across both their libraries and team to create new product including television series, films and animation. The tie-up will also allow both to tap each other’s regional markets.

CJ ENM is is Korea’s foremost film and television studio, cable operator and music producer. Best known for multiple Oscar winner Parasite, the company’s film credits also include Snowpiercer and Miss Granny. Series credits range from Crash Landing On You to Goblin: The Lonely And Great God and Hospital Playlist while it is also behind music format I Can See Your Voice; stage credits include the Tony Award winning Broadway production Kinky Boots.

CJ further has a strategic investment in David Ellison’s Skydance Media and is currently co-producing a drama series with the U.S.-based company. It is also involved in the production of the TV-adaptation of Parasite with HBO.

The company has been on a global expansion push over the past year looking to form partnerships with content creators in the U.S., Europe and Asia.

Toei has produced numerous series including the Dragon Ball Z and One Piece franchises as well as Galaxy Express 999 and Sailor Moon. Its library numbers 13,100 episodes, including 255 feature films and 288 television series.

The two partners will now work closely to co-produce premium content that appeals to a global audience, be it new projects or those based on existing IP. They have formed a task-force with creatives from both sides to accelerate production.

“Toei Animation’s IP has great potential for transmedia or cross-media storytelling, as they have an existing strong global fandom and appeals to a wide range of age groups. We are also excited to see how CJ ENM’s original content that expands over 5,000 different IPs will be able open new doors of creative possibilities for Toei Animation,” said Jongmin Yi, Senior Vice President of CJ ENM’s Content R&D Center. “Through this strategic partnership, we plan to develop never-seen-before transmedia contents in both Korea and Japan.”

Added Takashi Washio, Executive Officer and Executive Producer of Production Department at Toei Animation, “We look forward to working with CJ ENM, a company that has been recognized for its borderless content and its influence in shaping some of the new trends in the global media entertainment landscape. Combined with Toei Animation’s know-hows from a wealth of experience and accomplishments in producing global animation hits, we are confident that the two companies will be able to create synergy to create global mega-hit contents.”

CJ ENM currently has a content agreement with MultiChoice's Showmax for their K-Dramas and they are pushing to get DStv to bring back tvN.

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A BLAST FROM THE PAST!!! As Cyberchase Makes Returns To Africa Through PBS Kids This November

Cyberchase follows the adventures of
three Earth children as they're brought into Cyberspace, a digital universe where they have to protect the world from the villain Hacker.

These kids are able to prevent Hacker from taking over Cyberspace by means of problem-solving skills in conjunction with basic math, environmental science, and wellness. In Cyberspace, they meet Digit, a "cybird" who helps them on their missions.

Cyberchase made its debut on the defunct channel Kidsco through their Syfy block. Kidsco was operated as a joint venture between NBC Universal and Corus Entertainment.

Kidsco has been dead for the past 7 years with very little to none their programming being transmitted through other brands.

Cyberchase is the first series from Kidsco to be introduced in this new decade. The series airs daily at 16:00 CAT from Monday 1st November.

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Could A Big Brother Africa Revival Be In The Works As More African Markets Start Working On A Local Adaptation Of The Popular Game Show?

Big Brother Africa originally began in 2003 on M-Net featuring contestants from across Africa living in an isolated household to compete for a cash prize. The show was cancelled after one season and picked once again in 2007 before getting cancelled after seven seasons in 2014.

Even though, the popular game show was canned the legacy lived on as Big Brother Naija for the past 5 years as they've been the forefront entertainers not only for Nigeria but the rest of Africa.

Not long ago, Liberia announced plans to launch a localised version of the game show titled Housemates Liberia through AYVTV. With plans to have this game show available in more markets just like Big Brother Naija.

With that in mind, its possible that MultiChoice might be planning to seperate versions of Big Brother Africa just the other day viewers have come across an advert for Big Brother Mzansi which is slated for South Africa in 2022.

The question remains on what affect it will inflict on Big Brother Naija. Considering that there's more than two perhaps MultiChoice in some regions will cut ties with the Nigerian counterpart to divert their focus their own version or offer Big Brother Naija on a limited basis.

Either way, it wouldn't surprise me if MultiChoice were to launch a dedicated channel for this game show titled Big Brother Africa for future as well as past seasons of the game show.

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November 2021 On Curiosity Channel Africa | Super Science Mondays | History Lover Tuesdays | Wildlife Wednesdays | Curious Thursdays | Travel & Adventure Fridays | Human Story Saturdays | Best Of Curiosity Sundays

SUPER SCIENCE MONDAYS

BLACK HOLES: MESSAGES FROM THE EDGE OF THE UNIVERSE Brand New Documentary Special - premieres 01 November 2021
CAT: 20:00
Episodes: 1x 60 mins
It is the birth of neutrino astronomy. For the first time, astrophysicists can detect extra-terrestrial neutrinos in the ice of the South Pole. Neutrinos are the most common and also most mysterious elementary particles and as these particles are invisible to us, their mass is unknown.

COUNTDOWN TO A CATASTROPHE
Brand New Series - premieres 15 November 2021
CAT: 16:00
Episodes: 3x 60 mins – ends 29 November 2021
Every year, volcanoes, earthquakes and hurricanes pose a serious threat to hundreds of millions of people across the globe.

SUPERINTELLIGENCE: BEYOND HUMAN
Brand New Documentary Special - premieres 22 November 2021
CAT: 20:00
Episodes: 1x 60 mins
How clever is artificial intelligence? Do we need to fear it, or can it help humanity with its problems? And if so, to what extent? The documentary pursues these questions while providing informative yet satirical insights into the current development of artificial intelligence.

HISTORY LOVER TUESDAYS

BUTTERFLY EFFECT
Brand New Season - premieres 02 November 2021
CAT: 19:00
Episodes: 13x 30 mins – ends 24 January 2022
"Butterfly Effect" is 13 episodes of science, explained by non-scientists, for non-scientists.

WILDLIFE WEDNESDAYS

SNAKE SEASON
Brand New Season - premieres 17 November 2021
CAT: 20:00
Episodes: 8x 30 mins – ends 05 January 2022

Snake Season features snake catcher Nick Evans -Snake Rescuer from KwaZulu-Natal.

CURIOUS THURSDAYS

MURDER SHE SOLVED
Brand New Episodes – premieres 04 November 2021
CAT: 21:00
Episodes: 4x 60 mins – ends 25 November 2021
This documentary series follows female crime investigators as they take on some of Canada's highest-profile cases.

TRAVEL & ADVENTURE FRIDAYS

GORDON RAMSAY
Brand New Episodes – premieres 05 November 2021
CAT: 19:00
Episodes: 12 x 30mins (stacked back-to-back premieres) – ends 10 December 2021
Gordon Ramsay’s Ultimate Cookery Course is the ultimate cooking lesson from the ultimate chef.

TRAVEL MAN
Brand New Season – premieres 05 November 2021
CAT: 20:00
Episodes: 40 x 30mins (stacked back-to-back premieres) – ends 18 March 2022
Travel Man is Richard Ayoade’s chance to show us where we’re going wrong by having the most culturally efficient holiday possible.

ANTHONY BOURDAIN, PARTS UNKNOWN
Brand New Episodes – premieres 05 November 2021
CAT: 21:00
Episodes: 4x 60mins – ends 26 November 2021
Anthony Bourdain travels the world uncovering lesser-known places and exploring their cultures and cuisine.

HUMAN STORY SATURDAYS

HOW TO ADVENTURE
Brand New Episodes - premieres 06 November 2021
CAT: 23:00
Episodes: 16x 30 mins (stacked back-to-back premieres) – ends 25 December 2021
After circumnavigating Africa by bicycle and rowing from Africa to America, Riaan Manser is one of the most accomplished adventurers.

BEST OF CURIOSITY SUNDAYS

GADGET MAN
Brand New Season - premieres 28 November 2021
CAT: 19:00
Episodes: 6x 30 mins – ends 02 January 2022
Stephen Fry shares his passion as he welcomes us into his wonderful world of tech, from the everyday to the extraordinary.

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MORE ZEE WORLD REPEATS??? As eExtra Adds The Heir And Surrender In Love To Their Lineup Within The Next Two Months

Amidst the scandal between eMedia Investments and Nismedia regarding the carriage for Glow TV. eMedia apparently bagged the rights to Surrender In Love and The Heir from Nismedia's enemies, Zee Enterprises.

This isn't the first time, even shows ranging from Qubool Hai, Dare To Love, Piya Albela and Bin Kuch Kahe all part of Zee Enterprises aired on eMedia set of channels.

Nismedia's ongoing feud with Zee Enterprises began in 2018 when MultiChoice abruptly scrapped Glow TV from DStv. Now the Zee supremacy surfaces once again on eExtra.

Surrender In Love (Qurbaan Hua), a story of two individuals who belong to different cultures Hindu and Muslim respectively. This story revolves around love - hate concept where the male protagonist Neel, belong to Hindu family who wanted revenge for his beloved sister murdered and by his conceptual the murderer is Chahat's father. Chahat, the female protagonist belong to a Muslim family. Neel and Chahat both determined by their own statement to prove that their opinion is true and this ties them to stay in one roof by faking their marriage.

The Heir (Waaris), with her husband's death in order to keep the title of "Shah" with in family Amba raises her daughter Manpreet (Mannu) as a boy making him the heir (Waaris) of the family as well as Shah of the Pawania Clan.

The only thing that tares it apart from Zee World would be the dubbed audio and the fact that viewers on eExtra will be viewing uncensored version from Zee TV.

eMedia Investments hasn't provided an exact date for these shows but seeing that the conclusion of Dare To Love alongside the first season of Till The End Of Time airs November 3rd and 30th respectively. These shows will likely occupy their timeslots.

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