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July 2020 On BBC Channels Africa | Meat | The Restaurant That Burns Calories | Mister Winner | More

Embarrassing Bodies (seasons 3 to 7) Weekdays from Monday 6th July at 21:00 on BBC Lifestyle The Embarrassing Bodies BAFTA winning doctors are back, once again aiming to de-stigmatise common complaints that many people would rather ignore than take to their GP. Dr Christian Jessen, Dr Dawn Harper and Dr Pixie McKenna take a look at patients' ailments and discuss treatment plans. Meat: A Threat to Our Planet Tuesday 7th July at 19:00 on BBC Earth Science and wildlife presenter Liz Bonnin travels around the world to investigate the impact that our hunger for meat is having on our planet’s environment. Liz travels from Texan mega-farms, the Amazon rainforest where she discovers how beef farming is a leading cause of deforestation and, in South Africa, Liz discovers life in our oceans are effected – driving African penguin towards extinction. Liz also meets the scientists and entrepreneurs urgently looking for solutions and at the end of her journey, Liz starts to assess her own

Die Deur Dik En Dun Coming In July 2020 To eExtra

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A month after e.tv signed a deal with Global Agency for the new Turkish telenovela Istanbullu Gelin , the show is expected to make its debut on eExtra. Die Deur Dik En Dun, the series follows the passionate love between a wealthy businessman and a poor singer struggles to survive in a battle against deep-rooted family traditions which prize power over romance. The series is also dubbed in Afrikaans alongside the latest addition Vierspel Vuurspel bringing eMedia brand to a total of 5 Afrikaans Turkish shows on air with 3 of them being exclusive series. The series was produced back in 2017 so even though it's new to the platform it's not a first run series. The first season will run an hour consisting of 51 episodes with the second being 129 episodes and third being 121 episodes. Die Deur Dik En Dun airs 6 July at 19:00 on eExtra replacing Doodsonders.

New Channel Alert: Supabets Launches On OpenView

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Supabets is often called one of the best sport betting sites in South Africa. It was established in 2008, and since that, it gained much popularity in African countries — the customers from South Africa, Nigeria, Zambia, Ghana and other countries are now very well aware of this bookmaker. Supabets belongs to a South African company called Portapa (Pty) Limited. The parent company has obtained a license to accept bets from the Gauteng Gambling Board (GGB). Now Supabets will be getting it's own channel on the OpenView platform even though no details have been issued on channel's lineup. The channel will take up a slot on channel 150 and will run 24/7 a day.

Prisoners Of Love Season 2 Returns To Telemundo Africa And Season 7 Of Lord Of The Skies Scrapped Possibly Due To Covid-19

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Bad news guys, Lord Of The Skies final season has been delayed just like season 6 was delayed back in December 2019 for repeats of Christmas Miracles. Now the seventh and final season is being delayed with a repeat of Prisoners of Love season two. The worst part is Telemundo supplied highlights for the final season of the show. It might have something to the lockdown currently being implemented in Africa even Star Life had to pause airing on most of their shows with a portion of those series making their way back to the screens with the rest coming back only when the lockdown has eased up a bit. In the final season of Lord Of The Skies, To avoid falling into the hands of the American Justice, Amado Leal "El Águila Azul", now Amado Casillas (Matías Novoa), has turned himself in to Bernardo Castillo (José Sedek), Secretary of Security of Mexico. The DEA commissioner, Joe Navarro (Guy Ecker), has made every attempt to achieve his extradition. What he does not know is that

Telemundo Africa's Indefinite And Possibly Scrapped Programming Plans

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Back in 2017, Telemundo International announced that the Turkish telenovela Örlene Kadar would make their way to viewer's screens in Latin America and Africa from a year later so far the series only made its way to Latin America. This was Engin Akyürek comeback to acting after Kara Para Aşk. Ölene Kadar which was retitled into Hasta La Muerte (Until Death) with Akyürek taking up the lead role of Dr. Dağhan Soysür who was convicted for murdering a business tycoon Sezai Karali when he was a 24-year old medical-grad pursuing his specialization. Due to this false accusation, Dağhan lost his youth, his career, the woman he loved and his unborn child. 11 years later, Dağhan is called upon by a young lawyer Selvi Nardan (Fahriye Evcen Özçivit), who claims that she knows he is innocent and can prove in court that Dağhan never committed the murder for which he has served more than a decade in confinement. Though the series had a strong theme and direction, and Akyürek's romantic pa

New Channel Alert: Galaxy Universal Network Coming Soon To StarSat

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Galaxy Universal Network, is Media Broadcasting company, that currently has three (3) Channels (News, Movies and General Entertainment Channels) being hosted by StarSat. The channels have a strong mandate to focus on changing the African narrative from one of despair to one of hope; telling the stories of African development, highlighting the strength of Africa and its people as a whole. The Channels are committed to connecting, informing and reporting on communities who have been overlooked in the discourse. We seek to raise the level of awareness and consciousness around the issues affecting the people of South Africa.

June 2020 On NickToons Africa | ALVINNN!!! And The Chipmunks | Stunts

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ALVINNN!!! AND THE CHIPMUNKS SEASON 4 NEW EPISODES: #414-#419 | HALF CARTS WEEKDAYS 15 TO 30 JUNE | AT 14:20 WAT/15:20 CAT /16:20 EAT The Chipmunks and Chipettes aren’t your typical kids. They go to school, have chores and homework, fight like siblings and play soldout concerts to millions of fans. Oh, did we mention they're international rock stars? New episodes will be: Best in Shoe, Royal Pain, World Day, Between a Rope and a Hard Place, Allergic Reaction, Lice-enced to Teach, Animal House Party, Dr. Zap vs Electroboy, Mega Bounce Battle, Gossip Guy, Chimpmania and Dad Jokes. HOME OF THE EXTRAORDINARY WEEKDAYS AT 11:20 WAT/12:20 CAT/13:20 EAT 08 JUNE TO 03 JULY Whether a band a of humanoid warrior turtles, a heroic phantomfighter with ghostly super powers, the best secret agents in the world, the master of all four elements or a hero in the Valley of Peace. No one said being extraordinary was going to be easy. They are still often nervous, clumsy, overwhelmed and ten

Star Life Will Bring In Two New Telenovelas: Nazar And Naamkarann

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Covid-19 has affected tv channels as you already know Star Life was airing only repeats during the month of April due to the lockdown that occurred in South Africa and India with most of their plans put in jeopardy. Since April, the channel has only been filled with repeats of Chasing My Heart , Forever Yours and The Crossroads . The channel recieved major backlash from fans and forced others to temporarily distance themselves from the channel. Before the lockdown was implemented, Star Life was set to introduce two new Hindi telenovelas which were Nazaar and Naamkarann to the channel. Nazaar (The Evil Eye) follows the life of an evil Daayan, who worship the mother goddesses Kali and Durga. But as a devil, she was cursed by gods and captured into the human world. Jatinder Bhardwaj and Ankur Nayyar take up the lead role with Monalisa set to follow. Naamkaran (My Identity) is the story of an illegitimate 11 year old girl, Avni Ayesha, who tries to give herself a legitimate identity

StarSat Will More Likely Launch A Total Of 10 Channels, Part Of Them Are Currently Active On The Platform

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StarTimes Media has upgraded their bouquet offering that will see the introduction of 10 new premium channels across news, kids, movies, fashion, novelas, gaming and esports giving subscribers an enriched content experience at the same affordable monthly subscription for their bouquets of choice. Some of them may take longer to appear on the platform or become a no show. Consumers will have access to channels Sky News, CBeebies, Gametoon, Timeless Drama Channel (TDC), Tlnovelas, FashionBox HD, SABC Education, FilmBox, Limpopo TV and Toonami will enrich the already existing content genres available to the broadcaster’s terrestrial and satellite television. Sky News is a British free-to-air television news channel and organisation. Sky News is distributed via a radio news service, and through online channels. It is owned by Sky Group, a division of Comcast. The channel is also available on MultiChoice's DStv. CBeebies is a British free-to-air television network owned by the BB