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Brave And Beautiful Coming Soon To Star Life

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Star Life, is set to introduce a new fantasy telenovela next month to join the existing lineup of shows. This will be the channel's first fantasy show. Brave And Beautiful (Divya Drishti), separated at childhood, Divya and Drishti attain super powers - to not only see the future, but also manipulate it. However, their own future lies in the hands of an evil Pishachini. Sana Sayyad and Nyra Banerjee take up the titular character's roles. The series consists of 106 episodes each consuming at least 45 minutes meaning that this will be the second drama series on the channel that doesn't consist of 30 minutes with the first being Crime Alert. It made its debut last year on StarPlus and ended earlier in the year on that channel. Star Life was set to air two other telenovelas earlier in the year but due to the lockdown regulations implemented in Africa and India months back these shows were delayed indefinitely. The channel hasn't made a statement with regards to the shows

MultiChoice South Africa On The Catholic Channel, EWTN

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EWTN offers family-oriented, spiritually-enriching programming from a Catholic point of view. The Networks’ diverse programs include live talk shows, news programs, original series and documentaries, teaching series with noted theologians, children’s shows, live coverage of the Pope, a live daily Mass, and much more. The channel launched 9 years ago for the rest of Africa on MultiChoice's DStv excluding South Africa. EWTN is also available on StarTimes (ROA) and StarSat (South Africa). During those nine years, A lot of angry DStv customers approached MultiChoice over the possibility of adding EWTN to DStv's South African platform and as always we'll forward your suggestion to a relevant department. They even created a petition and page to help get the channel to the market seeing as StarSat which is located in South Africa also packages the channel. Two years ago, I contacted someone with regards to the channel and this is what DStv told them and what they're

Ebonylife Is Being Removed From MultiChoice's DStv From The End Of July, StarSat And StarTimes Might Follow

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TV show host, Mo Abudu has revealed that EbonyLife TV will no longer function as it is now becoming a video-on-demand service called EbonyLife ON. She also revealed that most of the contents offered by the channel will now be uploaded EbonyLife ON which will be available on iOS stores and Google. She said: “Remember when we used to wait a whole week to watch our favourite TV shows? Well, those days are gone forever! Now, we can binge on the whole series if we want to. Therefore, we have decided that EbonyLife TV will no longer be available on DStv from 31st July 2020.” EbonyLife TV was launched by Multichoice in 2013 and operated on DSTV. The deal ended in 2018 and Mo Abudu partnered with Startimes to broadcast the channel. If you read the first paragraph nicely the channel will no longer function as it used to. They recently signed a content deal with Netflix and with it going dark on DStv in the rest of Africa. Apparently Ebonylife made the choice to can the channel from DStv so

August 2020 On National Geographic Wild Africa | Predator Bloodline | South America's Weirdest

EQUATOR‘S WILD SECRETS (6 x 60‘) Sundays at 18:00 Life along the equator is spectacularly diverse. More than half of the world's species live here. Equators Wild Secrets is a 6 part series about the Equator's wildest and most diverse ecosystems - the Amazon, the Andes, the Galapagos Islands, Borneo and Sumatra, Africa, and the Coral Sea. This series features a cornucopia of exotic animals in habitats ranging from steamy rainforests and great grasslands to snowy mountains and great reefs. PREDATOR BLOODLINE (5 x 60‘) Mondays at 18:00, from 3 August Bloodlines... It is through this mechanism that individuals inherit the unique code for survival. The fight for survival is universal. The fight for legacy sets these six extraordinary characters and their families apart. With our camera lens having captured these animals‘ lives daily for three years, the series allows viewers to witness personalities that defy expectation, to see determination without equal, and to watch these

August 2020 On National Geographic Africa | Gordon Ramsay Uncharted 2 | Barksins | America's National Parks Updates | More

GORDON RAMSAY UNCHARTED 2 Wednesdays at 21:00 from 26 August (ends 2 October) Gordon Ramsay dives, fishes, forages and leaps out of helicopters on another all-action adventure in the pursuit of food. From the big game filled wild of South Africa; and caiman infested jungles of Guyana, to pristine Tasmania, his culinary journey takes in Louisiana's Cajun swamps, Norway's icy fjords, the spice packed mountains of South India and the epic Indonesian Island of Sumatra. BARKSKINS Thursdays at 21:00 from 13 August (ends 3 September) Double billed, 2 episodes per week.   Based on the New York Times bestselling novel by Pulitzer Prize winner Annie Proulx, BARKSKINS follows a disparate group of outcasts and dreamers battling to escape their pasts while navigating the brutal frontier hardships, competing interests and tangled loyalties at the crossroads of civilization: the New World. AMERICA’S NATIONAL PARKS UPDATES Mondays at 19:00 from 13 August (ends 28 September) Get to k

September 2020 On History Africa | Remembering 9/11 | Warriors Way | Lost Gold Of WWII 2 | More

REMEMBERING 9/11 Brand New & Exclusive 9/11 INSIDE AIR FORCE ONE 13 September, Sunday at 20h15 This two-hour feature documentary tells the story of 9/11 from a unique vantage point: inside Air Force One on its nine-hour journey from Florida, across the country, and fnally home to Washington D.C. Featuring interviews with President George W. Bush, Vice President Dick Cheney, Chief of Staf Andy Card, the pilot of Air Force One, Secret Service agents, as well as the intelligence and military aides on board. 9/11 ESCAPE FROM THE TOWERS 13 September, Sunday at 22h05 9/11: Escape From the Towers is a gripping frst-hand account of the 2001 atacks on the World Trade Centre told from the unique perspectve of survivors, most of whom are sharing their experiences for the frst tme. Focusing on two foors - the 81st foor of the north tower and the 77th foor of the south tower, just below the impact zones - it’s the story of ordinary working Americans who are completely unaware of the caus

September 2020 On Lifetime Africa | What Happened To Ashley & Laura? | Surviving Jeffrey Epstein | Family Feud Movies

Brand New & Exclusive WHAT HAPPENED TO ASHLEY & LAURIA? HELL IN THE HEARTLAND 23 September – 10 October, Wednesdays 21h00 This four-part investgatve documentary series explores a harrowing and unique missing persons case that is currently evolving into a much larger story of unsolved murder and allegatons of cover-up and corrupton in Oklahoma. Crime author and investgator Jax Miller and former police investgator Sarah Cailean intrepidly research the confounding case of Lauria Bible and Ashley Freeman, two teenagers who disappeared in December 1999, afer the Freeman family trailer was burned to the ground. The series delves into the many strange theories of the case and reveals a truth that proves even more incredible. Brand New & Exclusive SURVIVING JEFFREY EPSTEIN 27 September, Sundays at 20h50 In the glamorous world of the global elite, an open secret lingered. One trafcking ring, with one man at the centre. Hundreds of survivors. Who knew; who refused to see; and

This Is Us Coming Soon To SABC 3

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SABC 3 will be spicing up the lineup with a daily drama timeslot from 18:30, with the introduction of This Is Us. This Is Us, the series follows the lives of siblings Kevin, Kate, and Randall (known as the "Big Three"), and their parents Jack and Rebecca Pearson. Most episodes feature a storyline taking place in the present (2016–2019, contemporaneous with airing) and a storyline taking place at a set time in the past; but some episodes are set in one time period or use multiple flashback time periods. The series has been nominated for Best Television Series – Drama at the 74th Golden Globe Awards and Best Drama Series at the 7th Critics' Choice Awards, as well as being chosen as a Top Television Program by the American Film Institute. Sterling K. Brown has received an Emmy, a Golden Globe, a Critics' Choice Award, and an NAACP Image Award for his acting in the series. Mandy Moore and Chrissy Metz received Golden Globe nominations for Best Supporting Actress. In 20

The Candidate Coming Soon To FOX Life Africa

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FOX Life is set to introduce another Mexican telenovela to their lineup in August to take up Secrets At The Hotel's timeslot. The Candidate (La Candidata), looks into the personal side of the world of politics through the life of a Mexican presidential candidate. The series is also produced by Televisa. Silvia Navarro, Rafael Sánchez Navarro and Susana González are the main protagonists in the show with Víctor González (Leo, Pasion Morena) and Nailea Norvind playing the lead antagonists. The series debuted back in November 21, 2016 through Televisa and ended on February 12, 2017 with 62 episodes. During its run the show won eight awards at the 35th TVyNovelas Awards, including Best Telenovela of the Year. The Candidate airs Tuesday 11 August at 16:40 CAT/15:40 WAT/17:40 EAT on FOX Life which can be found on MultiChoice's DStv and ODM's StarSat (SA) alongside StarTimes (ROA).