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7de Laan Switches Back To 5 Days A Week From October With Plans For A Reduction In Muvhango Scrapped

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This comes after the SABC cut the popular soapie to three episodes a week earlier this year. "7de Laan is delighted at the SABC's decision to bring back the show to 5 days a week," said the production. The Afrikaans weekday soap 7de Laan on SABC2 is returning to a full 5-days a week while the Venda weekday soap Muvhango remains a full-week show, bringing to an end the SABC's failed experiment to cut down on the episodes for both series to try out other programmes in their timeslots. From the week of Monday 4 October, 7de Laan is back to broadcasting five episodes per week on SABC2. The channel has not yet issued any statement about the soapies' return to full-week episodes. "7de Laan is delighted at the SABC's decision to bring back the show to 5 days a week," the production confirmed to the media on Friday. "We know that our fans are over extremely appreciative and excited for this. We owe much of their persistent request to the return. Vie

Could MultiChoice's Upcoming DStv Flex Package Replace The Premium And Compact+?

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Over the years, MultiChoice has lost several Premium subscribers due to the ongoing increase in costs for the package as well as streaming services such as Netflix and Amazon Prime Video offering cheaper services. Sometime ago, MultiChoice mentioned they were planning to launch the Premium downfall package known as DStv Flex which is geared towards the mid to top tier consumers. The timing for this package couldn't have come at a better time. As viewers noticed, a lot of international channels have been pulled off as their suppliers are taking back the content and adding it to onto their streaming services. In the end, consumers are left with less options and no reason to stay on the platform. MultiChoice has been working around the clock to keep these viewers connected through the launches of several local channels and M-Net's increased investment within the local industry. No matter how successful their attempts have been when it comes down to costs viewers feel they

October 2021 On CBS Africa | 5 New Series Alerts Including Injustice With Nancy Grace | Returning Shows Including Borderlands USA | More

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CBS Reality: PARANORMAL NIGHTSHIFT Season 1 Channel Premiere. Weekdays at 7:30 and 21:10, from 11th until 27th October. Repeated on weekends at 07:05, 20:20 and 00:35, from 16th October to 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. BORDERFORCE USA: THE BRIDGES Season 3. Channel Premiere Weekends at 08:40, 19:30 and 01:25, from 16th October to 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 Borde

October 2021 On Arena Holdings | More Local Content Coming To Ignition | Brand New Series Coming For The Home Channel | Returning Series | More

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Ignition: TUNED IN SA New Season Starts 28th September Reality Entertainment Sun: 3:30pm | Tue: 8:30pm | Thu: 2:30pm Mzansi’s number one tuning show is back to showcase the craziest customising jobs in the local tuning scene! We are giving you performance modifications, superior custom builds, ultimate showstoppers and as per tradition, a car makeover for a special viewer! KASI CAR CULTURE New Season Reality Entertainment Sun: 4pm | Wed: 8pm | Thu: 5pm South Africa is known for its unique and unapologetically bold array of ethnic cultures and a part of that are its interesting subcultures. Kasi Car Culture is all about celebrating the passion behind SA's vibrant township car culture. It's not only about what people drive. It’s about the unique sense of community that surrounds them. Tune in as we explore the passions and trends of Mzansi’s Kasi Car Culture. BUYER’S GUIDE Every Week Reality Entertainment Sun: 2:30pm | Mon: 8:30pm | Wed: 2:30pm Are you a first tim

September 2021 On WarnerMedia Africa | New Series Alert: Moley | TNT Original Movie: The Young Kieslowski | New Episodes Of Your Favourite Shows Including Power Rangers Beast Morphers And Ninja Express | Possible AEW Rampage

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TNT: In September, the channel will rollout the Ghostbusters Trilogy as part of Heritage month and other trilogies joining the lineup include The Matrix Trilogy (Adventure Month) and Men In Black, Training Day and Dumb And Dumber (Buddy Up). THE YOUNG KIESLOWSKI TNT ORIGINAL MOVIE Thursday, 2 September, at 8 PM Two awkward young adults embark on their first relationship after finding themselves pregnant with twins. A good story about dealing with the consequences of our actions. Cartoon Network: POWER RANGERS BEAST MORPHERS NEW EPISODES A secret agency known as Grid Battleforce combines a newly discovered substance called "Morph-X" with animal DNA to create its own team of Rangers, who are tasked with fighting an evil sentient computer virus known as Evox, who is from another dimension and is bent on taking over the source of all Ranger power, the Morphin Grid itself. With powerful Morph-X abilities, these new Rangers battle against Evox and his minions, including t

SABC 1 Will Start Airing Reruns Of The Estate Following The Soaps Terrible Performance On SABC 3

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Thanks to TVSA, we got confirmation that SABC 3's local soap opera, The Estate will start from scratch on SABC 1 from Monday 6 September at 19:30. This comes as the show's viewership continues to plummet following the success of e.tv's new soap, House Of Zwide last month. SABC 3 has been struggling to pull in viewers for over a decade and it looks like the SABC is starting to catch a wake-up. Many parties purpose that they turn SABC 3 into another Encore channel with content moving between SABC 1 and 2 or close it off the channel now that they're planning to launch more channels but that ain't happening anytime soon or at least for now. The Estate seems like a very promising successor to Isidingo but the problem here was the station. Like TVSA said, it should have never aired there in the first place now you see the consequences of SABC's actions. "Producing a daily local show takes huge amounts of money so it needs to be on a channel with a consisten

September 2021 On WildEarth | Penguins On Safari | The Birmingham Pride In Pursuit Of Prey | Sea Forest

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As spring arrives here in Africa the days are becomingmuch hotter. As a result from September 21st we will be moving our sunrise safari half an hour earlier and our sunset safari half an hour later. The times from 21st September are depicted in bold. Sunrise Safari Start: 6.00/ 5.30am CAT End: 9.00/ 8.30am CAT Start:4am/ 3.30am GMT End: 7am/ 6.30am GMT Start: 6.00/ 5.30am CET End: 9.00/ 8.30am CET Start:12am/ 11.30pm EST End:3am/ 2.30am EST Sunset Safari Start: 2.30/ 3pm CAT End: 6.30/ 6.30pm CAT Start: 12.30/ 1pm GMT End: 4.30/ 4.30pm GMT Start: 2.30/ 3pm CET End: 6.30/ 6.30pm CET Start: 8.30/ 9am EST End: 12.30/ 12.30pm EST PENGUINS ON SAFARI Cape Town definitely has no shortage of amazing beaches, but Boulders Beach in False Bay offers something extra special – a colony of African Penguins in their smart dresses, waddling glory, right under your nose. Infact, it’s the only place in the world where you can get close to African Penguins. Often call

September 2021 On Disney Channel And Disney Junior Africa | New Series Alert: Chicken Squad | New Episodes Of Returning Shows Including Puppy Dog Pals And Miraculous: Tales Of Ladybug And Cat Noir | More

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Disney Channel: MIRACULOUS TALES OF LADYBUG & CAT NOIR Premiere episodes Weekdays from Monday 6th to Wednesday 22nd September at 15:15 Parisian superheroes Ladybug and Cat Noir fly back onto Disney Channel in September, to fight new foes, in brand new episodes from season four of Miraculous Tales of Ladybug & Cat Noir. Premiere episodes air on weekdays from Monday 6th to Wednesday 22nd September at 15:15. The adventure in Paris continues for Ladybug and Cat Noir, surrounded by new allies and fighting an ever more powerful and determined opponent. But great changes lie ahead for Ladybug and Cat Noir in their superhero lives, and for Marinette and Adrien in their lives at school. In the first of this month’s premiere episodes, Truth (Monday 6th September at 15:15), a friend of Marinette's gets akumatized into Truth. Using his power to force people to tell the truth, he wants to know Marinette's secret...and Ladybug and Cat Noir's, too! Premiere episodes of Mira

Africa: Could Adult Swim Make It's Linear Debut On DStv?

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Adult Swim is animation brand catered for a viewers older than 18 and owned by WarnerMedia that can be found on MultiChoice's Showmax. It's the home to popular series such as Robot Chicken, Final Space and Rick And Morty. In a way, the brand has competition through ViacomCBS's Comedy Central as well as Disney's 20th Television Animation which is currently being distributed through M-Net and FOX. Speaking of Disney, they're planning to close FOX by the end of September which built part of its existence through animation which is set to be a Disney+ exclusive further reducing the offering everywhere else. As mentioned, there's brands that distribute them but there's no guarantee if they will continue in the near future. Aside from FOX even ViacomCBS's Comedy Central has been feeling like "The Walking Dead" which is where part of this idea enters. WarnerMedia Africa operates Toonami which is geared towards viewers aged 13-18 years so why no