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New Series Alert: Barbie: It Takes Two And Thomas And Friends All Engines Go! Coming Soon To eToonz

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eMedia Investments wraps up 2022 for the little ones on Craze and eToonz as the company fills their stockings with the last remaining shows for the year, Barbie: It Takes Two and Thomas And Friends: All Engines Go! both of were are supplied by Mattel Televisions. Targeting girls aged six to eight, Barbie: It Takes Two expands from the film Barbie: Big City, Big Dreams as the pair both of which were named Barbie with variation from Malibu to Brooklyn share the spotlight and pursue their magical dreams in New York City. They will also learn about each other's families, friends and cultures. Targeting preschoolers aged two to five, the reboot of Thomas And Friends with the extended All Engines Go sees a younger Thomas the Tank Engine go on adventures with all of his friends as they work on the island of Sodor. Thomas And Friends: All Engines Go! was also picked by Warner Bros. Discovery for their Cartoonito block on Boomerang. It was also renewed for additional season despit

Boomerang Rebranding To Cartoonito In Central Eastern Europe??? As The Schedule Funnels It's Schedule With Preschool Content

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Last year, I did a few articles about Cartoonito's future on Warner Bros. Discovery and with Boomerang having less content to themselves or at least made it feel like Boomerang my theory was that the preschool brand would take up its space. There's a lot of evidence which supports that theory, first has to do with its demise in Latin America I mean the Spanish part of the United States has no Boomerang and the second having to do with the fact that there hasn't been any family content on the channel. If I had to look at the series launches this year we had Akissi and Legend Of Spark of which one is considered preschool and another branded Cartoonito. Other shows to have launched include Thomas And Friends, CoComelon and initially acquired for Boomerang, Lucas The Spider. Possibly signalling the end of Boomerang's family slate with Looney Tunes scrapped and Tom And Jerry In New York on hiatus likely cancelled. In the end, there's always Movie Stars which seems

New Series Alert: Heartless Coming Soon To TLNovelas Africa

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TLNovelas, a Mexican based entertainment channel home to various Portuguese telenovelas which can also be viewed in English and also a rival to Telemundo's existing lineup is starting off 2023 with their first telenovela titled Heartless (La Desalmada). Based on the Colombian telenovela La Dama De Troya, the series follows Fernanda out for revenge after her husband is murdered and she is violated on her wedding night. With a poor memory of that traumatic night, Fernanda mistakes her true love Rafael for the man who ruined her life - Rafael's father. Livia Brito stars as titular character, alongside JosƩ Ron, Eduardo Santamarina, Marjorie de Sousa and Marlene Favela. Heartless premiered last year on Las Estrellas pulling about 3 million households and earlier in the year TelevisaUnivision confirmed production of a second season with viewers in some parts of Africa watching the first season for the very first time. , In the first episode titled, Fernanda and Santiago

DStv Streama Upgrade Also Comes With Disney+

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Now with upgrades that improve the viewing experience, DStv Streama will carry Disney+ content, bringing the best of international content right to its customers screens. MultiChoice launched its streaming box, DStv Streama in October which featured content from DStv and other streaming services. The DStv Streama enables customers to stream their favourite DStv content from sport, entertainment, news and education and gives them access to a variety of other apps, such as Showmax, Netflix, Prime Video, YouTube, YouTube kids and from today, Disney+. MultiChoice South Africa CEO Nyiko Shiburi says that the DStv Streama upgrade will seek to offer seamless viewing of entertainment content to customers, all in one place. “The DStv Streama upgrade demonstrates our commitment to giving our customers not only more value, more choices and more convenience, but a great viewing experience filled with all of their favourite content,” he says. Disney+ is the dedicated streaming home for so

35+ Facts You Didn't Know About These Dragonball Instalments

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So, how many of these do you actually know? These facts cover all three Dragon Ball anime series (Dragon Ball, Dragon Ball Z, and Dragon Ball GT). 1. Actor Sean Shemmel passed out while voicing Goku's epic transformation to Super Saiyan Level 4 in the English-language dub of Dragon Ball GT. 2. Bulma's name roughly translates to "panties." 3. Hitler makes an appearance in the movie Dragon Ball Z: Fusion Reborn. Hitler was ultimately defeated by Goten and Trunks. 4. Namekians grow at a faster rate than humans or Saiyans. For this reason, Piccolo is a full grown adult at the age of 3 when he fights Goku at the World Martial Arts Tournament. Also, he's only four years older than Gohan during the Saiyan saga. 5. Android 17's real name is Lapis. 6. Android 18's real name is Lazuli. 7. In Arab dubs of the show, Saiyans "summon" their Great Ape forms as opposed to transforming at the sight of the moon. 8. The fight between Goku and Frieza took u

Reviewing Major Changes Coming Soon To The SABC

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Last month, the public broadcaster was all buzz hosting a last minute showcase where they transitioned to video entertainment announcing further content for their current channels on top of launching SABC+ in place of the former TelkomOne streaming service. Of course, what remains absent is the two entertainment channels announced in partnership with eMedia Investments last year. Just like SABC+, sources mention that those channels had already entered final stages a while back. Honestly, it doesn't appear that they'll be anything time soon but with these recent adjustments. It's possible that they'll likely bring them up in the near future or as soon as most of these developments are dealt with. As mentioned, the SABC has shared a couple of things in which we want to brief everyone on: * The public broadcaster is heading for another loss making year with R608 million which has just tripled from last year R201 million. * They failed to hit their targets in terms

Rumour: The Walt Disney Company To Extend The Reach Of Star Channel

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A few years ago, FOX was ripped away from DStv and StarSat consumers across Africa prior to that some regions such as Latin America were fortunate to get a placeholder Star Channel which continued to offer the bulk of content coming to former channel. Just like FOX in Africa, that too wasn't made to last as Latin America joined the UK, Germany, Australia and several other regions that consolidated their content on the streaming service Disney+ with Europe expected to take the plunge by 2024. If you're reading this then you must be aware that there's still a number of FOX feeds globally where viewers can tune into shows like The Resident, The Simpsons, How I Met Your Mother, M.O.D.O.K., CSI: Miami, Fresh Off The Boat and The X-Files. While some of these regions don't have Disney Channel and Disney Junior, there is very much a FOX feed and The House Of Mouse as usual chooses to divide their audience most of which has to do with Disney+. According to some source

The Simpsons: A Look At Proposed Spinoffs That Never Got Time Of Day

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When The Simpsons debuted 35 years ago as a series of shorts on The Tracey Ullman Show, it was hard to expect that it would become one of the most successful and longest-running franchises in movie and TV history. While The Simpsons spun off from (and quickly eclipsed) The Tracey Ullman Show, it seems a little odd that, given the show’s rampant popularity, we have yet to see a spin-off from The Simpsons, itself. The show has occasionally mocked the concept of TV spin-offs – most notably in the Troy McClure-hosted “Simpsons Spin-Off Showcase” – but that doesn’t mean Fox and the Simpsons creative team haven’t attempted to use the show as a springboard to launch another series. Let’s take a look now at some proposed spin-offs of The Simpsons, all of which sound infinitely better than The Cleveland Show. A Krusty the Clown Series (1994) One of the first side characters the Simpsons writers fleshed out was Krusty the Clown, so it makes perfect sense that he was the first one Matt Groening

Roundups #115: Tom And Jerry In New York Cancelled On Boomerang And HBO Max, Lord Of The Skies Returns For An Eighth Season On Telemundo USA And The Addams Family Spinoff Wednesday Is A Global Success On Netflix

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Tom And Jerry likely cancelled on HBO Max Based on the 2021 theatrical film, Tom and Jerry In New York settle in to their new digs at the Royal Gate Hotel and unleash mayhem across the Big Apple, inciting chaos uptown, downtown and everywhere their manic escapades take them. The series premiered in the same year on HBO Max and was made available to Cartoon Network and Boomerang channels internationally with a total of 13 episodes each with a duration of 21 minutes over 2 seasons. Since November 2021, no more episodes had been ordered and with the reconstruction of Warner Bros. Discovery it wouldn't be shocking if it were cancelled considering how the theatrical film performed. Regardless, the crew are working on the preschool series Tom And Jerry Time for Cartoonito. Aurelio returns for another season on Telemundo It's official! Telemundo revealed the premiere date for season 8 of 'El seƱor de los cielos'. Through its social networks, the television house shared