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Trending Posts From The Last 7 Days Dated 2nd February

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Most browsed content on the site so far 1. MultiChoice Shares Cryptic Status Update Regarding eMedia's 4 Channels On The DStv Platform 2.  Openview Ultra: Here's What We Think About Ultraview Pride and Ultraview Indian 3.  New Series Alert: The World Of The Married And Die Vertroueling Coming Soon To Novelas E Plus And eVOD 4.  Reminder: Several Cartoonito Domains Have Reportedly Been Registered Ahead Of The Channel's Rollout In Central Eastern Europe In March 2023 5.  New Series Alert: Om Elke Draai And The Rich Also Cry Coming To eVOD And Citizen TV Respectively 6.  Fans Believe eMedia Investments Is Planning To Revive The International Content Slate On To Top Of Leveraging eVOD's Library To Supplement Isono, Imbewu And Durban Gen On e.tv 7.  Recap: eVOD Has Yet To Offer Live TV Channels As Promised In 2021 8.  New Series Alert: Close To My Heart Coming Soon To Star Life 9.  MultiChoice And eMedia Investments' Anti-Load Shedding Channels Recieve Questi

The River And Lingashoni's Cancellation Leads Fans To Believe 1Magic Is Shutting Down

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During the week, it was reported across social platforms that 1Magic would be bidding farewell to one of their only relevant shows on the channel The River with its sixth and final season scheduled to air this week and continue on through February 2024. Prior to that Lingashoni is expected to bow down on the channel by March 2023 with a new show (not a telenovela) expected to take it's place once the show finishes it's run on 1Magic. 1Magic is a brand M-Net conceived back in 2019 as a replacement for VUZU AMP which was once known as M-Net Series Reality within a 20 year period. The idea was to give consumers on the top rated package and Mzansi Magic a run for its money with the above-mentioned shows. It even featured other shows VUZU AMP would have aired like Power, The Real Housewives, The Originals, Grown Woman and Basketball Wives. DStv: - Boomerang might be first channel to exit the DStv platform in 2023 -  MultiChoice shares  crytpic  message about eMedia's

Roundups #138: Triggerfish Working On An Episode Of Star Wars: Visions, Giyani: Land Of Blood To Return With A Second Season On SABC 2 And The River Currently Viewed On 1Magic To End With A Sixth Season

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SA's Triggerfish is going global Animation fans should diarise May the 4th this year as this is when the second instalment in Disney’s animated anthology, Star Wars: Visions Volume 2 lands. While we’re already excited to see what the different studios have created this time around, Volume 2 is of greater significance as South African animation house Triggerfish will be helming one of the episodes. Disney+ and Lucasfilm announced that the second volume of the animated anthology series will premiere May 4, 2023, a.k.a. Star Wars Day, exclusively on Disney+. Volume 2, building on the Emmy Award-nominated first run of Star Wars: Visions in 2021, will feature nine new shorts from nine studios from around the globe; the shorts promise to feature unique animation styles from a variety of countries and cultures, depicting each filmmaker’s specific vision of the Star Wars galaxy,” Disney explained in a blog post. With Triggerfish working on an episode, this hopefully means that local Dis

Boomerang Africa Also Rumoured To Be Replaced With Cartoonito By Early 2023

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During the week, it was reported Warner Bros. Discovery in France would be rolling out a dedicated preschool channel, Cartoonito which currently runs a programming block on various Cartoon Network and Boomerang channels. Prior to that, some parts of Europe have already confirmed the distribution of Cartoonito by March with Warner Bros. Discovery in Africa remaining silent with the recent developments that have been seen across the world. For several months, Cartoonito has been increasing its stake on the channel while as Boomerang continues funneling their schedule with more preschool based shows like The Adventures Of Little Penguin and Legend Of Spark. Insidus  Games: -  Buzz Lightyear Star Command -  Pink Panther:  Pinkadelic  Pursuit -  Spider-Man Toxic City -  Baby Felix Halloween It was no later than late January where the lineup of both Cartoonito and Boomerang collided when Masha And The Bear and Grizzy And The Lemmings were slotted in the programming block while as b

Primetime On eExtra Takes Another Plunge With A Rebroadcast Of Kurt En Shura

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In the start of 2023, eMedia Investments has been reducing the primetime offering for their eExtra channel starting off with weekends which gave audiences more alternatives with the likes of Sisterhood, Impak and Kruispad axed and merged onto the weekday lineup. With Afrikaans movies retaining its timeslot every Saturday at 8pm a similar move eExtra's sister channel e.tv made with Sunday Night Movies returned to 8pm as the viewership took a toll for the worst with Kuiertyd Premium serving only a catch-up to other programs. During the week, a fan asked of what's to become of the timeslot currently used by the Brazilian soap opera, Orphan Of A Nation and the answer is not what we anticipated for the brand at all, Kurt En Shura. Openview Plus: - Ratings for SABC 1-3 and e.tv for December 2022 - e.tv to rollout a rebroadcast of Die Put -  eExtra scrapped the launch of 4 telenovelas -  Verdeelde Liefde to return with a second season on eExtra Introduced back in 2021 as an

Cartoonito To Get A Dedicated Channel In France By April 2023

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Already established in many territories, its arrival in France responds to the overall strategy of Warner Bros. Discovery to address a new target called “preschool”: girls and boys from 3 to 6 years old. It thus completes the kids portfolio in France already made up of Boomerang and Cartoon Network. Cartoonito is the best place to laugh and to discover. Batwheels, Bugs Bunny Builder, Lucas the Spider, Interstellar Ella...the heroes amazing chain train kids ages 3 to 6 years in their adventures and encourage them to be curious, to have fun and to be themselves! Cartoonito, these are new programs and quality, original creations and shows from of Warner's legendary franchises tailored to younger. In an ultra creative, modern, funny and always benevolent, Cartoonito offers the little ones great stories to discover and open up to world around them. Insidus  Games: -  Buzz Lightyear Star Command -  Pink Panther:  Pinkadelic  Pursuit -  Spider-Man Toxic City -  Baby Felix Hallow

Why SWITCH'D On Channel 110 Doesn't Offer Rebroadcasts To kykNET's Primetime Series?

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Last month, eMedia Investments had MultiChoice unveiled a batch of pop-up channels which serve as a linear catch-up service to some of their primetime offering while eMedia only runs 1 channel Power Up with MultiChoice SWITCH'D ON comes as two components. The first SWITCH'D is accessible to DStv Premium, Compact+ and Compact consumers on channel 109 incorporates the best of Mzansi Magic and kykNET & Kie which consists of Gomora, In Die Ysterhand Se Greep, Arendsvlei, Kind Van Die Noodlot, The River and so forth. The second SWITCH'D is accessible to lower mass consumers particularly Family and Access package on channel 110. The channel incorporates the best of Mzansi Wethu and Mzansi Bioskop with content like The Queen, The River, Lingashoni and Isibaya. Since launch, the channels were met with mixed reviews particularly for the second SWITCH'D channel as the pay-tv holder opted to only bundle Mzansi Magic's sister channels and exclude kykNET from the offer

New Series Alert: Queen Of The Night And How Do I Say This? Coming Soon To Timeless Dizi Channel And Zee World Respectively

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Timeless Dizi Channel, a Turkish entertainment channel owned by Canal+ SPI International and Zee World a Bollywood based entertainment channel owned by ZEE unveil respective new series Queen Of The Night (Gecenin Kraliçesi) and How Do I Say This? (Ki Kore Bolbo Tomay). Queen Of The Night tells the story of Kartal an orphan who is raised by Aziz the man who killed his father. Kartal married Aziz's daughter Esra but falls to Selin and feels obligated to leaves her. The series ensembles the cast of Meryem Uzerli, Murat Yildirim, Ugur Polat, Funda Eryigit, Selim Bayraktar, Deniz Celiloglu, Burak Deniz, Seda Akman and several others. How Do I Say This? follows Radhika, a budding fashion designer abandoned by her lover a night before their wedding. Eventually, she develops a close bond with the owner of an apparel company, Virat. DStv Flex: -  What to expect this February on TNT? -  Big Cat Sunday this February on National Geographic Wild -  CBS Reality acquired rights to Kille

Virtual Reality Offers A Huge Opportunity For African Filmmakers

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Africa has a habit of leapfrogging technological hurdles and coming out ahead of countries considered more developed – look at our adoption of mobile phone payments, mobile payments and internet connectivity solutions. We lead in proptech, we’re drawing massive investment in fintech and medtech solutions developed on the continent are being rolled out across the world. Virtual Tech, Real Applications While Virtual Reality (VR) is still a novelty technology in much of the rest of the world, it is flourishing in Africa in the gaming, healthcare, mining, advertising and property industries and is being explored as a tool in education. The expansion of the tech will create its own value chain, which will help filmmakers transition more easily into VR production – giving our own storytellers the opportunity to innovate, dream, think and push boundaries on their own terms. Africa has the opportunity to combine it with our own compelling stories and storytelling methods to position ours