Entertainment Inside Us (Insidus)

eExtra's Kuiertyd launched in 2018 featuring shows like Elif, Dokter Ali and Gebroke Harte. Since then, the brand had garnered so much popularity that MultiChoice rolled out its first competitor to the brand on kykNET & Kie. It was only a matter of time till more broadcasters would follow. Apparently, NBCUniversal had acquired rights to the 2017 Turkish drama Cennet for the Telemundo channel in Africa. Handled by Eccho Rights, this news doesn't come as a surprise as Telemundo has an original series based within Istanbul in development. And also the main feed of the channel had been licencing numerous Turkish dramas so it was only a matter of time till Africa would adapt to what's seen in America. As mentioned during the year, the channel doesn't have much original content in the pipeline and this is due to the actors strike and much implemented streamlining attempts. NBCUniversal has been cutting costs across their brands that E! has to rely on content from Bravo

Hallmark Channel was a family based entertainment channel featuring a set of miniseries such as McBride and Mystery Woman, movies alongside reality and acquired series like Walker Texas Ranger, Home Improvement and The Brady Bunch. The channel hadn't been profitable during the time it was managed by Crown Media Holdings as they made several losses during 1998 to 1999. They recorded a $35.5 million in 1998 on revenue of $23.7 million, and in 1999 it lost $56.7 million on revenue of $31.9 million. After several years of struggle, the channel made a breakthrough in 2005 recording their highest peak in viewership. It was also the year Hallmark's international operations was put up for sale receiving so many weak offerings they were fortunate to find a buyer. Out of all the weak offers, Sparrowhawk Media purchased the brand for a total of $242 million which too was weak but the most they've gotten amongst bids. Around that time, NBCUniversal assisted in channel distribut

In 2020, the public broadcaster unveiled their first TV channel in over 10 years, SABC Education. It is meant to serve as a curriculum vitae based channel like Mindset while as serving content already seen on SABC 1-3 including Skeem Saam, Afro Cafe and Matric Reloaded. This was one of the confirmed TV channels to be beamed on DStv and StarSat . Of course, that wasn't the case as the channel is still accessible on the SABC+ streaming service and through DTT with some content as mentioned accessible on the public broadcaster's most viewed brands. A lot of mystery still surrounds the sudden disappearance of SABC Education as you had StarSat listing it on their website which had since then been scrapped while as MultiChoice continue to make it accessible on the iPlate section (or test channel section) of DStv. At first, several consumers thought that MultiChoice had paused the launch of the channel as they await the public broadcaster to rollout more new channels a

BLACK MOTION – LIVE FROM CONSTITUTION HILL Considered as the new Mecca of house music, and more specifically of deep house and afro house, South Africa is full of talent, including this duo from Pretoria: Black Motion. Night had fallen on Constitution Hill in Johannesburg, South Africa when the duo took the stage. To commemorate the African diaspora on the occasion of Black History Month in February, Qwest TV co-organized an event - in support of the association Bridges for Music (click here to donate) - in this former prison, in which heroes like Mandela and Gandhi were locked up within its walls, now converted into a museum of the country’s road towards democracy and which also hosts the Constitutional Court. Black Motion is the association of Bongani Mohasana aka DJ Murder and percussionist Thabo Mabogwame aka Smol, an original supercharged collaboration that earned them international recognition in 2010 thanks to the hit "Banane Makovo," in collaboration with

ITV Choice was a British based entertainment channel operated by ITV Studios that offered a mixture of reality, lifestyle and drama series. Some of the content included on the channel were Coronation Street, Emmerdale, The Jonathan Ross Show and Doc Martin. The channel was phased out from the DStv platform by June 2020 and with no outlet to continue watching the channel consumers had to rely on BritBox for further content or view the little remains of ITV (Tipping Point and The Chase) on BBC and M-Net. tvN was added to the pay-tv platform as a pop-up channel featuring various content from South Korea such as The K-2, Tails Of The Nine Tailed, Another Miss Oh, Cheese In The Trap and Tunnel. Despite being a popular addition, MultiChoice went against the idea of a full-time channel . Since then, the Korean entertainment channel had been looking to continue on another platform and surveyed several fans even got a petition in the hopes to return on DStv but since then there had

A couple of years ago, Siyaya TV was planning to rollout its own rival platform for MultiChoice's DStv but unsuccessful opted for Moja Love. Since its launch, it happens to be one of the leading brands on DStv for shows like X-Repo, Uyajola 9/9 and Show Me Love. It wasn't long till MultiChoice would have spun off the channel to Access consumers under Moja 9.9. serving as a platform for archived material alongside content already viewable on Moja Love. During the week, MultiChoice had begun tests on another HD channel from Siyaya TV whose identity as been revealed. But from what we can make of this it might have something to do with Moja Love as one of its most controversial shows Umakwapheni is slotted there. Other than that no other program can be viewed on this possible new channel either because Siyaya TV hasn't added other content to the channel yet or possibly hadn't provided MultiChoice with a full length programme guide. And if this channel paints

During the year, Nicktoons woke up from its repeat slumber with a batch of original content from Nickelodeon including Star Trek: Prodigy, Monster High, Rugrats and The Patrick Star Show and exclusives like The Adventures Of Sammy & Raj and Best & Bester. As seen in July, these exclusive shows had since then been transmitted on Nickelodeon leaving Nicktoons to open up more timeslots for The Loud House's placeholder The Casagrandes alongside Nickelodeon's longest running show, SpongeBob SquarePants. From what I can analyse here it's safe to say Paramount isn't prioritising the channel as much as seen in previous years. My guess on these exclusives perhaps it's a regional thing as some territories market Nickelodeon as a premium and in Southern Africa those roles are reversed. That's also very risky as Southern Africa having Nickelodeon spend less time on Nicktoons but considering a majority can't afford the main channel. It's put in a

WildBrain is a Canadian based company known for owning the largest independent library of children's television programming, which is distributed through its multi-channel network, WildBrain Spark, and a group of Canadian specialty television channels (e.g. WildBrain TV). Some of the programming to have been distributed by the brand include animations like Johnny Test, Carmen Sandiego, Berry In The Big City and Inspector Gadget alongside live-action shows like Hank Zipzer, Survivalists, Degrassi: Next Class and Bajillionaires. As of 2022, Canada has been the only known region to distribute a linear service with the trademark WildBrain Spark adopted by the UK and global to manage a number of external brands currently seen on digital platforms which has accumulated $70 million in revenue. With Disney consolidating most of their content to streaming and shuttering their remaining linear offering. Cable outlets have been up and about trying to fill the void left by the b

Elma Potgieter as Ülfet Mari Molefe as Suhandan Alicia Van Emmenis as Saniye Natasja Jobs as Fitnat Saanli Jooste as Nevicihan Marijke Coetze as Döne Karin Retief as Azimet David Johnson as Adil Charl Van Heyningen as Abbas Andre Retief as Rüstem Kuloglu Claudia Jones as Culsum Danielle Retief as Meliha Kuloglu Rowlen Van Gericke as Serhat  Source: Insidus Plus , Die Afrikaans Voice Page