February 2024 On Nickelodeon, Nick Jr. And Nicktoons Across South Africa | New Series Alert: Rock, Paper, Scissors | Returning Shows Including Danger Force And The Adventures Of Paddington | More

Nickelodeon

ALL STARS STUNT

Premier: 1/01/2023-9/02/2023

Slot: Monday-Friday

Time: 17:00

DANGER FORCE 

Episodes: #306, #308-#311

Premier: 19/02/2024-23/02/2024

Slot: Monday-Friday

Time: 18:30

Marathon Stunt

Premier: 25/02/2024

Slot: Sunday

Time: 16:00

Inc. new eps: 312-331

Other shows on the stunt include Tyler Perry's Young Dylan, The Really Loud House, The Thundermans and Henry Danger.

AFTERTOONSSTUNT

29/01/2024-8/03/2024

Monday-Friday

15:20

BIG NATE

Episodes: #201, #202, #205, #209, #210

Premiere: 10/02/2024-24/02/2024

Slot: Saturday-Sunday

Time: 15:00

ROCK PAPER SCISSORS 

Episodes: #101-#110

Premiere: 19/02/2023-01/03/2024

Slot: Monday-Friday

Time: 16:00

Other shows on the stunt include Monster High, The Loud House, SpongeBob SquarePants and The Casagrandes.

Nicktoons

SUNNY SIDE UP STUNT

Premiere: 22/01/2024-09/02/2024

Slot: Monday-Friday

Time: 17:00

BIG NATE

Episodes: #201-#210

Date: 10/02/2024-24/02/2024

Slot: Saturday-Sunday

Time: 10:00

SQUEEZE THAT SPONGE STUNT

Premiere: 19/02/2024-15/03/2024

Slot: Monday-Friday

Time: 17:00

Including the newest episodes of SpongeBob SquarePants: 278, 280-283.

Other shows include ALVINNN!!! And The Chipmunks, The Casagrandes, The Patrick Star Show and The Twisted Timeline Of Sammy And Raj.

Nick Jr.

THE ADVENTURES OF PADDINGTON

Episodes: #313-#316A, 317-318

Premiere: 8/01/2024-19/01/2024

Slot: Monday-Friday

Time: 08:10am/pm, 02:25am/pm

BOSSY BEAR

Episodes: #126-#128, #130

Premiere: 12/02/2024-23/02/2024

Slot: Monday-Friday

Time: 09:30am/pm, 04:45am/pm

New Series Alert: Dora To Premiere On Nick Jr. Channels Globally By April 2024

Nickelodeon's beloved Latina heroine Dora the Explorer is set to make a spectacular return in Dora, an all-new CG-animated preschool series set to premiere on Nick Jr. Global in April 2024!

Nick Jr. Global is available in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE), Germany (Deutschland), New Zealand, Africa, Poland (Polska), Flanders (Vlaanderen), Wallonia (Wallonie), Denmark (Danmark), Sweden (Sverige), Norway (Norge), Arabia (جَزِيرَةُ الْعَرَب), Turkey (Türkiye), the Czech Republic (Česká republika), the Netherlands (Nederland), the Middle East, Latin America (Latinoamérica) and Brazil (Brasil). 

To get fans excited for the return of Dora, many regional Nick Jr. YouTube channels have released full episodes and short-form videos from the new series, many of which can be found here. Nickelodeon also gave fans a first look with the release of Dora and the Fantastical Creatures, which debuted in cinemas, playing alongside PAW Patrol: The Mighty Movie.

Dora is set to stream exclusively on Paramount+ in spring 2024 in the U.S. Internationally, Dora will stream day-and-date on Paramount+ and air on Nickelodeon channels in all markets where available. Leading up to its premiere, additional Dora content will also be available across Nickelodeon platforms, Paramount+ and Noggin.

The new Dora series features the voices of Diana Zermeño as Dora; Asher Spence as Boots; Marc Weiner as Swiper; Anairis Quiñones as Map and The Fiesta Trio's armadillo; Maria Canals-Barrera as Abuela; Danny Burstein as Grumpy Old Troll, and The Fiesta Trio's frog and marmoset; Katarina Sky as Backpack; Donovan Monzon-Sanders as Tico; Tandi Fomukong as Isa; Quintún Muñoz as Benny; and Chris Gifford as Big Red Chicken.

Everyday Novelas Shorts: eExtra Acquires Broadcasting Rights To 90s Sitcom Vetkoekpaleis And A Rebroadcast Of Winter Son And Nurses Launches On e.tv And Telemundo Respectively

More oldies for eExtra

Last year, SABC cancelled 7de Laan after 23 years on the air filling primetime with a rebroadcast to 90s sitcom Vetkoekpaleis. The public broadcaster is going on through financial constraints so as such a replacement would take much longer to be commissioned.

The public broadcaster was looking to produce cheaper long-form drama series and failed to keep up to their target. Now consumers have fled to eExtra's Kuiertyd to keep up with their Turkwood stories and to embrace for more local flavour on kykNET.

As seen through media outlets, eMedia Investments had acquired rights to SABC 2's Vetkoekpaleis. Now what is worrisome here for SABC 2 is the implications, consumers will most likely just flee to eExtra when it airs therefore creating division with their viewership.

Nurses makes a quick comeback

Nurses was acquired on Telemundo back in 2022 and serves as one of the longest time productions viewed on the channel by Colombia's RCN who also produced shows like The Chosen Granddaughter and slated to also a return in the coming weeks, The Scent Of Passion.

It was quietly scrubbed from the line-up forcing Telemundo to halt primetime due to a change in legislation imposed in Cameroon and Uganda which prohibited broadcasters from promoting gay content. Punishments range from a revoke of TV licence to possible jail sentence.

A portion of the third season was censored and with the channel airing Nurses from the beginning. It's likely that they've cut out some scenes consumers within those surrounding regions find offensive affecting the whole of Africa.

Winter Son also makes an early debut

The rebroadcast of Die Vertroueling came to end in December 2022 and e.tv flooded the timeslot with movies. With the festive season past us, e.tv resumes their weekday offering by reviving the weeknight repeats slot with Winter Son from January 15.

Taking to account, this was allocated at the 19:30 timeslot and as such they'd often be placed at 8:30 which is currently being occupied by #DisComplicated. If we had to guess, they're probably trying to give Ramo time to wrap up as it not cause friction between channels as seen with Annekan Die Swa Kry.

Die Put season 3 will most likely replace Winter Son once it ends followed by Ramo.

Disney Shorts: Lost Club Penguin Game Resurfaced The Internet After 10 Years, Mickey Mouse Enters The Public Domain With The Launch Of New Film Mickey's Mousetrap And Disney Released A Children's Book Based On Alien

First look at Club Waddles

Club Waddles was a Club Penguin fan game made in late 2008 by Nikeguy23 and 6 Strings (The moderators of Club Waddles). According to Nike:

"We decided to make this game, because we all thought it would be awesome to have and MMOG we could call our own".

In middle 2009, Club Waddles shutdown due the quit of Bod720 (The only coder of CW), Kyle (the Sketch-A-Thon Contest winner), Raqumine and Scooby Mad (The moderators of Club Waddles).

CW has been actually unfinished, So only beta tests has been made. However, The beta tests are avaiable but unplayable due the end of Flash Player and not working WayBack Machine links. So only beta tests gameplays are avaiable on YouTube.

Mickey Mouse becomes a serial killer

On the first day that Disney‘s 1928 short Steamboat Willie entered the public domain, a trailer has dropped for a horror comedy film featuring none other than Mickey Mouse as the killer.

The synopsis for the film, called Mickey’s Mouse Trap, reads: “It’s Alex’s 21st birthday, but she’s stuck at the amusement arcade on a late shift so her friends decide to surprise her, but a masked killer dressed as Mickey Mouse decides to play a game of his own with them which she must survive".

The trailer features, yep, a person in a Mickey Mouse costume, wearing what resembles a hockey jersey without the letters, attacking a victim and stalking others inside a Chuck E. Cheese-like place (reminiscent of last year’s horror hit Five Nights at Freddy’s). There also is Scream-like self-awareness about the horror genre, including one character predicting that another is going to get killed since he says, “I’ll be right back.”

Disney is making a preschool oriented project for Alien

Disney is releasing an illustrated children’s book aimed at toddlers titled “A Is for Alien: An ABC Book,” based on Ridley Scott’s R-rated, 1979 horror classic “Alien.” You know, the one where a slimy alien monster bursts from someone’s chest cavity and a crew aboard a creaky, dark spaceship are picked off one by one in the pinnacle example of atmospheric terror.

The book, which is published by Little Golden Books and Illustrated by Disney Storybook Art Team, is available for pre-order now and will be released on July 9, 2024. It’s already rocketed up to the #1 New Release among Children’s Science Fiction Books on Amazon (#6 among all Children’s Books and cracking the Top 40 among all books for any age and genre).

Development Alert: Zee One, Star Life, Discovery Science, MSNBC And More TV Channels Exit Zuku TV

During the week, it was reported that Zuku TV had reinstated National Geographic, National Geographic Wild, Baby TV and only 1 ESPN channel. As the latter are currently packaged by MultiChoice's DStv and StarTimes' and On Digital Media's StarSat platforms.

After being replaced by Animal Planet, TLC and Discovery, Zuku TV had opted to remove these channels and worse kill of a few more channels like Star Life, Zee One, Travel Channel, MSNBC, Discovery Science, Real Time, Planet Fun, 360 TuneBox, Zuku Action and Zuku Max.

There had been channels which had suffering signal loss but the above mentioned are just the few channels in which Zuku TV had been reviewing and opted to no longer distribute. Consumers are flooding the socials threatening to cut ties or opt to rival platforms if the latter isn't reinstated.

Three years ago, Zuku TV was left without a decent sports offering and history as you have it took the Bollywood offering. It's not only Zee One and Star Life that are affected but also sister channels like StarPlus and Zee Bollymovies.

In other developments, MultiChoice and StarSat had both lost carriage of Emmanuel TV and Deutsche Welle with one set to go dark by mid-January. This is due to the company's recent review of their portfolio which had seen them do a lot of cost cutting in order to remain afloat.

New Series Alert: Yeh Kahan Aa Gaye Hum Coming Soon To Zee Family

Zee Family, a general entertainment channel operated by Zee Entertainment Enterprises features various Bollywood films and TV series exclusively on eMedia's Ultraview service is set to rollout it's first show in the new year titled Yeh Kahan Aa Gaye Hum.

The show revolves around the unusual love stories of two contrasting opposite persons. Things do not remain the same when Rahul, a Rock-star and the scion of the biggest musical empire runs into Maanvi, a humble aspiring singer from small town. 

It starred Karan Kundra as Rahul Sabharwal, Saanvi Talwar as Manvi Rahul Sabharwal, Naveen Saini as Raj Sabharwal, Papiya Sengupta as Sonali Raj Sabharwa and Ashish Mehrotra as Shaleen Sabharwal.

A total of 217 episodes were broadcast on &TV each with a 22 minute duration. Ekta Kapoor serves as the producer and is responsible for successors such as Kumkum Bhagya and Kundali Bhagya all of which resides within Zee TV as seen with Yeh Kahan Aa Gaye Hum.

Yeh Kahan Aa Gaye Hum is slated for an early 2024 debut on Zee Family.

More Channel Closures As The Disney Channel Exits OSN In The Middle East And North Africa, Could More Regions Likely Follow?

Since Disney+ inception back in 2019, Disney has closed various linear channels globally to prioritise their direct to consumer business. With the latter currently situated within Europe and Africa, Disney has slowly but surely further distance themselves from their linear business.

Last year, Disney axed their remaining linear offering seen in parts of Asia by New Year's Eve. They had also managed several linear channels within the Middle East and North Africa through pay-tv operator OSN who had substituted these brands with Cartoon Network and Animal Planet.

These channels are still available in the regions but on smaller platforms which will make it a lot more easier to close.

If there's one thing that's certain here, Disney Channel's days in South Africa and the rest of Sub-Saharan Africa are numbered and although a timeframe has yet to be reached. We presume that Disney will look into closing feeds in the surrounding areas ahead of time.

Similar to MTV and Nick Jr, Disney had been cutting back on localised feeds with the remaining aligning themselves with Southern Africa. It has been somewhat chaotic with shows like Hailey's On It and Disney's Saturdays airing as quadruple on weekdays.

Despite only having less than 13 episodes on air, it has been bumpy ride particularly with their programme guide mislabeling shows and movies. It's clear that all their efforts will be put on Disney+ if the plan would be making an original available monthly on linear platforms.

They had ripped away various originals such as The Owl House and Rapunzel's Tangled Adventure before their final seasons. Disney+ acquired exclusive rights to Marvel's Moon Girl And Devil Dinosaur despite being viewed on Disney Channel overseas.

MultiChoice and various other pay-tv operators will have a hard time trying to replace these channels. Speaking as a long time fan, the best option would be having Disney Channel spun off like Sky Kids/Universal Kids have with DreamWorks but for consumers in Africa.

News Shorts: German Based Broadcaster Deutsche Welle Shutters It's Linear Operations Across Europe And Africa, National Geographic And ESPN Have Been Added To Zuku TV And A Rebroadcast Of Dayan, Destructive Beauty Launches On eExtra

DW goes dark across Europe

The move is part of a package of measures presented by DW director Peter Limbourg to the DW broadcasting council in Berlin on March 17, 2023.

“We will no longer broadcast linear programming in German after the changeover, but we will offer singular content on digital platforms,” the DW spokesman said. The date for the closure of the German TV channel has not yet been set. “I’m not able to provide a specific date at this time,” he added.

With the package of measures as part of the 2024 budget planning, Limbourg wants to drive the digital transformation of the German international service. Included are savings, budget shifts from linear to digital offerings and to regional languages, as well as investments in digital working environments.

Zee TV dying down on eExtra

After cutting down on primetime for more Annekan Die Swa Kry and axing Naagin much earlier than anticipated. A rebroadcast of Dayan, Destructive Beauty is expected to join the channel's line-up in the coming weeks replacing the timeslot of Naagin supposedly.

Dayan, Destructive Beauty was the first and probably last Bollywood drama to have been made exclusive to eVOD before being added to linear platforms. Now eVOD's international drama lineup outside of Kuiertyd is revolved on content viewed on eSeries and eExtra.

It follows Janvi Maurya, a well-educated and family oriented girl hailing from Ujjain, stumbles upon a dangerous ploy by an evil force as many unusual and mysterious happenings occur in her hometown. With a threat to her life, she must unmask the identity of a Daayan.

Sports makes a comeback on Zuku TV

Last year, it was revealed through several social outlets that Zuku TV will be relaunching National Geographic, National Geographic Wild, Baby TV and ESPN 1 after removing them back in 2021. The only difference FOX and ESPN 2 aren't part of this offering.

These channels were replaced with Animal Planet, Discovery and TLC from Warner Bros. Discovery, Filmbox from SPI International and Planet Fun years prior. But the pay-tv platform failed to substitute the sporting line-up with any chances of a replacement likely dead at this point.

Channel Termination Notice: Emmanuel TV Will Exit MultiChoice's DStv And GOtv From January 17 And Subsequently All Other Pay-TV Platforms

Just a few hours before the new year, DStv consumers were very alarmed to see a termination notice put up on Emmanuel TV. A christian television channel founded by the former TB Joshua is set to go dark various DStv and GOtv platforms across the country from January 17.

Emmanuel TV is currently one of the most subscribed christian channels on YouTube with over 250 000 active subscribers and nearly two million followers on Facebook. Emmanuel TV’s numerous videos online have amassed well over 200 million views.

Since its beginning in 1993, Scoan has grown to become one of the most sought after christian ministries across the world. The church’s television network, Emmanuel TV, was established in 2006 and has been broadcasting worldwide with a viewership of over 100 million.

In recent years or at least from what several outlets had uncovered, the channel went on a downward spiral telecasting old services. Basically, Emmanuel TV's entire existence revolved on TB Joshua and with his passing there's not much left of an Emmanuel TV.

Management had opted to rather leverage of his legacy instead of trying to restructure Emmanuel TV and look at other means for survival. Aside from MultiChoice, it had also been confirmed that Emmanuel TV will exit StarSat and other pay-tv platforms.

As to whether MultiChoice or affected pay-tv platforms will look into replacing Emmanuel TV. That has yet to be seen but if we had to guess both providers will likely focus on the existing bouquet of religious channels.

Although, Emmanuel TV will cease to exist on most major platforms across the world. The channel will remain on free-to-air HD decoders and put more emphasis toward its online presence through Apple TV or App Store, Roku, Fire TV Stick, Google TV and soon Google Play Store.