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March 2024 On The Home Channel | New Series Alert Including Tom Kerridge’s Sunday Lunch And Carlo's Reno Rescue | Returning Shows Including The Gardeners | More

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Whether you are a design enthusiast or just looking for inspiration for your next home makeover, we’re here to get your creative mind into gear as we unveil the secrets of interior design in Design For You: Trends. Host, Pilani Bubu will visit South African trend-setters, influences and personalities to find out what they are doing in their homes, and explore what's making wavesin the design world. We alsotakea closer look at DIY tips and hacks that are trending on social media. Pilani will delve a little deeper into these ideas and get you inspired to give them a try in your own home. Finally, we explore beautifully designed local spaces and chat to the interior designers who have created them. Show Title and Season: Design For You: Trends Season 1  Starting Date: Monday, 11 March 2024 @ 16:00  End Date: Sunday, 9 June 2024  Times: Prime: Tue 19:00 & Wed 20:00 Mon 16:00 | Wed 22:30 | Thu 08:00 & 11:00 | Fri 12:00 & 15:00 Sat 15:00 & 22:00 Sun 10:30 &

March 2024 On TNT Across Africa | Western Kicks | Superheroes: Realm Fuse | TNT Original Movie: The Bad Seed | More

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* channel premieres are in bold And The Winner Is… Stunt In March, TNT anticipates the 96th Academy Awards celebration. In homage to cinema's most coveted honour, we've curated a selection of movies boasting iconic statuettes. Tune in for prime-time screenings to countdown to the big event. Monday, 4 March  20:30 Mad Max: Fury Road (2015)  Tuesday, 5 March  20:30 Saving Private Ryan (1998)  Wednesday, 6 March  20:30 Pulp Fiction (1994)  Thursday, 7 March 20:30  Mystic River (2003)  Friday, 8 March  20:30 Suicide Squad (2016)  Saturday, 9 March  20:00 Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (2017)  Sunday, 10 March  11:35 Mystic River (2003)  13:55 A Series of Unfortunate Events (2004)  15:45 Star Trek (2009)  17:50 The Fugitive (1993)  20:00 Braveheart (1995) Western Kicks Stunt Start your Mondays with Martial Arts Madness! March into action every Monday afternoon with a thrilling lineup of American-made martial arts movies. Catch two channel premieres, Shanghai N

News Shorts: SuperSport Motorsport Opens Up To DStv Compact And Compact Plus Customers In Time For The F1 Season, Undercover Billionaire Returns On Discovery Family For Season 2 And PBS Kids Loads Up On Civics And Media Literacy With New Shorts

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Undercover Billionaire returns for season 2 With just $100 in their pockets, three business titans are dropped in unfamiliar cities, stripped of their names, money and contacts and given a simple challenge: Build a $1 million business in just 90 days. First TX: 13 March  TX Day: Weekdays  TX Time: 19:40 SuperSport Motorsport opening up to more DStv customers The 2024 Formula 1 season will be the longest campaign on record with 24 races and six Sprint events from March 2nd to December 8th. There were 24 races planned for 2023, but the cancellation of the Chinese GP due to COVID-travel restrictions and Emilia Romagna due to floods reduced the number to 22. MultiChoice will be making the F1 on SuperSport Motorsport accessible to DStv Compact+ and Compact from 28 February to 11 March. PBS KIDS enters the classroom PBS KIDS has commissioned a collection of themed content touching on civics and media literacy in order to address a learning gap that isn’

Why MultiChoice Has Been Removing A Lot Of Local/African Channels On DStv And GOtv In Recent Months?

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2023 had been proven to be one of the most challenging years for consumers and businesses. On top of less channel additions, MultiChoice had experienced zero growth in DStv consumption in the top tier market part of which has to do with the impact of load shedding. But one thing that caught several readers attention was and appears to be an ongoing matter with the company is the reduction of TV channels. Some memorable TV channels included M-Net Edge, Animal Planet and Disney XD. As seen in 2023, MultiChoice has been slowly reducing its local footprint with the closure of Maisha Magic Movies, HONEY and ROK3. This pandemic had carried itself over to the new year with NWTV and People's Weather with 1Magic on hold for the time being. This has led to some ongoing fear from consumers of The Home Channel and various other brands with some threatening to cancel if they lose out on Gardening 101 and Real Health. Similar to secondary networks like M-Net City and VUZU, Mult

Channel Closure: People's Weather Will Stop Airing On DStv By Early March, Remains On Openview For The Time Being

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People's Weather is Africa's first and only environmental and wildlife channel since 2007. After launching as a weather service, MultiChoice would move it away from the news section of the DStv package and group it alongside Curiosity Channel, BBC Earth and National Geographic. The channel would extend its reach to free-to-view consumers by 2015 with eMedia Investments' Openview platform.  As seen on the programme guide, the channel is scheduled for deletion on the DStv platform by the 1st of March. Although, the channel would remain on the Openview platform the decline in linear consumption will likely lead to content cuts and revenue loss. People's Weather had hit a repetitive slope rehashing old content as it tries to build its primetime offering. Last year, The Denver Naicker Talk Show was revived on the network following Glow TV's exit from linear TV and since December content from WildEarth had formed part of its line-up.   According to MultiC

Development Alert: Paramount+ And Peacock Are Reportedly In Discussion For A Potential Merger

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Paramount+ and Peacock have reportedly started talks to merge into a single streaming according to a report from The Wall Street Journal . According to that report, Comcast and Paramount recently met to look at options to possibly merge their streaming services into a single streaming service, among other options. This would bring Paramount’s and NBCUniversal’s content under a single streaming app. Details are still thin. No pricing, naming, or other details have been decided at this time. At this time, neither company has made any formal announcement about the talks. Paramount+ had 63 million subscribers at the end of the 3rd quarter of 2023. Peacock recently announced that it hit 31 million subscribers paying for the service. Some subscribers pay for both but merging together will help the services compete with larger services like Max and Disney+. Both services are still struggling to turn a profit. Paramount+ is expected to become profitable by the end of 2025. No timel

SABC Cancels Fokus And Shifts Afrikaans Programming Such As Voetspore And 50/50 From SABC 2 To SABC 3

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Last year, it was reported that the SABC would be axing the Afrikaans soap 7de Laan after its 23 year run for repeats of Vetkoekpaleis . The public broadcaster had been struggling to acquire new content and update their brands due to financial constraints. Since then, they have been cutting back on programming for their viewers with uBettina Wethu that was revived on e.tv for season 4. Then there's sort of rumours going around that Takalani Sesame had also been a subject for cancellation with rebroadcasts on e.tv. Now it has been reported that Fokus, one of the last few Afrikaans shows to have aired on SABC 2 had been cancelled by the network. Not only that they're looking to transition SABC 3 into a multilingual channel by March 2024 with the addition of news, 50/50 and Voetspore. Caroline Phalakatshela, SABC TV publicist, confirmed to Netwerk24 that the SABC has cancelled Fokus since it "no longer fits in" with SABC2 and the broadcaster's plan

New Series Alert: A Family Affair Launches On Novela E Plus In The Coming Weeks, Bitter Sweet Love And Titli Coming This March On Star Life

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Novela E Plus, a general entertainment channel offering series from Latin America, Turkey and Asia alongside the Bollywood based channel Star Life had announced the launch of new series A Family Affair with Titli and Bitter Sweet Love only set to debut in March. A Family Affair tells the story of a woman and four brothers are mysteriously entangled in a complicated relationship that tests the loyalties and love they have for one another. The Philippine drama series aired in 2022 under ABS-CBN Entertainment. It starred Ivana Alawi as Cherry Red Magwayen, Gerald Anderson as Francisco "Paco" Estrella, Sam Milby as Dave Estrella, Jameson Blake as Andrew "Drew" Estrella and Jake Ejercito as Sebastian "Seb" Estrella. Based on the Bengali series Irabotir Chupkotha, Bitter Sweet Love (Baatein Kuch Ankahee Si) follows Vandana, a family-oriented woman, and Kunal, a practical man, have contrasting personalities but both like music. As they cross paths

News Shorts: SABC 2 Acquired Rights To Football Themed Anime Series Inazuma Eleven, A Rebroadcast Of Queen Of Miami Launches On Telemundo Africa And KykNET & Kie Unveils New Afrikaans Drama Skemergrond

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SABC 2 enters the football field Following SABC's financial constraints, the public broadcaster had been struggling to obtain new content. As such anime on SABC 2 had been on limbo often featuring repeat broadcasts of Yu-Gi-Oh and now the channel is offering new content with Inazuma Eleven. It follows a talented young goalkeeper tries to revive his school's lackluster team in this anime series based on the hit manga and video game. Currently streaming on Netflix and formerly seen on Nicktoons and Toonami, the series airs weekdays at 17:00 replacing Yu-Gi-Oh. Another rebroadcast enters the month of romance After launching rebroadcasts of My Heart Beats For Lola, The Chosen Granddaughter and A Woman Of Steel. Telemundo is set to be recruiting yet another series, Queen Of Miami ahead of the final season of Queen Of The South both of which star Kate Del Castillo as lead. Synopsis for Queen Of Miami Traumatized by the events of a difficult life and driven