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Friday, October 30, 2020

December 2020 On Da Vinci Kids Africa | New Seasons For The Family | Christmas Stunt

TIMES IN CAT
Kids Programmes – Premiere
Operation Ouch! - Season 8
From December 12th
Saturdays & Sundays 18:30
Identical twin brothers and doctors Chris and Xand van Tulleken experiment on themselves and meet real patients in hospital to explore the fascinating world of medicine and biology. They show how the body works in normal and extreme situations - from Oh! to Eeeuw!

Adults Programmes – Premiere
Forces of Nature – BRAND NEW
From December 13th
Sundays 22:00
Shape, motion, elements and colour tell us a lot about Earth. Using the latest technology to bring unique perspectives and understanding of nature’s wonders, this series shows the immense forces that make our world so vibrant and diverse.

Christmas with Da Vinci!
Friday, December 24th from 17:30 to 20:00 and Saturday, December 25th from 08:50 to 10:55

The Treehouse Stories
Airs at 17:25 and repeats at 08:50
The Christmas Feast
The kids hear what happens when a wolf, a fox and a weasel decide to have a Christmas feast with a turkey. The clever turkey teaches them how to have fun and they all have a Christmas to remember.

Thomas Edison's Secret Lab
Airs at 17:35 and repeats at 09:00
Stranger in a Strange Lab & Sturm Und Drag
An old friend of Edison’s visits the lab and asks the Secret Lab Kids to help him with a top-secret project. And, The Secret Lab Kids work on a secret new aircraft for a mysterious character named "Bob".

Thomas Edison's Secret Lab
Airs at 18:00 and repeats at 09:25
All the Heavy Lifting & Twas the Night Before Liftoff
When Von Bolt finds a tiny wrapped present, he comes to the conclusion that Bob is Santa Claus. And, the Edison Kids need to complete their new airship, but are locked out of the impenetrable mountain lab!

Thomas Edison's Secret Lab
Airs at 18:30 and repeats at 09:55
Von Bolt Meets Santa & And to All a Good Flight
The Secret Lab Kids must devise functioning space suits to travel to the moon to rescue Von Bolt and Bob. Later, the Secret Lab Kids are stuck on the moon and only have a few hours left to return to Earth!

Horrible Histories
Airs at 19:00 and repeats at 10:25
Horrible Christmas
Christmas in the past wasn’t always fun, with smelly Saxon gifts, terrible Tudor pudding and crazy Victorian cards. On Christmas Day in 1914, British and German soldiers stopped fighting and played football.

Did You Know?
Airs at 19:30 and repeats at 10:55
Making Christmas Special
Christmas is a special time of the year. Get tips on decorating and discover ways of spotting fake money and gifts.

Continuing Shows
Siyaya: Come Wild with Us – NEW EPISODES
Saturdays & Sundays 14:30
Siyaya – Come Wild With Us is an adventurous journey to fascinating places in and around South Africa’s national parks. Young explorers experience unique challenges in every episode as they experience nature at its wildest.

PinCode – NEW EPISODES
Saturdays & Sundays 15:00
Captain Pin and his colourful crew zoom through space, time, volume and dimension in their trusty spacecraft, the Umflier. In each episode they encounter a different problem that can be solved and explained by science.

Disasters Engineered – NEW EPISODES
Thursdays 22:00
Through extensive archive footage and expert interviews this series explores the stories behind mankind’s greatest engineering disasters, looking at how they happened and what we have learnt from them.

Did I Mention Invention? - Season 2 – NEW EPISODES
Saturdays & Sundays 15:30
In each episode, host Alie Ward presents fascinating new inventions, from a robot football player to technology to keep babies safe. She meets with their inventors, learns about their journey from idea to production and presents fun facts on the history of innovation.

How To Do Stuff Good – NEW EPISODES
Fridays 15:55
Hosted by a zany bunch of school-aged kids, each with their own story to tell and lesson to share, this hilarious series demonstrates how to do all manner of amazing things, from arts & crafts to cooking and pranks.

Da Vinci Kids is available on DStv, Starsat (SA) and StarTimes (ROA)

Why SABC Wants Streaming Platforms To Pay TV Licences?

The South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC) has clarified its requests for new regulations that would require companies like MultiChoice and Netflix to collect TV Licence fees on its behalf.

The public broadcaster recently proposed that the definition of a TV licence be expanded and that pay-TV and streaming companies be engaged to assist in the collection of TV Licence fees.

It added that this would be similar to municipalities collecting traffic fines and motor vehicle licence discs.

Speaking in an interview with MyBroadband, SABC Head of TV Licences Sylvia Tladi confirmed the SABC was looking at improving compliance as well as expanding the definition of the television set to include devices such as smartphones.

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“We are of the view that the regulation is outdated,” Tladi said.

“Bear in mind that the Broadcasting Act was last amended in 1999, whereas the TV licence regulations are 16 years old. In that time, there has been a significant development in the manner in which content is being consumed.”

“We cannot play in the media environment as much as everyone else is doing because the legislation is outdated,” she said.

Looking at obligations for MultiChoice and Netflix
Tladi said that the SABC was considering working with companies like MultiChoice and Netflix to improve compliance in terms of TV licence fees.

“We would like obligations to be placed on companies that sell set-top boxes, decoders, to be able to ensure that when people apply for a subscription, there needs to be a process where it can be validated that they do have a current TV Licence,” Tladi said.

She said that the motivation behind this is that customers do not buy a decoder on its own – they are going to connect it to a TV for which they should have a valid licence.

Tladi added that the SABC is also looking at ensuring TV Licence compliance through streaming services including Netflix.

“With regards to the likes of Netflix, what we are talking about here is streaming services, and what we are looking at is that where streaming services are available in the market and people are able to stream SABC’s content, there needs to be valid or paid-up TV Licence,” she said.

“We are not saying they should physically go out there and collect; we are looking at a process of making sure that there is compliance.”

She noted that the regulations of how this process will unfold will have to be drafted to outline a specific process.

“For example, instead of saying Netflix collect TV Licence fees, there are various ways of doing it. We can negotiate with the streaming service about a percentage of whatever people are streaming that is content which belongs to the SABC,” Tladi said.

She added that the SABC’s main priority in proposing regulation changes is to improve compliance.

“I think a part of that will include tying up loose ends where pay-TV operators are concerned as well as streaming services,” Tladi said.

It is important to note that these proposals by the SABC are currently in very early stages.

These potential changes to regulations must be debated before parliament and concretely defined before they are propagated further towards becoming law.

The SABC issued a statement on 29 October stating that it will make a detailed submission on the Draft White Paper on Audio and Audiovisual Content Services and invited public comments on the proposed changes to local broadcasting regulations.

“In finalising the SABC’s submission, the public broadcaster will take cognisance of the wide range of views expressed on the need for a licence fee or a public broadcasting levy,” the SABC said.

“The SABC calls on the public and all interested parties to also make their comments to the DCDT by 30 November 2020.”

Thursday, October 29, 2020

Fight Sports Stops Airing On OpenView

Fight Sport was only available for a year on OpenView and created for fans of boxing, sumo and wrestling. OpenView confirmed that today will be their last day on their platform.

Details on its removal still remain a mystery as this came in as a last minute announcement kind of like the time BBC World News was swapped for the French lifestyle channel, France24.

2020 has been a hectic year for cable providers where platforms like OpenView, Starsat and DStv have been witnesses loss of channels. To make for those losses they've been working around the clock to source out more content and channels.

Throughout 2020, OpenView managed to launch 3 unwatchable channels with one of them being a Mindset+ channel which is deemed useful. According to reports, they were planning to rollout more channels on top of a streaming service but due to the complications of covid19 there have been some minor setbacks.

Good news is OpenView will be rolling out more channels likely by November. According to witnesses, there's more than one channel rolling out and there's been speculation that one of them is an entertainment channel.

Even though, Fight Sports will no longer be available on the platform viewers can still enjoy the best of Impact and other sporting events on News&Sports (channel 120).

Wednesday, October 28, 2020

Star Life: The Fate Of My Identity And The Evil Eye Has Been Revealed

If anyone has been following the news circulating in the web. Star Life was suppose to air My Identity and The Evil Eye earlier in the year but due to lockdown regulations both these shows were delayed.

My Identity has been delayed for the second time in a now filling up its spot at the moment is A Perfect Lie but now that's being snatched for the long-awaited show, The Evil Eye.

The Evil Eye (Nazaar) follows the life of an evil Daayan, who worship the mother goddesses Kali and Durga. But as a devil, she was cursed by gods and captured into the human world. Jatinder Bhardwaj and Ankur Nayyar take up the lead role with Monalisa set to follow.

The series airs everyday at 22:00 CAT/21:00 WAT/23:00 EAT from 28 November

Star Life is available on DStv, Starsat (SA) & StarTimes (ROA) and OpenView

Zirc Media's Idents For Their New Channel On DStv

Ziric Media is an upcoming channel intended to broadcast on DStv. The channel will be modern, stylish, powerful smooth, dynamic and unique.

The channel will have trends, events, history, fashion, travel, action, lifestyle and sports.

Upcoming Shows For Kids Networks In Africa

Now you'll see why critics say Disney Channel is dominating animation and part of them are speculation and the ones in brackets

are for streaming services.

Cartoon Network:
The ones in brackets moved to streaming and are uncertain at this point

- (Tiny Toons Looniversity)

- (Unicorn: Warriors Eternal)

- (Naked Mole Rat Gets Dressed)

- (Unlimited Squirrels)

- (Cat The Cat's Show The Show Show With You)
- Batwheels
- Elliott From Earth
- The Heroic Quest Of Prince Ivandoe
- We Baby Bears
- (Infinity Train)
- (The Fungies)
- (Tig N Seek)

Boomerang:
- Lucas The Spider
- The Mysteries Of Master Moley
- Agent Binky
- Mush-Mush And The Mushables
- The Misadventures Of Master Foley

Disney Channel:
Animation and live-action
- Pup Academy
- Hamster And Gretel
- Ghostforce
- School Hacks
- Bia
- Vikingskool
- Best Bugs Forever
- The Unstoppable Yellow Yeti
- The Secrets Of Sulphur Springs
- Disney Fam Jam
- Marvel's Moon Girl And Devil Dinosaur
- The Ghost And Molly McGee
- Go Away, Unicorn

Disney Junior:
- Mickey Mouse Funhouse
- Pikwik Pack
- The Chicken Squad
- Marvel's Spidey and His Amazing Friends
- Whisker Haven: Royal Hearts of Fun
- Dino Ranch

Nickelodeon:
Animation and live-action
- Rugrats
- Kamp Koral: SpongeBob's Under Years (miniseries)
- Best Bester
- Just Add Magic spinoff
- Middlemost Post
- Club 57
- The Smurfs
- Tyler Perry's Young Dylan
- Spyders
- (Pinky Malinky)
- Side Hustle
- Brendar The Barbarian
- (Glitch Techs)
- Untitled Garfield Show
- Cake My Day
- Star Trek: Prodigy
- Unleashed
- Man Of The House
- Meet The Voxels
- Adventure In Wonder Park
- The Astronauts
- Side Hustle
- Big Nate
- Real Pigeons Fight Crime
- The Patrick Star Show
- Untitled Simon Fuller And Ryan Tedder Musical Series

Nick Jr:
- Baby Shark's Big Show!
- Ricky Zoom
- The Beatbuds
- The Tiny Chef Show

CBeebies:
- Ragdoll Robot
- Monty & Co
- Boogie Beebies
- Andy's Aquatic Adventure
- Bot And The Beasties

PBS Kids in Africa:
- Let's Go Luna
- Ready Jet Go
- Hero Elementary
- Xavier Riddle And The Secret Museum
- Elinor Wonders Why
- Clifford The Big Red Dog
- Donkey Hodie
- Splash And Bubbles
- Nature Cat

eToonz (e.tv):
- Todd World
- Art Attack
- Harvey Street Kids
- The Adventures Of Rocky And Bullwinkle
- Inspector Gadget
- Talking Tom And Friends
- The Moe Show
- Treehouse Detectives
- Transformers Rescue Bots (and the sequel)
- Valt The Wonder Deer
- Fifi And The Flowertots
- Roary The Racing Car
- Miraculous: Tales Of Ladybug And Cat Noir
- Power Players
- Megaman: Fully Charged
- Space Ranger Roger
- Oswald
- Yoko! Jakamoko! Toto!
- Polly Pocket
- The Toy Book
- Angry Birds
- Kitty Is Not A Cat
- She-Ra And The Princesses Of Power
- Rubbadubbers
- Doozers
- Lego City Adventures
- Kung Fu Panda: The Paws Of Destiny
- 3Below: Tales of Arcadia
- Mighty Little Bheem

Da Vinci Kids:
- The Odd Squad

ViacomCBS Africa Should Consider Reconstructing And Perhaps Streamlining It's Channels

ViacomCBS (formerly Viacom) has been in the market for approximately 15 years with its reality skewed brand, MTV being their longest running channel within the market.

Other channels they manage is Comedy Central, BET, Nickelodeon, Nick Jr, Nicktoons, MTV Base and in South Africa, MTV Music 24. Former channels include BET Jazz, VH1 and VH1 Classic.

Now to get back to the topic, streaming has taken over people's lives especially in the United States where millions of consumers dump cable in favor of this phenomenon.

Netflix started the trend and has been dominating for over a decade now they have competition such as HBO Max, CBS All Access (soon to be Paramount+) and Disney+.

These competitors host a bunch of linear channels for international markets and since these platforms launched it had their affects towards those channels which led some markets to cutback on channels.

Disney Africa aligned their channels not much to streamline there, WarnerMedia Africa doesn't have much to streamline perhaps dispose but ViacomCBS definitely has a ton of reorganizing.

On the entertainment section in which streaming has no affect, BET and Comedy Central are redundant so the channel that will likely pay for their that is MTV. I can see a future where ViacomCBS ask themselves why should MTV be used for reality when it stands for music.

MTV Base is already very popular across Africa particularly in Nigeria where they're #1 while MTV has been ignored ever since ViacomCBS decided to introduce more MTV channels I would have preferred if they kept it under the brand VH1 but that won't happen since the brand is done for.

The reality shows seen on MTV would blend right in on BET particularly all that local stuff like Lasizwe and Guy Code. Perhaps the rest would sit better on another entertainment channel like Paramount even though the U.S. plan to make it look like AMC there's still chances that other markets won't adapt to that.

TNT did relaunch as a movie channel and Universal doesn't have original programming.

On the kids side which is somewhat meh, Nickelodeon has a Nick@Nite block (occasionally and not for kids), Nick Jr block (excluding South Africa) and repeats of acquired shows from its sister channel, Nicktoons which is understandable since the channel is more accessible outside of South Africa and putting them on Nickelodeon gives them better exposure.

Nicktoons came in as a reruns channel which benefits South Africa in terms of accessibility then had an overflow of acquisitions followed by the Nick Jr. block while the preschool brand is somewhat decent and isn't heavily reliant on acquisitions.

On the streaming side, I can see how this will affect Nick Jr since there's not a lot on their plate perhaps you'll see more acquisitions and Nickelodeon will go back to being the exclusive home for that as well leaving Nicktoons with the scraps once again or at least 90% of the scraps.

In short, there's a lot of redundancy in their stable you have to wonder how long it will be till MultiChoice catches on and does something about it. They already removed plenty of channels only for their shows to service in other channels to give them some form of sustainability all that's left to improve is their stable.

Three New Telenovelas Coming In November 2020 To TLNovelas Africa

Seriously soapie stories
Keep an eye out for 2 new faces in the soap world in November.
Telenovela tears, tantrums and trysts
3 brand-new telenovelas are coming to the tlnovelas channel (DStv 133) this November. Expect glamour, betrayal, the strange geometry of love triangles, family legacies of pain, and a toy shop-owning playboy who’s about to learn a tough lesson about growing up…

I Plead Guilty S1
Francois' glossy life is falling apart. This high-flying lawyer treasures his daughter, Natalia, but his marriage with his wife, Roberta, is falling apart. Francois feels stuck because Roberta’s father, Mauro, owns the law firm he works at. He is on the path to make some terrible mistakes. But he’ll need to keep it together, because while Natalia is fleeing her boyfriend’s attempts at date rape, she runs over a prominent football player in a hit-and-run accident that destroys his career dreams. Baby girl needs a lawyer!

Starts Monday, 9 November, airs weekdays at 16:05 CAT/15:05 WAT/17:05 EAT

Abyss of Passion S1
It’s new love versus old in this love-triangle telenovela about how past rivalries can destroy a new generation’s happiness. Elisa must choose between 2 friends: she’s deeply in love with Damián, but their relationship has rekindled the spark with his friend Gael – who was once Elisa’s childhood sweetheart. Meanwhile, Elisa’s own BFF has lost her heart to Gael. And the whole situation is complicated when someone who’s driven by the ghosts of past betrayals blackmails Elisa into marrying Gael by threatening Damián’s life.

Starts Monday, 16 November, airs weekdays at 17:40 CAT/16:40 WAT/18:40 EAT

Papa A Toda Madre
Playboy toy shop owner Mauriciois has it all – money, charm, and dashing good looks. Mauriciois secretly can’t stand children, so he trusts the day-to-day running of his store to his childhood best friend, Fabián. But when Mauriciois’ all play, no work lifestyle threatens to bankrupt the store, Fabián will have to put his foot down – and he might have some help getting the playboy to grow up when the lovely, athletic Renée comes along to challenge everything that Mauriciois thought he knew about love.

Starts Monday, 30 November, airs weekdays at 16:15 CAT/15:15 WAT/17:15 EAT

TLNovelas is available on DStv, Starsat and StarTimes

Friday, October 23, 2020

November 2020 On TNT Africa | Guns Akimbo | Altered Identity | Reporting For Duty

GUNS AKIMBO
On the frst Saturday of November, TNT Africa brings its monthly TNT Original Movies special with the premiere of Daniel Radclife’s new flm: Guns Akimbo. The flm is written and directed by Jason Lei Howden (visual efects, writer, and director), who has worked on visual efects on The Hobbit flms, as well as War on The Planet of the Apes) and previously written and directed Deathgasm. Radclife leads the cast in this action-comedy thriller alongside Samara Weaving (Hollywood, Ready or Not) and Rhys Darby (Flight of the Concords, Yes Man).
Following the successful premiere of the frst TNT Original Movie, Escape from Pretoria, this time, Radclife embodies Miles, a video game developer who inadvertently becomes the next participant in a real-life deathmatch that streams online. Initially, Miles’ lifetime of running from his problems pays of as he manages to elude his frst opponent but, when his girlfriend, Nova, is kidnapped, he must fnally stop running and overcome his fears to fight for the girl he loves.
True to the genre of movies TNT has come to be known for, Guns Akimbo combines suspense, black comedy and action in this chillingly prescient sci-fi thriller.
PREMIERE: Saturday 7/11/2020 @ 20:00 CAT

ALTERED IDENTITY
More than ever before, trust has become such a rare commodity. But what happens when you can’t even trust yourself? Our characters from this month’s channel special each face an uphill battle to discover who they really are while up against the world and fghting for survival. Every Sunday during November, TNT brings a range of stories whose characters are in pursuit of their own self with powerful premieres such as Lucy, Jason Bourne, 47 Ronin, and Hannibal, to mention a few.
Sunday, 1 November
18:20 – Death Becomes Her (1992) channel premiere 20:00 – Jason Bourne (2016) channel premiere
Sunday, 8 November 18:05 – I, Robot (2004) 20:00 – Lucy (2014) channel premiere
Sunday, 15 November
18:25 – Hitman: Agent 47 (2015)
20:00 – 47 Ronin (2013) channel premiere
Sunday, 22 November
18:10 – Green Lantern (2011)
20:00 – Hannibal (2001) channel premiere
Sunday, 29 November 18:30 – Surrogates (2009) 20:00 – Face Of (1997)

REPORTING FOR DUTY
There is nothing like a good cop movie. Cop movies have been popular for decades, giving us Hollywood’s take on the world of law enforcement. The one thing we know for sure is that the men and women in blue have a lot of work cut out for them, with danger lurking at every corner. Join TNT every Tuesday evening where we bring an action-driven double feature with premieres such as Ride Along and Chaos, among others, that features a police officer, detective, or modern-day lawman, which we either love or love to hate.
Tuesday, 3 November
20:00 – Ride Along (2014) channel premiere 21:45 – 12 Rounds (2009)
Tuesday, 10 November
20:00 – Chaos (2005) channel premiere 21:50 – Showtime (2002)
Tuesday, 17 November 20:00 – Exit Wounds (2002) 21:40 – Mad Max (1979)
Tuesday, 24 November
20:00 – Tango & Cash (1989) 21:40 – Snake Eyes (1998)

TNT is available on DStv, Starsat (SA) & StarTimes (ROA) and GOtv.