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Friday, August 27, 2021

September 2021 On ViacomCBS Africa | Two New Series Including Ridiculousness Spinoff | Returning And Continuing Series

Comedy Central:

MODERN FAMILY SEASON 11
WEEKDAYS FROM 15 SEPTEMBER @ 21:00
At the start of Season 11, Alex (Ariel Winter) is in Antarctica for his research, Haley (Sarah Hyland) and Dylan (Reid Ewing) are learning how to be new parents, while Claire (Julie Bowen) and Phil (Ty Burrell) offer their advice; Manny (Rico Rodriguez) tries to get back with Sherry (Hillary Anne Matthews) while she's lending her voice to a commercial for Jay's (Ed O'Neill) dog bed business; Cameron (Eric Stonestreet) tries to get Mitchell (Jesse Tyler Ferguson) to confess throwing out his clown statue. As the season progresses, Gloria (Sofía Vergara) is involved in a rivalry with one of Phil's students, Jay is angry at his wife for working too much and never being home, and Luke (Nolan Gould) decides to drop out of college to work on an idea for a new app.

IMPRACTICAL JOKERS
WEEKDAYS FROM 13 SEPTEMBER @ 21:30
Four prank-loving friends compete in extremely awkward social experiments in this hidden-camera series. The loser must partake in a particularly abominable practical joke. Starring Brian "Q" Quinn, James "Murr" Murray and Joe Gatto.

ANTHONY JESELNIK SEASON 1
SATURDAYS FROM 4 SEPTEMBER @ 23:20
On Good Talk with Anthony Jeselnik, the relentlessly acerbic comic sits down for intimate chats with his funniest friends. Anthony keeps guests like Tig Notaro, Kristen Schaal, Nick Kroll and Kumail Nanjiani on their toes as he lobs deeply personal questions at them, engages in insightful dialogues about the craft of comedy and takes unfiltered swipes at industry peers.

THE DAILY SOCIAL DISTANCING SHOW SEASON 27
TUESDAY - FRIDAY 14 SEPTEMBER @ 23:30
The Daily Show returns with a brand new season. Join Trevor Noah and his team as they take a satirical sideswipe at the latest in news and current affairs. Emmy Award winning irreverence from Comedy Central.

MTV:

WILD & OUT S15
THURSDAY 16 SEPTEMBER – 18 NOVEMBER 2021 AT 21:30 CAT
Wild 'N Outis an American sketch comedy and improv game show series that was created and hosted by comedian Nick Cannon.

MTV CRIBS S18
WEDNESDAY 15 SEPTEMBER -27 OCTOBER 2021 AT 21:30 CAT
A unique look into the lavish homes of some of the biggest names in the entertainment industry.

ADORABLENESS
THURSDAY 2 SEPTEMBER -4 NOVEMBER 2021 AT 22:00 CAT
A unique look into the lavish homes of some of the biggest names in the The new show, “Adorableness,” joins Rob Dyrdek’slong-running clip show as well as previously announced spinoffs “Deliciousness,” hosted by Tiffani Thiessen, and “Messyness,” hosted by Nicole “Snooki” Poliz.

SIESTA KEY S4
THURSDAY 30 SEPTEMBER – 23 DECEMBER 2021 AT 15:00 CAT
`Siesta Key' follows some young adults who confront issues of love, heartbreak, class and looming adulthood while spending the summer together in their sun-drenched hometown.

Sunday, August 22, 2021

FOX Will No Longer Be Available On DStv And StarSat From October

The FOX channel in Africa has turned into the walking dead with the last of its programming turning into a zombie schedule after Disney decided to end the channel on DStv and StarSat after 11 and a half years at the end of September, ripping away the ending of The Walking Dead from pay-TV subscribers across the continent.

In response to a media query, The Walt Disney Company Africa confirms that its FOX (DStv 125 / StarSat 131) channel is ending on pay-TV services like MultiChoice's DStv, StarTimes and StarSat, as well as Zuku across sub-Saharan Africa at the end of September.

"On 30 September at 23:59 (CAT), the FOX channel across Africa will close," a South African spokesperson of The Walt Disney Company Africa says.

"As the television landscape and viewer consumption evolves, we continue to develop and review our products and services to ensure we are offering the best possible experience for consumers."

"We look forward to bringing consumers across Africa a vast array of factual, sports, and kids programming from our channels, including National Geographic, National Geographic Wild, ESPN, ESPN 2, Disney Channel and Disney Junior."

StarSat in response to a media query on Monday said that "the FOX channel will be offline as of 1 October, however FOX News will still air. This was a decision made by Disney to remove the channel". On StarSat the FOX channel has been available to Max and Super subscribers.

At the time of publication of this report MultiChoice didn't provide any answer in response to an urgent media query made Monday but comment will be added here if received. The FOX channel has been available to DStv Premium, DStv Compact Plus and DStv Compact subscribers.

Asked how pay-TV subscribers watching FOX will see series and their endings like the final season of The Walking Dead and whether that content would be made available on-demand somewhere else, Disney says that "all current premiere series will air their full seasons before the channel closes".

"While the channel will be closing, many titles that aired on FOX will be available on Star on Disney+ when the service launches in South Africa in 2022".

Asked if FOX will be replaced in time by another similar type of linear TV channel or whether it's not part of Disney's strategy to run a general entertainment channel anymore like FOX was, Disney has no definitive answer.

Disney says that "across the globe, we continue to invest in both direct-to-consumer (DTC) and linear businesses, with the goal being providing our fans with multiple entry points to our content and our brand. We have substantial linear businesses in several markets including across Africa".

"We take a market-by-market approach and continuously evaluate our media networks business on an ongoing basis but have nothing else to announce at this time."

"Our number one priority is to bring customers the stories they love and our linear channels continue to be a compelling destination – including our genre-defining factual entertainment channels National Geographic and Nat Geo WILD, our action-pack sports channels ESPN and ESPN2, as well as our popular kids and family channels Disney Channel and Disney Junior."

Disney axed the FOX Life channel at the end of September 2020 on DStv and StarSat, and terminated Disney XD in the same month after nine years on DStv.

FOX's zombie-hyped start - and zombie ending

The FOX Africa channel started its linear broadcast life in May 2010 in South Africa as FOX Entertainment when On Digital Media (ODM) launched its TopTV satellite service (now StarSat) with several Fox-supplied channels that came and went over the years like FX, FOX Retro, FOX Life and FOX Crime.

FOX Entertainment rebranded to FOX from April 2013 after MultiChoice signed a new carriage deal to also carry FOX.

FOX became a solid B+ general entertainment channel coming close to rivaling premium channels like M-Net and BBC Entertainment over the past decade with shows like Falling Skies, Da Vinci's Demons, Empire, The Resident, Deep State as its first original Europe and Africa commissioned drama series, War of the Worlds recently and even stealing The Simpsons away from M-Net.

The biggest content contributor to the desirability factor of FOX as a TV channel however came in the licensing coup of AMC Studios' global zombie series hit The Walking Dead that started in October 2010 just as FOX began as a channel in South Africa and that is ending just as FOX is ending, with its 11th season that started on Sunday 22 August.

Ironically, after multiple seasons of doing both live late-night simulcast airings at the same time as in America, as well as "Express from the US" episodes where viewers in Africa saw The Walking Dead episodes within a day of broadcast after the United States, Disney is now ripping the show and how the story ends away from pay-TV subscribers who have been following it for a decade on FOX Africa.

Viewers of DStv, StarTimes and StarSat will not see any of the new weekly episodes of the concluding 11th season of The Walking Dead in August or September before FOX shuts down, with the show's latest season conspicuously absent from the FOX schedule.

Why FOX is ending

The FOX News (StarSat 261) channel from Fox Corporation will remain on StarTimes and StarSat but the axing of FOX Africa on StarSat and DStv is the culmination of the Walt Disney Company's corporate takeover of 21st Century Fox in 2019.

In May, Bob Chapek, Walt Disney CEO, said that Disney planned to close 100 of its remaining international FOX, FOX Crime and FOX Life channels, as well as several Disney Channel, Disney Junior and even some iterations of the National Geographic channels in various markets before the end of this year, from the United Kingdom and New Zealand, to Australia and across Southeast Asia.

Disney is shutting down these channels for two reasons: It wants to get rid of the "FOX" name in all its channel branding and assets, similar to how it renamed its studios of 20th Century Fox to 20th Century Studios and 20th Century Fox Television as 20th Television.

Secondly, Disney wants to take back its content tied up in linear TV channel distribution deals and consolidate its content to put it all on its own Disney+ video streaming service that it is rolling out globally, with Bob Chapek who earlier this month in its latest investors' conference call said that "our direct-to-consumer business is the company's top priority".

Disney plans to launch Disney+ in South Africa from any time around June 2022.

Viewers noticed FOX sliding out of focus

In May, viewers became alarmed when they started noticing that the FOX schedule suddenly began to zombify with a lot more rebroadcasts and repeats and a dramatic decrease in new, first-run series on the channel than previously.

Worried pay-TV subscribers feared and speculated that the visible lack of volume of new content meant that the less energy and focus given to FOX was possibly signaling that the TV channel is going to be discontinued.

Disney in response to a media enquiry in May then responded very much with the same statement it did now, saying: "We continue to invest in both direct-to-consumer (DTC) and linear businesses, with the goal being providing our fans with multiple entry points to our content and our brand. We take a market by market approach and continuously evaluate our media networks business on an ongoing basis but have nothing to announce at this time."

Impact on subscribers

The termination of FOX in Africa will hit StarTimes and StarSat and its subscribers, harder than MultiChoice and DStv subscribers since FOX has been the last remaining good general entertainment with American content left on StarTimes' channels line-up, whereas MultiChoice still has channels like M-Net and others to somewhat blunt the impact of FOX's loss.

StarTimes and StarSat subscribers, still angry after the loss of Discovery Family in late-January and the loss of more Discovery Inc. channels - StarTimes Real Time, Investigation Discovery, Investigation Discovery French, Discovery Science and Discovery Science French - since the beginning of this month, are upset about the end of FOX.

"I am so done with StarSat right now," said subscriber Loraine Ellis, echoing the sentiment of hundreds of StarSat subscribers on Facebook on Monday. "You have taken away multiple channels over the past year or so and replaced it with absolutely nothing. How are we going to watch The Walking Dead when the new season starts?"

Pay-TV customer Johan Kruger said that if FOX doen't show The Walking Dead "real soon everyone will resort back to piracy. We got all previous seasons at the exact same time as it aired in the US".

DStv subscribers in countries like Ghana, Uganda, Kenya and Tanzania where price increases come into effect from September will likely wonder why they have to pay more but at the same time get less when the FOX channel is taken away.

Friday, August 20, 2021

New Channel Alert (Rumor): SABC Children Could Be In The Works

Earlier this year, I did a recap on SABC Children which is one of SABC's purposed channels for DTT which never came to light due to the poor management and the delayed switchover from analogue to digital television.

From what I remember, the channel is available as a digital channel on the Tuluntulu app alongside SABC Education which was there long before it was made available on DTT and TelkomOne.

Now there's a slight possibility that maybe the SABC plans to launch SABC Children which would serve as a complimentary channel to SABC Education as opposed to a rival.

Funny thing here is, SABC Entertainment might have been scrapped with SABC Encore still onboard which is probably for the best since they'd likely be following the MTV 80s and 90s brand which aired content from different timelines.

SABC Children joins SABC Parliament and SABC Encore as possible new channels from the SABC. Other channels SABC purposed in 2012 but never got the light of day include SABC Movies, SABC Health, SABC Music, SABC History, SABC 4 and SABC 5.

The odd thing about this is Go Digital SA has seemingly removed eMedia Investments set of channels ranging eMovies, eExtra and eToonz from the LyngSat area with e.tv being the sole channel there at the moment.

My estimated guess would be that SABC is cutting back on the expenses so they'll be adding their own channels to serve as placeholders for each brand.

SABC Children is probably replacing eToonz with SABC Encore replacing eExtra and SABC Movies replacing eMovies I mean it wouldn't make sense for it to be SABC Parliament.

With this in mind, it's seems very likely that the SABC plans to launch more channels as opposed to the second sports channel as well as the two long awaited entertainment channels for Openview.

SABC Sport And ESPN Launch A New Partnership

Following eMedia Investments with News & Sport, the SABC has concluded a distribution agreement with Walt Disney Co that will allow it to broadcast local and international live sporting events, news programming and a library of sporting content from ESPN.

ESPN, which is by far the top sports broadcaster in the US – akin to MultiChoice Group-owned SuperSport in South Africa – will provide the public broadcaster with the content for its SABC Sports channel.

This content will include European football matches, the SABC said on Friday. It represents an escalation of an intensifying war for viewers with MultiChoice, particularly as the content will be available on eMedia Holdings’ free-to-air Openview platform, which this week topped 2.5 million decoder activations in the South African market.

“ Dedicated slots will offer viewers a live English Championship match on Saturdays and a Dutch Eredivisie game on Sundays

“Kicking off this weekend is the premiere of two brand-new ESPN-branded football slots that will air each on Saturday and Sunday on the SABC Sports channel at midday during European football season.

The dedicated slots will offer viewers a live English Championship match on Saturdays at 1.30pm and a Dutch Eredivisie game on Sundays at 12.15pm, as well as highlights from US Major League Soccer and premiere football news round-ups from ESPN’s magazine shows, including the popular ESPN FC,” the SABC said.

Other sport
Other sport will include the World Indoor Championships from Serbia (March 2022), World Race Walking Championships from Belarus (April 2022), the World Championships from the US (July 2022) and the Basketball Africa League (selected matches in 2022). It has also licensed live boxing games and boxing content from ESPN’s extensive archives.

“This agreement is going to add significant depth to our current offering on the SABC Sports channel,” said SABC Sport GM Gary Rathbone. “With the addition of long-awaited regular live boxing events, as well more live football, athletics and African basketball, it’s clear that this partnership will deliver right across the board for our viewers.”

The SABC Sports channel is available on Openview as well on the SABC’s digital terrestrial television service. It’s also on TelkomOne streaming.

Prediction: G4 Expands Across The UK, Europe And South Africa Through Ginx Esports TV

G4 is an upcoming gaming brand from NBCUniversal which is scheduled to released by the end of the year in the United States and serves as a rival to SPI International's Gametoons and a spinoff to Sky's Ginx Esports TV.

The revived brand will feature new episodes of past series such as Attack Of The Show!, X-Play, G4TV Esports and Ninja Warrior. They'be even greenlit a new series which stars WWE superstar, Xavier Woods.

Even though, there hasn't been any indicator to a possible rollout it's very likely that it will launch under Ginx Esports TV since Sky is owned by Comcast that also manage NBCUniversal International.

It's also possible that some of the content seen on Ginx Esports TV will be scrapped for 'localised version' of G4's upcoming content seeing as both channels have original content in their respective markets.

Comcast recently partnered up with ViacomCBS International to rollout a new streaming service across Europe called SkyShowcase which will see the best of Peacock and Paramount+ rollout under one brand.

New Series Alert: My Sweet Curse Coming Soon To TLNovelas Africa + Televisa And Univision Merge

MY SWEET CURSE COMING SOON TO TLNOVELAS

It looks like TLNovelas might stick around on DStv for the remainder of September as the channel is set to introduce another telenovela, My Sweet Curse.

My Sweet Curse (Mi Adorable Maldición) follows the rumors persist that young Aurora is cursed because of her dark, difficult past. When she meets dashing Rodrigo, the two fall in love and join forces to prove that their relationship can survive all obstacles - including the supposed curse. Renata Notni and Pablo Lyle star as the leads.

It is an adaptation of the 2013 Colombian story written by Julio Jiménez titled Lola Calamidades, which most recent version, Bella Calamidades, starred Danna García.

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TELEVISA AND UNIVISION SET TO MERGE

Grupo Televisa, S.A.B. (“Televisa”), and Univision Holdings, Inc. (together with its wholly owned subsidiary, Univision Communications Inc., (“Univision”), announced a definitive transaction agreement in which Televisa’s content and media assets will be combined with Univision to create the largest Spanish-language media company in the world: Televisa-Univision.

The combination brings together the two leading media businesses in the two largest Spanish-speaking markets in the world: Univision in the United States, the largest Spanish-language media market by value, and Televisa in Mexico, which is the most populous Spanish-language market in the world. The resulting business will hold the largest long-form library of content in the world, a powerful portfolio of IP and global sports rights, fueled by the most prolific Spanish-language production infrastructure. The power and scope of these content assets are unmatched. In 2020, Televisa produced more than 86,000 hours of content across every genre and category, including sports and special events, dramas, newscasts, situation comedies, game shows, reality shows, children’s programs, comedy and variety programs, musical and cultural events, movies and educational programming.

Televisa will also contribute its four free-to-air channels, 27 pay-TV networks channels and stations, its Videocine movie studio and Blim TV subscription video on demand (SVOD) service; and the Televisa trademark. These media assets comprise the definitive market leader in Mexico.

The Company will further benefit from Univision’s market-leading assets in the United States which includes the Univision and UniMás broadcast networks, nine Spanish-language cable networks, 61 television stations and 58 radio stations in major U.S. Hispanic markets and Puerto Rico, and prominent digital assets including its recently launched AVOD streaming service, PrendeTV.

“This strategic combination generates significant value for shareholders of both companies and will allow us to more efficiently reach all Spanish-language audiences with more of our programming,” said Emilio Azcárraga, Executive Chairman of the Televisa Board of Directors. “Together, Televisa-Univision can more aggressively pursue innovation and growth through digital platforms as the industry continues to evolve. Our new investors at the SoftBank Latin America Fund, Google and The Raine Group are just as excited about the opportunities presented by this combination.”

“This transformative combination brings together the leading network serving U.S. Spanish-language audiences with the leading media platform in Mexico powered by the most powerful Spanish-language content engine in the world,” said Univision CEO Wade Davis.

“Televisa-Univision will emerge as the leading global Spanish-language multi-media company, uniquely positioned to capture the significant market opportunity for Spanish speakers worldwide.” Davis continued, “The composition of our new investor group reflects confidence in our strategy, the progress of our digital transformation and the magnitude of the opportunity ahead of us. I would like to thank Chairman Emilio Azcárraga for his confidence in us, to continue as partners growing the incredible company he and his family have built.

“We have been deeply involved with Univision for more than two decades, and we have never enjoyed a better relationship with our partners,” said Bernardo Gómez and Alfonso de Angoitia, Televisa’s Co-Chief Executive Officers. “We are creating a company which is a leader across multi-media categories, unified over the largest territories and with the scale and focus to deliver the most compelling content experience to Spanish-language consumers around the world. We are confident that this strategic transaction will maximize the potential of our Content segment, while allowing us to strengthen our balance sheet and focus on growth opportunities at our Telecom business.”

3 Possible New Channels For DStv

This year, MultiChoice has been kind of slow on the new channel front with only 3 channels that launched within a space of 6 months and 2 of them serve as repeat channels, Maisha Magic Movies and Moja 9.9.

Besides, the long awaited Mozambique entertainment channel it looks like MultiChoice might be rolling out more channels such as GH One TV, SuperSport Maxìmo Direct 2 and Maisha Magic Plus.

GH One TV is a Ghana-based entertainment TV channel, whose content includes lifestyle, music, fashion, series, children's programs, comedy, and tourism. It is now owned by Excellence In Broadcasting (EIB) Networks. According to a survey conducted by GeoPoll, GH One is the 5th most watched TV station in Ghana.

SuperSport Maxìmo Direct 2 serves as the English version of the current SuperSport Maxìmo channel available on Premium which mashes sports from other channels. This channel would have joined Telemundo as the only station with a duplicate channel in another language.

Maisha Magic Plus serves as Kenyan version of Mzansi Wethu offering series and movies in both English and Swahili. This one would kind of serve as a complimentary to the movie channel and it would be interesting if MultiChoice were to create a seperate feed which not only took from Kenya but Uganda and Tanzania as well.

For now, there's no confirmation from either MultiChoice or the service provider but these 3 channels do raise questions on whether this will be the only thing viewers will be getting for the years to come or whether there's hope for something out of your comfort zone.

September 2021 On Curiosity Channel Africa | History Lovers Tuesdays | Curious Thursdays | Travel & Adventure Fridays | Best Of Curiosity | Human Story Saturdays | Best Of Curiosity Sundays

HISTORY LOVER TUESDAYS

SECRETS OF THE THIRD REICH
Brand New Episodes – premieres 31 August 2021 CAT: 21:00
Episodes: 4x 30 mins - ends 28 September 2021
What happened to trainloads worth of Nazi-gold at the end of WW2?

CURIOUS THURSDAYS

THE SECRET OF MONA LISA
Brand New Documentary Special – premieres 09 September 2021 CAT: Thursday at 22:00
Episodes: 1x 60 mins
The Mona Lisa by Leonardo da Vinci is one of the most famous paintings in the world. Her real name according to art history is “La Gioconda”. For many years though, there have been doubts: why did Leonardo not hand the portrait on to the commissioner if it was a picture of his wife?

THE VIKINGS
Brand New Documentary Series – premieres 23 September 2021
CAT: Thursday at 21:00
Episodes: 4 x 60 mins (stacked back-to-back premieres)
Their ships plied the seas and rivers of half the globe. They were bloodthirsty warriors and fine craftsmen. They were the Vikings.

TRAVEL & ADVENTURE FRIDAYS

TRAVEL MAN
Brand New Episodes –premieres 03 September 2021 CAT: 20:00
Episodes: 10 x 30mins (back-to-back) ends 24 September 2021
Travel Man is Richard Ayoade's chance to show us where we're going wrong by having the most culturally efficient holiday possible.

ANTHONY BOURDAIN, PARTS UNKNOWN
Brand New Episodes – premieres 03 September 2021 CAT: 21:00
Episodes: 8x 60mins – ends 22 October 2021
Anthony Bourdain travels the world uncovering lesser-known places and exploring their cultures and cuisine.

BEST OF CURIOSITY

FACE TO FACE: Mandela vs De Klerk Heritage Day Special - 24 September 2021 CAT: 19:00
Episodes: 1x 60 mins
Would Nelson Mandela have gone down in history without Frederik de Klerk? And vice versa? The question is more than pertinent in view of the extent to which the destinies of South Africa’s first black president and the last leader of the apartheid regime are linked.

HUMAN STORY SATURDAYS

4TH and FOREVER ALCOA
Brand New Episodes - premieres 04 September 2021 CAT: 23:00
Episodes: 5x 30 mins – ends 02 October 2021
In the shadows of the Smoky Mountains lives a football dynasty. Alcoa High School is southern Appalachia's true football powerhouse..

BEST OF CURIOSITY SUNDAYS

VERTIGO YEARS
Brand New Series - premieres 12 September 2021 CAT: 19:00
Episodes: 3x 30 mins (stacked back-to-back premieres)
A social, creative and scientific explosion that would define the horizons of life in the West up to our day.

September 2021 On CBS Reality And Justice Africa | 6 New Series Alerts Including Framed By The Killer | 3 Returning Series Including Homicide's Elite

CBS Reality:

EXTREME SALVAGE SQUAD
Season 2
Channel Premiere
Weekdays at 09:30, 18:40 and 22:50 from 6th to 17th September. Repeated on weekends at 07:50 and 18:40 from 11th September to 10th October.
Any job, any time...Enter the high-stakes world of marine recovery and rescue with Extreme Salvage Squad. Based in the Whitsunday region of North Queensland in Australia, the team tackle time-critical, dangerous salvage missions where one mistake could mean serious injury or ﬁnancial disaster. Filled with true Aussie grit and a determination to see the job done, the team meet every challenge head-on - and know how to have a little fun along the way. Stuﬀed with tension, excitement and camaraderie, this series is all about overcoming adversity to help keep one of the world's most beautiful coastlines in the best possible condition.

GRIME AND PUNISHMENT
Season 1 & 2.
Channel Premiere
Weekdays at 09:30, 18:40 and 22:50 from 20th September to 25th October. Repeated on weekends at 07:50 and 18:40 from 16th October to 9th January 2022.
Modern Britain is drowning in rubbish. The once green and pleasant land has become swamped with waste and infested with ﬁlth. But there’s a hidden army waging a war against grime. This series follows 7 days on the frontline with the enforcement teams and inspectors out to nail the litter louts, and the fearless cleaners and sewage warriors clearing up the mess. It’s dirty work and we meet the brave people doing it.
In episode 1, we follow a dynamic enforcement duo Wayne and Dan in Wales as they wade through ﬂy-tipped rubbish to ﬁnd out who dumped it; Environmental Health Oﬃcer Eamon as he digs through the dirt in restaurants and takeaways, and Don the cleaner facing a bathroom covered ﬂoor to ceiling in ﬁlth.

CBS Justice:

AN UNEXPECTED KILLER
Season 1. Channel premiere.
Weeknights at 19:00.
From 27th September until 6th October.
Expect the unexpected in this gripping true crime series that delves into shocking murder investigations in which the identity of the killer comes as a complete surprise. Each standalone episode takes viewers through the twists and turns of a captivating homicide investigation, combining compelling interviews with dramatic re-enactments. Just when detectives think they’ve cracked the case, new evidence turns the investigation on its head and ultimately leads to a suspect no one anticipated.

ACCIDENT, SUICIDE OR MURDER
Season 1 & 2. Channel premiere.
Weeknights at 20:00.
From 6th September until 5th October.
This riveting series takes viewers through the stunning twists and turns of real-life cases involving suspicious deaths. At the heart of each case is a pressing question: was the victim's demise the result of an accident, suicide, or possibly murder? Each hour-long episode traces the evolution of the investigation, from the discovery of the victim to the gathering of evidence to the eﬀorts of detectives and family members determined to expose the truth, once and for all.

FRAMED BY THE KILLER
Season 1. Channel premiere.
Sundays at 20:00.
From 5th until 19th September.
Executive produced by Ice-T ("In Ice Cold Blood"), this true crime series untangles twisted murder mysteries in which the killers tried to frame innocent people for the crimes they committed. Each episode delves into a murder case that appears to have a clear perpetrator until evidence reveals that the initial suspect was actually set up by the real murderer.

THE GOOD COP
Season 1. Channel premiere.
Sundays at 19:00.
From 5th September until 10th October.
Based on the bestselling book “The Good Cop” by Justine Ford. The best Homicide detective Australia has ever seen. This is the story of an old-school cop who is tough, inventive and incorruptible. A man who solved the unsolvable with his head and his heart. For many years, television companies have dreamt of doing a series with Ron Iddles. Ron has just retired ... and is ready to tell his story.
How did this intuitive cop put more murderers behind bars than any other homicide detective in Australia? Each episode will take us behind the scenes of one of Ron’s most challenging murder cases. Ron’s voice will be the backbone of the episode - his stories illustrated with compelling drama scenes, ﬁlmed in a modern crime-noir style. Complementing Ron’s story will be powerful insights from the victims’ families, his homicide colleagues, journalists and even Ron’s informers and suspects. Many of these people have never told their story on television.
The Good Cop is more than a crime show. It is a master class in detective work from Australia’s ﬁnest cop.

MURDER AND JUSTICE:
THE CASE OF MARTHA MOXLEY
Season 1. Channel premiere.
Sundays at 20:00.
From 26th September until 10th October.
Hosted by former federal prosecutor and on-air legal analyst Laura Coates, "Murder and Justice: The Case of Martha Moxley" re-explores the infamous murder of Martha Moxley by taking a 360-degree look at the case’s original evidence, testing new theories that examine potentially overlooked clues with help from some of the world’s preeminent crime experts. Presenting new and exclusive interviews with those connected to the case, including former LAPD Homicide Detective Mark Fuhrman, trial defense attorney Mickey Sherman and Robert F. Kennedy Jr., as well as conversations with Martha’s loved ones, Coates revisits the investigation and its aftermath in an attempt to understand the question that remains: Why has justice been so elusive for the Moxley family after so many years?

EVIDENCE OF EVIL
Season 3. Episodes 17-26.
Channel premiere.
ORIGINAL TRUE CRIME SERIES
Weeknights at 21:00. From 6th until 17th September.
Season 3 of the original true crime series “Evidence of Evil” explores and reconstructs some of the most intriguing and startling criminal cases of the past two decades, where technology changed the course of the investigations and brought the guilty to justice. Featuring key witness testimony, new interviews, reconstructed sequences and archive footage, the series showcases the hard work and dedication of investigators, police, scientists, and other experts in their ﬁelds.

HOMICIDE’S ELITE
Season 3. Episodes 6-15.
Channel premiere.
Weeknights at 21:00. From 6th until 17th September.
Detectives David Quinn and Vince Velazquez have worked hundreds of homicides together – if these two are on the case, the bad guys are going to prison!
In epsiode 6, Vince and Quinn will hop back in time to the year 1988 to help one young man ﬁnd justice in his father’s cold case murder. While the detectives pour through the case ﬁle in the hopes to ﬁnd a lead, they discover that their victim’s killer may be closer to home than they originally expected.