MultiChoice to add 5 new TV channels to DStv including Canada's ZooMoo for kids as well as Turkish and Mexican telenovela channels and Korean K-drama with tvN.

by Thinus Ferreira

MultiChoice will add 5 new TV channels to its DStv pay-TV service with content ranging from Mexican telenovelas and a Canadian kids channel to Turkish telenovelas and even South Korean or so-called "K"-dramas.

MultiChoice made the announcement about the 5 new channels, although one was already announced previously, on Wednesday afternoon during its 2020 DStv Showcase media presentation for the press.

MultiChoice will add tlnovelas on DStv channel 133.

MultiChoice says tlnovelas "will run September 2020" which seems as if it might not be a permanent but a DStv pop-up channel.

tlnovela will broadcast an array of English-dubbed Mexican telenovelas from Latin America’s second-largest producer, Televisa.

MultiChoice describes the tlnovelas channel as filled with "stories of love and betrayal, with beautiful people satiating the desire for fairytale endings. The channel is hugely popular across Lusophone Africa".

ZooMoo that will launch on 1 October 2020 as a pop-up channel on DStv and run on channel 314 until 31 March 2021 is a Canadian kids’ channel that delivers a unique mix of live action combined with animation and puppets.

ZooMoo is described as "the world’s first fully-interactive pre-school channel dedicated entirely to animals and nature, aimed at kids aged 2 to 7 years old".

The ZooMoo channel is accompanied by a free ZooMoo app, which completes the multi-screen environment, synchronized on a real-time basis with the channel.

KIX, that MultiChoice already previously announced is coming to DStv, will be added to DStv channel 114 from 1 October 2020 at 19:00 and is described as "the ultimate destination for action movies in Africa".

KIX will be available to DStv Premium, DStv Compact Plus, and DStv Compact subscribers in South Africa as well as across sub-Saharan Africa.

KIX (pronounced "kicks") will offer DStv subscribers "a high octane blend of martial arts, action and thriller movies from the East and West, all presented in English".

"From the most compelling Asian and Hollywood blockbusters to the best kung fu classics of all time, as well as many other never-seen-before action and thriller titles in the region, KIX brings excitement, thrills and an adrenaline rush in high definition to all viewers."

The Turkish telenovela channel Timeless Drama Channel, SPI/FilmBox's premium Turkish drama channel, will start on DStv in November 2020 on DStv channel 123 with "high-quality, glossy telenovelas and costume dramas".

The channel that is known as "dizi" in Turkish, is "aimed at people of all ages who love the drama genre and want to watch critically-acclaimed shows that have defined the landscape of Turkish and worldwide television".

tvN that will start in November 2020 on DStv channel 134 will have South Korean dramas or so-called "K-drama".

tvN is from the Oscar-winning producers of Parasite, featuring shows produced by some of the biggest players in the Korean drama industry and serving up "glossy, powerful content".