BREAKING. Nickelodeon goes big with the great new teen mystery drama House of Anubis starting on 13 June with daily episodes.

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While the Cartoon Network (DStv 301) is stalling to its own detriment in deciding whether it's going to show South African viewers its live-action teen drama shows Unnatural History as well as Tower Prep (both of which are awesome and have been shown in America) Nickelodeon (DStv 305) is absolutely taking the gap with its own House of Anubis that will be starting in June.

South African viewers will be able to watch the wonderful House of Anubis from Monday 13 June at 16:45.
House of Anubis has a first season of 60 episodes has just been renewed for a second season.
The show is the first soap opera created by Nickelodeon and follows a group of eight teenagers who live together in Anubis House (named after the Egyptian god Anubis).

Just like Unnatural History and Tower Prep which South African viewers haven't seen yet, House of Anubis is also centered around a group of Harry Potter-ish teenagers going to a private school where mystery and supernatural riddles abound. In House of Anubis they live in an early 1900s-era building that serves as a boarding house for an elite boarding school in Britain.

House of Anubis will have a new half hour episode daily on weekdays and a repeat block scheduled for Saturdays at 19:40 (starting 18 June) and Sundays at 12:30 (starting 19 June).

Overseas the first episode and season finale of House of Anubis were both an hour long but I'm still waiting to hear from Nickelodeon whether that will be the case here, or whether it will be broken up into two half hours over two days.

In House of Anubis the American girl Nina Martin (Nathalia Ramos), who's been living with her grandmother since the death of her parents, leaves America to go to the boarding school when another student suddenly disappears.