M-Net is adding to both the Screen Actors Guild Awards 2013 as well as The Brit Awards 2013 to the South African pay-TV broadcaster's suddenly burgeoning slate of exclusive annual award season coverage.
The sudden flourish of expansive award shows which M-Net is acquiring the exclusive broadcasting rights to, signals a major drive from the Randburg based pay-TV operator to increase not just the quantity of TV events now being secured for South African pay-TV viewers but also the buzz-factor quality.
Besides the three staples of The Golden Globe Awards, The Annual Academy Awards and The Annual Primetime Emmy Awards - for years exclusive staples on M-Net, the broadcaster is suddenly on a massive mission to increase and grow its awards season shows.
M-Net which already broadcast The 70th Golden Globe Awards live and in HD and again in South African primetime this year, will now also be showing the Screen Actors Guild Awards 2013 live and in HD on Monday morning 28 January at 03:00 on M-Net Movies Premiere (DStv 103) and again in primetime on the Monday evening at 20:30 on the same channel.
The Screen Actor Guild Awards 2013 will also be shown on M-Net Stars (DStv 111) on Saturday 2 February at 18:00.
Then there is the massive step forward when M-Net broadcast live for the first time on South African television the nominations for the 85th Annual Academy Awards on M-Net Movies Premiere.
M-Net will again be showing live and in HD, and repeat in South African primetime, in February.
The 85th Academy Awards will be shown on M-Net and across M-Net channels on DStv as follows:
Monday 25 February from 03:00 on M-Net Movies Premiere (DStv 103)
Monday 25 February from 20:30 on M-Net (DStv 101)
Tuesday 26 February at 20:30 on M-Net Movies Premiere (DStv 103)
Saturday 2 March at 18:00 on M-Net Movies
Stars (DStv 111)
M-Net has now also secured the broadcasting rights to The BRIT Awards 2013, the British equivalent of the American Grammy Awards. M-Net will show The BRIT Awards 2013 on Saturday 23 February at 21:45 on the M-Net channel (DStv 101).
The changes and additions is quickly helping to raise M-Net's profile which is seriously expanding its foray into hiherto unseen yet available programming, for the first time in years and bringing South African viewers more in line with the global television conversation which happens specifically during Hollywood's annual award season.
