I can break the news and reveal that the first really big, buzzy, and brand-new TV drama for 2013, Da Vinci's Demons will be coming to South Africa with viewers who will only be able to see it on Fox Entertainment (TopTV 180) on TopTV from April.
Meanwhile I'm waiting for a South African broadcaster (Anyone? Anyone?) to tell me that they have secured the broadcasting rights to the new 2013 drama series Vikings which History for South Africa doesn't seem to have any plans to show and which will start early in March in America, as well as the cool-looking new 2013 science fiction series Defiance which will also be starting in April in America.
But back to Da Vinci's Demons. Fox International Channels (FIC) has the exclusive broadcasting rights for Africa and South Africa to this new suspense and mystery filled new drama chronicling the exploits and "missing years" of a young Leonardo Da Vinci.
After I wrote about it yesterday and that Da Vinci's Demons will most likely come to either Fox Entertainment or FX on TopTV in the first half of 2013, I've just been told that "Da Vinci's Demons is set to start broadcasting in April on Fox Entertainment".
Since Da Vinci's Demons will start in April on the Starz TV channel in America, it means that South African viewers are going to get to see the hot-looking drama series filled with fun, Florence and all kinds of "f" words within days of the series' American premiere similar to The Walking Dead and Falling Skies.
The first season of this brand-new fantasy series with Tom Riley as the 25 year old Leonardo will have 8 episodes and was filmed during the latter part of last year in Wales.
Da Vinci's Demons has an overall mystery (a murder mystery involving a secret cult) as it fills in those "missing pages" that's not included in Leonardo Da Vinci's memoirs - that of a kind of maverickey inventor, thinker, free-spirited Renaissance man and womanising bedder during a time when thought and science was seen as an enemy of religion.
