M-Net signs a package deal with Sony Pictures Television (SPT) for new dramas The Blacklist, Masters of Sex and other series.

M-Net and Sony Pictures Television (SPT) have signed a new package deal under which the South African pay-TV broadcaster secures the rights to hot new shows such as The Blacklist and Masters of Sex.

M-Net also gets the new comedies The Michael J. Fox Show and The Goldbergs for broadcast in South Africa and sub-Saharan Africa.

As part of the package deal with SPT, M-Net also will get new dramas Rake and The Night Shift, as well as the comedy Bad Teacher, The Queen Latifah Show already running on the M-Net Series Reality channel on MultiChoice's DStv platform, as well as Breaking Bad, and also further seasons of Community, Justified and Drop Dead Diva.

"The current Sony Pictures Television series on M-Net's channels are well-loved by our viewers and we are thrilled to add more exciting new SPT shows to our mix of top-notch content," says Jan du Plessis, M-Net's director of group content services.