by Thinus Ferreira
Nicola van Niekerk, M-Net's executive responsible for premium content and co-productions, has now been made the acting executive overseeing content for MultiChoice's streamer Showmax.
The widely respected Nicola van Niekerk has been M-Net's head of premium content and co-productions for a year since July 2023, after she was upped from the position of senior manager for scripted content and factual entertainment that she held for the preceding five years since October 2018.
It's unclear when Nicola van Niekerk moved to acting head of content at Showmax but it happened very recently. Showmax didn't answer a media query made Tuesday asking when the move happened.
It's also unclear whether Nicola van Niekerk continues oversight of M-Net premium content and coprods or has relinquished this role, and if so, who is now in charge of this.
Like Showmax, M-Net didn't answer a media query made Tuesday asking whether Nicola van Niekerk is still M-Net's head of premium and co-productions or who is now fulfilling this role.
Nicola van Niekerk started at M-Net in 2012 as a commissioning editor for kykNET (DStv 144) and quickly rose up the executive ladder at the Randburg-based pay-TV operator.
Nicola van Niekerk as Showmax acting content boss replaces Candice Fangueiro who left MultiChoice in October 2022 after seven years as Showmax's content boss.
Candice Fangueiro jumped to Amazon Studios and Amazon Prime Video two years ago to head up that global streamer's now-destroyed plans to ramp up local content creation and commissioning in South Africa and across sub-Saharan Africa which abruptly came to a halt earlier this year.