Friday, March 20, 2026

TV REVIEW. NFVF's badly done 19th SAFTAs mirrors a haphazard film biz in crisis

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by Thinus Ferreira The National Film and Video Foundation's delayed, then rushed, then badly done broadcast of the 19th South African Fi...
Wednesday, March 18, 2026

Canal+ to end Showmax subscriptions on 1 April 2026, will axe streamer on 30 April, as content moves to DStv Stream and later Canal+ app

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by Thinus Ferreira Canal+'s Showmax will end subscriptions for its doomed video streaming service from 1 April 2026 as Showmax c ontent ...
Tuesday, March 17, 2026

No, Checkers Sixty60 doesn't deliver by Airwolf helicopter and along the whole West Coast as ARB orders TikTok ad pulled

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by Thinus Ferreira One flight of fantasy that isn't true is Checkers' Sixty60 delivery ad on TikTok that shows it delivering orders ...

South Africa's parliament demands answers from Canal+ over film industry job losses caused by shutdown of MultiChoice streamer Showmax

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by Thinus Ferreira South Africa's parliament wants to look into how many job losses there will be in the country's film and TV indus...
Sunday, March 15, 2026

Cancelled shows win at NFVF's embarrassingly bad 19th South African Film and Television Awards (full winners list)

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by Thinus Ferreira The National Film and Video Foundation's belatedly held 19th South African Film and Television Awards,  awkwardly awa...
Wednesday, March 11, 2026

Conservation biologist Dr Steve Boyes on new National Geographic documentary film Ghost Elephants: 'We look for historical genetic connections'

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by Thinus Ferreira Just like the iconic scene from the first Jurassic Park movie, where a real T-Rex ends up in the visitor's centre mai...
Tuesday, March 10, 2026

Gus O'Brien upped as new NBCUniversal International Networks boss from April

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by Thinus Ferreira Gus O'Brien is replacing Ken Bettsteller, with NBCUniversal Media Group moving him to president of International Netw...

Monsters In Africa: Why the continent waits for its own global fantasy and sci-fi breakthrough

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by Thinus Ferreira While Netflix's Squid Game did it for Asia and put Korea on the global map for genre content, the Nordics found succe...

TV CRITIC's NOTEBOOK. Netflix SA did nothing for One Piece season 2 to properly liaise with media. And now wants what, coverage?

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by Thinus Ferreira On Sunday, 8 March, just after having held a wonderful Netflix mixer event during the 8th Joburg Film Festival in Sandton...