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Showing posts with label 1Magic. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 1Magic. Show all posts
Wednesday, March 13, 2024

MultiChoice and M-Net shutter DStv's 1Magic and ME channels.

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by Thinus Ferreira      As part of M-Net's linear pay-TV channels portfolio consolidation, MultiChoice is shutting down both the 1Magic ...
Saturday, February 4, 2023

1Magic: M-Net confirms the Tshedza Pictures produced The River won't run through it after 6 seasons.

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Thinus Ferreira M-Net confirmed industry whispers that the Tshedza Pictures produced telenovela The River for its 1 Magic (DStv 103) channe...
Friday, February 3, 2023

The Real Housewives of Gqeberha on the show's drama and tears: 'If you put 5 queens in one room there's going to be fireworks'.

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by Thinus Ferreira The Real Housewives of Gqeberha starting tonight on 1Magic (DStv 103) at 20:30 promises explosive fights between the wom...
Friday, January 20, 2023

The Real Housewives of Abuja to debut on 17 February on Showmax will bring a second set of Nigerian woman to NBCUniversal reality franchise.

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by Thinus Ferreira With the format proliferating like TV hamsters, MultiChoice's next African edition of The Real Housewives franchise w...
Wednesday, May 25, 2022

After 4 years, filming finally starts on M-Net's Shaka Ilembe drama series from MultiChoice and Bomb Productions, Lemogang Tsipa to portray adult Zulu king.

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by Thinus Ferreira Four years after announcing it in May 2018  and languishing in a seemingly protracted pre-production doldrum, filming ha...
Tuesday, May 10, 2022

Tshedza Pictures adds new Hlophe family to The River telenovela on 1Magic, casts Sindi Dlathu's real-life sister Tina in daughter role.

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by Thinus Ferreira The 5th season of The River on 1Magic (DStv 103) has made casting additions in the form of a new Hlophe family whose mem...
Friday, March 4, 2022

The Queen from Ferguson Films on Mzansi Magic cancelled after shortened 7th season, Lingashoni to end with a second season on 1Magic as Mzansi Magic also shifts focus to limited series with higher production values.

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by Thinus Ferreira The Queen from Ferguson Films on Mzansi Magic (DStv 161) and Lingashoni  from Stained Glass TV on 1Magic (DStv 103) have...
Thursday, December 9, 2021

MultiChoice to show Lalela Mswane in the 70th Miss Universe pageant to DStv subscribers on M-Net's 1Magic channel despite South African government's boycott.

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by Thinus Ferreira Although the South African government isn't supporting Miss South Africa competing in Miss Universe in Israel, MultiC...
Monday, October 18, 2021

TV REVIEW. MultiChoice and M-Net's 1 Night with Mzansi special done from Dubai is little more than boring puffery and yawnful paint-by-numbers programmatic content.

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by Thinus Ferreira 2 TVs out of 10 The boring and disappointing  1 Night with Mzansi variety TV special of MultiChoice and M-Net that ran o...
Thursday, October 14, 2021

MultiChoice and M-Net prep a 2-hour One Night with Mzansi live variety TV special for DStv subscribers on Sunday 17 October from the Dubai Opera House.

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by Thinus Ferreira MultiChoice and M-Net are prepping a One Night with Mzansi variety TV special that it plans to broadcast on Sunday night...
Wednesday, February 3, 2021

MultiChoice's Showmax claims that The Real Housewives of Durban, abruptly moved from DStv to streaming, broke its first-day viewing records, but provides no first-day viewing numbers.

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by Thinus Ferreira MultiChoice's video streaming service Showmax on Wednesday once again made a dubious viewership claim, without releas...
Tuesday, January 5, 2021

NBCUniversal Formats' Real Housewives reality franchise expands in South Africa with The Real Housewives of Durban coming to M-Net's 1Magic on DStv in 2021.

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by Thinus Ferreira South Africa's format localisation of The Real Housewives reality franchise is expanding with M-Net that is adding T...
Monday, October 26, 2020

TV NEWS ROUND-UP. Today's interesting TV stories to read - 26 October 2020.

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Here's the latest news about TV that I read and that you should read too: ■  SABC3's Expresso presenter Katlego Maboe and that sexu...
Tuesday, October 13, 2020

BCCSA complaints roll in after Phat Joe’s homophobic DStv dinner show on M-Net's 1Magic channel, MultiChoice doesn't want to say why and how Cheeky Palate comments made it to air.

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by Thinus Ferreira The Broadcasting Complaints Commission of South Africa (BCCSA) has received multiple complaints about the alleged homopho...