Leah Remini’s Scientology and the Aftermath series on Crime+Investigation renewed for a 3rd season.

Leah Remini: Scientology and the Aftermath on A+E Networks' Crime+Investigation (DStv 170) channel has been renewed for a third season.

The first season of Leah Remini: Scientology and the Aftermath got two Emmy nominations and won one.

DAILY TV NEWS ROUND-UP. Today's interesting TV stories to read from TVwithThinus - 17 October 2017.

Here's the latest news about TV that I read and that you should read too:


■ The Haggard State of the SABC is not by Fluke or Accident or Coincidence.
My new Huffpost South Africa column on who benefits from a rudderless SABC that continues to limp along.

■ SHOCKER!: How MultiChoice Uganda workers allegedly defrauded DStv Uganda subscribers for a year by over-charging them in forex fraud.
In a shocking revelation, MultiChoice Uganda agents would receive payment from DStv Uganda subscribers in shillings, then allegedly go to a foreign exchange bureau, change it to dollars and post dollars on the MultiChoice Uganda system and retain the balance.
MultiChoice Uganda publicist Tina Wamala has no comment.


■ Reprehensible Star Trek: Discovery on Netflix has lost its soul.
Star Trek: Discovery characters are lame and don't even try; male privilege is alive in the future; and the "Starfleet" officer Tyler is played by Shazad Latif who apparently also plays the albino Klingon Voq, meaning Voq is infiltrating Starfleet looking like a human.
- Filthy Star Trek: Discovery suddenly drops F-words no longer making it a show a family can watch. Did Star Trek: Discovery really need to include F-words?How does profanity trash play on Star Trek: Discovery? "Not so great".
- Is Star Trek: Discovery going too far with the animal cruelty?
- Star Trek: Discovery "embraces gay romance" with first gay couple.
- Star Trek: Discovery coldly goes where better Star Trek has gone before.
- Star Trek: Discovery's trashy changes to Klingon canon is the worst part about this show.


■ Scientologists wants advertisers to withdrew from Leah Remini: Scientology and the Aftermath.
Cult members have been writing letters but apparently it's not working.
- The second season of Leah Remini: Scientology and the Aftermath will start on Crime+Investigation (DStv 170) on Wednesday 18 October, much sooner following America, than the first season.

■ Netflix continues its strong international growth.
Netflix adds 850 000 new United States streaming customers in the 3rd quarter and 4.45 million new international sign-ups as part of strong international growth to push the total to 56.48 million.
- Netflix content budget might grow to a staggering $8 billion in 2018.
- "We are growing nicely across the world."
- "Our future largely lies in exclusive original content".
- Netflix plans to release 80 original films in 2018.

■ NBC fires the staffer who leaked the tape of filth-mouth MSNBC's Lawrence O'Donnell berating staff.
The leaker was fired after all that hammering that made Lawrence goes crazy.

■ Kevin James reveals why he killed off his TV wife in Kevin Can't Wait seen on M-Net (DStv 101).
"We were just running out of ideas. The plot of the show didn't have enough drive" he says as to why Donna was killed off in the sitcom and replaced with his former King of Queens co-star Leah Remini.

■ British TV and film are rife with sexual bullying.

Hauntingly gripping Leah Remini: Scientology and the Aftermath returns to Crime+Investigation for a 2nd season.

The hauntingly gripping and well-produced Leah Remini: Scientology and the Aftermath returns for a second season to the Crime+Investigation (DStv 170) channel on Wednesday 18 October at 20:00 and this season episodes in South Africa are being shown much closer to the American broadcasting date.

The second season started in August in America and has 10 episodes and 4 special episodes.

The first season also had 2 special episodes but Crime+Investigation didn't show those to DStv subscribers in South Africa and Africa.

It's not known if Crime+Investigation will be showing the 4 new special episodes on DStv for the second season.

The 10 hourlong episodes will further explore harrowing and extremely emotional first-hand accounts of former Scientology members whose lives have been destroyed by the secretive organisation.

Leah Remini as well as other former high-ranking Scientology insiders continue to delve into stories of abuse and heartbreak, with the second season of Leah Remini: Scientology and the Aftermath that looks at growing up in Scientology's paramilitary organisation, The Sea Org, and the Oscar-winner filmmaker Paul Haggis' sharing his own harrowing personal journey of how he first recruited people for Scientology and how and why he left.

The second season has episodes looking at how children were treated and sexually abused inside Scientology as people who are now adults share their stories, the ever-elusive "Operating Thetan (OT) levels", and the rise of mysterious leader David Miscavige.

The well-produced docu-series won an Emmy in September for the first season.

A+E Networks' Crime+Investigation in Africa on DStv goes 'red cross' as it debuts a new on-air look, improves programming and adds Leah Remini Scientology must-see series.

The Crime+Investigation (CI) channel (DStv 170) rebranded its Africa channel feed today with a new on-air look emphasising its "red cross" plus sign and stacked white lettering, two months after rolling out the new on-air look in the United Kingdom and in America on the channel feed for Africa that's packaged by A+E Networks UK.

Besides the new on-air look, Crime+Investigation is improving its content line-up, adding must-see shows like the controversial Leah Remini Scientology series, Leah Remini: Scientology and the Aftermath from May that made waves in America as the actress speaks out and helps Scientologists desperate to leave the organisation like she did.

The latest Crime+Investigation on-air rebrand follows three years after the last on-air update of the channel that specialises in true crime documentary series.

A+E Networks says Crime+Investigation is evolving as a TV channel and will be "taking viewers to places far beyond any other crime channel".

As part of the improved Crime+Investigation channel proposition, C+I says its investing in content that will immerse viewers into real crime scenes and labs, police investigations and courtrooms and that will allow viewers to join detectives and distraught family members in their pursuit of truth.

"Crime+Investigation will redefine the genre by exploring fascinating insights into what makes people tick – their greatest hopes and aspirations, deepest fears and darkest motivations."

"Crime+Investigation has a fiercely loyal and passionate fan base worldwide," says Patrick Vien, A+E Networks's executive managing director.

'We are thrilled to unveil this evolved vision which will help us to continue elevating the crime genre with thought-provoking, investigative storytelling driven by human ingenuity."

"Paired with significant investment in original programming, we are confident that Crime+Investigation will reach new heights as we bring both core fans and new audiences even deeper into some of the most galvanizing investigations of our time."   

Yusuf Nabee, A+E Networks general manager for Africa says "The slate of new content on Crime+Investigation is one that will without a doubt appeal to super fans and captivate new ones."

"With the focus on the investigation and getting viewers closer to the truth, the themes and storylines will resonate with viewers. The refresh will further build on our 10 years of bringing viewers the best in quality programming."

The true crime series Cold Case Files narrated by Danny Glover returns to Crime+Investigation with new episodes on 16 March.

Cold Case Files highlights different approaches to solving cold cases that are more wide-ranging than ever before, spanning from repressed memories and witnesses finally coming forward, to enlisting crowd-solving and social media.

Other programming on Crime+Investigation include:

Leah Remini: Scientology and the Aftermath, from 3 May, 20:00

The much-anticipated American series will start on Crime+Investigation in which actress Leah Remini brings her shocking story about the world of Scientology to viewers across Africa on MultiChoice's DStv.

After she abruptly left Scientology after 34 years, Leah Remini helps Scientologists desperate to leave, in the 8-episode series. Leah also tells the story of her dramatic and often painful personal journey of having been involved with Scientology, from the age of 9 until she abruptly left in 2013.

Crimes That Shook Britain, from 20 March, 20:00

Dermot Murnaghan returns to uncover the truth behind the crimes that shocked the United Kingdom with a look at some of Britain's most disturbing cases.

The Jail: 60 Days In, from 10 April,20:50

An unprecedented look at life behind bars at Indiana's Clark County Jail as seven innocent volunteers are sent to live among its general population for 60 days without officers, fellow inmates, or staff knowing their secret.

Monster in My Family, from 18 April, 20:50

The stories of the dual lives of some of the most notorious serial killers, from the inside, with unprecedented access to their family members and intimate friends who reveal what was happening on the seemingly normal and non-criminal side of the killers, while they were carrying on their reigns of terror on the outside.

Britain's Darkest Taboos, from 28 April, 20:50

Some of the most shocking and disturbing crimes within families and relationships. Every family's worst nightmares are relived and re-told in unflinching detail by those left behind – by the families and friends, and by others whose lives have been touched  – like the police officers and reporters involved in the cases.