BREAKING. M-Net Movies Drama & Romance channel on DStv dropping the 'Drama'; renamed to M-Net Movies Romance.

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Supercalifragi ... M-Net is renaming and shortening one of the M-Net Movies channels on MultiChoice's DStv platform, with M-Net Movies Drama & Romance (DStv 107) which has become just M-Net Movies Romance from today.

M-Net says the name change is to stronger emphasise the genre channel proposition "as the channel will predominantly screen film with strong love themes".

The channel which launched exactly a year ago in October 2012 as part of M-Net's big movie channel expansion subset, will still screen dramatic movies as well but M-Net says "all the serious dramas will be aired during the day or after prime time in the evening".

M-Net is also simplifying the scheduled starting times of all movies across all 9 of the M-Net Movies channels with films which will always start at the top of the hour, a quarter past, half past, or a quarter to the hour from now on.

History's cracking mini-series Hatfields & McCoys coming to South Africa from 12 January at 20:30 on M-Net Movies Drama & Romance.

The hugely popular mini-series Hatfields & McCoys which lured record TV audiences in May to the History channel in America is coming to South Africa but won't be seen on History (DStv 186) here - the South African pay-TV broadcaster M-Net grabbed the three part show which will start on M-Net Drama & Romance (DStv 107) on 12 January at 20:30.

Hatfields & McCoys will be shown in South Africa, as it was in America, in three 2 hour episodes on M-Net Drama & Romance. It stars Kevin Costner as William Hatfield and Bill Paxton as Randolph McCoy and follows the intrigued multi generational, extended family feud between the two families and their legendary saga from just after the American Civil War.

Hatfields & McCoys received a whopping 16 Emmy nominations winning several, one of which for Kevin Costner. The mini-series was History's first scripted TV programming ever.