TOLDJA! M-Net Series Zone on DStv changes its name to M-Net City as M-Net finally drops 'M-Net Series' as a brand name after 17 years.

M-Net which has been phasing it out is finally dropping the 'M-Net Series' brand name after 17 years, renaming and rebranding the last remaining M-Net Series Zone (DStv 115) as the "new" M-Net City.

M-Net City as a name for a M-Net channel was first conceived of in the latter part of 2010 already although for another type of channel. It will now be used as M-Net Series Zone's new name.

TV with Thinus was first to report on the coming M-Net Series Zone name change recently.

M-Net went back and dusted off its old 2010 plans for a new M-Net channel launch in 2011 which would have been called M-Net City on DStv with an emphasis on local shows and South African content - an idea which was eventually abandoned. 

However, the M-Net City name found new favour and was resurrected from the dead in a new marketing and rebranding overhaul of M-Net Series Zone which no longer needs to be saddled with such a long moniker.

M-Net Series Zone existed to differentiate it from the shortlived M-Net Series Showcase and M-Net Series Reality - both floundering channels M-Net quickly cancelled due to under performance in 2014 after just a year and which were replaced with M-Net Edge and VUZU AMP.

With only M-Net Series Zone remaining it was decided to finally dump "M-Net Series" for a shorter name.

Since thought and planning already went into the name of M-Net City a few years ago, M-Net decided to use this name.

M-Net calls M-Net City "new" although it will essentially remain the same channel, geared towards giving MultiChoice's lower-paying DStv subscribers access to content shown earlier on higher-tiered packages like DStv Premium.

M-Net City will remain a "rerun" channel of sorts, funneling content from premium M-Net channels like M-Net (DStv 101), VUZU AMP and the M-Net Movies channels to M-Net City.

While M-Net kept movies contained on its M-Net Movies branded channels on DStv, M-Net City will now show movies too. No explanation for the addition of movies to M-Net City is being given.

M-Net Series Zone will change to M-Net City on 6 April with programming like Modern Family, Last Man Standing and talk shows.

M-Net is spinning the constant adjustment and umpteenth name and brand overhaul for M-Net Series Zone as well as the termination of the "M-Net Series" name as a good thing for subscribers who are already struggling to keep up with channels, channel names, what they're about and where on DStv to find them.

"M-Net City is proof of the company's commitment to continuously evaluate, adjust and reshuffle channel offerings in line with the ever-changing needs of viewers," says Yolisa Phahle, M-Net CEO.

"Now we have created M-Net City, a new channel that will enhance DStv Compact viewers' experience of international content."

M-Net started The Series Channel in April 1998 on DStv, which morphed a decade later in 2008 into The M-Net Series channel.

The M-Net Series channel was split into three channels in July 2013 - M-Net Series Showcase, M-Net Series Reality and M-Net Series Zone.

The floundering ratings and under-performance of the channels saw M-Net Series Showcase and M-Net Series Reality closed down just over a year later in September 2014. That left M-Net Series Zone as the sole M-Net Series channel.

In January 2015 when asked whether M-Net Series Zone on DStv will be undergoing a name change - since there's no longer a need for the very long "M-Net Series Zone" qualifier - and since TV channels prefer as short names as possible from a branding and optics point of view - several M-Net insiders told TV with Thinus that a name change was indeed being considered. 

M-Net says M-Net City will have a schedule that follows:

Weekdays between 17:00 and 19:00 – the evening's entertainment will kick off with popular talk shows;

Weekdays at 19:00 and 19:30 – it's family comedy time;

Weekdays at 20:00 and 21:00 – the heroes and heroines of the best international action and crime series will take over the screen;

Saturdays and Sundays – M-Net City will bring viewers a variety of movies in early prime time, and from 19:30 it will follow the successful example of M-Net Edge with weekend binge sessions.

The end of 'M-Net Series' on DStv after 17 years: M-Net gets ready to name change M-Net Series Zone as the last remaining M-Net Series channel.

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M-Net will finally do away with, and end the "M-Net Series" brand after 17 years on MultiChoice's DStv satellite pay-TV platform.

M-Net started The Series Channel in April 1998 on DStv, which morphed a decade later in 2008 into The M-Net Series channel.

The M-Net Series channel was split into three channels in July 2013 - M-Net Series Showcase, M-Net Series Reality and M-Net Series Zone.

The floundering ratings and under-performance of the channels saw M-Net Series Showcase and M-Net Series Reality closed down just over a year later in September 2014.

M-Net Edge was started on DStv, leaving M-Net Series Zone (DStv 115) as the sole M-Net Series channel.

In January 2015 when asked whether M-Net Series Zone on DStv will be undergoing a name change - since there's no longer a need for the very long "M-Net Series Zone" qualifier and TV channels prefer as short names as possible from a branding and optics point of view - several M-Net insiders told TV with Thinus that a name change was indeed being considered. 

Now insiders said M-Net Series Zone as the last permutation of a "M-Net Series" channel will be rebranded and name changed. 

The channel and its channel proposition as a catch-up destination for shows on MultiChoice's DStv will remain, but under a new name. 

It means the end of "M-Net Series" as part of a TV channel name and several channel logo and branding permutations on DStv after 17 years.

BREAKING. The Queen Latifah Show on e.tv and M-Net Series Zone cancelled after two seasons.

The Queen Latifah Show, seen in South Africa on e.tv and M-Net Series Zone (DStv 115) which are both broadcasting the current second season, just got cancelled - abruptly.

The syndicated American daytime show produced by Sony Pictures Television and not even yet in the middle of its second season will shut down production at the end of December. Staff were told on Friday.

It's was Queen Latifah's second attempt at a TV talk show.

Although ratings were bad and cancellation feared, nobody expected The Queen Latifah Show to cease so suddenly. New episodes will continue to be shown until the end of March 2015 but will all be recorded before the talk show shuts down just before Christmas.

It creates an immediate hole 4 months from now for the M-Net Series Zone and e.tv schedules with programmers at e.tv and M-Net who will have to do some unexpected work in finding a replacement show.

At e.tv's spring programming preview last week the South African broadcaster played a specially recorded message from Queen Latifah for the South African media and TV critics

"We want to thank Queen Latifah, the producers and the entire staff of The Queen Latifah Show for creating a program that we are all very proud of," says Sony Pictures Television said in a statement.

"The most important thing in life is that you wake up every single day and take chances. No matter what the outcome…believe in yourself and continue to fly," says Queen Latifah.

As the 3 M-Net Series channels on DStv turn one year old today, a look back and a look forward, as another 'complete overhaul' awaits.

The set of three M-Net Series channel that pay-TV broadcaster M-Net supplies to MultiChoice's DStv pay-TV platform turns one year old today - 9 July.

And while M-Net Series' first birthday in its current channels format is a cause for celebration for pay-TV viewers who are getting to see more overseas TV shows (and faster), there's also strong indications that the subset of channels are in for yet another major redo before long.

M-Net Series which started out as just one channel - showing retro-television - could possibly even go back to being just one M-Net Series channel, and possibly even with a new name, like, for instance M-Net Atlantic.

Before TV with Thinus looks forward to what the future could hold for M-Net Series, lets first look back to its past.

The M-Net Series channels of course have a storied legacy, and whatever changes might come in the months ahead, the one thing that remains is that the aim has been, and will be, to bring more and better series television to South African pay-TV viewers.

M-Net Series is the still in existence M-Net supplied TV channel to DStv which has gone through the most changes since The Series Channel, then with an all yellow and black look, started as a retro-TV channel showing Little House of the Prairie and Mary Tyler Moore.

While the Soap channel, ActionX, K All-Day, GO, MK and others came and fell away and morphed into other content pipes, The Series Channel changed and changed and changed but endured.

With numerous on-air and channel proposition changes over the almost past two decades M-Net Series has allowed South African pay-TV subscribers to see more foreign television - especially American TV - which simply couldn't (and still cannot) be accomodated on just one channel like M-Net.

That's its big strength - added value - and will remain its strength going forward irrespective of what guise M-Net Series might be taking on next.

The split into three channels of M-Net Series a year ago allowed the funneling of even more TV content to viewers. Although there's more content for viewers than ever before, there's been things that haven't been working.

The name of M-Net Series Reality (DStv 114) doesn't really tell viewers all of what is on this channel, like its heavy (and good) American talk show offering.

Likewise M-Net Series Zone (DStv 115) appears to have been a misfire - a channel derided by DStv subscribers when it launched as largely a knock-off rerun channel.

To their credit M-Net executives went to the ER to quickly try and beef up the channel with better shows and a better programming and scheduling structure.

A year later it doesn't seem to have been working - or at least viewer response isn't what it should be or should have been, sources have been saying for months. Therefore the writing might very well be on the wall for M-Net Series Zone as a TV channel which has not been performing to expectation, despite ongoing improvements over th.e past year by M-Net.

With the M-Net Series channels turning one, TV with Thinus asked M-Net about the channels' future.

It comes amid ongoing talk and word doing the rounds the past two months that M-Net Series is in for a "relaunch" or "rebrand" before the end of this year.

In fact, M-Net told all staff at the Randburg-based pay-TV broadcaster that M-Net Series requires "a complete overhaul" and according to various sources, viewers could possibly see the result of that complete overhaul implemented by possibly late September to October.

"These three channels have increased the viewership of international shows - our objective with launching the channels a year ago," says Yolisa Phahle, M-Net's CEO for South Africa, when asked how M-Net feels about the performance of the three M-Net Series channels after a year.

Asked what worked, what surprised and what worked less well, Yolisa Phahle says that "reality programming is increasing in popularity. We still believe that there are great series that people are not watching and we are working on ideas to fix this".

"The three channel strategy has delivered increased viewership and each M-Net Series channel has contributed to this in different ways," says Yolisa Phahle.

"M-Net Series Reality speaks to one psychographic, M-Net Series Showcase to another and M-Net Series Zone has given DStv Compact viewers new drama content, but we feel still that we can improve awareness around new content," she says.

And how has the channels enabled M-Net to bring more content and quicker to viewers? Yolisa Phahle says M-Net has managed to bring content to viewers much faster than before.

So, what does the future hold for the M-Net Series channels? Of course the ongoing development and changes of a specific TV channel (especially when its part of an overall group) should never be seen in isolation.

You can't, because its all part of an integrated network of content - where very decision and change affects the entire content ecosystem.

It's TV with Thinus' understanding that one - or even two - of the M-Net Series channels, possibly M-Net Series Zone and M-Net Series Reality could perhaps be closed down, discontinued, or morphed into, or their content folded into, other channels like the possible start of a second Vuzu channel like Vuzu Amp.

I asked this and if there would be a rebranding, and whether there's been talk, discussions or plans about possible M-Net Series closures, but for now Yolisa Phahle didn't want to be drawn about this.

What looks certain however is that the M-Net Series channel or channels will not be looking the same at this time next year.

So where does that leave M-Net Series Showcase? Well, M-Net Series Showcase, the premium channel of the three, could possibly be rebranded to something like M-Net Atlantic, similar to BSkyB's Sky Atlantic TV channel.

Sky Atlantic specialises in showing only high-quality, premium American TV shows. Given how M-Net follows the BSkyB model, which it did for its M-Net Movies channels, a M-Net Atlantic type channel seems a possibility.

"We believe we have the best variety of drama and reality and will continue to work to improve the viewer experience," says Yolisa Phahle when asked what M-Net wants to say to viewers about the M-Net Series channels being on-air for a year now.

The coming months will tell and show exactly how the set of M-Net Series channels will change. For now, there's one candle on the cake to celebrate a birthday - a year of more TV shows and more content the past year than what viewers had before.

With 'room for improvement' the M-Net Series Zone channel on DStv is adding drama to give viewers a bigger variety of content.

M-Net Series Zone (DStv 115) - the snubbed and somewhat-stepchild of the M-Net Series trio of channels - is getting attention and content improvement to help lift the underperforming entertainment channel from M-Net on DStv's satellite pay-TV platform.

When M-Net Series split to become three channels on MultiChoice's DStv service in July 2013, DStv subscribers on lower bouquets were instantly - and justifiably - very upset about the perceived "downgrade".

TV shows and series that they were able to watch on M-Net Series as a single channel, suddenly disappeared with the launch of M-Net Series Zone - the TV channel they now had access to.

M-Net responded swiftly to the criticism to return and make available on M-Net Series Zone the TV series and programmes viewers on lower DStv bouquets were busy watching.

Since July 2013, grumblings about the channel proposition and offering of M-Net Series Zone has however continued - although not as vocal as during the flare-up just after launch when DStv subscribers demanded immediate corrective steps.

M-Net Series Zone viewers and DStv subscribers continued to feel that M-Net Series Zone is no longer a must-watch destination TV channel, that shows that should be on it no longer are shown, that the scheduling is problematic, that the programming is erratic and obtuse (seemingly random omnibus repeats littered the schedule), and that shows took too long to appear on the schedule.

Viewers voted with their eyeballs and M-Net Series Zone viewership sagged and lagged - something M-Net is trying to fix.

M-Net Series Zone has started to make changes both to the programming and scheduling, as well as the tempo of rolling out shows on M-Net Series Zone - the kind of shows, and how quickly they're going to be shown, as part of a refocused effort to improve the channel.

TV with Thinus asked M-Net whether M-Net Series Zone is being "revamped" or "restructured" as a TV channel in terms of improving the offering on on-air content and how soon its being shown after being on M-Net (DStv 101) and M-Net Series Showcase (DStv 113).

"M-Net is constantly looking at ways to improve our channels with compelling new content and more great shows," says Pierre Cloete, director of the M-Net and M-Net Series channels.

"Recently, we ascertained that M-Net Series Zone needed more drama series to give viewers a bigger variety of content. The shows are still being broadcast on M-Net Series Zone after their screenings on M-Net or M-Net Series Showcase, but within the first pay-TV window, making it 'first' to DStv Compact viewers," says Pierre Cloete.

Asked whether it's correct to say that M-Net Series Zone has not been performing to expectation or not performing in terms of the viewership that M-Net or DStv would have wanted to, he says that "it's true that there's room for improvement".

"We want to grow audiences on M-Net Series Zone as much as possible," says Pierre Cloete.

"We think M-Net Series Zone is an excellent TV channel with the very best shows from the United States".

"We have made scheduling improvements such as adding an additional drama slot at 19:30 and we are also embarking on a new marketing drive and campaign to promote the great content on the channel and to entice potential viewers to try out the channel".

BREAKING. M-Net Series Zone on DStv simplifying its schedule, making more international shows available to other DStv bouquets quicker.

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M-Net Series Zone (DStv 115) is revamping the channel's programming schedule, making more international TV shows available quicker for DStv subscribers to the DStv Compact Plus, DStv Compact and DStv Extra bouquets.

The changes to M-Net Series Zone will be introduced from Monday 3 February.

"This is indeed great news for M-Net Series Zone viewers," says Lani Lombard, M-Net's head of publicity.

"For example, series such as The Following and Under the Dome, whose first seasons will air on M-Net Series Zone from February, were audience favourites on M-Net (DStv 101) on DStv Premium last year."

"If you haven't seen it yet, this will give you the opportunity yo catch-up on some magical TV. Furthermore the new schedule structure will make it easier for you to know in which timeslot you will find your favourite type of show."

Drama series will now be shown in double-bill episodes on weekdays at 21:00 and 22:00, for instance:

Mondays - The Mentalist V
Tuesdays - CSI XIII
Wednesdays - Hawaii Five O III
Thursdays - The Following I
Fridays - Under the Dome I

Will M-Net's best series from now on be on the M-Net channel or on M-Net Series Showcase? More M-Net Series channels possible? M-Net answers.

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The new expansion of M-Net Series from today into the channels trifecta of M-Net Series Showcase (DStv 113), M-Net Series Reality (DStv 114) and M-Net Series Zone (DStv 115) creates a new dynamic in South African television as it broadens the overall available premium landscape.

Besides M-Net (DStv 101) as a high definition (HD) premium, destination-viewing, appointment-television, TV channel showing first-run shows "hot on the heels" of American broadcasting date series, M-Net Series Showcase (DStv 113) now in every way offers the very same channel proposition.

High-def? Check. Premium channel? Check. Destination-viewing, appointment television, "hot on the heels" broadcasting dates close to American airdates? Check, check, check.

Which means that M-Net Series Showcase is now, although its a sibling, in direct competition for that best helping of more hot and delicious food left on the dining room table at dinner.

So, how will viewers know whether a hot new high-buzz show or series will be on M-Net (DStv 101) first, or whether it will be on M-Net Series Showcase (DStv 113) first?

Does M-Net keep a must-get, must-have show on M-Net (DStv 101) to entrench and continue to symbolise its legacy bluechip status under the now ever-growing plethora of M-Net produced TV channels?

Or does M-Net allocate core quality series to M-Net Series Showcase, thereby slightly diluting the M-Net (DStv 101) channel, but adding cache, lure and ballast to M-Net Series Showcase (DStv 113) to signify and  grow the image of its premium status in viewers' and DStv subscribers' minds?

M-Net Series Showcase is launching with a massive menagerie of must-watch, premium television in high definition - an astounding avalanche of breathtaking TV content. Will it remain this way? I asked M-Net whether strong and premium TV shows are going to end up on M-Net Series Showcase exclusively which might previously have been on the M-Net channel.

"M-Net 101 will remain the flagship TV channel in the M-Net stable," says the Randburg-based pay-TV broadcaster, "and will broadcast the absolute 'best of the best' ".

"Adding to the amazing shows on M-Net 101, the new channels will allow more creative scheduling, that will amplify the way viewers can enjoy their TV series."

So how will a viewer or DStv subscriber be able to judge or guess instantly what would always be an M-Net show in terms of a series, and what would be a M-Net Series Showcase show? "M-Net 101 is where the biggest blockbuster shows can be found," M-Net tells TV with Thinus. "M-Net Series Showcase will complement the M-Net 101 scheduling."

"As viewers have different tastes, their most beloved series will be either on M-Net or M-Net Series Showcase. But having more than one channel allows us to have more top-notch content."

With the new M-Net Series channels template - a subset "grid" similar to the M-Net Movies brand which was commercially launched in October 2012, M-Net is now piping TV series loosely graded on a matrix according to genre, quality and time. Why did M-Net decide to do it?

The pay-TV broadcaster says "the world of television is dynamic and ever-changing and we review and adapt our content strategies continually. Whatever we do, it will always be for the convenience - and needs of - our multitude of audiences".

The M-Net Series template - similar to the M-Net Movies kaleidoscope of channels which already expanded beyond its original channel group launch with the start of the M-Net Movies Zone channel recently - is clearly also expandable. Could there be more M-Net Series channels in the future, possibly grouped around a specific genre or type of series?

"It is too early to predict the future of more M-Net Series channels at this stage," says M-Net, "but the way the channels are structured will make it easy to add more channels, if required."


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Green! Silver! Purple! What the colours of the new M-Net Series channels trifecta on television really mean and signify.

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M-Net's massive new expansion comes into effect today: the lineation of the singular M-Net Series channel into a trifecta of tiered channels for the M-Net Series brand: M-Net Series Showcase (DStv 113), M-Net Series Reality (DStv 114) and M-Net Series Zone (DStv 115).

But what do the colours of the individual new M-Net Series channels signify and invoke? Why is M-Net Series Showcase green? Why is M-Net Series Reality silver? Why is M-Net Series Zone purple?

I asked, and the pay-TV broadcaster who supplies the channels to MultiChoice's DStv satellite pay-TV platform, is explaining the rationale behind the look of the various new M-Net Series channel offerings.

"Three very different colours were chosen to depict the personality of the M-Net Series channels," says M-Net.

"The green colour of M-Net Series Showcase will remind viewers of the freshness of the content and the greath 'wealth' of great characters to be found on the channel,"says M-Net.

"The silver colour of M-Net Series Reality ties into the sparkle of reality shows and signals the positive attitude of the channel and content."

"The purple colour of M-Net Series Zone symbolises the passion which series lovers demonstrate and will remind fans that they will be able to watch their favourites in a condensed time frame," says M-Net.


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FINALLY HATCHED. M-Net Series, M-Net's second channel cluster brand name finally breaks out of its shell; now finally able to grow and soar.

With M-Net Series - once the home of Mary Tyler Moore reruns (we still love you, Mary), The Wonder Years and Little House on the Prairie when it started on MultiChoice's DStv - now finally pecking through its shell in a transformative expansion event, the M-Net Series brand within the realm of subscription television in South Africa and Africa is finally released from its confined existence and able to grow.

Earlier today M-Net at its media roadshow in Durban that the existing M-Net Series channel is expanding and folding out from 9 July on DStv into a trio of channels - a premium M-Net Series Showcase channel which will be in high definition (HD), as well as M-Net Series Reality for "conversational reality" shows, and a M-Net Series Zone, a rerun type channel giving viewers who haven't seen a show or season to catch up.

Not only do the new M-Net Series channel logos (above) share a striking resemblance to the flip folder "mini bouquet" of M-Net Movies channels rolled out by the South African pay-TV broadcaster in October last year, it also ties and brings the existing M-Net Series channel as well as the new channel expansions closer in terms of brand look to the blue ribbon device M-Net mothership. M-Net Series is an M-Net product - and don't you forget it.

Similar to the many more M-Net Movies channels in existence - M-Net Movies Zone which was just added and with M-Net Movies Showcase and M-Net Movies Zone now both sharing channel moniker suffixes with M-Net Series channels - its tantalisingly clear, although still speculative, that even more M-Net Series channels could possibly be added by M-Net and DStv in the future.

Mmm. How about a M-Net Series Sci-Fi, the absence of which I just lamented?

The more structured and "zoned" approach for M-Net Series as a brand and as separate content pipes is a great thing and a natural evolution for both M-Net as well as DStv.

Pay-TV subscribers to services like MultiChoice's DStv want channels where the channel proposition is clearly defined, metered and provides a satisfying viewer pay-off. (Some channels are not - History is for instance more "Ancient Aliens Channel" thesedays.).

M-Net Series Reality will for instance, like CBS Reality, provide a buffet of all-you-can-eat reality shows falling within a certain niche if you look closely. M-Net calls it "conversational reality shows". The channel will now also be carrying all the talk shows.

More M-Net Series channels also means the possibility that more foreign TV shows can be shown quicker and closer to the American and British broadcasting dates - the TV series plate which is now bigger can now carry more content.

With M-Net Series "set free" so to speak, the gain is for the South African TV viewer. Although currently the gain is in essence only one channel - since M-Net Series really only changed into M-Net Series Showcase and M-Net Series Reality was added (M-net Series Zone is a rerun channel) - the beginning of M-Net Series branching out, is a welcome start.

BREAKING. M-Net Series channel finally going HD on MultiChoice's DStv; M-Net Series expanding as a channel subset with Reality and Zone.

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The long-gestating plan to turn the M-Net Series (DStv 114) channel into a high definition (HD) TV channel on MultiChoice's DStv satellite pay-TV platform and to expand the M-Net Series brand into an expanded TV channels subset is finally happening with M-Net Series turning into M-Net Series Showcase as an HD channel, and M-Net Series Reality and M-Net Series Zone being added as two further standard definition (SD) TV channels.

TV industry insiders knowledgeable about the M-Net Series plans and TV with Thinus have steadily tracked it, and today the pay-TV broadcaster made it official by revealed the major upgrade to its M-Net Series channel brand.

The flagship M-Net Series channel will change to M-Net Series Showcase in name and become a HD channel on the new DStv channel number 113, M-Net Series Reality will show reality shows on channel  115 and M-Net Series Zone on channel 114 will be a rerun channel with previously shown seasons of shows seen on the M-Net channel and elsewhere.

The channels will go live on 9 July on DStv during the primetime evening. DStv Premium subscribers will get all three M-Net Series channels. DStv Compact subscribers will get M-Net Series Zone.

M-Net Series has been on a constant evolutionary change since the channel - provided by M-Net to MultiChoice - started as The Series Channel on DStv showing only old library titles of American shows similar to TopTV's Fox Retro channel.

At M-Net's media roadshow currently underway at the Fairmont Zimbali Resort in Durban, M-Net talked about the upcoming changes.

Plans more than a year ago to turn M-Net Series into a high definition (HD) channel and to start further additional M-Net Series channels on the DStv bouquet which went through various permutations and was postponed in favour of first launching, extending and structurally realigning M-Net movie channel offering under the M-Net Movies umbrella and boosting DStv's movie channel offering in the process.

Now the M-Net Series channel is following the same pattern, also with a showcase channel and additional channels.

M-Net Series Showcase on channel 113 will have Defiance I, True Blood VI, Castle V, Criminal Minds VIII, The Carrie Diaries, Pretty Little Liars III, Mad Men VI, Army Wives VIII, Teen Wolf II, Grimm I and Supernatural VIII.

M-Net Series Reality will have "the best conversational reality series depicting real talent, real people and real stories on channel 115. Shows on this channel will be Real Housewives of New York, Real Housewives of Orange County, Junior MasterChef II, Life After Top Chef, America's Got Talent, The Face I, Ready for Love I and Fashion Star.

M-Net Series Reality will also be the channel carrying the talk shows from now on.

The schedule for M-Net Series Zone has not been locked down yet I'm told but the channel on channel 114 will "offer the best in uninterrupted bundled episodes of series' that viewers may have missed."


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