9 American series renewed for further seasons: Bull, Madam Secretary, Hawaii Five-O, MacGuyver, The Amazing Race, Survivor, Blue Bloods, and NCIS: Los Angeles and NCIS: New Orleans.

The American TV network CBS on Wednesday renewed 9 TV series seen in South African and Africa for further seasons, most of which are broadcast on M-Net (DStv 101).

Further season pick-ups went to Bull that got a 3rd season (M-Net), Madam Secretary got a 5th season (M-Net), NCIS: Los Angeles got a 10th season (M-Net), NCIS: New Orleans got a 5th season, Hawaii Five-O got a 9th season (M-Net), MacGuyver got a 3rd season (M-Net) and Blue Bloods got a 9th season (M-Net).

The Amazing Race seen on The Sony Channel (DStv 127) and SABC3 got a 31th season, and Survivor (SABC3) got picked up for its 37th and 38th seasons.

These shows joins the already renewed Young Sheldon (M-Net), The Big Bang Theory (M-Net and SABC3), Mom (M-Net), NCIS (M-Net and The Universal Channel), SEAL Team (M-Net and S.W.A.T (M-Net).

Still waiting for possible renewal news are Elementary (M-Net), Criminal Minds (M-Net City), Scorpion (M-Net), Code Black (M-Net), Kevin Can Wait (M-Net) - with one or more or all that could be cancelled due to low and falling ratings.

Advertising Standards Authority slams MultiChoice for promoting old shows as 'brand new'; orders DStv to stop misleading claims over old content.

The Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) has ordered MultiChoice to stop telling DStv subscribers a TV show is new when recycled shows pushed to other DStv channels are actually old.

The ASA found in favour of a DStv subscriber who complained that DStv was describing the American sitcom Mom as new "when it was old content that is being repeated for the umpteenth time" on Naspers' satellite pay-TV service.

The ASA ordered MultiChoice to withdraw the claim that Mom, starting its 3rd season on is new.

DStv subscriber Alison Job lodged a complaint against DStv at the Advertising Standards Authority that a "so-called brand new series of Doc Martin" on ITV Choice (DStv 123) was also old and recycled TV content.

MultiChoice in its defense argued that the ASA "does not have jurisdiction over this complaint as it relates to programming publicity" and that the "promos were not misleading".

MultiChoice also argued that Mom was previously only shown on M-Net (DStv 101) and that the on-air promo on DStv was announcing that Mom was coming to Viacom International Media Networks Africa's Comedy Central (DStv 122) channel for the first time.

Because the 3rd season of Mom was on Comedy Central for the first time and because DStv subscribers who don't have access to M-Net as a DStv Premium subscription channel, MultiChoice said Mom was indeed "brand new" to these subscribers.

The ASA in its ruling slammed MultiChoice and said that "one would not expect the label 'brand new' to be applied to a show that has been available in South Africa since 2013".

"In the second place‚ the claim makes no reference to the channel. The words 'only on [Comedy Central]' further aggravate the matter," the ASA found.

"By making this statement, the implication is that this is the only channel to ever air this 'brand new' season."

"In fact‚ these old seasons have been aired on at least one other channel‚ if not more. They are also‚ most likely‚ available as DVDs," the ASA said.

The ASA found that the MultiChoice claim "Mom 3 brand new season, Tuesday only on Comedy Central" is misleading.

The ASA said said MultiChoice isn't allowed to make misleading claims in programming publicity.