Wednesday, June 21, 2017

THE HOUNDS WILL HOWL AGAIN: SABC2 backtracks, orders return of original 7 Laan theme song; says SABC2 doesn't want viewer-relationship to be 'a one-night stand'.

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The hounds are going to howl again: SABC2 is backtracking on more of the SABC channel's bad decisions in the recent past and has orde...

The Mzansi Viewers' Choice Awards launched; Bonang Matheba the host of the new awards show that will be broadcast live on 26 August on Mzansi Magic.

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M-Net’s Mzansi Magic (DStv 161) channel has created a new South African awards show, the Mzansi Viewers’ Choice Awards that will take pl...
Monday, June 19, 2017

MultiChoice agrees not to advertise films that it doesn't have available on its DStv BoxOffice service.

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MultiChoice has agreed not to broadcast one of its TV commercials on DStv again - an advert touting its DStv BoxOffice service - with fil...
Friday, June 16, 2017

INTERVIEW. Siv Ngesi on M-Net's Wingin It, traveling the world, dealing with jetlag, what he's learnt - and yes - those bum pics.

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Sivuyile Ngesi is South African television's undisputed Energiser bunny - a TV presenter with a six pack and unrivaled energy tha...
Thursday, June 15, 2017

BREAKING. Kenya abruptly bans 6 'pro-gay' kids cartoons on Nickelodeon and Cartoon Network that are allegedly 'glorifying homosexual behaviour'.

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Kenya's censors have abruptly banned 6 alleged "pro-gay" kids cartoons on Nickelodeon (DStv 305) and Cartoon Network (DS...

ANN7 editor-in-chief Moegsien Williams: Flurry of complaints because viewers don't like our 'alternative narrative'; claims SA media 'involved in plot to oust president of the ANC'.

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The Gupta-owned channel ANN7 (DStv 405) carried on MultiChoice's DStv satellite pay-TV platform says the Broadcasting Complaints Comm...
Tuesday, June 13, 2017

ShowMax greenlit first ShowMax Original series, Tali's Wedding Diary from Sketchbook Studios, with Julia Anastasopoulos.

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The video streamer service ShowMax has added a new local production, Tali's Wedding Diary , that's currently filming 8 episodes...
Monday, June 12, 2017

CNN dumps Reza Aslan and the second season of his Believer on CNN International after he calls Donald Trump 'a piece of sh*t'.

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CNN has dumped Reza Aslan and its already announced plans for a second season of Believer on CNN International (DStv 401) with the pres...

BREAKING. SABC1's Yizo Yizo actor Jabu Christopher Kubheka who played Gunman dead after suicide.

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Actor Jabu Christopher Kubheka  (48) who played the role of Gunman on the SABC1 drama Yizo Yizo is dead after a suicide, he was fou...