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Wednesday, June 17, 2020

MultiChoice's Showmax video streamer adds gay content from OUTtv in distribution deal.

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by Thinus Ferreira Showmax has added a revolving carousel of gay content in the form of series and films after signing a distribution d...
Tuesday, June 16, 2020

Netflix orders a second season of its trope-filled South African teen drama series Blood & Water, ensemble cast expected to return.

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by Thinus Ferreira Netflix has renewed its recently released teen drama series, Blood & Water , its Netflix Original drama filmed i...

Netflix signs output production deal to get more Nigerian content from Africa with Mo Abudu; EbonyLife will produce 2 original series along with films and licence more existing content for the video streamer.

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by Thinus Ferreira While TV and film producers in South Africa and across Africa continue to struggle to make contact with Netflix to p...

Jobs bloodbath looming at bloated SABC as South Africa's public broadcaster once again gets ready to shed staffers and wants to cut massive salary bill by R700 million.

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by Thinus Ferreira A bloodbath of job losses is coming for the extremely bloated and severely over-staffed South African public broadca...

Coronavirus: Award ceremonies for 2021's Oscars and BAFTAs both postponed from February to April 2021 because of the Covid-19 pandemic.

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by Thinus Ferreira America's Oscars , the world's most prestigious film awards ceremony, has been postponed from February to 25...

The Bold and the Beautiful to resume production as the first American scripted TV series that starts filming again amidst the global Covid-19 pandemic.

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by Thinus Ferreira The longrunning American daytime soap The Bold and the Beautiful  that shut down alongside the rest of Hollywood wil...
Monday, June 15, 2020

M-Net adds Legacy from Tshedza Pictures as the channel's first locally-produced telenovela, squabbling investment firm family series to debut in September 2020.

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by Thinus Ferreira M-Net (DStv 101) is adding a new locally-produced telenovela, Legacy - the channel's first telenovela - from Se...
Friday, June 12, 2020

eMedia Investments' satellite TV service Openview suddenly loses all TV channels without any explanation.

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by Thinus Ferreira Openview's TV channels suddenly all went off-air on Friday in an as-yet-unexplained problem and flickered back l...

Gareth Cliff in a second TV talk show try will host So What Now? in new e.tv primetime talker.

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by Thinus Ferreira Gareth Cliff is making a TV return 4 years after he was cut loose as a judge from M-Net's Idols and will now be...