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WarnerMedia's upcoming video streaming service will be called HBO Max with a massive raft of Max Originals content; no word on whether HBO Max will be available in South Africa or where viewers will be able to see its new shows.

WarnerMedia on Tuesday announced that its subscription video-on-demand (SVOD) streaming service it plans to launch in autumn-2020 will be called HBO Max with a massive raft of newly-commissioned shows, although there's still no word on whether it will be made available in South Africa and across Africa or where viewers would be able to see the new series. WarnerMedia plans to launch HBO Max
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E!'s Celebrity Game Night game show starts filming this week with Anele Mdoda as presenter; Jason Goliath and Ayanda Thabethe as team captains.

Anele Mdoda will be the presenter of the 10-episode game show, Celebrity Game Night on E! (DStv 124) that will start filming this week with comedian Jason Goliath and presenter Ayanda Thabethe as "team captains". Celebrity Game Night as a local South African version of the American game show, Hollywood Game Night, with the first 10-episode season that will start filming this week in
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SABC fires Thato Sikwane on Tuesday from Metro FM on the same day as DJ Fresh suddenly pops up on news channel Newzroom Afrika on DStv.

The SABC fired the suspended DJ Fresh - real name Thato Sikwane - on Tuesday with immediate effect, dumping him from the South African public broadcaster's Metro FM radio station and slamming him for lying on the same day as he suddenly showed up on the morning show of the South African TV news channel Newzroom Afrika (DStv 405). DJ Fresh who presented Metro FM's Fresh Breakfast show was
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Calls for Moja Love to cancel the Zodwa Wabantu Uncensored show after reality star's shocking homophobic comments on DStv.

Viewers have complained, some have made written complaints to the Broadcasting Complaints Commission of South Africa (BCCSA) and a petition has now been started that already attracted thousands of signatures following the shockingly homophobic comments from the notorious dancer and reality TV star Zondwa Wabantu that was broadcast on MultiChoice's DStv satellite pay-TV service. In the latest
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MultiChoice silent over DStv subscriber asking basic questions; ignores a media enquiry asking why electronic programme guide (EPG) was cut down to 6 days after MultiChoice ripped its customers' TV guide magazine away.

MultiChoice ignored a media enquiry and a DStv customer asking why MultiChoice's DStv guide was cut down to a 6-day electronic programme guide (EPG) after MultiChoice also ripped the print magazine away from DStv Premium subscribers and kykNET and M-Net viewers. MultiChoice didn't bother to respond to a media enquiry, which makes it even less likely that MultiChoice will respond to its DStv
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TV CRITIC's NOTEBOOK. How M-Net's The Voice SA director Darren Hayward once again pushed further in the 3rd season to create true TV pearl spectaculars - an appreciation.

Like strings of impossibly hovering white pearls they suddenly appeared. Dazzling white orbs of light moving through a pitch black, rigging-flanked sky. The very best magicians are the ones capable of pulling off such masterful and seamlessly artful illusions, that you forget that you're being tricked and completely come to believe in the immersively conjured-up world of make-believe they
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6 things we've learned about The Voice SA from M-Net's press conference after the third season finalé.

Following the winner moment on Sunday night when Tasché Burger (19) from Brackenfell in Cape Town was announced as the winner of the third season of The Voice South Africa on M-Net (DStv 101). the channel had a press conference with her, M-Net executives and the show's director. Here are 6 things we learned in response to their answers to the media's questions: 1. The difference between
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