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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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The MultiChoice Group has added Jabu Mabuza as a non-executive director to the pay-TV company's board, along with the United Kingdom health consultant, Dr Fatai Adegboyega Sanusi. In a statement issued on the Stock Exchange News Service (SENS), the MultiChoice board said that their appointments were effective from 5 July, 2019. Jabu Mabuza is already chairperson of the boards of the

M-Net (DStv 101) has added the 5th season of the British Love Island reality show from Monday night on weeknights at 23:10, following a new set of islanders living it up in a villa looking for love, ranging from a hunky firefighter to a sexy surfer girl and even an good-on-the-eye "eyelash technician". Unlike the 4th season that M-Net broadcast a week after the United Kingdom, the broadcast

SABC3 and Capitec bank is doing a new reality show entitled The Next Brand Ambassador, and is now seeking 12 contestants from across South Africa to live together in a Cape Town house where they will be put through their paces in various challenges and whittled down to become the new face of the bank. According to the producers, The Next Brand Ambassador will bring a new level of must-watch

Tasché Burger (19) from Brackenfell in Cape Town was announced as the winner of the third season of The Voice South Africa on Sunday night on M-Net (DStv 101). Tasché Burger won a recording contract from Universal Music South Africa, a Toyota RAV4 as well as other prizes. Sunday's The Voice SA finale,  produced by BlackSwanMedia with director-producer Darren Hayward based on the

The Disney Channel star (DStv 303) Cameron Boyce has died. He was 20. Boyce appeared on The Disney Channel’s Jessie between 2011 to 2015, and also made appearance on a range of other Disney shows ranging from Liv and Maddie and BUNK’D to Austin & Ally and played the character of Carlos in the Descendants Disney films as well as Conor in the Disney XD (DStv 304) series, Gamer’s Guide to

The 7th annual SharkFest kicks off on Nat Geo WILD (Dstv 182 / StarSat 262 / Cell C black 221) today, that instead of a week will now roll out shark-themed programming over 3 weeks until the end of July. Nat Geo WILD starts its 2019 SharkFest with When Sharks Attack on Saturday, 6 July at 18:00 that has 6 episodes broadcast in 2 episodes at a time. Experts try explain why Florida’s coastline

Amazon Studios has acquired the filmmaker Juan Antonio (J.A.) Bayona to direct the first two episodes of its upcoming as-yet-untitled The Lord of the Rings TV series based on JRR Tolkien's fantasy novel series. J.A. Bayona will also serve as an executive producer, alongside his partner Belén Atienza. Amazon Studios' Lord of the Rings fantasy drama series will be set during the Second Age and

Netflix will cut down on showing characters smoking in series following complaints and has agreed to limit showing tobacco use in especially younger-skewing programmes, except for "reasons of historical or factual accuracy". Putting cigarettes back in puffing characters' hands was one of the things the global video streaming did to show how it's programming is edgy and how its service is

M-Net (DStv 101) and The Voice South Africa revealed the line-up of the big guest stars for Sunday's third season live finalé on 7 July which will include Laurika Rauch, Judith Sepuma, Jo Black, Roan Ash, Timothy Moloi and Caroline-Grace Brüssow, along with a The Voice SA red carpet broadcast starting at around 16:30. Sunday's The Voice SA finale starting at 17:30, produced by BlackSwanMedia

Mark Stone is being moved from Brussels to the Middle East where he will become Sky News' (DStv 402) new Middle East correspondent, while Adam Parsons is being dispatched to Brussels to replace him. Mark Stone who has been a news reporter at Sky News since 2007 and been at Sky since 2005 as a producer, has been covering the European Union (EU) for the past four years from Brussels. Adam

Like how Julia Roberts' character walked back into the Rodeo Drive shop and said "big mistake", Robert Marawa has just launched his own sports interview channel on YouTube after he was fired by SuerSport. With one of the biggest contact lists in sports, Robert Marawa will now do his own sports content with the MarawaTV channel on YouTube that has already over 10 000 subscribers less than a

It's not impossible, it's not a first, but it is extremely rare and next week you'll see a unicorn on kykNET. Next week not one but two brand-new locally-produced TV series starts on MultiChoice's Afrikaans channel from M-Net, that co-incidentally are both extremely well-done. While the debut of an excellent TV show happens from time to time across a range of premium TV channels, it's

Erin Bates is the next TV reporter to exit eNCA (DStv 403) shortly after Leigh-Anne Jansen resigned last week and the axing of Tonight with Jane Dutton. eNCA on Thursday in response to a media enquiry confirmed to TVwithThinus that Bates is gone after a year and 9 months and that Jansen decided to leave. On Thursday morning on social media Erin Bates wrote that "Yesterday was my last day of

Econet's Kwesé has been placed into administration with the African pay-TV operator's Kwesé Play streaming service that abruptly shut down and stopped working, with no word how its growing financial troubles will affect South Africa's just awarded Kwesé Free TV licence that is supposed to be the country's new free-to-air TV channel and in which Econet Media has a 20% stake. Kwesé CEO Joseph

South Africa is losing the accomplished and well-liked BBC Studios Africa boss, Joel Churcher, who is returning to the United Kingdom after half a decade in Johannesburg, with the change coming as part of a broader top executive reorganisation at BBC Studios for the region that South Africa and Africa forms part of. It doesn't appear as if BBC Studios top brass in London have plans to appoint

An epic Cape clash awaits in the 3rd season finale of The Voice South Africa on M-Net (DStv 101) as the Western Cape's Cape Town metropole will go head-to-head with the Eastern Cape's Port Elizabeth to see who will deliver the winner in Sunday's night's live season finalé. Voting closes on Thursday night at 22:00 with one of the five remaining talent all coming from the Western and Eastern

The Hot Zone is a spine-chilling and scary new 6-episode drama series on National Geographic (DStv 181 / StarSat 220 / Cell C black 261) about the discovery in 1989 of the arrival of the deadly Ebola virus in the United States and could have been a lot scarier if the factual programming channel strayed from real-live events. National Geographic's new drama series - based on Richard Preston's

M-Net (DStv 101) has acquired the upcoming parody-drama series, BH90210, TVwithThinus has learnt, with the series that will reunite on-screen the former cast of the 1990's American drama series Beverly Hills, 90210. The new BH90210, produced by CBS Television Studios and distributed by CBS Studios International, will start on 7 August in the United States on FOX, although an exact broadcast

If you thought there were going to be reams and reams of detailed, timeous stories as well as comprehensive reporting from the group of journalists from across Africa who went on a week-long TV tour with MultiChoice to Lagos, Nigeria to cover the launch of the 4th season of Big Brother Naija, you thought wrong - and haven't been keeping track of the trash level of what's passing as (non)

The inside of the camera-house at the studio lot in Lagos, Nigeria used for the 4th season of Big Brother Naija pops with the four vibrant colours of green, blue, red and yellow - just like Google and board games. The decor inside the Big Brother Naija house all relate to the three primary colours and yellow as a secondary colour - because just like Ludo as a strategic board game, Big Brother

The Lebashe Investment Group has acquired the media, broadcasting and content group, Tiso Blackstar Holdings for R1.05 billion. The sale includes its stable of TV channels under its Blackstar TV division like The Home Channel (DStv 176), Ignition (DStv 189) and Business Day TV (DStv 412) that are available on MultiChoice's DStv satellite pay-TV service, as well as its TV production division,

Netflix has released new stills and the first poster art for its upcoming live-action drama series adaptation of The Witcher with Henry Cavill in the role of Geralt. Besides Henry Cavill, The Witcher also has Anya Cholatra as sorceress Yennefer and Freya Allan as Princess Ciri as the other two lead characters. The series is filming on location in Hungary. The Witcher, based on the fantasy

Viacom Africa's kids brand Nickelodeon (DStv 305) is getting ready for this upcoming weekend's first-ever NickFest Live! South Africa concert - a new and different format to the NickFest festival that it rolled out before. The 2019 NickFest Live! South Africa is taking place on Saturday and Sunday 6 and 7 July at the Ticketpro Dome in Johannesburg, and is a departure from the NickFest that

UPDATE -Wednesday 3 July 13:20: YouTube has reached out to say that the article and information reported below, as from a press release issued yesterday, isn't all correct. When there is updated, correct information, a new article will be added here as a (2), and above what is now marked (1) below, and TVwithThinus will also do a separate, new report on this specific news: (1) YouTube is

The veteran star reporter Leigh-Anne Jansen is the latest high-profile talent to leave eNCA (DStv 403) TVwithThinus has learnt. eNCA didn't respond to a media enquiry asking about Leigh-Anne Jansen's upcoming exit but sources on Friday said that the high-calibre journalist had decided to leave the eMedia Investments' news channel that is produced for MultiChoice's DStv satellite pay-TV service

The 4th season of MultiChoice Africa and M-Net West Africa's Big Brother Naija reality show started on Sunday night on DStv channel 198, shown across Sub-Saharan Africa including South Africa with the theme of "Pepper Dem", and including contestants ranging from a male stripper and a lawyer to a music video vixen and someone working as a police officer in London. The 4th season, produced from

Somaliland, an autonomous region of Somalia in East Africa has abruptly banned and censored two privately-owned TV stations in the capital of Hargeisa - Horyaal 24 TV and Eryal TV - indefinitely, with both that have been taken off air. Somaliland's minister of information, Mohamed Muse Dirie, who is actually a censorship boss, ordered Horyaal 24 TV and Eryal TV to stop broadcasting in