Press Release: Netflix Announces Live Action Scooby-Doo Series

The eight-episode show goes back to the haunting case that started it all.
Half a century, three theatrical films, and more than a dozen animated series later, Scooby-Doo remains one of pop culture’s most recognizable and entertaining characters. But few people know about how the cowardly dog and his mystery-solving gang first got together. In a new series, showrunners Josh Appelbaum and Scott Ros…

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Warner Bros. Discovery Was Rumoured To Be Selling Off The Looney Tunes, Could This Affect Cartoon Network?

According to a report on ComingSoon.net, Warner Bros. Discovery is looking to sell Looney Tunes, one of its oldest IPs as the company looks to prioritise family and adult programming moving forward. In light of this, Warner Bros. Discovery has remained hush hush on the matter.
But it should be worth noting, Cartoon Network had cancelled Tiny Toons Looniversity and Bugs Bunny Builders after two sea…

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Entertainment Upgraded!!! MultiChoice Extends Comedy Central To DStv Family With Nicktoons To DStv Access

South African DStv subscribers will have access to a whole lot more fun and laughter following the addition of NickToons to the satellite service’s Access package and Comedy Central Africa to the Family package, effective from 1 April 2025.
This development means existing subscribers will now be able to watch the fan favourite premium programming exclusive to these two Paramount Africa channels wi…

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eToonz Acquired Broadcasting Rights To Mush Mush And The Mushables, Cooking Buddies And Poppy Cat

eToonz is a South African based children's channel operated by eMedia Investments that offers a mixture animated and live-action shows. The channel is animated shows like Peppa Pig and ALVINNN!!! And The Chipmunks alongside live-action like MasterChef Junior and Hank Zipzer.
The channel is set to be rolling out 3 new shows in the coming weeks including Poppy Cat, Mush Mush And The Mushables an…

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April 2025 On TNT Across Africa | Fam-tastic Weekend With Ice Age | Nature's Fury With War Of The Worlds | More

Fam-tastic Weekend Stunt This April, catch the Fam-tastic Weekend on TNT! From Good Friday through Family Day Monday, we've lined up a delightful array of family films every afternoon. Make your long weekend memorable with TNT!
Friday, 18 April 14:10 Ice Age (2002) 15:30 Ice Age 2: The Meltdown (2006) 17:05 Happy Feet (2006) 18:45 Happy Feet 2 (2011) Saturday, 19 April 11:40 Home Alone (1990) 1…

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April 2025 On Investigation Discovery, Discovery Family And Real Time Across Africa | Channel Premiere: Operation Undercover | Returning Shows Including A Crime To Remember | More

Investigation Discovery 
The Pelicot Rape Case: A Town on Trial Brand New An examination of the alleged crimes and 2024 trial of Dominique Pelicot, featuring interviews with those who witnessed the trial. First TX: 13 April TX Day: Sunday TX Time: 21:00 Last TX: 13 April
A Body in the Snow: The Trial of Karen Read S1 Brand New  This exclusive behind-the-scenes docuseries tells the story of murder defen…

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April 2025 On Discovery Channel, TLC, Food Network, HGTV And Travel Channel Across Africa | Channel Premiere: Coming From America | Returning Shows Including Beat Bobby Flay | More

Discovery
Filthy Fortunes S1 BRAND NEW In a modern-day treasure hunt, Matt "King of Hoards" Paxton travels the country searching for rare, big-ticket items hidden in cluttered, filthy homes. It's a race to strike paydirt as Matt cleans out the properties, selling his finds for big dollars. First TX: 3 April TX Day: Thursday TX Time: 21:00 Last TX: 22 May
Earth Day STUNT It’s time to fa…

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Skemertyd: How e.tv Plans To Replace Isiphetho And 18:30 Going Forward?

As some viewers already heard, e.tv will be axing the underperforming soap Isiphetho and calling it quits for the 18:30 timeslot. Home to former soaps like Isipho: The Gift, Broken Vows and Nikiwe, this was the underachiever of primetime and now e.tv will be moving Kelders Van Gehieme to this timeslot.
This also affects the channel's other Kuiertyd protege Gelukbringers and Annekan Die Swa Kry…

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Kuiertyd Moves 30 Minutes Later As Isiphetho Bites The Dust

Last year, it was confirmed by the free-to-air broadcaster that Isiphetho would be getting the boot on the channel following its dismal rollout on the channel. It will not be replaced with another series instead e.tv will be moving Kelders Van Gehieme and a bunch of its other Afrikaans shows to a later timeslot to occupy Isiphetho.
Rebroadcasts of Gelukbringers will broadcast on e.tv at 16:30 foll…

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Major Restructuring Coming Soon

Last year, Google squeezed thousands of websites out of their search algorithms leaving them to go out of business if not scale back on content. As mentioned, we were one of those affected sites as we watch our traffic plummet in top tier countries and shift toward smaller tier markets.
Trust me when I say the struggle is devastating as a publisher to started out in the mid 2010s having all your r…

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Power Rangers TV Series In Development For Disney+

“Percy Jackson and the Olympians” showrunners Jonathan E. Steinberg and Dan Shotz are in talks to write, showrun and produce a live-action “Power Rangers” series for Disney+ and 20th Century TV, TheWrap has exclusively learned.
Hasbro will produce the series, which will reinvent the franchise for a whole new generation of fans while delighting those who already know and love the world of Power Ran…

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GBA: Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl + Rocket Power: Beach Bandits + Rocket Power: Dream Scheme + Rocket Power: Zero Gravity Zone + Sabrina The Teenage Witch: Potion Commotion

Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl
The game's plot takes place before the first film and follows Jack Sparrow in his adventures immediately after being marooned by Hector Barbossa on Rumrunner's Isle. He collects pieces of Barbossa's chart and pieces of Aztec gold so he can get revenge. While doing that, he searches for buried gold, steals ships, sacks Hispaniola, a…

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April 2025 On Studio Universal Across Africa | Epic Easter Weekend Stunt With Channel Premiere Godzilla: King Of The Monsters | April Fools Action Stunt With Ride Along 2 | More

April Fools Action Weekend 5th & 6th April (double bills from 6pm) Not everyone is born foolish. Some are born more foolish than others!
Rat Race 5th April at 18:00 An eccentric Las Vegas casino owner places six gold coins in random slot machines and says that whoever finds them could be in for a slice of $2 million. Chaos and hilarity ensue as the race is on to find the cash stashed in a New …

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BabyTV Unveils A Batch Of Programming To Commemorate 20 Years

BabyTV, the world’s first global dedicated television channel for babies and toddlers, marks its 20th anniversary this year. Over the past two decades, BabyTV has redefined early childhood entertainment with safe, high-quality and engaging content for children aged five and under, and has been a trusted partner for parents.
Founded in 2005, BabyTV was acquired by Fox International Channels in 2007…

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ICASA Currently Reviewing Proposed Structure Of Canal+'s MultiChoice

The Independent Communications Authority of South Africa (Icasa) has published an application to transfer the control of Orbicom’s electronic communication and radio frequency spectrum licences to Canal+.
Orbicom is DStv owner MultiChoice’s signal distributor, and the move is a crucial step to progressing French media giant Canal+’s takeover of the company.
According to the regulator, Orbicom submi…

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Regulators Might Impose Harsh Conditions On Canal+'s MultiChoice If Takeover Deal Is Approved

Canal+ is currently awaiting feedback from the Competition Commission regarding its proposed transaction to acquire full ownership of MultiChoice. This deal was scheduled to conclude in April 2025 but was pushed to October 2025 as it undergoes scrutiny by local legislation.
There is a reason why regulators are concerned about the deal cause although Canal+ had proposed launching a separate company…

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Channel Premieres: Doodloopstraat Makes A Quick Debut On eExtra In April Followed By Een Wit Leuen In May On e.TV

eMedia Investments continues its repetitive slope in 2025 with more scraps from eVOD set to make a rollout on eExtra and e.tv in the coming months with Een Wit Leuen and Doodloopstraat. As it stands, the only premiere is Annekan Die Swa Kry and now that is set become a burial ground for these scraps.
As advised, Doodloopstraat will be airing on eExtra from 25 April replacing rebroadcasts of Viersp…

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Why DStv's Channel Expansions Have Lost Appeal?

During the week, MultiChoice unveiled the new DStv price adjustments which will take into effect from 1st April with a second increase scheduled for Worker's Day being May 1st. To ease the blow and retain more consumers, MultiChoice will be making more channels accessible to lower bouquets.
These include SuperSport Schools on DStv Easyview, Zee World and Nicktoons on DStv Access, Comedy Centra…

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"Developing Story": MultiChoice Extends The Reach Of CBS Justice, Disney Channel, Zee World And Various Other Channels To More DStv Customers

March looks to be a month of significant announcements for DStv customers. Following last week’s move to bring back two concurrent streams to the platform, now DStv Compact customers are getting the addition of five channels to their bouquet.
Here, MultiChoice confirmed that the additional channels will be accessible from 1st April onwards.
The service provider is also punting the discount it offer…

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DStv Unveils New Prices For Each DStv Package, Adds More Channels To The Lineup In April

MultiChoice South Africa has announced new DStv price adjustments for 2025, with increases for multiple packages.
The company announced its annual price and product adjustments for DStv and Showmax on Monday and they will be effective from 1 April.
The price adjustments for the different packages and products are:
Satellite
Premium: From R929 to R979 (+R50)
Compact Plus: From R619 to R659 (+R40)
Compac…

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Cacau, Telemundo's First Ever Portuguese Telenovela Debuts In May Across Africa

Telemundo, an Spanish based channel home to a variety of telenovelas from Latin America and Colombia will be rolling out it's first ever Brazilian (Portuguese) series Cacau in the month of May. This comes after KykNet & Kie had also scooped up a Brazilian series titled Plaas Van Passie in the month.
Synopsis for Cacau
Cacau is a fearless and irreverent young chocolatier who lives on a farm …

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The Fairly OddParents: A New Wish To Make It's European And African Debut On Nickelodeon In May

Nickelodeon will premiere The Fairly OddParents: A New Wish across Europe and Africa on Monday 26th May 2025. Following its US premiere on the channel and international rollout on Netflix in 2024, more consumers will get the chance to see the follow-up to The Fairly OddParents.
In The Fairly OddParents: A New Wish, ten-year-old Hazel Wells has just moved to the big city of Dimmadelphia because of …

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1Max Purge From DStv Explained

1Max was Showmax based channel home to variety of locally produced and international content such as The Real Housewives, Youngins and Adulting. Since it's inception, several media outlets including myself had suspected that something was amiss about this channel.
Usually with new channels, MultiChoice tends to give them a lot of press but that wasn't the case for 1Max. Everything was just…

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GOODBYE!!! MultiChoice And M-Net Dump 1Max From The DStv Platform By The End Of March, Unveils New Content For DStv Consumers

Viewers of DStv channel Mzansi Magic (channel 161) will have access to 1Max content from 31 March 2025, MultiChoice announced on Wednesday (12 March).
1Max, which was launched in April 2024, features content from popular streaming platform Showmax. It is available to DStv Premium and Compact Plus subscribers in South Africa.
However, MultiChoice has now decided to close it on the DStv platform and …

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Nickelodeon Unveils New Animated Series, ‘Wylde Pak’

Nickelodeon has revealed a first look at the new 2D animated comedy series, Wylde Pak. Inspired by co-creators and executive producers Paul Watling and Kyle Marshall’s family life, the series follows half siblings Lily and Jack as they learn to navigate blended multigenerational Korean American family dynamics. Wylde Pak is slated to debut this summer on the network.
“Nickelodeon’s commitment to s…

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NEW CHANNEL ALERT!!! Zee TV Expands Its Local Offering With The Launch Of Zee Dunia

Zee Entertainment Enterprises has recently welcomed Zee Dunia to Pang and Signet consumers in Kenya. This will be the third regional station the company has rolled out in Africa following the launches of Zee Zonke (Southern Africa) and Zee Alem (Ethiopia) two of which are distributed to DStv.
Zee Dunia is a Bollywood based channel offering a various films and series in both Swahili and English. I…

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Channel Closure: Comedy Central, VH1, MTV Beats Leave JioStar Lineup In India

In the updated reference interconnect offer (RIO) released by JioStar following the 7th annual e-auction of DD Freedish, the media mogul announced the departure of nine channels, w.e.f., March 15, 2025. 
Among the list are SD and HD versions of three notable entertainment brands—Comedy Central, Vh1, MTV Beats—that have kept the entertainment index of Indian people quite buoyant for many years. It …

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