TV with Thinus

BREAKING. DStv ending two stand-alone TV channels: Bloomberg Television folded into Business Day TV with blocks, mk to live on online.

2013-06-19T01:04:00.000+02:00

You're reading it here first. MultiChoice is ending two TV channels on its bouquet, with the business channel Bloomberg Television (DStv 411) and the mk (DStv 324) music channel which are both being discontinued in their current form as separate TV channels on the DStv pay-TV platform in South Africa. South Africans will still be able to see both Bloomberg Television content and mk

BREAKING. Defiance now starting on M-Net Series Showcase on 15 July at 20:30 - and the starting dates of all the channel's other new shows.

2013-06-18T16:03:00.000+02:00

M-Net Series Showcase (DStv 113) which starts in high definition (HD) on Tuesday 9 July has reshuffled and reworked the launch month schedule. The big-buzz new science fiction drama Defiance will kick off on M-Net Showcase on 15 July at 20:30. Here's the latest starting dates and times for shows and the programming which DStv Premium subscribers will be able to see on the channel:

BREAKING. The Jeff Probst Show to M-Net Series Reality as The Doctors move, but Ellen stays put on M-Net Series Showcase from July.

2013-06-18T15:07:00.000+02:00

M-Net which has been working and reworking, and re-reworking, the schedules for the new M-Net Series Showcase (DStv 113), M-Net Series Reality (DStv 114) and M-Net Series Zone (DStv 115) channel until last week is now releasing the "final" schedules for July ... ... and there's some shockers: such as The Doctors indeed moving to M-Net Series Reality but Ellen staying on M-Net Series

FOX Crime set to start on DStv in South Africa on 19 July in SD on channel 126 for DStv Premium subscribers.

2013-06-18T14:24:00.000+02:00

The new FOX Crime TV channel which TV with Thinus reported at the beginning of the month will be starting on MultiChoice's DStv platform in July now has a starting date of 19 July at 19:00 and a channel number of 126. I've reported previously that the addition of FOX Crime will bring the total number to 7 of Fox TV channels which will be available in South Africa from July after Fox

BREAKING. True Movies 1 channel added to DStv from 19 June to the DStv Premium bouquet as a standard definition channel.

2013-06-18T11:18:00.000+02:00

True Movies 1, a movie channel which has been available on MultiChoice's DStv platform and other platforms elsewhere in Africa is now being added to DStv in South Africa from Wednesday 19 June on channel 138 for DStv Premium subscribers as a standard definition (SD) channel. The film channel from Moving Movies Ltd. which was launched in April 2005 in the United Kingdom will show "moving

Oprah and Discovery Networks International continue to snub South African viewers as Oprah shows are added in Australia following the UK.

2013-06-18T01:14:00.000+02:00

Oprah Winfrey and Discovery Networks International (DNI) continue to snub South African TV viewers with TV shows from Oprah Winfrey's OWN TV network in the United States - including her ratings grabbing new talk show Oprah's Next Chapter - which will become available on one of Discovery's TV channels in Australia from August, after it also started in the United Kingdom on a Discovery

BREAKING. Al Jazeera news crew free and released from prison in Niger without after being held for three days in a cell without water or food.

2013-06-18T00:23:00.001+02:00

A news team of Al Jazeera (DStv 406 / TopTV 401) has been released after its four member team was detained in a prison in Niger, Africa for the past three days. Al Jazeera's Yvonne Ndege and the rest of the news crew were held in the West African country's city of Zinder. The correspondent and her team - cameraman Romuald Luyindula, producer Mohammed Abubakar and driver Rabiu Abdullahi -

BREAKING. Is America Tonight, Al Jazeera's brand-new upcoming flagship daily news magazine show going to be seen globally?

2013-06-17T23:58:00.000+02:00

Al Jazeera (DStv 406 / TopTV 401) is announcing that America Tonight will be its new hour long flagship news and current affairs magazine show coming to viewers on a daily basis once the new Al Jazeera America TV news channel launches later this year in the United States. It now begs one question: Will America Tonight be seen globally on Al Jazeera English? It's highly conceivable that Al

The new FOX Sports TV channel is going international; how long before it comes to South Africa and maybe TopTV?

2013-06-17T23:39:00.001+02:00

The brand-new FOX Sports TV channel which is launching on 18 August in America is quickly also going international just as TV with Thinus predicted back in March, with Fox International Channels (FIC) which just announced that it is planning to expand FOX Sports into a new channel also running in Italy. FIC announced that the new FOX Sports will soon also be launching in Italy with a portfolio

Girl Meets World picked up by The Disney Channel as a new sitcom starting on the channel in 2014, based on the 90s Boy Meets World.

2013-06-17T23:01:00.001+02:00

Girl Meets World is coming to The Disney Channel (DStv 303) as a girl-centred sitcom spin-off of the 90s sitcom Boy Meets World and will start on the channel in 2014. Rowan Blanchard as Riley Matthews, Sabrina Carpenter as her friend Maya and Danielle Fishel and Ben Savage both reprising their roles from the 90s sitcom Boy Meet World will be seen in Girls Meets World. "Boy Meets World and

ANALYSIS. Sex! Nudity! South African television ramps up its sexy telly tally as the level of sexier, edgier, TV programming across Africa keeps rising.

2013-06-17T15:32:00.001+02:00

Boobs. Buttocks. Bold sex stories. And everything in-between. South Africa's TV industry - widely considered the best developed TV market on the African continent - is exporting sexier and edgier programming in an ever-growing degree to the rest of Africa's conservative television audiences on a level never seen before. African viewers are getting much more access than ever before to more

Massive mess as technically marred 2013 Daytime Emmy Awards in America rivals South Africa's Saftas and AfricaMagic Viewers' Choice Awards as terrible television.

2013-06-17T11:14:00.000+02:00

The 40th Annual Daytime Emmy Awards in the United States, broadcast live on Sunday, degenerated into a terrible trashcast filled with myriad mistakes and containing the litany of technical production faults exactly the same as South Africa's amateur and shoddily-produced 7th South African Film and Television Awards (Saftas) on the SABC and M-Net's highly-embarrassing AfricaMagic Viewers'

50 public broadcasters across Europe demand that Greece's shut-down public broadcaster ERT be reopened.

2013-06-15T16:49:00.000+02:00

Fifty public broadcasters across Europe are jointly demanding that the Greek government reverse its shocking decision to shut down Greece's public broadcaster ERT which led on Tuesday night at midnight this week to ERT World, ERT's global TV channel to suddenly disappear from MultiChoice's DStv pay-TV platform as it did in countries around the world. In a joint statement serving as an open

NAKED NEWS. A naked Giuliana Rancic on E! News censored by E! Entertainment as part of a comedy skit with Joan Rivers.

2013-06-15T12:07:00.000+02:00

E! Entertainment (DStv 124) censored a naked Giuliana Rancic Friday night on E! News on the channel's daily news broadcast with a big black block covering her body and the words "censored" over it, when the E! News co-host went au naturel following a dare from comedienne Joan Rivers who's celebrating her 80th birthday on E! this week. Giuliana Rancic who wasn't really naked but hammed it up

BREAKING. ANN7 is hiring! Africa News Network 7, South Africa's new 24-hour TV news channel is looking for TV talent.

2013-06-14T00:05:00.002+02:00

Fix up those CV's people, Africa News Network 7 or ANN7 - the new South African 24-hour TV news channel - is now hiring! ANN7 which plans to start broadcasting later this year as a new TV news channel on MultiChoice's DStv platform as a competitor to eNCA (DStv 403) is now looking for presenters, reporters, anchors, sound engineers, producers and cameramen for its news broadcasts - a

CBNC Africa to open Mauritius news bureau on 11 July in Port Louis, marking its 11th African news bureau of the biz news TV channel.

2013-06-13T15:10:00.000+02:00

CNBC Africa (DStv 410) will be opening a brand-new news bureau in Mauritius on 11 July in Port Louis on the island - the business TV channel's 11th African news bureau. It's not clear how many people will be employed by CNBC Africa in the news bureau. "Mauritius is an important addition to our coverage map given the country's economic performance in the past few years and its role in

DIVA DRAMA: Dineo Ranaka dumps e.tv and Club 808 in exchange for Mzansi Magic's magazine show All Access Mzansi.

2013-06-13T14:30:00.000+02:00

Drama queen Dineo Ranaka has dumped e.tv and the music magazine show Club 808 mid-season in favour of being a new presenter on Mzansi Magic's (DStv 161) resurrected magazine show All Access Mzansi which has been "uncancelled". It's highly embarrassing for e.tv and for the show currently in its third season. The broadcaster, at e.tv's Winter Upfront 2013 just last week announced to the

International TV crews covering Nelson Mandela in hospital issued with non-compliance warnings by regulator over broadcasting equipment.

2013-06-13T10:15:00.001+02:00

The Independent Communications Authority of South Africa (Icasa) has slapped some international TV crews camping outside the Pretoria hospital where the world's media is on "Madiba Watch" of the ailing Nelson Mandela with non-compliance warnings after several were found to have brought unauthorised broadcasting equipment into South Africa. According to law, anyone bringing broadcasting

BREAKING. Dineo Ranaka, Nandi Mngoma and ProVerb the three presenters of the uncancelled and resurrected All Access Mzansi.

2013-06-13T09:39:00.000+02:00

Dineo Ranaka is the third presenter joining the uncancelled and resurrected magazine show All Access Mzansi on Mzansi Magic (DStv 161) with Dineo Ranaka who will be seen with the singer Nandi Mngoma as well as the Idols presenter ProVerb when the show makes a comeback on Thursday 20 June at 19:30. Mzansi Magic has so far ignored questions and media enquiries made weeks ago as to why the

BREAKING. Strictly Come Dancing returning to the SABC for a 6th season - but this time SABC3 - from 10 July at 20:00 for 10 episodes.

2013-06-12T20:21:00.000+02:00

Strictly Come Dancing, the popular gloss floor format show which has seen several seasons on SABC2 is set to return on Wednesday 10 July at 20:00 - but this time the reality dancing show is waltzing over to sister channel SABC3. In August last year TV with Thinus broke the news and reported that a new 6th season for Strictly Come Dancing is on the cards and that the format show will be

BREAKING. Big Brother Mzansi coming to Mzansi Magic from January 2014 as South Africans get a chance again to live in a camera house.

2013-06-12T17:49:00.000+02:00

Big Brother Mzansi produced by Endemol South Africa for M-Net's Mzansi Magic (DStv 161) channel is coming to viewers in January 2014 as the reality format is given another South African season by the pay-TV broadcaster. With Big Brother Africa The Chase currently taking place as the latest pan-African season of the show in which Africans from across the continent are under 24 hour camera

PSYCHO. Co-incidental TV scheduling brilliance as Psycho the movie comes to SABC2 as Bates Hotel, based on Psycho, starts on M-Net.

2013-06-12T16:37:00.000+02:00

You cannot make this up: SABC2 has acquired and scheduled the Alfred Hitchcock horror thriller masterpiece movie Psycho from 1960 for Monday 17 June at 21:30 - and in a stroke of co-incidental genius programming M-Net will start Bates Motel, a new spin-off TV drama series based on Psycho, a few days later in the very same week on Friday 21 June at 21:30. Now that - as Tropika Island of

Eddie Izzard's Comedy Central stand-up comedy performance TV marathon in June and July is every Thursday at 20:55 starting tomorrow.

2013-06-12T15:49:00.001+02:00

To celebrate the comedic genius Eddie Izzard's rare South African trip, Comedy Central (DStv 122) has created a two month schedule of Eddie Izzard-inspired programming, focusing on the stand-up comic's outstanding performances which Comedy Central is showing during June and July on South African television. Viewers are able to tune in for Eddie Izzard's sparkly and surreal observational

Front Row back for a third season on Fashion One on TopTV from Thursday at 21:00.

2013-06-12T14:21:00.001+02:00

Front Row, Fashion One's (TopTV 179) lifestyle and fashion magazine show is returning for its third season to Fashion One from Thursday, 13 June at 21:00 (South African time) with international stylist Rachel Anthony, fashion presenter and model Sam Simmons, and celebrity correspondent Kiri Bloore. The three Front Row presenters are at red carpets and catwalks around the globe to bring

HOTLIST. Why are the pages in a South African magazine redesign now looking the same as those of Britain's TV & Satellite Week?

2013-06-12T13:03:00.004+02:00

MediaSlutZA, the go-to source for news and ongoing coverage of South Africa's magazine biz has an eye-popping story over a South African magazine covering television's new redesign - which now has pages using the exact intellectual layout format of the British magazine, TV & Satellite Week. The local magazine which changed its insides, now has some pages looking exactly like TV & Satellite