Disney+ To Launch In South Africa By May 18th

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South African pricing will be R119 per month or R1,190 for an annual subscription.

This is earlier than initially anticipated, as the company announced last year that it would launch in 42 new countries “this summer” (winter in the Southern hemisphere) — between 21 June and 22 September 2022.

The company also previously confirmed that its Disney+ service in South Africa would include the Star content hub when it launches.

Star features TV shows and movies aimed at adult audiences instead of the more family-oriented and franchise-based content elsewhere on Disney+.

 

 

The Star hub is populated with programming drawn from Disney subsidiaries such as FX, Freeform, Hulu, ABC Signature, 20th Television, 20th Century Studios, Searchlight Pictures, Touchstone Pictures, and Hollywood Pictures.

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In the UK, this includes shows like Alias, Blackish, Bones, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Grey’s Anatomy, Prison Break, The X-Files, 24, and cult classic Firefly.

Films on the Star hub include Braveheart, Cocktail, Deadpool 2, Good Morning Vietnam, Independence Day, Moulin Rouge, Planet of the Apes, Pretty Woman, White Men Can’t Jump, Romeo + Juliet, and cult classic Starship Troopers.

“With exclusive original content and thousands of episodes and movies from Disney, Pixar, Marvel, Star Wars, National Geographic and general entertainment from Star, Disney+ is the streaming home for some of the world’s most beloved stories,” Disney said.

 

Subscribers will have access to Star Wars’ “The Book of Boba Fett” and “The Mandalorian” from executive producer and writer Jon Favreau.

Disney+ will also include the Marvel Studios’ series “Moon Knight”, starring Oscar Isaac as Steven Grant.

Academy Award-nominated “Shang-Chi and the Legend of The Ten Rings” starring Simu Liu and Awkwafina will also be available at launch.

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Subscribers will also be able to enjoy Disney and Pixar’s Academy Award-nominated “Luca”, Walt Disney Animation Studios’ Academy Award-winning “Encanto”, and Academy Award-winning “Cruella”.

In general entertainment, subscribers will also be able to watch titles including “The Simpsons”, “Queens”, and “The Kardashians”.

From National Geographic, fans will have access to both seasons of “The World According To Jeff Goldblum”.

Walt Disney announced at the beginning of March that it plans to launch a cheaper ad-supported version of Disney+ later this year. The new service will launch in the United States in late 2022 and expand internationally next year.

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The Story Of The Ugliest Woman In The World To Gave Up Her Dignity To Feed Her Children

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A Difficult Fate

A loving mother would do anything for her children, and Mary Ann Webster (Bevan after marriage) isn’t an exception to this rule: she wasn’t afraid to become an object of ridicule or show her unusual appearance. She had a goal — to feed her children by doing whatever it took. Mary had to overcome cruelty, mocking, and insults from people who wanted to see “the ugliest woman in the world.”

Mary’s life was pretty ordinary. She was born in London to a large and rather poor family. She had to start working very early and was a nurse in a hospital. Mary was a very attractive lady who dreamed about having a big family herself. Her dream came true: at the age of 29, she got married to Thomas Bevan and gave birth to 4 children.

Later, Mary started experiencing health problems: she suffered from migraines and muscle and joint pain. Doctors couldn’t understand what was going on. But she barely had time to focus on her health since her family needed her.

The Disease Reveals Itself

Mary started suffering from another symptom: abnormal facial growth and distortion, which led to her “homely” appearance. The young Mrs. Bevan turned into a creature who only slightly resembled a woman.

 

This disease is called acromegaly, a neuroendocrine disorder that results in an excess amount of growth hormones in the body, which leads to bone, internal organ, and soft tissue enlargement. The disease is often accompanied by headaches and muscle pain. In most cases, acromegaly occurs due to a benign tumor, known as a pituitary adenoma.

Today, doctors can cure this disease successfully, but at the beginning of the 20th century, Mary was in a desperate situation. Each day, she saw her beauty fade away.

An Unpleasant Title And A Check
Mr. Bevan always supported his wife and stood by her side, but his destiny had its own plans. After 11 years of marriage, he died, and Mary became a widow with children and almost no money.

After her husband’s death, Mary accepted any job she could get to try to feed and care for her children. However, she wasn’t offered a good job because of her appearance and people in the streets used to insult her and make fun of her. So, each work day was a challenge.

Things were getting worse and worse until Mary found out that there was something called The World’s Ugliest Woman contest. So she decided to take part in it since the prize was a really big sum of money. She managed to win the contest, but the mass media started writing unpleasant articles about her, and it was really hard for her to read them.

 

But Mary turned her situation into a stable income. By the way, this contest is still popular in England, but they put the emphasis on frowning now.

Circus And Freak Show Performances

In 1920, she was invited to work in the US and appear in Coney Island’s Dreamland show. She took part in these performances where she had to demonstrate her appearance by wearing certain clothing items that highlighted her unattractiveness and masculinity.

There were other people with unusual features in these shows too: a bearded woman, dwarfs, giants, and Siamese twins — they all were freaks who had to make people laugh or feel like they had seen something unusual.

The audience really liked these cruel shows and Mary was one of the most popular actresses in her group. We only can assume how difficult it was for her to be an object of ridicule. But she overcame all of her challenges for the sake of her children.

She spent most of the remainder of her life in a circus. She had a chance to return to Europe only once, in 1925, when she visited Paris where she took part in an exhibition.

 

Unfortunately, most people who suffer from acromegaly don’t live very long. Mary died in 1933, at the age of 59. Before she died, she asked her children to bury her in England. This difficult destiny of a loving mother proves that anyone who’s brave enough can nail it.

Of course, we may say she that didn’t have a choice and that it was her only chance, but she wasn’t afraid to use this chance and she turned her disease into a source of income. We don’t know what would happen if she wasn’t sick. We probably wouldn’t know anything about her.

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The Walt Disney Company Closes Their First Free-To-Air Channel In Turkey

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The Walt Disney Company plans to close 100 linear channels globally in the near future with markets such as Asia and some parts of Europe seeing their content from brands like National Geographic and Disney Channel fold under Disney+, their streaming service.

According to sources, The Walt Disney Company plans to close Disney Channel in Turkey of course it hasn't been stated whether Disney Junior would tag along as the channel seems intact as most fingers point to the main channel.

 

 

What's more shocking is that these are the first free-to-air channels from the brand to close globally as most readers anticipated that the closures for these type of channels would take much longer with them being free-to-air.

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In Canada, Disney XD which is partially owned by Corus Entertainment rebranded to WildBrainTV earlier in the month and it wouldn't shock me if Disney Junior was perhaps folded under Family Jr while the main channel merges with Disney+.

 

 

By the end of this month, FOX Life is expected to close down in the United States joining its global counterparts in the afterlife. Also joining the list of closures is Disney XD, Star Life, Nat Geo Wild and Nat Geo Kids in Latin America.

From April, The Walt Disney Company EMEA would be the market with the most international channels as its been speculated that the channels would close by 2023 or 2024 as most parts of Europe and Africa still don't have Disney+.

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The Grimwades Family Embrace Their Environmentally Friendly Lifestyle On Da Vinci Kids Africa And Briko Embraces His Creative Spirit With His Best Friend Hepi - April 2022 Highlights

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Kids Programmes
Go Green with the Grimwades — PREMIERE 
10 x 10 mins
From April 8th – Fridays 16:05
The Grimwade family take on the challenge to become a more environmentally conscious household. Utilising the 5 R's (reduce, reuse, refuse, repair, and recycle) they find everyday ways to help look after our planet.

Briko — PREMIERE
52 x 10 mins
From April 15th – Fridays 15:45
Join the adventures of a curious and creative young boy named Briko, and his best friend, Hepi, a hyperactive rabbit. Each day they find surprising new ways to take everyday objects and transform them into fun crafts and games that kids can make at home.

 

 

Continuing Kids Programmes
Doki - Saturdays 09:00
Darwin & Newts — Sundays 09:00 
Wild Kratts — Every day 08:05
Superhero Sprinter Galore — Every day 08:50

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Monthly Special
Earth Day
Friday, April 22nd from 13:00 to 00:25
12:40 The Fixies — Paper
12:45 Marvellous Makes — Puppy Puppet
12:55 Addison — The Recycling Bandit
13:10 Darwin & Newts — Bluey the Penguin - Plastic Bags Can Cause Harm
13:25 PinCode — Itch for Speed
13:40 When I Grow Up — Forest Manager
13:55Full Proof — Plastic
14:10 Totally Rubbish — A Splat Attack and Andy Warhol, and Fabulous Fashion and Bridget Riley
15:10 How to Do Stuff Good — Save the Planet Hacks and Cheap and Cheerful Hacks
15:45 Briko — Pizza Box and Coin
16:05 Go Green with the Grimwades — Mean Green Footy, Arty Party and Bubbly Bath Time
16:35 Do You Know? — Maddie, the Plants and You - The plants We Eat, Maddie, the Plants and You - The Plants We Use, Maddie, the Plants and You - The Flowers, Maddie, the Plants and You - The Plants Around the World and Maddie, the Plants and You - The Trees
18:15 Did I Mention Invention? — Inland Surf Park and Globe Maker
19:05 Xploration Nature Knows Best — Mother Nature Takes on Climate Change
19:35 Xploration Awesome Planet — Students Taking the Lead, Threatened Place and Sustainable Leaders - A Green World
21:00Climate Change by Numbers — Climate Change by Numbers Part 1 and Part 2
22:40Operation Iceberg — Birth of a Berg and Life and Death of a Berg

 

Early Morning with Da Vinci
Every day from 06:00
06:00 Do You Know?
06:30 Siesta Z
06:45 The Treehouse Stories
06:55 Mily Miss Questions
07:05 Marvellous Makes
07:10 PinCode
07:30 Darwin & Newts
07:50 Addison
08:05 Wild Kratts
08:30 Kosmix
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Roundups #33: Maury Cancelled After 31 Seasons, Cartoonito EMEA Acquired Broadcasting Rights To Cocomelon And Piet's Sake Makes Its Linear Debut On e.tv

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Maury calls it quits

NBCUniversal on Sunday confirmed that its daytime syndicated talk show Maury will be wrapping with the current season, saying that it was a mutual decision between the studio and veteran host Maury Povich to end the talker made when Maury was most recently renewed in 2020 through the 2021-22 season.

“Maury and I decided two years ago that this season would be the farewell season for the show, and while his retirement is bittersweet, we are so happy for him to be able to spend more time on the golf course,” Tracie Wilson, EVP, NBCUniversal Syndication Studios, said in a statement to Deadline. “Maury is a television icon, a pop culture legend and we couldn’t be more proud to have been a part of his incredible career.”

“Six years ago when I was ready to retire, my the NBCUniversal family asked me to continue the show,” he said. “Even though I told them I was ready for assisted living, out of loyalty to NBCUniversal and my more than 100 staff and crew members, Tracie Wilson and I agreed to one more deal. I’m so proud of my relationship with NBCUniversal and all those who worked on the Maury show but as I occasionally tell my guests on Maury, ‘Enough, already!'”

The series was once available on Soweto TV before it went under new management.

Cocomelon expands to more households

Moonbug Entertainment has inked its first multi-territory linear deal, partnering with WarnerMedia to air preschool series CoComelon across EMEA.

Under the deal, WarnerMedia has picked up 170 episodes of the popular series to air on the conglom’s fledgling preschool block Cartoonito across more than 115 countries in the area this year. The brand’s 3D-animated musical episodes, which cover educational topics and nursery rhymes, will roll out in multiple languages, including German, French and Italian.

This partnership expands on Moonbug and WarnerMedia’s previous deal to air CoComelon on Cartoonito in the UK , where it rolled out in April 2021. That was the brand’s first move onto linear TV.

More eVOD originals surface on your TV screens

eMedia Investments told the media lies when saying viewers had to wait a year to see the bulk of content launching exclusively on the platform but that was already suspected when Dokter Ali aired on eExtra a few months after debuting on eVOD.

According to sources, Piet's Sake starring Jamie Bartlett and Kenneth Nkosi is set to be the first eVOD original production alongside Is'phindiselo to make way to e.tv amidst the channel's lineup changes.

Piet is an old school Afrikaans businessman who had immense success during apartheid, however, he is finding it very difficult to navigate in the new and transformation pro South Africa. When he loses all his contracts, he wishes he black, in a spiteful manner in front of one of his employees who he mistreats. In the morning, his wishes have come true, but not in the way he would have wanted. He has swapped lives with Mandla who now is “Piet” the boss and he is Mandla the cleaner. The only way things will go back to normal is after he has learnt an important life lesson.

Piet's Sake airs at 8pm on Saturday, 2 April and rumor has it more eVOD titles will debut on the channel including Atlantis and Daryn's Gym.

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Roundups #32: Soweto TV Filming A Brand New Local Drama Se Lebale Maikano, Joining Da Vinci Kids Africa Is People's Weather With Their Own Animal Rescue Series FreeMe Wildlife And Transplant Returns For A Second Season On Universal TV Africa

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Soweto TV is getting in on the action

Since the start of COVID better yet a few months prior to that several community channels such as Cape Town TV and Mpuma Kapa TV have begun producing their own local dramas and this seems to be a permanent thing despite their budget.

Soweto TV has begun filming a new series Se Lebale Maikano of course not much details is available on the show except for the trailer which has a release date attached.

 

Se Lebale Maikano will air Thursdays at 19:00 from April 7th. Also launching a local drama in the month of April is Cape Town TV with Mahata.

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FreeMe Wildlife Coming Soon To People's Weather

FreeMe Wildlife is a non-profit organisation that rescues and rehabilitates injured and abandoned indigenous wildlife. They are not only about the animals but about people who believe in bringing peace to the ecosystem and its inhabitants.

 

The organisation partnered up with People's Weather on a new documentary series where they showcase the everyday lives of people and the animals which they rescued.

The new series airs at 18:30 from Monday 28 March.

Transplant returns to Universal

Transplant follows Dr. Bashir "Bash" Hamed (Hamza Haq), a Syrian Civil War refugee and a newest resident at York Memorial Hospital, as he navigates through numerous obstacles to resume a career in the high stakes world of emergency medicine.

In the season 2 premiere, Bash's life is upended when he is reunited with a woman from his past which triggers unwanted memories for the surgeon and Mag faces some challenges of her own with the new boss.

Transplant starts April 4th on Universal likely in the 8pm timeslot.

 

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