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FEATURES

Nigeria's EbonyLife eyeing global appeal with relaunched OTT platform

What makes The Real Housewives reality TV's superheroes

TAC eyes partnerships to reach the African diaspora

Canal+ renews commitment to African content

Botswana to set up film fund and commission with help from Steve Harvey

The Viu from South Africa

Fulfilling Africa's formats potential

Nigeria's Showmax spotlights fashion, social media and royalty

How Africa embraced The Real Housewives

Amadasun: Netflix is here for the long haul

What global interest might mean for Africa

MultiChoice looks to turbo-charge African ambitions

Could SA become the new formats hotspot?

Aby Media eyes the various Africas

Philiso highlights Africa's growing influence on global content

Bringing African animation home

A Côte Ouest of many colours

A view to Akili: Kenya's ambitious kidsnet

Showmax to launch South African adaptation of The Office in Afrikaans

This is Africa’s time to tell the stories

Egyptian adaptation of The Good Wife to ‘set new standard’, MBC Group

Lion Forge on the need for originality and diversity

Lupin star Omar Sy launches Carrousel Studios with Thomas Benski, Louis Leterrier

EbonyLife’s Abudu slams global studios for abandoning African production ...

Forging African alliances

MultiChoice - Africa

Africa's MultiChoice reveals revenue dip, prepares to relaunch streamer Showmax

Warner Bros Discovery (kids) – Southern Europe & Africa

Prime Video Nigeria seeks unscripted series to 'super-size Nollywood to the ...

Mo Abudu questions industry diversity efforts, calls for higher African budgets

Crescenti strikes the right note in South Africa

The Africa Channel – International

NEWS

OGM Universe hires sales execs for CEE, Europe, Asia, Africa

Rushlake to shop content from Kenya’s D&R Studios

Make your voice heard in the C21 Big Picture Climate Consensus

Distributor Indigenius joins the Lonely Hearts Club for South African adaptation

OTTera, Blue Pictures launch Nollywood FAST channel

Lion Forge’s Nigerian mythology-inspired animated series Iyanu lands at UK streamer ITVX

Sesame Workshop hires social enterprise exec Onyinye Nwaneri as MD for South Africa

Sarah Mottershead takes Mid East, Africa, Israel, Greece, Cyprus role at Banijay

Chinese streamer iQiyi hires Jing Wang as GM in Middle East and Africa

Disney EMEA hopes to invest in Middle Eastern and African content, says Londono

World of Wonder lines up Drag Race South Africa for streamer WOW Presents Plus

Mako Kids seeks partners for AI-themed animated children’s series

Quintus Studios, Syndicado set out on Mission to Collision

Borderforce USA producer Stampede’s latest heads to Europe, Middle East and Africa

TeamTO boards Triggerfish animated series, gets interest from Ireland’s RTÉ

Africa’s SuperSport takes over Nigerian pirate site Score808 after operator’s arrest

Chudor House picks up Croatian scripted format for Africa, North America

Faith Isiakpere directing new biopic about iconic singer and activist Miriam Makeba

CEE’s Pickbox snaps up SA drama Catch Me a Killer as part of package from Sphere Abacus

Energy crisis among challenges driving streamers out of Africa – van Niekerk

MultiChoice’s Africa Magic preps first entry in planned trilogy of Nollywood films

Acorn TV, M-Net announce S2 of SA-filmed mystery Recipes for Love and Murder

Netflix unveils Love Never Lies and slate of movies in South African content drive

MultiChoice’s Nomsa Philiso talks Africa’s changing place on global content stage

Primedia Studios brings The Traitors to South Africa with All3Media

MultiChoice’s Philiso calls for more dramas telling Africa’s pre-colonial story

SABC mulls business models as it plans first move into streaming orginals

UK deal for Dormer drama White Lies as global demand for African content grows

Kenya’s first sci-fi series Subterranea from Kibanda Pictures set for Showmax

BBC Studios’ Dancing With the Stars returns to South Africa with Rapid Blue

Showmax to launch South African adaptation of The Office in Afrikaans

Crime drama Ellis among premium content on All3Media Int’l slate for Mip Africa

Viu picks up Relative Justice, Africa Channel takes Wild Zambezi from GRB Media Ranch

Aby Media partners Globo to shop formats in Africa

Côte Ouest renews Globo distribution deal

Nollywood pioneer unveils new venture Nile Media Entertainment Group

History Channel Africa preps factual show Great African Crimes

C21 launches C21Africa

Zap in Angola, Mozambique takes ATV’s Safir

South Africa’s SABC is Breaking Down Borders in Africa with travelogue series

Showmax casts light on Dark Side of Glory with docuseries probing murder in sport

Showmax to stream epic Nigerian superhero animation Iyanu across Africa

Busisiwe Ntintili named as showrunner of South Africa-set thriller Shadowland

5X Media picks Madrid producer Michael Kaufman to set up Euro outpost

Prime Video premieres Ogo Okpue’s British-Nigerian film

Netflix mines UK rights to documentary Gold: A Journey with Idris Elba

Kenyan channel Akili Kids seeks educational content from local and int’l producers

Streaming service BritBox announces August exit from South Africa

SA’s Known Associates starts copro venture with Canada’s Inner City Films, Circle Blue

Egyptian adaptation of The Good Wife to ‘set new standard’, MBC Group

South Africa’s Trace Studios appoints Wilna van Schalkwyk, Anita Rowland as co-MDs

5X Media signs social influencer Rami Zeinn, Monkey Man star Makarand Deshpande

Sundance Now taken in by M-Net, Quizzical Pictures’ White Lies in North America

SIC acquires ground-breaking Brazilian family drama Black Rain for Portugal, Africa

Omar Sy’s Carrousel Studios names Wild Bunch exec Cécile Gaget as CEO

South Africa’s Nthibah Pictures, Talent Digital Art partner on animated series

Federation takes South African comedy-drama The Morning After to Cannes

ZDF, Arte, VPro, SABC link up to take on Apartheid with docuseries Free at Last

Canal+ tables new $2.9bn bid to fully take over South Africa’s MultiChoice

Scott Einbinder’s 5X Media secures second investment round as new co-CEOs settle in

Ntintili Factory’s Busisiwe Ntintili on working with Netflix in South Africa

Showmax and NBCUniversal Formats bring The Real Housewives spin-off to South Africa

Canal+ strengthens African presence with stake in Senegal’s Marodi TV

South Africa’s S3 to host BBC Primetime strand

Canal+ brings fashion competition format Shopping Monsters to Africa

Lupin star Omar Sy launches Carrousel Studios with Thomas Benski, Louis Leterrier

Gary Barlow, ITV head to South Africa for travel series

Netflix, Showmax tipped to dominate as SVoD demand surges in Africa

Chudor House, Artist International Group adapt Kenyan crime novel for TV

UAE/Nigerian prodco EK 782 to adapt novel The Marriage Class as drama

Vivendi’s Canal+ tables bid to take control of MultiChoice Group in Africa

Globo picks up Canal+, Showmax’s SA action drama Spinners at Content Americas

Michael Palin explores Nigeria with ITN Productions for Channel 5 travel series

EbonyLife’s Abudu slams global studios for abandoning African production sector

AVoD service Tubi takes North American rights to South African thriller Devil’s Peak

MultiChoice, SuperSport alum Nomsa Chabeli named as group CEO of SABC

Africa’s Showmax orders docs telling shocking sport stories from Collective Media

Africa’s MultiChoice reveals revenue dip, prepares to relaunch streamer Showmax

MultiChoice’s DStv to carry Ngwato Nkosi children’s channel Play Room

Amazon Prime Video joins Germany’s ARD The Morning After in South Africa

Prime Video Nigeria seeks unscripted series to ‘super-size Nollywood to the world’

MultiChoice Studios takes Showmax’s pangolin taxi toon to Cannes

Selasi, Weinstock, Fremantle, Known Associates develop Lagos comedy Victoria Island

UK’s Betty TV, South Africa’s afrOkaans show appetite for Hungry for Love

SABC preps reboot of South Africa’s Got Talent

Ebony Media, Lionsgate team for African American-focused FAST channel

Disney Star inks African distribution alliance with India’s GoQuest Media

MNet on board TV adaptation of South African writer Van Rensburg’s Piranha

Yolisa Phahle steps down as CEO of MultiChoice’s African streamer Showmax

Canal+, MultiChoice, ZAP tap Inter Medya for Turkish drama in Africa

France’s Mediawan acquires African producer and distributor Côte Ouest

Netflix sets up Because She Created scriptwriting scheme for women in Egypt