DStv Uganda has availed Showmax at half the price to all DStv Access, Compact and Compact Plus customers while Premium customers in Uganda will now get it at no extra cost. “At DStv, we are delighted to announce even more perks for our customers. In September, DStv Premium customers in Uganda were rewarded with Showmax [...]
StarzPlay has signed a multi-year agreement with Japanese anime providers TV Tokyo, adding over a thousand episodes of anime content to its library for subscribers across the MENA region. Maaz Sheikh, co-founder and CEO StarzPlay, said: “Our partnership with TV Tokyo to bring some of the most popular anime series establishes Starzplay as the true [...]
Showmax has licensed its first international reality TV series format, Temptation Island. The ultimate relationship test, Temptation Island follows four couples at a pivotal time in their relationship, where they must mutually decide if they are ready to commit to one another for the rest of their lives — or go their separate ways. Together, [...]
From 21 January until 31 March 2021, customers who take up the Showmax 3 for 1 deal will pay for a one-month subscription and receive an additional two months. The offer is available across all packages including Showmax, Showmax Mobile, Showmax Pro and Showmax Pro Mobile. Showmax Pro subscribers have access to everything on Showmax [...]
French startup Molotov offers an OTT TV streaming service in France with live TV, premium channels, a cloud DVR and on-demand content. Even though the service has been able to attract 13 million users in France, it has yet to expand to other countries. Molotov is willing to expand its footprint this year with a dozen countries [...]
20 Pound Dream, the new movie from TED fellow, CLAM magazine founder and Relentless director Andy Amadi Okoroafor, is now streaming first on Showmax. Africa Movie Academy Award winner Gideon Okeke (BBNaija, Tinsel, Relentless) stars as Kene, who owns a kung fu studio in Nnewi. He is a disappointment to his family, who want him [...]
Sub-Saharan African video entertainment company MultiChoice Group will collaborate with Metrological to deliver premium OTT services on DStv. The deal will see Metrological be responsible in bringing MultiChoice’s premium OTT services, international apps and localized content to subscribers across Africa on its new Explora Ultra set-top box and its new Streama OTT platform. MultiChoice Group [...]
Pay-TV network OSN will air the second season of The Mandalorian on October 30. Available exclusively on OSN as part of the Disney+ Originals partnership introduced in April, the latest episodes will be available through the OSN Streaming app and the OSN Box of Wonders at exactly the same time as it is broadcast in the US. The [...]
Cartoon Network Arabic marks its tenth birthday with an array of local content and classic shows consisting of Dexter, Foster’s Home for Imaginary Friends & Courage the Cowardly Dog, along with a competition for kids. Viewers will be able to enjoy ten back-to-back episodes of Ben 10, Tom & Jerry and the CN Tubers on Cartoon Network Arabic. Cartoon Network [...]
OSN is collaborating with the Abu Dhabi Police to fight television piracy, which resulted in a raid of three shops located in the main satellite market in Electra Street, Abu Dhabi. Around 202 pirate devices were seized, three individuals arrested and three shops closed. The raid followed OSN using market intelligence which they shared with [...]
