NBCUniversal’s Bravo pay-TV channel has commissioned The Real Housewives of Dubai as the 11th city in the Real Housewives reality series franchise. While The Real Housewives series format has been sold around the world and adapted into various local versions by local channels like MultiChoice and M-Net’s The Real Housewives of Johannesburg and The Real [...]
Multichoice group is planning to launch its own unique offerings to go toe-to-toe with streaming services such as Netflix and Disney+. To recall, Multichoice owns DStv, which offers both dish-satellite and streaming options focusing on more traditional television content, including news and live sports. It also owns Showmax, which is a streaming-only service. Calvo Mawela, [...]
beIN MEDIA GROUP (beIN) has continued the expansion of its women’s sports rights portfolio globally with the acquisition of exclusive rights to the inaugural CAF Women’s Champions League across 37 territories spanning the Middle East & North Africa (MENA), Asia-Pacific and North America. beIN’s flagship sports network, beIN SPORTS, will broadcast the women’s competition across [...]
Shahid VIP and PUBG Mobile, a multi-player video game, are exploring synergies in a first-of-its-kind partnership in the MENA region. Previously, PUBG has also partnered with pay-TV network OSN, in which players of PUBG Mobile secured exclusive opportunities to access OSN Streaming App’s premium entertainment and original content. The deal is set to see players [...]
Shahid, the Arabic streaming platform, has announced that it will be now available in French, marking the third version of its user interface. Aimed at French-speaking users from territories including North Africa, Europe, Canada, and the Levant, the brand-new French interface comes with a host of features similar to those available in Arabic and English. [...]
OSN announced that its streaming app will bring Turkish dramas across a wide range of genres, including crime thrillers, romance, action, and more. Darine ElKhatib, Senior Vice President of Arabic Services & Original Production at OSN, commented on the release saying: “The Turkish TV genre has delivered some of the Middle East’s most compelling shows, [...]
Results are in: Squid Game, Netflix’s latest Korean hit drama, became the platform’s most successful TV show in history, with over 140 million viewings in less than 4 weeks. The US firm overachieved its expectations with an addition of 4.4 million users for Q3 2021, more than double the previous quarter. The success was so [...]
Kanal D Drama will release medical drama Hekimoglu on November 16, to broaden its bouquet of premieres of Turkish series fully dubbed into Spanish for the US Hispanic audience. The series will release with an exclusive presentation of the show’s virtual premiere on Facebook on Monday, November 15 at 9:00 PM Eastern/6:00 PM Pacific. Francheska [...]
Mad Solutions acquired the distribution rights of South African feature film Angeliena by director/producer Uga Carlini. In October, Netflix launched Angeliena on its streaming service worldwide. Set in modern-day, post-apartheid South Africa, a local hospital’s much-loved parking attendant, Angeliena, dares to put her lifelong dream of travelling the world into motion, when she is diagnosed [...]
The National Basketball Association (NBA) and beIN MEDIA GROUP, the global sports and entertainment group, today announced a multiyear extension of their existing broadcast and digital partnership that will see beIN SPORTS air more than 400 live NBA games each season in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA). The renewal builds on beIN SPORTS [...]