South Africa is rapidly emerging on the international stage as a hotbed of creative talent and this 10 x 60-minute series looks set to join the growing ranks of highly rated scripted shows from the country. The story tracks the life of a rich woman who falls in love with her security guard only to […]
Fugitives strikes South Africa drama pact Production and financing company Fugitive has struck a deal with South African entertainment company MultiChoice that will see it becoming the exclusive distributor for scripted originals made available on its M-Net channel and Showmax SVOD platform. The partnership will see Fugitive launching three new drama series – Lioness, Dam […]
Keshet Int’l, M-Net strike format pact Keshet International (KI) and pan-African broadcaster M-Net have joined forces to create new formats together and unveiled details of a new English-language dating show the two companies are co-producing. The Big Five is being produced in conjunction with South African label Afrokaans and is part of a wider pact […]
BBC First, M-Net, RTL among ITVSGE deals BBC First, M-Net in Africa and Germany’s RTL are among buyers of ITV Studios Global Entertainment (ITVSGE) shows including forthcoming drama Noughts and Crosses, and its already launched World War Two scripted series World On Fire. Noughts and Crosses, which is based on Malorie Blackman’s eponymous novel that […]
StudioCanal has shopped edgy drama series Spotless to South Africa-based pay TV platform M-Net. Spotless follows a troubled man whose life is turned upside down when his outlaw brother crashes into his life. It was produced by StudioCanal’s Tandem for Canal+ and picked up by NBCU-owned cable net Esquire in the US. M-Net has picked up […]
DCD Rights will head into MIPCOM with a presale of its new South African culinary show Sarah Graham’s Food Safari. The 13x30mins Okuhle Media-produced series, which was for M-Net, has presold to Scripps Networks Interactive cable net Cooking Channel as a 13x30mins package. The show can run to 20 episodes. It follows food writer and […]
Middle East and African channels have acquired programmes from LA’s GRB Entertainment. Among the deals, US government-backed Middle Eastern channel Alhurra has bought documentary The World Class. In Africa, M-Net has bought seasons three and four of Braxton Family Values and seasons two and three of spin-off series Tamar and Vince. Wananchi has acquired When […]
Big-budget period drama New Worlds has sold to channels in Canada and pan-Africa. The Power-distributed miniseries, packaged in 4x60mins and 2x120mins formats, has gone to Super Channel in Canada and pan-African pay TV channel provider M-Net. Power also closed home entertainment deals in the US, Canada and Thailand. The show has already licensed to SBS […]
Broadcasters in Sweden, Portugal and South Africa are launching their own versions of the Sony-distributed business formats Dragons’ Den. In Sweden, Viasat-owned TV8 has ordered a 10-part run that will be known locally as Draknästet, with ITV Studios Nordic producing. In Portugal, Take & Sound Productions is producing a local run for commercial broadcaster SIC […]
ITV in the UK and M-Net in South Africa have both acquired reality series I Wanna Marry ‘Harry’. Shine International is distributing the series, which was produced by Zig Zag Productions’ and Ryan Seacrest Productions for US network Fox. The format has 12 women competing for their chance to marry Prince Harry, while living at […]
