by Thinus FerreiraThe 18th Metro FM Awards taking place on 27 April at the Mbombela Stadium in Mpumalanga for a second consecutive year will have Luthando "Lootlove" Shosha and Tebogo Thekisho, known as ProVerb, as the hosts.The SABC radio station says the music awards ceremony's black carpet coverage will be done this year by SABC1 presenter Nomalanga Shozi and DJ Sabby. TV personality ..read more

by Thinus FerreiraSouth Africa's struggling cinema chain Ster-Kinekor is set to axe 236 workers - a third of its entire workforce - and close up to nine of its cinema complexes across South Africa as it blames a "significant" decrease in attendance of cinemagoers.In response to a media query Ster-Kinekor confirmed that it had started section 189 proceedings - known in South Africa as a ..read more

by Thinus FerreiraRemember the teen who played Tetris until it broke? I've played Temu's Farmland - its in-app game promising free items and money-off coupons - and have 29 tips to get you more droplets to water your wheat like a wizard. If you haven't been sucked in as a South African consumer by the Chinese online shopping platform Temu yet, good for you. And if you haven't yet been ..read more

by Thinus FerreiraAt the beginning of April, MultiChoice and Showmax launched a new 1max linear TV channel on DStv without any fanfare as a TV channel to showcase content that is available on MultiChoice's video streaming service - but shown to DStv subscribers.Here is what 1max is, and entails.First things first - Oddly, MultiChoice, M-Net and Showmax made absolutely no effort to bring 1max as a ..read more

by Thinus FerreiraEcoFlow has launched its new RIVER 2 Pro and DELTA 2 Max in South Africa.The RIVER 2 Pro features an upgraded capacity and faster charging that the company says is the best portable power station to withstand Eskom's Stage 6 loadshedding level of electricity blackouts in South Africa.EcoFlow's DELTA 2 Max has a UPS (Uninterrupted Power Supply) transfer time of 20ms and a ..read more

by Thinus FerreiraThe crew and cast of Paramount Africa's upcoming Queendom series were forced to stay home due to non-payment even before the first episode of the upcoming new telenovela starts airing next week, once again due to non-payment by Clive Morris Productions.Queendom is set to start on BET Africa (DStv 129) on 22 April.Natalie Mdladla, Paramount senior director of communications, told ..read more

by Thinus FerreiraThe cast and crew of e.tv's cancelled Nikiwe are still struggling to get paid months after the show got canned and stopped production by Parental Advisory Productions which has since gone to ground.In January TVwithThinus reported how Parental Advisory Productions co-owned by Thomas Gumede and Lungelo Radu imploded with huge amounts of debt with e.tv that ..read more

by Thinus FerreiraSouth Africa's Competition Tribunal has granted interim relief to eMedia's Openview satellite service in its sports rights sublicensing fight with MultiChoice, ordering MultiChoice and SuperSport to allow SuperSport content to be carried and seen on the SABC's TV channels on Openview in cases where the SABC acquired and unlicensed sports content from SuperSport.MultiChoice and ..read more

by Thinus FerreiraM-Net has commissioned a new drama series Ha Molefi for Mzansi Magic (DStv 161) as a father-and-son story which will debut on the channel on Monday 17 June at 20:00 as the two grapple with grief after the loss of a wife and mother.Ha Molefi is headlined by TJ Mokhuane, portraying the gay teenager Thabang Molefi from Pimville, Soweto who has lost his mother Mam' Linda.He ..read more

by Thinus FerreiraSimilar to its lacking and inadequate PR communication a year ago for two new shows (one of which already tanked and got cancelled) e.tv once again seemed to have failed with a haphazard PR communication strategy for its new show Isiphetho that started on Monday night.With e.tv once again not properly communicating with media before, and in the lead-up to, a local ..read more