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South Africa’s MultiChoice Emerges as a Leader in Global Co-Productions Variety 18 hrs ago
Over almost three decades, MultiChoice has become Africa’s undisputed leader in video entertainment.
The company both aggregates and produces shows for its richly diverse audience with millions of voracious TV viewers across 50 countries throughout sub-Saharan Africa.
With its success in Africa secure, MultiChoice is fast positioning itself as one of the leading co-production partners on the planet and certainly the best on the continent.
The MultiChoice Group was formed in 1995 from the subscriber-management branch of M-Net, Africa’s pioneer pay-television company. Its multiple distribution platforms, which include Africa’s premier sports broadcaster, boast a subscriber base of nearly 21 million households, as well as millions of viewers (the exact number is undisclosed) who stream videos on-demand.
The two juries, made up of leading exponents from the worlds of television drama and news, will be officially presented during the Opening Ceremony, before starting to screen the next day all of the nominated Fiction and News content from across the globe.
South African Drama Reyka to Open Monte-Carlo TV Festival
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This year’s Monte-Carlo Television Festival, which marks its 60th anniversary, will feature the worldwide premiere of the South African drama
Reyka.
Dominion,
Downton Abbey) and Thando Thabethe (
How to Ruin Christmas: The Wedding). In the series, a flawed but brilliant criminal profiler, haunted by her past, returns to her hometown to solve a string of brutal murders committed by a serial killer amongst the sugarcane fields of Kwa-Zulu-Natal.
The series’ director is Zwelesizwe Ntuli (
Hard to Get) and the producer Serena Cullen (
Lady Chatterley’s Lover). Reyka is from Serena Cullen Productions and Quizzical Pictures for M-Net (MultiChoice Africa Group), with global distribution handled by Fremantle.