Radio & TV
More Children’s Entertainment added to DStv and GOtv with the launch of PBS Kids
In an effort to reach more children, PBS Distribution has partnered with MultiChoice Africa to bring PBS KIDS’ high-quality educational children’s content to the DStv and GOtv platforms available in all of sub-Saharan Africa. From Wednesday22 May, all active DStv customers as well as GOtv MAX and Plus customers will enjoy PINKALICIOUS & PETERRIFIC, ARTHUR and other well-known PBS KIDS series available on their tv screens on DStv channel 313and GOtv channel 156.
“MultiChoice is always open to exploring ways to expand our customer offering, adding a children’s channel that is not only entertaining but also experiential and educational adds value to our DStv and GOtv packages,” Cecil Sunkwa-Mills, Managing Director, MultiChoice Ghana.
Andrea Downing, Co-President of PBS Distribution, comments, “We are excited to offer this new audience the opportunities that PBS KIDS content offers. PBS KIDS is the number one educational media brand for kids, offering children the opportunity to explore new ideas and new worlds. DStv and GOtv are inviting parents and children to experience this trusted content that helps children learn and grow.”
Among the series included in the channel are:
PINKALICIOUS & PETERRIFIC®
PINKALICIOUS & PETERRIFIC®, based on the beloved book series by Victoria Kann, encourages children to engage in self-expression and to explore the arts, including music, dance, and visual arts. Kids will be inspired to get creative by Pinkalicious, Peter, and their friends through adventures in their neighborhood of Pinkville!
ARTHUR
Based on the best-selling children’s books by Marc Brown, ARTHUR follows the adventures of 8-year-old Arthur Read. Join the beloved aardvark forheartfelt and humorous stories about family, friends, and the challenges of growing up.
WORDWORLD
The lovable WordFriends take children on adventures in a world of words where they encounter problems that can only be solved by building a word. Playfully demonstrating the connections between letters, sounds, words, and meaning, WORDWORLD empowers children to advance from learning letters to learning how to read.
PBS KIDS on DStv and GOtv will also feature episodes from POSTCARDS FROM BUSTER, PEEP AND THE BIG WIDE WORLD, and TIME WARP TRIO.
Visit www.dstv.comor https://eazy.gotvafrica.com to sign up to a DStv or GOtv package of your choice or for more information.
DStv customers can access parental controls for a safe viewing environment anytime, anywhere via the DStv Now mobile app or online now.dstv.com.
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People & Lifestyle
‘Cooking With GameChangers’ first Episode Features Abiodun Adigun of Credit Direct and Joy Adesanya Odunlami of The Braiding Vault
Cooking with GameChangers is now live!
The debut edition features Abiodun Adigun, Chief Marketing Officer at Credit Direct Finance Company Limited, a leading consumer lending company in Nigeria, and Joy Odunlami, Founder of The Braiding Vault, a top specialist braiding salon.
The GameChangers battle for the title of “Ultimate GameChanger” as they create their unique versions of “Rice & Beans with Plantain”. Our show host, Daniel Etim-Effiong, and Judges M.I Abaga, Kaffy, and Captain Toba have a hard task of watching and judging the GameChangers.
Who will win this episode?
Watch a-day-in-the-life of these top business minds even as they go on to battle for the title of “Ultimate GameChanger” in the kitchen. Watch now: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SSZMFIIUiUs
A-day-in-the-Life of Abiodun Adigun, Chief Marketing Officer at Credit Direct Finance Company Limited.
Watch now – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cDPw_WsCwR0
A-day-in-the-Life of Joy Odunlami, Founder of The Braiding Vault.
Watch now – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fHMP2o4Q9Dw
Cooking with GameChangers is a spinoff of the popular inspirational TV show, ‘Binging With GameChangers’, which is Nigeria’s most syndicated talk show with over 60 million monthly viewers. Cooking with GameChangers is now airing on YouTube and on TV stations nationwide.
Each episode of Cooking with GameChangers follows a day in the life of a top corporate executive and entrepreneur who end up in a Cook-off that is supervised and judged respectively by celebrity host, Daniel Etim-Effiong, and judges M.I Abaga, Kaffy, and Captain Toba.
Watch the first episode here: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLH_-OcY4pX3GoR_WSsKTwzbP7WRcHJc_O&si=Mkj4DKPPrL7yEQrT
YouTube Channel: @B2GNetwork
You can also Catch the show every weekend on TV stations nationwide:
SATURDAYS:
NTA Network: Saturdays at 10.30 AM
Silverbird: Saturdays at 1.30 PM
Views Channel: Saturday 6:30 PM; Repeat: Mondays at 9:30 PM; Wednesdays at 9 PM
SUNDAYS:
Africa Magic Family: Sundays at 3.30 PM: Repeat: Wednesdays at 1.30 PM
TVC: Sundays at 5.30 PM
NTA2: Sundays at 5.30PM
Wazobia Max: Sundays at 5.30 PM; Repeat Mondays at 7 PM
Wazobia TV: Sundays at 5.30 PM; Repeat: Mondays at 7 PM
Follow the show:
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/cookingwithgamechangers/
Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/cookingwithgame
Threads: https://www.threads.net/@cookingwithgamechangers
TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@cookingwithga…
LinkedIn: @CookingwithGameChangers
Cooking with GameChangers is supported by Power Oil, 2Sure and Aquafina.
Media Partners: BellaNaija, Pulse.ng and Ameyaw Debrah.
Radio & TV
MultiChoice Announces Head Judge and a Date for 10th AMVCA
MultiChoice, in partnership with Africa Magic, has announced that the 10th edition of the prestigious Africa Magic Viewers Choice Awards (AMVCA), will be held from 10th – 11th of May 2024. The organisers also revealed ace filmmaker, director, producer and pioneer Academy Director of the MultiChoice Talent Factory, Femi Odugbemi as head judge of the awards.
In her press conference held in Nigeria today, Dr. Busola Tejumola, Executive Head of Content and Channels, West Africa, MultiChoice described the 10th AMVCA as a celebration to mark a decade of brilliance, innovation, and the sheer magic of African storytelling on screen.
“The AMVCA has established itself as the benchmark for excellence in the African film industry. This edition is not just the celebration of excellence in filmmaking, but also a heritage of an award that has improved careers and boosted talent development on the continent”.
Dr. Tejumola further disclosed that the pool of quality entries this year will be a significant task the jury and head judge to review.
“For this edition, we received entries from films and talent across Africa. Shortlisting has begun and we will now move to the judging phases. For this special edition, we are making changes to the award categories. The Best Actor and Best Actress, as well as Best Supporting Actor and Actress categories will now be determined by the jury. We are also delighted to announce ace filmmaker, director and producer, Femi Odugbemi, as the Head Judge for the 10th AMVCA.
“In partnership with our sponsors, Amstel, Pepsi, Promasidor and Martell, we call on Africa to join in this celebration, as we begin with the announcement of final nominees in each category, live across all Africa Magic channels, on March 24, at 8pm. The voting portal will open immediately after the announcement,” Tejumola said.
The 10th AMVCA’s two-day celebration will kick start on the 10th May with the Young Filmmakers and Content Creators event in the morning, followed by the Cultural Day and Opening Night celebration in the evening and the Main Awards Ceremony the night of 11th of May 2024.
Commenting on the task before the award jury, Odugbemi said: “This prestigious award is celebrated for its unwavering dedication to excellence, and the jury remains steadfast in ensuring only the most outstanding works earn a spot on the nomination list. Having served as the head judge in previous editions, I can unequivocally state that evaluating the remarkable submissions by talent across Africa is an extremely challenging task I assure everyone that the final selection will truly represent the best in the field”.
Other sponsors of the 10th AMVCAs include TECNO, Verve, QuickTeller, Tiger Beer, MTN and Indomie. The Africa Magic Viewers’ Choice Awards is an annual accolade presented by MultiChoice recognizing outstanding achievements in film and television production in Africa.
People & Lifestyle
Cooking With GameChangers Premieres in Lagos with a Sublime Unveiling Mixer
Cooking With GameChangers was unveiled to guests at an intimate mixer held at the prestigious business club, Capital Club Lagos, on Thursday, March 7th 2024. The brand new TV Show format was premiered in a room full of top executives, entrepreneurs and culinary experts.
Daniel Etim-Effiong who is the host of the brand new show, also played host to guests alongside show creator, Seyi Banigbe. M.I Abaga, Kaffy, and Captain Toba Abifarin are judges on the new show, Cooking with GameChangers, and were all present to participate in exciting activities at the premiere.
Guests arrived to drinks and Hors d’oeuvres as they mingled. The host after that asked for guests to interact with at least five people to memorise their full names and occupations for a chance to win a cash prize. Popular blogger, Tai, of Foodie in Lagos emerged as the winner of this challenge.
Show creator, Seyi Banigbe, who is a lawyer, media executive, and host of talk show, Binging with GameChangers, welcomed guests, introduced the new show and gave insight into how the new show was created and developed. She showered accolades on the show’s judges and host highlighting how each person performed phenomenally well during the filming of Cooking with GameChangers.
The judges participated in a fun meal-plating game where they were challenged to make the best plating with the jollof rice and vegetables provided. Guests had a lot of fun cheering the judges who were judged this time by leading food bloggers and chefs. Gina Ehikodi-Ojo of Geena Foodies and Spice chose Captain Toba’s plating as her favourite.
Guests proceeded to watch an episode of Cooking with GameChangers while they enjoyed a specially curated 2-course dinner. Notable culinary experts and influencers present were Chiamaka Nwakalor-Egemba, Tai of Foodie in Lagos, Abisodun of Meals with Abi, Grace of Velvety Foods, Atinuke Obele of Teekayskitchen and many more.
The GM of LASODA, Adenike Oyetunde-Lawal, was present alongside featured GameChangers such as the GM of LASWA, Damilola Emmanuel, Segun Dada of CAPSA, Segun Bankole of Sovereign Trust Insurance, Ngozi-Ezeka-Atta of Jaga Beauty, Yemisi Obe of Grandios Pap amongst many others.
Cooking with GameChangers is a spinoff of the popular talk show, “Binging With GameChangers”, which airs on TV stations nationwide and has amassed over 60 million monthly viewers in its 7 years of airing on television.
Each episode of Cooking with GameChangers follows a day in the life of a top corporate executive and an accomplished entrepreneur who ends up in the Cooking with GameChangers kitchen for a cook-off to determine the “Ultimate GameChanger”. The cooking competition is supervised and judged by celebrity show host, Daniel Etim-Effiong, and judges M.I Abaga, Kaffy, and Captain Toba.
Watch Episode 1 here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SSZMFIIUiUs
Subscribe to @B2GNetwork on YouTube for updates on fresh episodes of Cooking with GameChangers.
Follow Cooking with GameChangers here:
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/cookingwithgamechangers/
Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/cookingwithgame
Threads: https://www.threads.net/@cookingwithgamechangers
TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@cookingwithga…
LinkedIn: @CookingwithGameChangers
You can also watch the show every weekend on TV stations nationwide:
SATURDAYS:
NTA Network: Saturdays at 10.30 AM
Silverbird: Saturdays at 1.30 PM
Views Channel: Saturday 6:30 PM; Repeat: Mondays at 9:30 PM; Wednesdays at 9 PM
SUNDAYS:
Africa Magic Family: Sundays at 3.30 PM: Repeat: Wednesdays at 1.30 PM
TVC: Sundays at 5.30 PM
NTA2: Sundays at 5.30 PM
Wazobia Max: Sundays at 5.30 PM; Repeatt Mondays at 7 PM
Wazobia TV: Sundays at 5.30 PM; Repeat: Mondays at 7 PM
Cooking with GameChangers is supported by Power Oil, 2Sure and Aquafina.
Media Partners: BellaNaija, Pulse.ng and Ameyaw Debrah.
Radio & TV
Sisters Are Doin’ It For Themselves on Crackle
Join your friends from Crackle in celebrating the strong women of Hollywood with these FREE titles starring some of your favorite leading ladies leading the action!
DOWNLOAD THE FREE CRACKLE APP FOR YOUR MOBILE, TABLET, LAPTOP, OR CONNECTED TV AT YOUR FAVORITE APP STORE and watch all of these titles and MORE this month!
Outbreak
Crackle Original Series
A dangerous virus appears in a group of homeless people, causing a risk of outbreak. How long will it take Anne-Marie Leclerc, director of the Emergency Public Health Laboratory, to realize that an actual epidemic is starting to take shape?
Cast: Julie LeBreton (True North), Guillaume Cyr (Bungalow), Mélissa Désormeaux-Poulin (Ruptures)
Available: 3/1/24
The Wall Season One
Crackle Original Series
Detective Sergeant Celine Trudeau is assigned to investigate a strange homicide that took place in Fermont, a small mining town on the Labrador border. Upon arriving, she discovers “The Wall”-an immense structure that protects the inhabitants from the icy Arctic wind. This place of refuge for the population becomes a crime scene.
Cast: Isabel Richer (Trauma), Alexandre Landry (True North), Maripier Morin (The Fall of the American Empire)
Available: 3/1/24
Blast
Crackle Original Feature Film
In a Parisian parking lot a bomb disposal expert finds herself trapped in her car with her kids as an anti-tank mine has been set under the car. Sonia is used to face dangerous situations, but with the children’s lives on the line and her boyfriend left outside, powerless, the stakes have never been higher. They have 30 minutes to diffuse the bomb and work out who could be the mastermind behind this. Will they stand united until the end or will the family implode under pressure?
Cast: Nora Arnezeder (Leopard Skin), Pierre Kiwitt (Das Boot), Radivoje Bukvic (Taken)
Available: 3/1/24
Colonia
Feature Film
In the heat of the 1973 Chilean military coup, a young woman’s desperate search for her abducted boyfriend draws her into the infamous Colonia Dignidad, an ex-Nazi cult from which no one has ever escaped. Inspired by true events.
Cast: Emma Watson (Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone), Daniel Brühl (Inglourious Basterds), Michael Nyqvist (Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol)
Available: 3/1/24
Black Mamba
Feature Film
When a woman is killed by corrupt cops, she is reincarnated as an assassin charged with destroying those who killed her and her friends.
Cast: Dawna Lee Heising (The Paradise Motel), Lyindaa Russell (The Land), Anita Farmer Bergman (On Sacred Ground)
Available: 3/1/24
Hangmen
Feature Film
Ex-CIA agents–one good (Rick Washburne), one bad (Jake La Motta)–slug it out on the streets of New York City.
Cast: Sandra Bullock (Miss Congeniality), Jake La Motta (Maniac Cop), Rick Washburne (Mississippi Burning)
Available: 3/1/24
Girl
Feature Film
A young woman returns to her small hometown intent on killing her abusive father only to discover someone murdered him the day before. As the girl searches for answers, she uncovers a family legacy more dangerous than she’d imagined.
Cast: Bella Thorne (Paradise City), Elizabeth Saunders (From), Mickey Rourke (Sin City)
Available: 3/1/24
Intensive Care
Feature Film
Three low-life criminals plan to rob an elderly woman’s home, but her caregiver turns out to be a former special ops agent with an agenda of her own.
Cast: Tara Macken (NCIS: Hawaii), Jai Rodriguez (The Rookie), Kevin Sizemore (NCIS)
Available: 3/1/24
Absolution
Feature Film
Harmony is a super-empath, born with the power to absorb the fear of others. With a storm of negative energy encroaching, Harmony must find the strength to take hold of her power to save the man she loves and the world around them.
Cast: Jacqueline McKenzie (Deep Blue Sea), Eamon Farren (The Witcher), Lewis Fitz-Gerald (Pitch Black)
Available: 3/1/24
Juncture
Feature Film
Diagnosed with a terminal illness, a young woman hunts down criminals who evaded justice while trying to stay one step ahead of the police
Cast: Kristine Blackport (Californication), Jason Coviello (Stranger Things), Charles Thomas Doyle (There Will Be Blood)
Available: 3/1/24
My Sisters
Feature Film
A women’s support group becomes the target of a misogynistic brotherhood when the youngest member tries to conceal a deadly secret.
Cast: Chandler Young (9-1-1), Diana Sanchez (The Neighborhood), Cait Bidwell (Mayans M.C.)
Available: 3/1/24
Deadly Dispatch
Feature Film
After her best friend is tragically murdered in an apparent robbery gone wrong, Tiffany Jackson takes justice in her own hands to find his killer.
Cast: Tamala Jones (Booty Call), DomiNque Perry (American Hero), Martinez (The Walking Dead)
Available: 3/1/24
Radio & TV
“It’s a whole new ball game”: Shirley Frimpong-Manso on ENO S2, now streaming on Showmax
The long-awaited second season of the hit Ghanaian drama series ENO is now streaming on Showmax, with new episodes releasing every Thursday.
Directed by Shirley Frimpong-Manso and produced by Ken Attoh, ENO S2 sees Gloria Osei-Sarfo’s Abena grapple with her authoritarian past and the repercussions it has had on her daughters. Her newfound peace is shattered when her ex-husband’s estranged daughter makes a dramatic entrance into their lives.
Emelia Asiedu and Esi Hammond also return alongside John Dumelo, Michael Katahena, Godwin Namboh, Michelle Hammond, Brian Angels, Dela Seade and Kabutey Ocansey, with Darlyn Adu-Gyamfi, Melvin DK Asinyo, and Kwame Dzokoto Amanda Jissih joining the cast.
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