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Your Survivor SA Cast-Aways! M-Net handpicked fascinating, multi-faceted personalities from a variety of professions and age groups who are not all they seem to be on the surface. It’s going to be a social experiment of note to observe how they manoeuvre through the conflicts that are bound to arise. With the Game well underway now, you can click on the cast-away below for more ...

Four-part series explores lost ruins using Guatemala’s Pacunam LiDar Data! In February 2018, Lost Treasure of the Maya Snake Kings rewrote history as National Geographic broke the new about the pioneering Pacunam LiDar survey of the Guatemalan jungle that revealed over 60,000 structures beneath thick jungle canopy for the first time to the world, including ancient pyramids, farms, highways and entire lost cities. This initiative ...

What’s underneath the Surface…. Once South Africa’s first Bachelor has found “the one” on M-Net channel 101, the much-awaited new season of Survivor South Africa will roll into the channel’s popular Thursday night local productions slot at 19:00. Set in the beautiful Samoa, and spiced with all kinds of never-seen-before curveballs, twists and turns, Survivor SA: Island of Secrets will hit our screens on Thursday, 16 May. While M-Net ...

Nat Geo on DStv explores Earth’s most hostile Environments. National Geographic’s Hostile Planet is an unflinching look at the volatility of Mother Nature and the resilient animals that survive earth’s most extreme Habitats. This six-part nature docu-series, hails from Academy Award winner Guillermo Navarro, and the Emmy- and BAFTA- winning natural History Filmmakers of Planet Earth 2 and Plimsoll Productions. Hostile Planet is a ground-breaking ...

Monster Jam® thunders into SA for the FIRST TIME EVER!! American-based Feld Entertainment and leading local promoter, Showtime Management, in association with SuperSport and regional radio media partners East Coast Radio, Kfm 94.5 and JacarandaFM are bringing Monster Truck Juggernaut Monster Jam® to South Africa for the first time ever in 2019, debuting at Moses Mabhida Stadium, Durban on Saturday, 20 April followed by Cape ...

HBO® and M-Net Invite Game of Thrones® Fans to Bleed For The Throne! What would you do for the Throne? Prove your devotion and Bleed For The Throne– join the global Game of Thrones blood donation promotional effort. In partnership with HBO, M-Net, the South African National Blood Service (SANBS) and the Western Cape Blood Service (WPBS), the broadcaster is inviting all Johannesburg and Cape Town fans to prove ...

Award winning Reality Dining Show Returns to BBC Brit. The SAFTA award winning Come Dine With Me South Africa will return for a fifth season on BBC BRIT, DStv channel 120, from Monday 11th March at 8pm with the celebrity special to kick things of, with a repeat on Saturdays at 7Pm. Candice Modiselle, Christall Kay, Gert Johan Coetzee, and Lucky Du Plessis will all take each other on to be ...

Nat Geo’s Rock Climbing Thriller wins the Oscar!! An edge-of-your seat thriller and an inspiring portrait of an athlete who exceeded our current understanding of human, physical and mental potential, was awarded during the 91st Academy Awards with the Oscar for Best Documentary Feature.   See below how Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi, Jimmy Chin, Shannon Dill, and the climber Evan Hayes, accepted the their Golden Statue. From ...

Die 9de kykNET Fiëstas: Hier is die wenners: Die 9de kykNET Fiëstas is op Donderdag 14 Februarie 2019 by die Kunstekaap-teater in Kaapstad gehou en regstreeks op kykNET, DStv-kanaal 144, uitgesaai. Dit was ’n aand ter viering van kreatiwiteit en besonderse prestasies in die uitvoerende kunste. Bennie Fourie het die program as seremoniemeester gelei en is deur Schalk Bezuidenhout, Gideon Lombard, Kay Karriem, Jarrid Geduld ...

3rd Season of Nat Geo’s Cosmos, returns with Possible Worlds. National Geographic has announced the Emmy-, and Peabody Award-winning Cosmos will return for its third season, beginning Sunday 3 March at 20:00. The program is airing as a global event on National Geographic in 172 countries and 43 languages which now includes South Africa. The 13-part series will once again be executive-produced, written and directed by ...

Stand a Monstrous chance of winning tickets to this First SA Jam. With a huge thank you to the very generous Showtime Management, fans of this monster truck Juggernaut craziness in Durban, Cape Town andd Johannesburg, stand a chance to win a set to each city’s event, which includes Four Tickets for the family, as well as Tickets to the Pit Party, in the middle ...

Radiopersoonlikheid stel nuwe enkelsnit vry… Francois van Rensburg hou daarvan om met verskillende musiekstyle te eksperimenteer. Musiek is sy stokperdjie – een wat hy baie ernstig opneem. Maar nou stel hierdie radio- en TV-aanbieder, vryskutakteur en sanger ‘n lighartige tong-in-die-kies liedjie vry. Francois het nog nooit vantevore iets in hierdie styl gedoen nie.  Die musiekvideo wat vervaardig is vir Sunja, is deur kykNET aanvaar, en sal ...

Do some star-spotting in the Stars’ Backyard with SundanceTV and Multichoice!! SundanceTV has partnered with MultiChoice to offer DStv Premium subscribers a chance to win a once-in-a-lifetime trip for two to the Sundance Film Festival in the US, between 31 January and 3 February 2019. The winner and a friend could be among the 40,000 visitors pouring into Park City, Utah, to experience the best ...

New Sunday news show for SA’s most opinionated puppet! Chester Missing – South Africa’s most vocal and politically-opinionated puppet – is joining eNCA with a brand new show, Almost News with Chester Missing, which will air weekly at 19h30 from this coming Sunday, 25 November. The show will take an irreverent look at the current affairs landscape and put high-profile politicians through their paces in interviews only the ...

Nuwe video laat jou nie alleen verdwaal nie. Valeska Muller se moderne popmusiekverwerking, Verdwaal Saam Met Jou, is gedurende September 2018 aan radiostasies landswyd uitgereik en aanhangers kan nie genoeg van haar unieke stem en musiekstyl kry nie!  Sy trek aandag waarookal sy gaan en die liedjie bly in jou kop vassteek. Die musiekvideo vir hierdie opgewekte dansnommertjie wat sy saam met Tertius Jacobs en Sean ...

Realiteitsreeks vereer SA kunstenaars by Wêreld Kampioenskap. Riaan Grobler en Wian Smith was onlangs in Los Angeles vir ñ baie spesifieke rede… en het alles op kamera vasgevang. Hollywood, Hier Kom Ek, is ‘n nuwe realiteitsreeks op VIA en volg die reis van span Suid-Afrika en Namibië na die Wêreld Kampioenskap van Uitvoerende Kunste. Hollywood, Hier Kom Ek begin uitsaai op VIA vanaf 30 Oktober, elke Dinsdag om 17:00. VIA kan gekry ...

South-Africa’s 1st Bachelor has all the Media scooping… The secret is out! On Sunday, 7 October 2018 just after Carte Blanche, M-Net gave viewers a glimpse of the handsome hunk who will forever be known as South African reality television’s first Bachelor. The name is Lee, and Stage and Screen found this introductory video of him of two  years ago… Lee is an accomplished all-rounder. He ...

From Earthlings to Martians… Season 2 of National Geographic’s Mars portrays what life could really be like once we settle on the Red Planet. The acclaimed hybrid series, Executive Produced by Brian Grazer and Ron Howard returns, starting Sunday, 11 November 2018, with veteran show runner Dee Johnson, at the helm. Expert ‘Big Thinkers’, including Elon Musk, Bill Nye, Ellen Stofan, Naomi Klein and Stephen Petranek, ...

Ok ma’ Lekke Stupid as jy hierdie gaan mis… kykNETters kan uitsien na nog ‘n seisoen van die gewilde komediereeks Ouboet en Wors wanneer dit vanaf 8 Oktober weer op die lug is. Ouboet van Tonder en Wors Visagie is soos, wel, pap en wors of snoek en patats. Pure komedie met sy wortels stewig in Suid-Afrikaanse grond geplant. In die nuwe seisoen, wat op ...

Global TV powerhouse launches exclusive channel for African audiences. “It’s a beautiful world” with Star Life – the brand-new HD lifestyle channel that is launching on DStv, GOtv and Openview on 27th of August, 2018.  Star Network has announced that the new channel, which has been created exclusively for African audiences, will be a 24/7 English language channel showcasing the very best family dramas, celebrity ...

Kyk Wie Is Terug… Hotel, die Afrikaanse mokumentêr, is terug! Die reeks handel oor ’n middeljarige hotelbestuurder, Ferdie Kruger, en sy kleindorpie-personeel wat spartel om dié substandaard-hotel se deure oop te hou. Hulle gaan dalk nie in die geskiedenis afgaan as die beste personeelgroep nie. Dalk ook nie as die flukste of hulpvaardigste nie. Maar dié kleindorpie-personeel van Fransenburg het om ander redes in ons harte ingekruip. ...

Bolhuis: Onder die vergrootglas. Spesialis-ondersoeker Mike Bolhuis, die man wat wetsoortreders se broeke laat bewe, is vanaf Oktober op kykNET in die misdaadsreeks, Bolhuis, te sien. Mike, wat beskou word as een van Suid-Afrika se top ondersoekers, was al betrokke by van die land se grootste moord- en bedrogsake. In dié reeks delf ons dieper in van die sake wat al op sy lessenaar beland ...

Vat ‘n Vet Kans om gewig te Verloor.  Of dit is omdat jy mooi wil lyk in jou trourok op jou groot dag, saam met jou kinders bal wil rondskop sonder om uit asem te raak, ’n goeie rolmodel vir hulle wil wees of bloot omdat jou gewig jou selfvertroue knou, bykans almal wil graag gewig verloor, maak nie saak of dit 5 kg of ...

Van Ouma se skate, tot op die Kassie. Op 1 Oktober begin Tiaan Onthou waarin Tiaan Langenegger die land deurkruis op soek na oumas se geheime in die kombuis. Sy grootste vrees, sê hy, is dat ons gaan vergeet hoe om werklik te kook. Volgens Tiaan, is dit deesdae net te maklik om klaargemaakte kos te koop of self disse te maak wat jy net in die ...

Tom Outwits, Outplays and Outlasts to Claim the Sole Survivor title. Despite rubbing almost every other Castaway up the wrong way at some stage during the course of this season, Adventure Camp Manager Tom Swartz still convinced the Survivor South Africa: Philippines Jury to award him the R1 Million prize money and title of Sole Survivor. The announcement was made during a gripping two-hour Survivor SA Finale on ...

Kyk Net!  Niks Koue met kykNET! Die winter is dalk behoorlik hier, maar kykNET se vermaak hierdie winter sal jou alles behalwe koud laat. kykNET, DStv-kanaal 144, spog met van Suid-Afrika se top akteurs in die nuwe regsdrama, Fynskrif, wat vanaf 10 Julie om 20:00 te sien is. Kykers kan uitsien na persoonlike en familiedramas tussendeur regsake. Nataniël en sy broer, Edik le Roux, is vanaf 4 ...

Nat Geo Wild’s Programming for World Ocean’s Day Plastic Pollution in the oceans is a global crisis, with more than 40% of plastics used once then tossed, seeing 9 million tons of plastic waste ending up in the ocean each year. The June issue of National Geographic magazine explains how the waste that ends up in the ocean is simply the tip of the iceberg, further ...

M-Net Movies takes no prisoners with its Bang Bang Heroes.   As Winter is Coming, and there is no Game of Thrones to look forward to this July, M-Net Movies is making sure that their Bang Bang Heroes Pop-UP Channel, will send John Snow heating all up… Get ready for a selection of non-stop, pulsating, explosive, jaw-breaking, bone-crushing, no-holds-barred movies, built around legendary Hollywood action ...

Who will be the First King and Queen of the SA Dance Floor? Connell Cruise, Eden Classens, Zola Nombona and their dancing partners will battle it out in the Dancing With The Stars SA finale during this Sunday’s live broadcast on M-Net.  Team Connell and Team Zola both survived a Dance-Off throughout the season, with Team Eden being in that dull position more than once. Judging by last Sunday’s surprising ...

Live voting, Same-day live results for Dancing With The Stars SA! Pre-register NOW to vote for your favourite celebrities and their dancing partners! For the first time in the history of M-Net 101, the channel will announce the voting results of a reality show on the same night of its live broadcast throughout the voting season. That’s why M-Net 101 is introducing an exciting – and controlled – new voting mechanism for Dancing With The ...