Roll Call Africa
Series, streaming originals, broadcast television, and the platforms reshaping African storytelling.
MultiChoice’s new call for unscripted projects is more than an opportunity notice. It indicates the type of African television the group may find commercially useful.
Four DStv channels are closing, but the industry consequence is larger than a smaller channel guide. Local producers…
The Polygamist’s global Netflix run is evidence that cultural specificity can travel when format, theme and distribution make…
FAME Week Africa is opening opportunities for micro-drama creators. A sustainable industry still needs buyers, realistic budgets and…
Kenya’s television growth is increasingly visible in production teams that can build again. Returning companies and series retain…
The Four of Us combined a three-million-viewer television episode with nine weeks in Netflix’s South African Top 10.…
The Africa Channel has added an HBCU gospel special and a pan-African wildlife series. Its bigger opportunity is…
Umthetho — an eight-episode South African crime drama, a local adaptation of the Brazilian Netflix hit Brotherhood —…
Colours of Fire begins streaming on Netflix across Africa on August 7, following its December 2025 theatrical release.…
The Polygamist. Umthetho. A run of South African scripted drama is landing on Netflix with real force, showcasing…
Spinners — the Cape Town drag-racing drama that was the first African series selected in competition at Canneseries…
Two months after Showmax shut down, its original content has scattered across MultiChoice's remaining platforms. Showmax Originals now…
