{"id":529673,"date":"2024-03-20T14:00:10","date_gmt":"2024-03-20T12:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=529673"},"modified":"2024-03-20T14:08:22","modified_gmt":"2024-03-20T12:08:22","slug":"sabc-adding-bbc-shows-in-new-primetime-slot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/broadcasting\/529673-sabc-adding-bbc-shows-in-new-primetime-slot.html","title":{"rendered":"SABC adding BBC shows in new Primetime slot"},"content":{"rendered":"

BBC Studios and the South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC) have announced a new two-hour content block on SABC 3 (S3) and SABC+, which will feature a selection of award-winning dramas, factual entertainment, and documentaries from the BBC Studios catalogue.<\/p>\n

The programming will be available to watch on weeknights between 21:00 and 23:00 through BBC Primetime, broadcast on S3 and streamed on SABC+ from May 2024.<\/p>\n

The broadcasters said BBC Primetime was hand-crafted by BBC Studios to offer S3 viewers access to globally recognised-content.<\/p>\n

“The content block will include a range of shows including a psychological crime thriller starring Idris Elba, Luther,<\/em> intense medical drama, Critical,<\/em> gripping factual motoring show, Top Gear<\/em> (season 14-17), and romantic comedy, Cheaters,” <\/em>the broadcasters said.<\/p>\n

“Documentary series Louis Theroux: Forbidden America<\/em>, exploring three controversial corners of American entertainment and culture, will also be available to watch from launch.”<\/p>\n

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A scene from Jed Mercurio’s Critical, with lead actor Lennie James.<\/p><\/div>\n

BBC Studios in Africa commercial director Pierre Cloete said the broadcaster was excited to launch the first BBC-branded block in Africa with SABC.<\/p>\n

The offering will be BBC Studios’ widest-reaching branded service in Europe, the Middle East, and Africa.<\/p>\n

“This marks our first block for free-to-air audiences in South Africa, giving 13 million homes access to BBC Studios\u2019 shows,” Cloete said.<\/p>\n

SABC programming manager Sane Zondi said the partnership with BBC Studios was born out of the need for the public broadcaster to fulfil its commitment to delivering high-quality international content to its viewers.<\/p>\n

“We are excited to have access to a vast catalogue from the BBC, and the unlimited world-class entertainment our viewers will be able to enjoy through BBC Primetime on S3,” said Zondi.<\/p>\n

“The deal allows us to bring back some of the iconic BBC titles to our viewers which formed weekly habitual viewing, with Top Gear<\/em> being the most notable one.”<\/p>\n

“There is a range of new content which we are keen for our audiences to watch.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The programming will be available to watch on weeknights between 21:00 and 23:00 through BBC Primetime, broadcast on S3 and streamed on SABC+ from May 2024.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":529675,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[3514,93099,71136,35,93093,93097,361,38577,93095,5462],"class_list":["post-529673","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-broadcasting","tag-bbc","tag-bbc-primetime","tag-bbc-studios","tag-headline","tag-luther","tag-pierre-cloete","tag-sabc","tag-sabc-3","tag-sane-zondi","tag-top-gear"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/529673"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=529673"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/529673\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":529677,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/529673\/revisions\/529677"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/529675"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=529673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=529673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=529673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}