African Streamer Showmax’s CEO on Doubling Down on Originals, How Africa Surprises Hollywood Folks Marc Jury discusses the appeal of the English Premier League, the challenges of serving 44 markets ...

French broadcaster Canal+ will shut South African video streaming app Showmax as it overhauls services offered by its newly acquired subsidiary MultiChoice. Launched in 2015, Showmax was an attempt to ...

MultiChoice will shut down Showmax on Thursday, 30 April 2026, ending a service once positioned as the South African pay-TV giant’s answer to Netflix. MultiChoice announced the plan to shut down ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Eight and a half years after its launch, African streaming service Showmax is ready for a bigger spotlight on the continent thanks ...

The decision reflects a focus on "financial discipline and investment optimization in an increasingly competitive and capital-intensive global streaming environment." By Georg Szalai Global Business ...

African streamer Showmax has secured rights to adapt the hit format “The Office” for South African audiences, in partnership with BBC Studios. The localized version will debut on both Showmax and ...

Africa's creatives and content producers are upset, fearful for the future and extremely concerned about where it will leave the continent's film and TV sector after Canal+'s announcement that it's ...

Following the news of Showmax operations winding down as a streaming platform, the platform has found a new home in DStv’s streaming app, DStv Stream. According to MultiChoice, a CANAL+ company, the ...

Canal+ CEO Maxime Saada says MultiChoice’s streaming platform, Showmax, was not a commercial success and that the company will cut further investments into the service. Speaking during Canal+’s ...

EXCLUSIVE: Showmax has unveiled trailer for Catch Me A Killer, the TV series about South Africa’s most famous serial killer profiler starring Game of Thrones’ Charlotte Hope. Co-produced with ...

EXCLUSIVE: Showmax content chief Yolisa Phahle has revealed how co-producing with international partners has helped the South Africa-based streamer compete with fierce SVoD competition, as a first ...