An online video subscription service, Showmax customers will enjoy more content as it moves to rebrand in February 2024.
Showmax will debut 21 Showmax Originals from four African countries and the continent’s first standalone Premier League mobile streaming plan.
This follows a partnership between MultiChoice, the international media heavyweight Comcast’s NBCUniversal, and Sky last year.
Showmax Chief Executive Officer(CEO), Marc Jury said it will have three plans, including Showmax Entertainment, Showmax Entertainment Mobile, and Showmax Premier League Mobile.
“We will be kicking it off with a content slate packed with world-class entertainment from the world’s biggest brands plus more African Originals than ever before and the first ever mobile Premier League plan for Africa,” he said.
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Some of the lined-up programs include the Kenyan drama series Single Kiasi, back with both old and new faces, and adaptations of two South African bestsellers, Angela Makholwa’s a serial killer thriller Red Ink and Catch Me A Killer, the memoir of Micki Pistorius, South Africa’s first serial killer profiler.
Further, Showmax will also release four films on Valentine’s: Forever Yena, Intlawulo, Matilda en Matthys from South Africa, and The Counsellor from Nigeria.
Some of the international highlights include Mission Impossible, Dead Reckoning, and Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse, two of the ten biggest box office hits of 2023, as well as the second season of Halo in the US.
Showmax offers subscribers with a combination of original African content, first and exclusive international series, popular movies, premium documentaries, and the best kids’ shows.
