72 days: 11 issues to observe for as Massive Brother Titans debuts on DStv

Massive Brother Titans co-hosts Ebuka Obi-Uchendu and Lawrence Maleka.

TV SHOW: Massive Brother Titans

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With Massive Brother, Titans, the newest season of the African model of the Banijay actuality TV format, beginning tonight on DStv with contestants from South Africa and Nigeria, listed here are 11 issues to learn about and be careful for this season.

1. Tradition conflict?

There are all the time fights between the housemates in each season, as has been the case with Massive Brother Naija and Massive Brother Mzansi, and Massive Brother Titans will certainly be no completely different.

The contestants moving into the Massive Brother Titans home will likely be a composition of individuals from two very completely different African nations: South Africa and Nigeria, coming from two very completely different cultures. Like a Sport of Thrones actuality present, these within the “North” will battle these within the “South”… but additionally one another on their very own and by teaming up by means of alliances and romances.

Nomsa Philiso, MultiChoice CEO for normal leisure, says Massive Brother Titans “guarantees an abundance of South African and Nigerian swag, banter, romance, and all the things in-between”.

2. The way to watch it?

Massive Brother Titans will premiere with a 2-hour, 15-minute present on Sunday, 15 January at 20:00, simulcast on M-Internet’s Mzansi Magic (DStv 161), Mzansi Wethu (DStv 163), Africa Magic City (DStv 153) and Africa Magic Household (DStv 154) channels, with M-Internet and MultiChoice additionally working a Massive Brother Titans pop-up channel on channel 198 at some point of the season.

Stay exhibits will even be on Mzansi Magic on Sunday nights.

The present will run for 12 weeks till April, with the winner getting $100 000 (R1.68 million) after the 72 days. DStv subscribers will likely be voting to maintain their favorite housemates within the present. The winner will likely be decided by votes from throughout Africa.

3. Sunday night time evictions

DStv subscribers will see the dwell eviction of a housemate(s) on Sunday nights. Through the week, Biggie will announce who’s up for eviction and on Sunday nights, the co-hosts will announce who will likely be strolling the proverbial plank out of the camera-filled studio dorm.

4. Devoted watch blocks

In addition to the Sunday night time evictions, Massive Brother Titans will even retain the opposite devoted programming occasions. Busola Tejumola, MultiChoice Nigeria’s head of content material, says DStv subscribers will even be “having fun with particular Biggie diary periods, Head of Home video games, Friday night time events and duties”.

5. Co-hosts

Talking of co-hosts, Massive Brother Titans can have two co-hosts. Lawrence Maleka is the host from South Africa, and Ebuka Obi-Uchendu is the host of Massive Brother Naija. Look out to see how they work collectively and what the banter and on-screen presenter chemistry is like between them.

6. No bathe hour

Clamping down on the diploma of nudity this season, there will likely be no “bathe hour”. MultiChoice says DStv subscribers did not just like the bathe hour. It does not imply the present will likely be with out titillation and salacious content material – Massive Brother Titans does carry an age restriction of R18, and DStv decoders with a parental lock will block the present the place this age restriction is about.

7. Showmax

MultiChoice’s video streaming service Showmax will even carry Massive Brother Titans. There is not any phrase but on what further content material Showmax will carry, which it did in earlier seasons of Massive Brother Naija, however in accordance with MultiChoice, the truth present will stream and be accessible on Showmax in the UK, New Zealand and 45 nations throughout sub-Saharan Africa.

8. Biggie’s home

The housemates will all be in Johannesburg, much like Massive Brother Mzansi, with the producers making use of filming services in South Africa and with turbines to stop the present from chopping out attributable to load shedding. The inside look and design of the home have been stored a secret, with no inside photos launched this season beforehand to the media as a “sneak peek”.

9. What number of housemates?

What number of housemates will enter the home? We do not know. Do not be fooled by the variety of folks coming into the home on Sunday night time. In addition to the preliminary variety of South Africans and Nigerians coming into Massive Brother Titans on Sunday, the present is about so as to add some extra after just a few days, much like earlier seasons – and unbeknown to the present housemates, a few of them could possibly be “faux housemates” who get to remain if they don’t seem to be caught out, or instructed to be “spies”, or to infiltrate present relationships.

10. Disqualification

It is going to be attention-grabbing to see whether or not Massive Brother Titans contestants full the season with none disqualifications due to damaged guidelines. Nearly each Massive Brother Naija and Massive Brother Mzansi season have seen contestants getting disqualified or contestants selecting to depart for “private causes”. Within the final Massive Brother Mzansi season in 2022, a contestant left after just 48 hours. Within the newest Massive Brother Naija season in 2022, a contestant was disqualified over wig-ripping.

11. Titans title

Why Massive Brother Titans? It refers to South Africa and Nigeria being the 2 greatest economies on the African continent. John Ugbe, MultiChoice Nigeria CEO, says Massive Brother Titans is a particular version” of the truth collection: “A fusion of two TV phenomena – Massive Brother Naija and Massive Brother Mzansi. We’re bringing housemates from two big nations – Nigeria and South Africa, below one roof to present African leisure audiences intense drama like by no means earlier than”.