{"id":71960,"date":"2025-10-13T14:49:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-13T14:49:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/71960\/"},"modified":"2025-10-13T14:49:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-13T14:49:07","slug":"wedotv-zdf-studios-launch-legacy-fast-channel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/71960\/","title":{"rendered":"Wedotv, ZDF Studios Launch ‘Legacy’ FAST Channel"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tCANNES, France \u2014 wedotv<\/a>, the global free ad-supported streaming network, is partnering with Germany\u2019s ZDF Studios<\/a>, to create and distribute a FAST channel dedicated to just one title: landmark South African drama series \u201cLegacy.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tZDF Studios already represents the series globally outside , bringing it to market at 2023\u2019s Mipcom<\/a>.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tAs many companies turn to YouTube to build IP, then approach streaming services with masses of data on the result, the single IP channel \u2013 wedotv: Legacy \u2014 now created and distributed by wedotv \u2013 shows companies approaching IP the other way round. First released in 2020 on South Africa\u2019s M-Net, a division of MultiChoice, and now a Canal Plus company, the thriller about how a family tears itself apart in a succession battle built a huge fandom in South Africa and fame abroad. It is now leveraging digital to open up new audiences.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tM-Net\u2019s first telenovela, \u201cLegacy\u201d also underscores a new pathway to success\u00a0\u2013 think Spain\u2019s \u201cThe Vow\u201d and \u201cSue\u00f1os de Libertad\u201d \u2013 by\u00a0bringing premium production values to a novela narrative which, despite this, doesn\u2019t hide telenovelas\u2019 melodrama heart.<\/p>\n

\n\tThis comes with the series creators and its fictional world. \u201cLegacy\u201d was produced by South African powerhouse Tshedza Pictures, behind the International Emmy-nominated telenovela \u201cThe River\u201d whose co-founders, Gwydon Beynon and Phathu Makwarela, created the series.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tIt is set in a world of dazzling opulence, caught by the mansion of the Price family, whose patriarch, Sebastian Price has built up Legacy Investments into a billionaire behemoth. The family mansion is a huge white marble affair replete with a pool and rose garden. The women wear stunning fashion numbers, Sebastian\u2019s wife Dineo Price slinking down a staircase in a cleavage revealing skimpy number in its opening minutes.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tSebastian chooses and then rejects at least two successors in Ep. 1\u2019s first 15 minutes, prompting his own murder, and a succession war as his bitter ex-wife and their unprincipled daughter Felicity will do anything to stop Dineo from shaping their playboy son into his successor. Legacy swept best telenovela and multiple other plaudits at South Africa\u2019s 2021 SAFTA awards.<\/p>\n

\n\tAmong a large South African star-studded and notably diverse cast, the series toplines Dawid Minnaar (\u201cPoppie Nongena\u201d), Sean-Marco Vorster (\u201cWarrior\u201d) and the late Michelle Botes (\u201cIsidingo\u201d) who won SAFTA Golden Horns for actress and supporting actress for her performance.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe smash-hit, Award-winning series \u201cLegacy\u201d\u00a0(104\u00d745\u2019) transports viewers into the high-stakes world of investment billionaires \u2014 where wealth is limitless, rivalries run deep, and family loyalty comes at a deadly price. Behind the glittering fa\u00e7ade of the Price dynasty lies a battlefield of power, passion, and betrayal. As long-buried secrets explode and nothing and no one is safe, wedotv and ZDF Studios announced Monday at Mipcom.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cWhen ZDF Studios came to us with the idea of a channel dedicated to \u2018Legacy,\u2019 we wanted to make sure the key elements of a successful single IP channel were in place:\u00a0quality, quantity, story, and proven audience ratings generator,\u201d noted Philipp Rotermund, CEO of wedotv. \u201cLegacy\u201d has all of those key qualities in spades.\u00a0It\u2019s also incredibly compelling and binge-worthy, which helps keep viewers engaged within the platform ecosystem, which is essential for advertisers.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cThere is a real upside to creating and launching a channel like wedotv: \u2018Legacy\u2019 \u2014 It has a built-in fan base,\u201d said Florian Streit, Director, Drama, ZDF Studios. \u201cSingle IP channels work well because they are immediately identifiable to fans.\u00a0\u2018Legacy\u2019 is also a long-running series that maintains an exceptional level of quality across all episodes.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CANNES, France \u2014 wedotv, the global free ad-supported streaming network, is partnering with Germany\u2019s ZDF Studios, to create…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":71961,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[146,85,46,28178,411,51338,51339],"class_list":["post-71960","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-entertainment","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-mipcom","tag-tv","tag-wedotv","tag-zdf-studios"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71960","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71960"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71960\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/71961"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}