{"id":23612,"date":"2025-10-13T03:46:41","date_gmt":"2025-10-13T07:46:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/south-african-drama-series-legacy-scores-fast-channel\/"},"modified":"2025-10-13T11:40:55","modified_gmt":"2025-10-13T15:40:55","slug":"south-african-drama-series-legacy-scores-fast-channel-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/south-african-drama-series-legacy-scores-fast-channel-2\/","title":{"rendered":"South African Drama Series Legacy Scores FAST Channel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The South African drama series <em>Legacy <\/em>will have its own FAST channel courtesy of a new deal between wedotv and ZDF Studios.<\/p>\n<p>ZDF Studios holds the distribution rights to the series, which boasts more than 100 episodes. The wedotv: Legacy FAST channel is created and distributed by wedotv.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen ZDF Studios came to us with the idea of a channel dedicated to <em>Legacy<\/em>, we wanted to make sure the key elements of a successful single IP channel were in place: quality, quantity, story and proven audience ratings generator,\u201d said Philipp Rotermund, CEO of wedotv. \u201c<em>Legacy <\/em>has all of those key qualities in spades. It\u2019s also incredibly compelling and binge-worthy, helping keep viewers engaged within the platform ecosystem, which is essential for advertisers.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere is a real upside to creating and launching a channel like wedotv: Legacy\u2014It has a built-in fan base,\u201d said Florian Streit, Director Drama at ZDF Studios. \u201cSingle IP channels work well because they are immediately identifiable to fans. <em>Legacy<\/em> is also a long-running series that maintains an exceptional level of quality across all episodes. \u201d<\/p>\n<p>The series is produced in South Africa by M-Net and was created by Gwydion Beynon and Phathutshedzo Makwarela.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The South African drama series Legacy will have its own FAST channel courtesy of a new deal between wedotv and ZDF Studios.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":290,"featured_media":23611,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[70],"tags":[11481,11482,3753,1634,11483,11480,9941,4932],"class_list":["post-23612","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-top-stories","tag-florian-streit","tag-gwydion-beynon","tag-legacy","tag-m-net","tag-phathutshedzo-makwarela","tag-philipp-rotermund","tag-wedotv","tag-zdf-studios","pmpro-has-access"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.7 - 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