The top award collector at this year’s South African Film & Television Award (Safta) has gone on a production break due to the national lockdown. The lockdown has really put a damp on life as Mzansi and the world knows it with many normal activities having to be paused as many people stay home to fight the spread of the coronavirus.
Mzansi’s productions houses during level 5 have had to put their scripts and cameras down. As of lockdown level 4, many production houses have returned to work but just not soon enough as now most have run out of episodes and are forced to go on production breaks.
The River on Friday announced that it will be going off-air for two weeks as they make up for the lost time.
“As you know, Covid-19 has affected all of us. Like all other productions, we also had to stop shooting during Level 5 lockdown, which affected us in profound way; resulting in us not having enough episodes to submit to 1Magic for broadcast. We have resumed shooting, and will be back in two weeks,” shared Tshedza Pictures who produces The River.
In other news – Shauwn Mkhize’s reality show #KwaMamkhize is coming back for another Season
Avid viewers of astute Durban-based entrepreneur Shauwn Mkhize‘s hit reality show KwaMamkhize- which is centred around her oh-so-glamorous and opulent lifestyle, can finally heave a sigh of relief because their favourite reality show is coming back.
One of the cast members of the show Tha Simelane, posted a video on set with the caption “KwaMamkhize season 2 is loading”. Although we are not sure whether they have started filming Shauwn replied to Tha Simelane’s post with a huge YES! The video got fans of the show in a frenzy as the season of it, left many begging for more. Read more
Source: Zalebs
