Good Monday
...And goodbye to the apparently hottest winter weekend South Africa has had yet. They say the Durban July was absolutely deserving of the great rave it has been given. If you didn't make it to Durban for the royal what what of the July, then SABC made sure you're catered for by bringing you the Monaco/Afrikaans royal wedding. Apparently it was aired on 3. I didn't watch it and I didn't see it trending on twitter, sooo...nuff said.
Last night TopTV also fed their 1million subscribers with the slightly delayed broadcast of the BET Awards. Yha, last night was the one night you'd have wished you had not kept your DStv decoder. And for the first time, the TopTV subscribers felt like creme de la creme...finally they could also discuss their shows. hihihi (raising the peace sign to Sobza)
Still on the BET Awards, we give it to TopTV for recognising an opportunity for publicity when they saw one. They are said to have paid for Teargas's trip to the Awards after they'd been nominated. Though the boys didn't win, a nomination is recognition, right? We are proud.
Moving along,
I wrote last week sometime about how proud I was of Muvhango and their abuse storyline, i.e. Meme & KK. I thought it was well-researched and it was engaging and well- acted. Well...let's just say I hold the Muvhango writers to a somewhat high regard and seeing that their stories have changed face n'all...I like the way they have moved from the traditional stuff and they are showing some thinking beyond just thinking.
You can imagine how disappointed I was when they opened the revelation that the reason KK is behaving the way he does is as a result of his relationship with his father. ///yawn///. Whether the abuse he received from his dad was mental, emotional, physical or sexual, I still say the story is cliched and I am disappointed. I had expected Muvhango to come up with something new, something that will shock us; not some Tyler Perry sound-alike. Or perhaps I just expected too much.
Still on disappointment, what is it that the BigBrother team is doing, bathong? First they overloaded themselves with two fully equipped houses, then they had an electricity cut-off which they ofcourse claimed it had been staged, then they gave a mild live show yesterday. Some of us don't take too kindly to displayed incompetence and disrespect. What the BigBrother team is going through right now is somewhat saddening. It's like someone has been fired or has quit and some people are too proud to admit that he left a gap that needs to be filled. Audio failures every 20minutes cannot make any show look good.
And the people are so bad at crisis management it's embarrassing. Especially when their screen starts to read LAN settings...or...updating. Hehehe. Shame man, I think this is the worst organised show in the history of BigBrother Africa.
Incompetence is just ugly. People should stop holding on to jobs that they cant do. With the rate of unemployment in this country, people should develop a spirit of giving and jobs should be moving hands like a chibuku eTarven.
Look at the team at Generations, for instance. They should've handed down their titles long ago already. It's always said that when you stay in one job for too long without any new challenges, you start to become comfortable and that only results in mediocre work. And what is happening on the set of Generations is exactly that. Poorly researched stories, bad execution of even those stories that you'd have thought at least they are about to deliver.
The thing at Generations is that they have a rotten attitude that says, "we're still the most watched soapie, so eat that!", "you still watch us after you call us mediocre, so talk to the hand!". It's just sad.
For a show that has been said to be centred around the advertising world and "set in the cutthroat world of media communications" for almost twenty years, you'd sort of expect them to put some thinking bone into their stories, their scenes and deliver in a much better way.
There's nothing that annoys me more than those end-of-meeting scenes that Sharon or Kenneth or Dumisani or Sibusiso, Dineo or these days even Senzo or Lungile ends with... "Get to work, people!" And a group of mute "creatives" walk off screen. That is soooooo embarrassing.
Then there was the coffin that was filled with bricks and buried then later extracted and carried to a shebeen. I don't know of a council of any city that allows you to extract a coffin and carry it through the community and back to your house. I would imagine there are people who are hired to do the digging and the extraction and I do not think any policy would allow them to go open the coffin up in a crowded shebeen and leave it there, nogal.
As for Mashaba's house being turned into a convent in Rio de Janeiro and Kenneth and Dineo screaming to the nuns is South African vernac, I don't know.
Another soapie that needs to get off its high horse is Rhythm City. It has been overly praised and now they think they live on the high. Producing crap stories or the rich getting richer and the poor poorer...they just keep turning around and delivering the same message in different scenarios.
The Khuses are just not getting their break, if their children are not doing drugs, they drop out of school, or fall pregnant or come out of the closet or run corrupt tender projects or there's an encounter with a mashonisa. Eish.. Lehagotweng.. black familes do have something positive sometimes.
Anyway, yha...that was our Monday World...
A huge shout-out to Makisto, who is allegedly currently shooting a documentary for SowetoTV, Makisto Goes To Tzaneen. We'd like to remind him to stop by the Indian shop and buy some proper-looking curtains; No frills. Hehe