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Television
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Christians To Boycott Local Playboy Channels: “Porn is the new crack”
09 Dec 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
TopTV has signed an agreement with Playboy TV to add three adult TV channels from Playboy to their existing line-up in 2012. But Isak Burger and his Apostolic Faith Mission (AFM) is threatening a nationwide boycott campaign against TopTV. Burger says pornograhpy is “the new crack.”
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24-Hour Porn Channel Launching In January
05 Dec 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
Astra 4A satellite, the same satellite used by TopTV, will launch Porn Satellite TV, or PSat, across the country in January 2012. The 24-hour adult entertainment channel will be broadcast from outside of South Africa’s jurisdiction, which means South African authorities can do little to prevent it from traversing the airwaves.
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Jeremy Clarkson Says “Strikers Should Be Shot” Comment Was A Joke
02 Dec 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Jeremy Clarkson appeared earlier this week on the BBC’s “The One Show”. During his interview he said that public servants who are taking part in a strike “ought to be executed in front of their families”. But Clarkson says it was only a joke and that producers of the show were warned in advance and approved of the comments.
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Cape Town Angel Wows US X-Factor
21 Nov 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
If you’ve been following the US X-Factor, you might be aware that a country group of four stunningly beautiful angels is currently in the top nine of the competition. One of the group’s four members, it turns out, is from Cape Town.
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Re-make Mondays: Reboot ‘Em, Danno – Hawaii Five-0
21 Nov 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Long before Law and Order and the hydra-like CSI franchise, there was another brand of American police procedural that was a little lighter in tone, and tended to focus a lot more on the physical assets of the cast than the semantic aspects of a good forty minute whodunnit. Being set in beautful Hawaii didn’t hurt either.
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Cape Town Designer’s T-Shirt Pops Up Again In Modern Family
21 Nov 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Jaco Haasbroek is a designer from Cape Town. This guy designed a t-shirt so cool that it has now been worn twice on one of the biggest TV shows at the moment. The shirt is called “High 5” and it popped up in an episode of Modern Family last month, and again on last Wednesday’s episode. High-five!
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Idols Winner Dave Van Vuuren Throws Diva Tantrum At Corporate Gig
15 Nov 2011 by Seth Rotherham / 23 Comments
Multiple 2oceansvibe’s sources who attended the event have confirmed that Idols winner, Dave Van Vuuren did a corporate gig not too long ago for Samsung, during which he was expected to perform a few songs. Dave Van Vuuren, who is of the belief that his music will indeed change the world, got on stage and […]
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China Aggressively Launches English Language TV Services
09 Nov 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
In a continuation of its world domination, China Central Television, which produces the ruling Communist party’s news shows and other propaganda, is planning to broadcast English-language programming from the heart of the US capital of Washington DC. It has also built a studio facility in Nairobi, and plans to open a broadcasting centre in Europe too.
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Jersey Shore Goes To College
01 Nov 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
You might not think Jersey Shore is the sort of show that would spark serious academic debate, but lo and behold, the University of Chicago recently concluded a day long seminar on the dynamic and active scholarly field of “Jersey Shore studies”. No, really.
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Cape Town TV Launches 24-Hour Live Stream
01 Nov 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
CTV is Cape Town’s only community television station. But so far only viewers with an aerial that’s in the line-of-sight of Tygerberg could actually watch the channel. That all changed yesterday as they launched a 24-hour live stream, embedded on their website – taking their content global.
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Re-make Mondays: Hair In Strange Places – Teen Wolf
31 Oct 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
MTV, capitalising on a series of home runs in their scripted show offering decided to log on to the still simmering global tween-obsession with things that go bump in the night, and revive Teen Wolf for the Jersey Shore generation.
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Beavis and Butthead Are Back [VIDEO]
28 Oct 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
That’s right. Mike Judge, the man behind the Office Space and Idiocracy, has brought back his infamous 1990’s animated comedy. The first episode aired last night on MTV, and is pretty damn funny.
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Jersey Shore House Is Now Available For Rent
25 Oct 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
The now infamous house in Seaside Heights, New Jersey, is available to rent for the very reasonable price of only $2 500 per night. For this low price, you too can now blow out your hair, put on your fake tan and be a Guido. It’s everyone’s dream. You can even sleep in Snooki’s bed.
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MTV Issues Casting Call For Real World: Occupy Wall Street
19 Oct 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
The global movement against greed has been in the news a lot lately. The Occupy Wall Street protests have been going on for just over a month now, including dismal failures locally, but one network has seen fit to draw some profit from it.
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Re-make Monday: A Werewolf, A Vampire And A Ghost Walk Into A Bar: Being Human
17 Oct 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
This week we’re looking at Being Human, a personal favourite of mine that received the re-make treatment in the States just last year, while the British original continues next year into its fourth season.
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Sony Recalls 1,6 Million Bravia’s Because Of Fire Risk
12 Oct 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Sony is to recall 1,6 million of its Bravia brand LCD TVs sold worldwide since 2007. This comes after several serious malfunctions involving parts melting, and even possibly catching fire as a result, have occurred. Japan’s trade ministry today instructed Sony to recall the TV’s as a precautionary measure to prevent further incidents.
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SABC Spend R20 million On Luxury Vehicles For “News Team”
11 Oct 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
The SABC has long ago stopped being anything but a joke, due to mismanagement, scaly news editors, and failure to provide anything decent for us to watch. The latest scandal involving the nation’s broadcaster involves its spending R20 million on luxury vehicles for its “news team” in September.
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Supersport Presenter Accused Of Masturbating In Front Of Child
06 Oct 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 11 Comments
This morning we told you that Peter Davies has become the second Supersport Rugby World Cup anchor in as many months to be taken off air. The only feedback given was due to the pending of the conclusion of “a criminal case”. According to several news sites, Davies allegedly exposed his genitals and masturbated in front of a 15-year-old boy.
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Doh! The Simpsons Could Be Cancelled Over Actors’ Pay Dispute
05 Oct 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
One can understand the anger of Dan Castellaneta (Homer Simpson), Julia Kavner (Marge) and Nancy Cartwright (Bart) when Fox Television explained that they would be receiving a 45% pay cut. The broadcasting network claims they can’t afford production costs and, if the actors won’t budge, they’ll pull the plug. I think I speak for everyone when I say: Fox you, Fox.
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Re-Make Mondays: Second Verse, Same As The First- Snarf! It’s Thundercats
03 Oct 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Growing up in the 80s, there were two things that I would argue to my last breath during little and/or big break. First, red ice-suckers tasted better than green ones, and second, Thundercats was cooler than He-Man. That was basically it. No argument.
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Academics Upset At BBC For Labeling Florence Nightingale “Neurotic And Sexually Repressed”
28 Sep 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Two BBC-made documentaries on Florence Nightingale are currently being sold in the UK as teaching aids. A group of academics, however, have called for them to be recalled. They claim these films demean Miss Nightingale by portraying her as “a manipulative, neurotic and sexually repressed woman who inadvertently killed troops during the Crimean War through medical error.”
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The SABC Wants R1,6 Billion From Government For Digital TV
23 Sep 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
South African broadcasters are planning to launch their digital terrestrial television (DTT) offering in April next year. All except the SABC, that is. They want R1,6 billion from the government to make it happen, as well as R90 million for “marketing”, and also another R145 million for a “new digital master control centre.” No word yet on when they are actually going to start making decent shows.
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SABC Shells Out Big Bucks For Employees’ DSTV, M-Net Subs
16 Sep 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
A probe into the SABC has revealed that the national broadcaster has been paying for its employees’ M-Net and DStv subscriptions. You can’t really blame the SABC’s employees for preferring non-SABC programming. But it does seem a little silly for the national broadcaster to be forking out for its own staff’s subscription television “privileges”. Especially when online TV is cheaper.
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Think TV Has Hit Rock Bottom? Just Wait…
09 Sep 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
The NBC network in the States has greenlit a pilot for a series about a straight woman and her gay female best friend who are “navigating life and love in Los Angeles” called… wait for it… ‘My Best Friend Is A Lesbo’.
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Live Rugby Action At Caveau – That’s Where You Want To Be
08 Sep 2011 by Seth Rotherham / No Comments
Egg and bacon burger for 60 bucks, or Steak, egg and chips for under a hundred? Shame, they’ve made it terribly easy for us..
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Re-Make Mondays: It’s T&A Television, 2011 Style: Charlie’s Angels
05 Sep 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
It’s not just feature films that are receiving the re-make treatment these days, but also classic TV series. This week we take a look at the latest outing for crime-busting trio (or should that be ‘busty’?), Charlie’s Angels.
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The “P” Word Appears BBC TV [PICS]
25 Aug 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 2 Comments
You know that word that is normally preceded by “jou ma se”? Yes, that one. During a recent episode of Toy Stories on BBC (starring James May from Top Gear), that very same word sneakily popped up on screen. It appeared to be randomly written on the inside of a Spitfire plane replica that May was busy looking into.
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M-Net “Reprimands” Idols Contestant Freddie Van’Dango
24 Aug 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 3 Comments
As if it’s not bad enough suffering a broken ego, several bruises, and a broken cheekbone, M-Net has now also “reprimanded” Idols contestant Freddie Van’Dango. He drank alcohol on Friday night, tuned a DJ and was then apparently assaulted by a cage fighter. He claims he never raised so much as a fist himself, but does concede to having a “quick mouth and a rocker mentality.”
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Idols Finalist Apparently Beaten Up By A “Cage Fighter”
23 Aug 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 7 Comments
A bout of flu broke out in the Idols house last week. To help “lift their spirits” the contestants were given permission to go out in public on Saturday night – without supervision. Apparently Freddie van’Dango was in such good spirits after a while that he tuned a DJ and got his arse kicked by a “cage fighter” in the process.
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Make Way For Afghanistan’s “The Office”
15 Aug 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
The BBC is reporting that Afghanistan premiered their first ever satirical comedy television show last week, titled ‘The Ministry’. The show draws its origins from the multi-award winning British series ‘The Office’ that has been re-invented in over four countries world-wide, most famously in the USA where the misanthropic office manager was played by funny man Steve Carell. Read this story..
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