What silently started out as a little 30 minute politics based chat show on a Sunday night has grown into must watch programming for anyone interested in national politics, expanding to 1 hour permanently after constantly running over time during its first few weeks.
With its ability to attract political heavyweights as guests, the show has become television to talk about, often creeping up Twitter's Trending Topics list which, on a Sunday is usually filled with sports and shows like Idols and Big Brother, is not an easy task to achieve.
The show has also tried out various tweaks to its format, bringing in an in-studio audience to ask guests questions, to just being political news analysis to being in-depth political interviews.
The final edition for the year looked back at the year's top politcal stories with panelists Somadoda Fikeni, Adam Habib and Sipho Seepe.
When she initially joined ANN7 to become their Senior Political Correspondent, her work as anchor of their State of the Nation Address coverage and other earlier work after making the jump from just being a journalist made me feel skeptical about having her in this expanded role.
However, she soon grew into the perfect all round 'political correspondent' seamlessly flowing between providing analysis during a midweek news report to moderating a debate on a Sunday night.
Politcal Edge, along with Asanda Magaqa's Between the Lines, made ANN7 a news channel worth watching on a Sunday, a relatively slow news day. But Between the Lines was recently suspended indefintely, so the sudden 'end of season' that Politcal Edge had seems very questionable.
Nonetheless, it will be interesting to see what tweaks are made to the show when it returns, if it does, next year on South Africa's youngest news channel.
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