Hard Copy back after ten years

The only South African drama series that goes behind the scenes of a newspaper's newsroom, Hardcopy, returned to the air this past week after a break of ten years off the air, probably the biggest such return in South Africa ever.

The only original cast member to return to the show is Jody Abrahams, whose character (Benny Jacobs) has now been promoted to editor of the fictional newspaper, The Bulletin.

Over its first three seasons, which aired from 2005-2006 (before being reran countless times by the channel) covered things like editorial independence and the shift of newspapers from a hard news format to a more trashy and sensational tabloid format, and now back again.

This season, topics range from a newspaper editor burying a story which involves a relative to the battle between digital and traditional media, among other issues it will tackle from the world of journalism.

The co-creator of the show, Anton Harber, is now editor-in-chief at eNCA.

Hard Copy airs Mondays at 9pm on SABC3.