It seems as if the channel's late night talker, 'Larger Than Life,' is officially canceled. It does not appear on the channel's schedule for the foreseeable future and when show host, Jason Goliath, was asked on Twitter where the show was, he simply replied, 'We're Done,' with a few negative looking emojis after that [Apparently they 'emojis' and not 'emoticons' as I've been calling them].
Daytime show, Trending SA, which airs at the ungodly hour of midday when everyone is at work or school and not even on lunch break, takes over the 10pm hour from Larger than Life. The tone of the show, which recently saw one of the hosts, Pabi Moloi, will shift from a what is happening now to a what happened today format. Though mainly a chit chat show, Trending SA has been a very enjoyable news show [at least personally] at midday providing updates on things like student protests and other big news stories as long as they trended with as much depth as a news bulletin but in a more relaxed manner.This also meant that the show was a sort of a news bulletin for those individuals without pay tv or internet access before the 1pm lunch time news bulletins went on air. I hope it will continue being that informative at 10pm with a larger audience available, especially now that no free to air channel has a late night news bulletin.
No official word on why this was done but one can assume it had something to do with low viewership. Now, low viewership in itself is not a bad thing, especially for late night or daytime. The problem is the cost associated with the programming. The channel could easily put old reruns and bundle ads for those shows with bigger shows yet still make a profit. However, both Trending SA and Larger Than Life is locally produced and puts out new episodes daily, both of which make them expensive to produce.
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