During the month, e.tv reported that they would be making changes to their primetime schedule by grouping shows like Kelders Van Geheime with House Of Zwide and the now axed Scandal!. They also further isolated e.tv News and Uzozisola: Regrets.
From 1st January, eExtra will be making some adjustments to its weekday morning schedule which mainly considered of old shows and reruns to primetime. This included House Of Zwide, Scandal!, Isitha: The Enemy and Smoke & Mirrors that is now axed.
Uzozisola: Regrets will broadcast daily in Smoke & Mirror's timeslot from 09:35 which is probably their way of making up for moving the Bollywood drama to late nights at 09:30 from 19 January.
Instead of airing IThemba Alibulali perhaps eExtra removed House Of Zwide in favour of eKasi: Our Stories in the 10:00 timeslot. This will be followed by Ashes To Ashes and Gold Diggers at 11:00 and 11:30 respectively all of which here are reruns.
Maybe this is eMedia's way of trying to give eExtra some uniqueness and open the gap to prioritise it's existing shows.
Kuma: The Other Wife, a primetime show is getting burnt off at 12:50 while as retaining its late night slot 23:00. For some odd reason Viola will be taking up its afternoon timeslot at 14:40.
The only sensible thing was moving Naagin to 12:00 as that is a rerun but with eExtra being home to these shows it's likely to anger viewers as supernatural shows often get the most attention.
Viola and eKasi: Our Stories, why do they exist? I mean eExtra would have been able to accommodate Kuma: The Other Wife and Naagin with the respect they deserve. Now you have a show that will get even less viewers and another that will barely get much.
eExtra's simultaneous broadcasts with e.tv for Yosef and Kelders Van Geheime are still intact during this period at least. But Yosef and Chrysalis can also be seen at 13:50 and 15:40 respectively.
To keep up, below is schedule for the channel during this period:
09:30 Uzozisola - Regrets
10:00 eKasi: Our Stories
11:00 Ashes To Ashes
11:30 Gold Diggers
12:00 Naagin
12:50 The Other Wife
13:50 Yosef
14:40 Viola
15:40 Chrysalis
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