e.TV’s first local medical drama soapie Durban Gen has been reportedly replaced with a new TV drama titled Nikiwe.
According to TVSA reports, Nikiwe, which is produced by Thomas Gumede and Lungile Radebe from Parental Advisory Productions will premiere on e.tv on Monday 24 April at 18h30 when Durban Gen ends.
The news surfaced after News24 reported that the hospital drama, which is produced by Stained Glass TV production launched on e.TV in October 2020 will be coming to an end.
According to News24 e.TV confirmed in May 2022 in a statement that the hospital drama will be coming to an end in January 2023 and the decision was based upon the ongoing review of the on-air life cycle of the production’s shows.
“e.TV can confirm that the hospital drama Durban Gen will be coming to an end in January 2023. The decision to decommission the daily drama is part of a business strategy which includes the ongoing review of the on-air life-cycle of all our shows. e.TV continues to look forward to fulfilling its mandate of producing exceptional and relevant local content, and the production has successfully achieved its part of the obligation throughout the past 2 years,” reads the statement.
Speaking about the new soapie, e.TV’s Executive Producer Mark Madai revealed in a statement: “Exciting times are ahead of us, as a channel we fell in love with this story concept because it also follows the lives of the youth, we’ve explored all possible dilemmas that this market would go through and translated them to screen, giving viewers a product that they’ll resonate with, night in, night out.”
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