You're reading it here first.
Sunrise co-hosts Sindy Mabe and Graeme Richards [see Editors note at the end of this post] are going to get to sleep in a bit this week - or maybe for a bit longer - after e.tv's been forced to shut down its weekday breakfast show due to structural damage to the Hyde Park studio over the weekend.
Sunrise was replaced this morning on e.tv between 06:00 and 08:00 with Morning News Today, the breakfast show of the eNews Channel (DStv 403) with Iman Rappetti and Macfarlane Moleli that also originates from the same Hyde Park e.tv headquarters in Johannesburg, but is done one floor up from the Sunrise studios in Studio 101. E.tv's decided to use the eNews Channel's Morning News Today feed while the structural damage - caused by studio's lightning grid over the weekend - is being repaired.
E.tv says Sunrise ''will be back on air as soon as the damage has been repaired.''
[UPDATE 18:55 - I'm told that Graeme Richards is no longer with Sunrise. I was not aware when I wrote this original post that he had left the e.tv morning show just over a month ago after its second birthday earlier this year. I try to be on top of everything television and didn't know he left, although I've seen him at a few TV things around Johannesburg the past while. We certainly didn't talk about him going away. Something slipped by me and its my mistake. I'm told that Sunrise producers are currently looking for a replacement.]
