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The intense and massive winter snowstorm in America caused the delay of the start of the reality show
I Get That a Lot on M-Net because the video cassettes didn't arrive (and which will now only be starting this week on M-Net) while the 25th and final season of
The Oprah Winfrey Show set to start tomorrow on SABC3 might also be delayed, also because of video cassettes that haven't arrived yet.
M-Net now hopes to start the reality show
I Get That a Lot this week Thursday at 19:30 after the video cassettes didn't arrive on time. In order to minimize disruption to the M-Net schedule the show - in which celebrities go and work ''ordinary'' jobs to see if they'll be recognized and then say ''I'm not that famous person but I get that a lot'' - will still start with the first episode but will cut out one episode from the order run.
The Oprah Winfrey Show is supposed to starts its 25th and final season on SABC3 tomorrow (Tuesday) at 17:35 but SABC3 also haven't received any tapes yet due to snow according to insiders. Because the broadcaster haven't received the video cassettes, the channel isn't able to say (because nobody knows) what episodes are on there and whether the South African season will also start with the same season premiere as was the case in America. The previous two
Oprah season premiere episodes didn't start on SABC3 with what the season premiere episodes were in America in the 23rd and 24th seasons and only followed later.
SABC3 ran into the same problem in December before the supposed start of
Survivor: Gabon when severely bad weather also disrupted tape delivery and pushed the show's starting date out by a week.
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