Most women want a little touch-up as often as possible, and they quickly do it during intermission and then again after the concert. But if your television symphony stretches eight years with no end in sight yet, you'd be forgiven for wanting to do a little more from time to time than just a powder dab here and there.
The longrunning 3Talk with Noeleen (SABC3, weekdays, 15:30) (henceforth known as and referred to as Three Talk) with Noeleen Maholwana-Sangqu unveiled its brand-new set today, the show's 4th at Urban Brew Studios in Johannesburg since the local talk show started eight years ago.
Of course Noeleen Maholwana-Sangqu hammed it up for the production and crew and the selected press in attendance. ''I was told ... I demand 12 dozen red roses!'' And later: ''I've never had a coffee table! This is my new home.'' A bit later she turned reflective and pensive. ''There will be no more circular floor, no more orange; no more brown,'' she said as she walked around her new set in centimetre high red stilettos that defied not just belief, but gravity.
''We drove Michael Gill mad,'' says Joanne Lurie, 3Talk with Noeleen producer about the new set design. ''We were sitting in the boardroom. Creative director Freddie Louw had an idea and he held it up and said 'here it is'. It had the configuration and the plasma TV screens and he came up with the basic look in a moment of brilliance and Michael Gill took it from there.''
''I'm still petrified that people are going to say it's ugly,'' says Joanne Lurie, ''and that they're basically going to say my child is ugly.''
Beyond the new set Noeleen Maholwana-Sangqu said she plans on continuing to give all her energy to making a talk show that connects with South Africans. ''Every show I do, five days a week, is really special. Everybody's got a problem. Everybody's got an issue to overcome. But it's once we talk to each other that we discover that there's many people who are going through the same exact thing.''
