Another first for South Africa's TV industry is the very first TV comedy series which will be produced for a community TV station in South Africa - BayTV in Port Elizabeth has commissioned a comedy series which could possibly also be syndicated to the community TV stations SowetoTV (DStv 150) and 1KZN (TopTV 187).
This groundbreaking project is intended as a training project for young filmmakers who will be producing the comedy series for BayTV in association with Urban Brew Studios and Denise Roodt from The Media Workshop who recently also served as deputy chairperson of the board of BayTV and was a senior journalist with the SABC.
The comedy series for BayTV will be the first of its kind in South Africa, since community television in the country don't have the budget or expertise to bring to the screen anything else than mostly talk shows and current affairs documentary type programming.
