Mzansi Magic has so far ignored questions and media enquiries made weeks ago as to why the channel cancelled the Homebrew Films production at the end of 2012 saying at the time it was "moving towards more exciting content" more in line with Mzansi Magic's audience.
All Access Mzansi was already a retool from All Access which started on M-Net and was then shifted to Mzansi Magic as All Access Mzansi for two seasons where it was adjusted for a black urban TV audience. The resurrected show will now once again undergo changes when it returns on 20 June such as an interactive viewer element.
Viewers older than 21 will be able to invite All Access Mzansi to their own events. The requirement is that events need to be "fabulously trendy and unmistakably the place to be on that day" whether its a birthday, graduation, anniversary or something totally original. Requests can be send to info@allaccessmzansi.co.za for the show to possibly cover it.
About the new presenters' trio "we were looking for presenters who know what it's like to be in the spotlight themselves and are able to rbing that to the inserts and interviews they do, in a relaxed and informal fashion," says Yolisa Phahle, the channel director for special interest channels at M-Net in a statement.
ProVerb is again the presenter of the new season of the reality show Idols which will start on M-Net and Mzansi Magic as a co-production in July; Dineo Ranaka is a presenter on e.tv's Club 808 music magazine show and baring her tumultuous personal life in a reality show on Vuzu, another M-Net supplied channel on DStv.
"ProVerb, Nandi and Dineo fit that bill just perfectly and we're thrilled that they are going to be taking All Access Mzansi into a fantastic new world," says Yolisa Phahle.
The resurrected show will again do celebrity interviews and red carpet coverage, as well as tie-in synergy inserts with Idols such as contestant interviews but in the retooled version All Access Mzansi will ditch the more glossy and formal approach and interview style in favour of covering street and club events.
"I'm super excited that All Access Mzansi is returning to our screens and even more delighted to be a part of it again," says ProVerb in the statement, the only returning former All Access Mzansi presenter. (Pabi Moloi, Bridget Masinga and Jason Greer won't be back.)
"I'm thrilled that I've been blessed with an opportunity to host All Access Mzansi," says Dineo Ranaka, "the show, its producers and former presenters have set a high standard and I hope to suavely fit into that standard. I am looking forward to giving the best of me."
"I'm absolutely elated to be a part of such an amazing show, mostly becaue it is coming back bigger and better," says Nandi Mngoma who have been filming inserts for the past two weeks.
