Firstly - big gap in the episode that went out at 18:30. On Thursday Stephen Edwards still asked Jansie to marry him and go to Switzerland. In tonight's episode they were already married, and back and speaking of getting hitched in PAST tense. So, a BIG GAP between the episodes. Who knows whether it's one or a multiple episodes that the soapie skipped into the future?
Then there were the unending technical problems that plagued the episode from beginning to end and made viewers furious!
The episode was much shorter in story time that usual - about 15 minutes only of the 22 episode length.
Ad breaks stopped and started at random right through. Ads happened without the Egoli title card that indicated the start and end of commercial breaks. One ad for Castle Light for instance started playing while Egoli was on, meaning that you could see BOTH the conversation between characters AND the ad superimposed on each other.
Then you saw the white letters on black background cards flashing at random throughout the whole episode with the words ''Commercial One'', ''Commercial Two'', ''Commercial Three'' and so on right through the show.
I immediately started tracking down M-Net people to get answers and find out what went wrong.
As of yet, M-Net has no idea what went wrong.
''We apologize to all M-Net viewers for the inconvenience,'' says Lani Lombard, head of M-Net publicity. ''We're trying to fond out what the problem is and we will rectify it and rebroadcast the episodes for the least amount of inconvenience possible for viewers.''