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I can reveal the brand-new All Access logo: Gone is the dramatic bright red and black logo of All Access (now on Fridays at 19:30 on M-Net) replaced with sunset soft tones. The opening theme song is also brand-new and less dramatic as well, with a more subdued ditty that's more temperate (yet tonally still rhythmic).
I was FIRST RIGHT here last week to tell you that All Access is shaking up the production. I broke the news in February that All Access would be moving to Fridays in April. Then I was first to reveal earlier this week that Bruce Dennill and Louise Saint-Claire will be joining All Access in a new movie slot.
Another gonner with the new Friday revamp is All Access co-host Pabi Moloi (although just temporarily). Co-host Mark Bayly was joined in Cape Town by Tammy-Anne Fortuin, both suitably dressed in pitch black . . . as if to mourn Pabi Moloi's on location absence. The first episode of All Access in its new Friday night berth started with an extremely akward looking and feeling introduction to explain all the changes.
''As from this week, All Access goes au natural as we venture out of studio and into some of the most beautiful spaces in our country,'' said Tammy-Anne Fortuin.
''I don't have my usual sidekick beside me,'' explained Mark Bayly. ''Because we're coming to you from beautiful Cape Town, who better to have as a co-host than one of Cape Town's most beautiful daughters, the lovely Tammy-Anne Fortuin . . .''
