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First M-Net decided to move its weekly entertainment magazine All Access from its Thursday night perch to a Friday night berth (I broke that news RIGHT HERE), then dumped the beautiful Michael Gill designed All Access set, split up the main co-anchors Mark Bayly and Pabi Moloi, and now this: All Access taken off the air and going on hiatus to make way for sport.
And all of this in under a year for All Access, with the much-heralded M-Net show being rocked by several changes while its not even a year old yet. In the month before its first anniversary All Access has been ditched until Friday, May 21 at 19:30 when the first new episode of All Access will be back. In the meantime All Access has been dumped to make way for Super 14 matches being broadcast in the meantime on Friday nights on M-Net. Of course All Access disappearing off TV screens come after barely a month in its new Friday evening timeslot, which is making it extremely difficult for viewers to discover and transition with the entertainment magazine show to its new broadcast day of the week, since out of sight means out of mind for viewers who are unable to find and follow it.
Production sources working on the show are exasperated with the massive amount of changes on screen and behind the scenes of All Access. ''It's a lot of tinkering and adjustment for something that's not even a year old,'' a source said to me. Another one used the word ''exhausting'' and a third behind the scenes person involved with the show said ''we're doing the best given the available budget for All Access and what is possible under the circumstances. A lot of the people working on the show are working really hard to adapt as best they can to the constant changes.'' I'm also aware of a few people not happy with the way All Access has changed since April (who are working on the show itself; not viewers).
