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I can exclusively reveal that there's been talks and dicussions within M-Net about moving the entertainment magazine show All Access from M-Net (DStv 101) to Mzansi Magic (DStv 107) from early in 2011.
I broke the news earlier this year that All Access would move to a new Friday night timeslot in April and ditch its high-gloss studio format which then all happened, and now I'm told All Access might move again in 2011 - this time to a new channel. The one and a half year old show is currently in production hiatus, having finished its contract for 2010.
''I know that there has been discussions about All Access moving from M-Net to Mzansi Magic but no decision has been taken,'' an M-Net source tells me. Another source says: ''M-Net is planning on moving most of its odd local productions, just not Carte Blanche and the new soap, to Mzansi Magic and other channels slowly.''
Says a third insider source to me: ''All Access is most probably moving to Mzansi Magic soon within the start of 2011,'' and adds: ''All Access wasn't doing very well at all. It's been dropping [in viewership]. Not to be racist but All Access is more a white-skewed show, so if it does move it will have to be adapted for more the black market - more Pabi Moloi's as presenters. Who knows, maybe a new presenter search like what Top Billing on SABC3 does. Mzansi Magic is being positioned as the new home of local South African productions, although there's plans for a new M-Net City channel as well in 2011.''
