BBC Worldwide couldn't bother to involve the Cape Town press covering television in its new Autumn Showcase TV preview.

It's funny (and not the ''ha ha'' kind) that BBC Worldwide couldn't involve the press from Cape Town covering television in the BBC Worldwide Autumn Showcase that was only held in Johannesburg. Nevermind that the biggest dedicated TV writers and journalists - both in terms of prolific writing as well as publication platform reach - are actually based in Cape Town.

In my opinion BBC Worldwide's Viviane Paxinos, senior commercial manager of BBC Worldwide's EMEA region and vice president of programming in the EMEA region, John Farrar need to catch a wake-up and actually not only do their presentation in Johannesburg but also Cape Town. And have the members of the press covering television there, although you're speaking to potential advertisers and trade partners. At the very least at least inform the press that you are talking about you're channels even if you're not going to bother to actually invite them to see what you're doing.

My dear frenemies, like Samantha Brighton from Channel24, Genevieve Terblanche from Tvplus, Clayton Morar, Tashi Tagg from TVSA, Emile Butler from Media24's TV Information services, to mention some - are dedicated, specialised television writers and critics. And yes. We're all based in Cape Town but have national reach. And we all live to write and tell about television - telling people (consumers, advertisers, viewers) about what TV channels are planning to show in upcoming months. We'd also tell about you. If you care to show us.