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I can exclusive break the news that the long-gestated make-over and brand-new 3Talk with Noeleen on SABC3 will happen on Monday 4 July at 15:30 that will include a brand-new set, opening theme and theme song in a special live episode.
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''Everybody is hard at work,'' an insider whispers to me. ''This [4 July] is going to be the biggest transformation of 3Talk since it started - while essentially remaining the same show. It will just be made better''.
SABC3 ordered a drastic revamp of the look and feel of 3Talk with Noeleen as far back as the end of 2009 and wanted the make-over to start January 2010.
Then the relaunch was pushed to April 2010 for 3Talk's 7th birthday, then May 2010, then July 2010 to co-incide with the Soccer World Cup. Then SABC3 didn't want the revamp to get lost in the attention going to viewers watching soccer and pushed it again to October 2010. Yet again the 3Talk with Noeleen make-over was postponed to the beginning of 2011, and then - finally - July 2011.
Although the initial long-planned introduction of a daily live studio audience for 3Talk with Noeleen that was on the cards for a very long time, a source familiar with the long make-over saga told me that in the end - and because of the drawn-out revamp - it's not happening anymore. ''If it happened when it originally would have happened there wold have been shows before a live studio audience. The sort of town hall meeting kind. So much time passed that people changed their minds back,'' I'm told.
