BREAKING. Scandal! on e.tv becoming a 5 day a week soap from 5 July; finally adding a 5th episode on Fridays.

e.tv is extending its weekday primetime soap Scandal! to 5 days a week from the current 4 episodes per week, with the first Friday episode going out on the South African free-to-air commercial broadcaster from Friday 5 July.

Despite a complete lack of any kind of communication from e.tv's publicity department to all South Africa's TV writers and critics about upcoming local content changes on the red letter channel, I can tell that e.tv has ramped up its Scandal! episode production to now deliver 5 episodes per week.

e.tv also has a international format game show planned which will be produced in Cape Town, and will also have another celebrity reality show and introduce boxing as a sport which the past few years got marginalised in terms of coverage on the SABC.

I asked e.tv for a possible interview with Monde Twala, e.tv's head of channels earlier in the week; was told he is not in the country.

The eKasi: Our Stories programming strand which started out as 13 episodes per season will increase to 52 episodes per year.