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Charly's Cake Angels, the delightful South African cake baking docu-reality show set in Cape Town will no longer be on SABC3 and is moving to the Food Network for the brand new second season from September.
Charly's Cake Angels follows the cake baking adventures of cake momma Jacqui Biess and her cake baker daughters in South Africa's most famous and best cake shop and will no longer be on SABC3 as the show is moving to the Food Network for its second season.
The SABC and SABC3 is losing yet another high-quality local television production which used to be one of its first-run on-air TV properties, and I can reveal that the new first-run second season of Charly's Cake Angels will now start on the Food Network (DStv 175) from 16 September.
New episodes of Charly's Cake Angels will be shown on weekdays at 12:40 and repeated in primetime at 18:30.
TV critics and viewers raved over the well-received Charly's Cake Angels, produced by Cooked in Africa Films, when the first season was shown on SABC3 from the end of 2011. The Food Network subsequently picked up the show and also broadcast the first season globally since September 2012.
Viewers loved the well filmed and colourful drama behind the scenes of Charly's Bakery in Cape Town's Fringe district where Jacqui and her daughters together with a coterie of eccentric and hilarious characters create dazzling cake confectionery.
Production commenced on a second season of Charly's Cake Angels but SABC3 stalled on picking up the show. The Food Network however loved it and decided to take the new second season.
Asked whether SABC3 will be showing the second season of Charly's Cake Angels, Lefa Afrika, SABC3's acting channel head said SABC3 is not currently in any discussions to carry more episodes or seasons of the show.