LNN with Loyiso Gola currently in its 8th season after three years but receiving very little in terms of publicity from eNCA, and MasterChef South Africa which just finished its second season on M-Net, both scored nominations in the extremely strongly contested international version of the Emmys, honouring the best work in television internationally.
The International Emmy Awards from the International Academy of Television Arts and Sciences shortlisted 36 nominees across the award's nine categories.
LNN with Loyiso Gola from Diprente Productions scored a nomination as one of the four best programmes in the comedy category.
The eNCA weekly show which sadly isn't on all year such as Tech Report, Maggs on Media or Africa 360 has made name brands out of puppet Chester Missing, and the fictional roving international reporter David Kibuuka who could have actually have his own spin-off show.
MasterChef South Africa from Quizzical Pictures and Lucky Bean Media scored a nomination as one of the four shortlisted programmes from across the world in the category for non-scripted entertainment.
The winners in all the categories will receive their awards on 25 November at the 41st International Emmy Awards gala in New York.
"I want to thank every South African who've ever watched an episode," Loyiso Gola said on eNCA.
"The channel heads, Debbie Meyer [executive producer of current affairs at eNCA] and Patrick Conroy [group head of eNCA] who we interact with every week and who we fight with every week about what should or shouldn't go on the show," said Loyiso Gola.
"I'm happy to be nominated. I talk for a living and for the first time ever I'm speechless. I want to thank Debbie Meyer and Patrick Conroy and Monde Twala [e.tv's group head of channels] for the constant support."
M-Net didn't immediately respond to a media enquiry about the MasterChef South Africa nomination.
