M-Net subscribers are once again complaining about the TV drama Homeland - not about the show itself but that M-Net is broadcasting Homeland in an inappropriate timeslot.
After major complaints from M-Net subscribers in 2012 during the first season of Homeland during which viewers were shocked and upset over M-Net's decision to screen Homeland at 20:30 given the content, M-Net has just started showing the second season of Homeland - again at 20:30.
Viewers who didn't want to see scenes on M-Net of masturbation, nudity and sex at 20:30 - with some even complaining at the Broadcasting Complaints Commission of South Africa (BCCSA) said "the time schedule is completely inappropriate".
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Last year M-Net said that the pay-TV broadcaster is aware of complaints on social media and at the BCCSA.
After that M-Net moved the second season of Homeland to an appropriate starting time of 21:30.
Yet M-Net, which calls itself a responsible broadcaster, decided to once again schedule the new third season of Homeland on Mondays at 20:30 again, prompting a new slew of complaints from M-Net subscribers over not the brilliant show, but the timeslot.
M-Net isn't explaining why the second season of Homeland was at 21:30 and is now back at 20:30 for the third season, but says in response to a media enquiry that "Homeland is a highly acclaimed, Emmy award winning series that deserves a primetime spot on the M-Net schedule."
"The 20:30 slot is half an hour after the watershed and the show is accompanied by clear content warnings," says M-Net.
