Two years after a dramatic schedule change kykNET (DStv 144) is undoing the ratings damage it caused to some shows and will be moving its Afrikaans weekday soap Getroud met Rugby back from 21:00 to early prime time at 18:00 from July.
Getroud met Rugby that has turned a decade old since it started as a drama series in April 2009 and morphed into a soap, will move back to 18:00 on kykNET from 1 July after it was shunted to 21:00 on weekdays from July 2017.
The Overberg Productions soap filmed at Atlas Studios and following the lives of the fictional Stryders rugby team and surrounding community, was previously at 18:30 on the kykNET schedule before the move to 21:00 two years ago. From July it will serve as the lead-in for sister-soap Suidooster.
While previously saying the soap and other content shifted to later timeslots on kykNET "to make room for all our new content", the channel now says its "good news" that its current affairs shows Prontuit and KN Verslag in Gesprek are also moving to earlier timeslots.
The weekly Prontuit on Mondays with presenter Kabous Meiring will move from 22:00 to 21:00 from 8 July, with KN Verslag in Gesprek with presenter Waldimar Pelser on Wednesdays will move earlier from 21:30 to 21:00 from 3 July.
The earlier timeslots for both these shows will likely also help increase their ratings.
kykNET will add a new travelogue series, Elders: Japan, with Erns Grundling as presenter from Tuesday 2 July at 21:00 who previously did Elders: Die Camino.
Lui maar op, Belinda, is a new Afrikaans sitcom with Brümilda van Rensburg, Annelisa Weiland and Eric Nobbs part of the cast that will start on Monday 8 July at 20:30.
Alles Malan is a new drama series with Nadia Valvekens, Ivan Zimmermann, Albert Maritz and Elsabé Daneel in the cast starting on Tuesday 9 July at 20:00.
The food reality show, Kokkedoor will be back for a third season starting on Thursday 18 July at 20:00 with Hetta van Deventer-Teblanche and Nic van Wyk back as the judges, as well as food blogger Sam Woulidge joining them.
Filmed in Cape Town this time for 13 episdes, the show will kick off with 30 contestants.