EXCLUSIVE. All Access Mzansi a go for a third time - cancelled magazine show returning to Mzansi Magic for a 3rd time; with new production company.

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Magazine show All Access Mzansi is returning to Mzansi Magic (DStv 161) - but it won't be the same show and it will be done by a new production company.

With Viacom International Media Networks Africa (VIMN Africa) and NBCUniversal Networks International all getting into the local gossip and entertainment magazine show scene with BET BUZZ and the E! Specials on E! Entertainment, Mzansi Magic is reviving All Access Mzansi.

First a brief history: M-Net commissioned All Access as its Top Billing from Homebrew Films - then sadly abruptly cancelled it after two years.

Mzansi Magic then picked up All Access but modified it as a pay-TV type Selimathunzi, renaming it All Access Mzansi ,with new presenters.

Then Mzansi Magic cancelled All Access Mzansi after two years.

Then Mzansi Magic brought back All Access Mzansi - cutting the presenters and replacing them. Then All Access Mzansi got cancelled again, for a second time.

Now All Access Mzansi will return to Mzansi Magic ... for a third time. Again with new presenters ... for the third time. And now done by a new production company.

From what I understand and was told, All Access Mzansi will retain elements of the previous two versions but will be looking different yet again but still cover glamorous local events and gossip news and do celebrity profile interviews - the stock and trade of this programming genre.

All Access Mzansi will be back from Friday 25 September at 18:30 on Mzansi Magic and this time it will be produced by Burnt Onion Productions.

"The show's magazine type of content has rich, broad appeal - the entertaining, yet lighthearted viewing that our family audiences really enjoy," M-Net tells me in response to why the show is revived for a third time.

No word yet on the new round of All Access Mzansi presenters.

Programming note: A new, reset All Access - now hoping to find a black audience - starts its first season on Mzansi Magic.

Scrapped from M-Net after exactly 2 years on air, the weekly entertainment magazine show All Access returns tonight at 20:30 as a retooled, reworked and trunkated show and to the new channel, Mzansi Magic (DStv 107) targeting a black viewership.

All Access, still produced by Homebrew Films, resets as a new show now reduced to half an hour and without the white presenters except for Jason Greer who stays on with Bridget Masinga and Pabi Moloi. A new black male presenter will also be added, but not yet from tonight.

I can also show the new All Access logo first - now silver in colour from the previous golden hues it changed to after the original red and black. Despite the word ''Mzansi'' appearing in the logo I'm told the show's name will still just be All Access. No episode synopsis or line-up for the reset show's first episode, or media advisory that it's starting was issued by anyone involved with this show.

UPDATE Thursday 21 April 20:30 - It's hilarious! Now suddenly the show is called All Access Mzansi - after I explicitly and specifically asked Mzansi Magic whether this is the new title - and was told it remains just All Access.

AFTER ALL ACCESS: ''It's sad.'' Mark Bayly on the end of All Access on M-Net, parting ways with his TV family, and what he's doing next.

With All Access ending its run on the M-Net channel tonight after exactly two years on the air (it will continue later, retooled and shortened on the Mzansi Magic channel), presenter Mark Bayly tells TV with Thinus that it's unfortunate, that he feels sad and that he's disappointed that an entertainment magazine show such as All Access couldn't continue on the M-Net channel. But the suave Capetonian and a married dad of two is moving on.

''I think it's unfortunate. It was a show that had a dedicated audience,'' Mark Bayly tells me. ''I get that it was a business decision and I'm not privy to all the machinations that go on at the top level. I think it was a nice alternative and quite a fresh show. I'm not sure how much it's going to change. It's becoming a smaller show and no longer has a place for me so I'm moving on,'' he says.

I asked Mark Bayly what he enjoyed the most about his two years as part of the presenters' team of the show that won a Safta award last month as the best entertainment magazine show on South African television. ''I like the variety. I got to meet a lot of different people from different backgrounds - different lines of work from actors to events, to people working behind the scenes. That's what I really liked about the show. It wasn't all about the celebrities upfront. It wasn't always so directly celebrity focused and I really liked meeting and talking to and showing the real people behind the scenes who are ultimately responsible for how things look.'' Also he says ''I had a really, really great team of people that I worked with besides the other presenters. We had great camera men and sound guys and directors. We really were like a family for a couple of years. So it's sad. It's always sad when you part ways. You just stay confident that you'll meet up again in future and work on other projects.''

On what he's doing next after leaving All Access, Mark Bayly who was the first Survivor SA presenter says he's been working on a travel show idea. ''I've been working on a travel show idea, that I've pitched to a company and they're very keen about it but they're also very busy at the moment. I'm starting my DJ career this coming Wednesday in fact on 2oceansvibe radio. I'll be doing the Wednesdays drivetime 15:00 to 18:00 slot. I'm looking forward to be unrestrained and just being myself on air. I'll start off with one day a week and then see how that goes.''

''My MC'ing work is continuing and I'm doing a lot of that and I absolutely love it. And I've got my feelers out there. The thing with M-Net and their marketing strategy is I don't think they've even put it out there yet to the public that All Access is leaving the M-Net channel so there might be people who are planning stuff and might be interested in using me but might think I'm not available because I'm on All Access. Hopefully now they'll know that I am available. So as much as I've got my own feelers out I'm always interested in hearing from people.''

He tells me he's ''surprised and a little disappointed that a show like that didn't stay on''. ''Whether I would have continued to stay on is another thing. I kind of feel like my time on the show would have come to an end soon anyway, regardless of the move. I do think its unfortunate that that kind of quality of show – that wins a Safta award for best magazine show in the country… well I'd like to see a show like that continue. I probably would have been moving on within a few months anyway.''

Mark Bayly says he wishes them well. ''It's going to be interesting, I will tune in and see how it changes and the kinds of things that they will be covering which the remaining – well, everybody much besides me and Koula – will be doing. And I wish them well.''

ALSO READ: A look back at All Access as it ends on M-Net - The numerous changes the show went through during 2 years.
ALSO READ: All Access cut to half an hour; revamped for a black audience as it moves to Mzansi Magic when it restarts at the end of April.
ALSO READ: Mark Bayly adds radio to his repertoire.

A look back at All Access as it ends on M-Net: The numerous changes the vaunted magazine show went through over the past 2 years.

It's the end of All Access with the last episode on M-Net tonight, exactly two years after its high-buzz debut on the pay broadcaster. After a retool, a truncated half hour new version will restart in a month's time on the new Mzansi Magic (DStv 107) channel but very little will be left of the weekly entertainment magazine show that in April 2009 promised a brand-new, and different take on covering the entertainment biz in South Africa on television.

Before the first All Access episode in 2009 there was no launch party - probably the show and the broadcaster's very first big mistake. The cast and crew huddled for pizza and wine by themselves and didn't want the press there, allowing some of the buzz and early eagerness to cover the show to disappate. On television All Access still started off strong though, a high-concept, vaunted try by M-Net that returned to the entertainment magazine genre for the first time since it canceled Front Row years earlier.

Before its first episode All Access - a show carefully crafted by Helen Smit, M-Net's former head of local productions -  was put through a pilot phase during which Homebrew Films that produces All Access, were noticed at glam events. The TV industry got so excited about this new alternative to what the public broadcaster and e.tv have been cranking out weekly for years.

M-Net and All Access had what can unequivocally be called the best TV set South African television had ever seen - a sprawling, perfectly high defintion ready, multi-level expanse that was coloured in black, white and red. It was the perfect platform and backdrop for the crop of choice presenters to lord over with glamour wear bring viewers the week's entertainment must-see's. But a few months after its high gloss debut it became clear that trouble was brewing and the major tinkering on everything began.

After less than 40 episodes the monumental set by Michael Gill was dispatched (the space given to SuperSport's new HD studio). Mark Bayly and Pabi Moloi - originally the two main co-hosts for every episode were broken up and replaced by a merry-go-round of presenters doing the show from select locations - seemingly imitating a format already done by all the other shows. Presenters for theatre and movies were added.
By April last year the logo was changed and All Access was moved from Thursday to Friday nights at 19:30 after it left the air for several weeks to make way for sport. Then in 2011 it moved to another new timeslot of 19:00 after no new original episodes were broadcast over the Christmas period while all other magazine shows stayed new. By then presenter Ewan Strydom left to jump to SABC3's Expresso.

A few days before the first birthday party of All Access last year (which was a great event) numerous productions sources involved with the show were exasperated with what they called ''the massive amount of changes on screen and behind the scenes'' of All Access. ''It's a lot of tinkering and adjustment for something that's not even a year old,'' said one at the time.

Now All Access ends it run on M-Net after just two years and about 90 episodes. Tonight's episode will look very different from how it started in April two years ago. Which leaves us wondering: Will viewers see a local entertainment magazine show in the vein of Front Row and All Access on M-Net again - if ever - in the future?

ALSO READ: After All Access: ''It's sad.'' Mark Bayly on the end of All Access on M-Net, parting ways with his TV family and what he's doing next.

BREAKING. All Access cut to half an hour; revamped for a black audience once the show resets on Mzansi Magic end of April.

The weekly entertainment magazine All Access will end on M-Net tonight exactly as I told you RIGHT HERE in February, and be resurrected as i told you RIGHT HERE last month on Mzansi Magic for a black audience and dropping the white presenters Mark Bayly and Koula.
Now I can reveal that All Access will be cut down to half an hour show that will start on Thursday, 21 April at 20:00 for 26 episodes.

''All Access is ending on the M-Net channel tonight. It will be revamped as a brand-new half hour show starting on Mzansi Magic on Thursday 21 April at 20:00,'' M-Net's commissioning editor Nirvana Singh just told me. ''There will be a tweak to the All Access content as well. The show will change to reflect the look and feel to match the brand of Mzansi Magic as a channel,'' she says.

''All Access on Mzansi Magic will no longer have some of the presenters. The presenters of All Access on Mzansi Magic will be Pabi Moloi and Tammy-Anne Fortuin, Bridget Masinga and Jason Greer. The show will remain in terms of content the same, we're just going to make it more accessible to the Mzansi Magic audience,'' says Nirvana Singh.

Homebrew Films that did All Access for 2 years for M-Net will produce the new half hour All Access for Mzansi Magic with an initial contract of 26 episodes running for half a year.

ALSO READ: M-Net's All Access to end on Friday 1 April; to be resurrected on Mzansi Magic later.

Programming note: M-Net's All Access to get a behind the scenes sneak-peek at the pay broadcaster's new soap The Wild next Friday.

M-Net's weekly entertainment magazine All Access just announced that it will be visiting the brand-new soap The Wild for an insert in next Friday night's episode.

The Wild is currently shot on location at will start on M-Net on Monday 4 April. ''It's unlike anything that's been done before in South Africa,'' said All Access presenter Mark Bayly.

BREAKING. M-Net's canceled entertainment magazine show All Access to be resurrected for a black audience on Mzansi Magic.

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Exactly as I told you RIGHT HERE last month seemed like a possibility, I can now exclusively confirm: that M-Net's canceled weekly entertainment magazine show All Access that will have its last episode on Friday 1 April at 19:00, will resume in a whole new guise later on Mzansi Magic (DStv 107).

I'm told the ''new'' All Access will be a new kind of show tailor-made for the local black-skewed channel. If that happens, it would be the umpteenth major change the show went through since its launch with a great set that got dumped after a few months, and several other erratic format and on-air changes during the show's run. M-Net also moved All Access to different weekdays and timeslots that further atrophied viewership.

All Access, produced by Homebrew Films, recently won the Safta award as best local magazine show in South Africa but that wasn't enough for M-Net to keep the show alive on the channel. All Access will be gone after just over 90 episodes on M-Net.

ALSO READ: M-Net canceling All Access. Entertainment magazine show might live on later on Mzansi Magic after April.

BREAKING. M-Net canceling All Access. The Award-winning weekly magazine show might live on later on Mzansi Magic after April.

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M-Net is bringing down the axe on All Access on the M-Net channel after the show just won the award as the best magazine show in South Africa. According to sources the weekly entertainment magazine show will have its last episode on April Fools' day, 1 April at 19:00.

Multiple sources are telling me that All Access that started in April 2009 has been cancelled. That will mean that All Access will end exactly two years after it began its first broadcast on the pay broadcaster. ''The last episode will be on M-Net on 1 April,'' says one of the sources. Another source tells me there might be an ''outside chance'' that All Access might be resurrected on Mzansi Magic (DStv 107) but I'm told it will then be with ''demographically correct'' - meaning black - presenters only.

This very past Sunday All Access won the South African Film and Television Award (Safta) as the best magazine show in South Africa, but multiple people connected to the show and the channel were already buzzing that All Access won't continue for much longer. All Access will definitely disappear from the analogue signal of M-Net by the end March, but production crew blabbed over the weekend already that actual episodes would only be produced during March still and nothing further. That means All Access will also most likely be disappearing from the digital M-Net signal.

I asked M-Net over the weekend about the fate and future of All Access  as well as Carte Blanche Extra and again yesterday whether the sources are correct. The pay broadcaster doesn't want to confirm or deny All Access' cancelation.

''All locally produced content like the Carte Blanche Extra and All Access contracts are for a fixed period of time,'' says M-Net. ''These contracts will near an end towards the end of the fiscal year (April) and M-Net withholds the right to renew them or not. The main focus for the channel in 2011 is the major reality shows (Survivor SA and Idols) and the new soap (The Wild) but this does not necessarily mean that All Access and Carte Blanche Extra will fall away from the schedule permanently,'' says M-Net.

ALSO READ: The brand-new Carte Blanche Extra on M-Net currently not continuing past 10 episodes.
ALSO READ: M-Net planning to move most of its local content off of the M-Net channel.

BREAKING. M-Net's All Access entertainment magazine show wins the Safta for best magazine show.

M-Net's All Access entertainment magazine show Fridays at 19:00 has just won a Safta in the category for best magazine show at the 5th South African Film and Television Awards. All Access is produced for the pay broadcaster by Homebrew Films.

Other winners include Let's Chat with Mel from M-Net Series (DStv 110) as best talk show, and Ed and Eppa in the Wild as best youth and children's programme and A Country Imagined from Curious Pictures won as best documentary.

Die Foon (kykNET) won for best reality show and the MK Awards 2010 (mk) was the best variety show. Noot vir Noot (SABC2) from Stemmburg Television won as best TV game show.

ALL JETTING AROUND: The jetset All Access presenters clocking up the frequent flyer miles to New York and Los Angeles.

Those All Access presenters of M-Net's weekly entertainment magazine show on Fridays at 19:00 are sure clocking up the frequent flyer miles.

Mark Bayly who lives in Cape Town jetted to Pietermaritzburg this weekend to interview ''the princess of Monaco'' Charlene Wittstock who visited South Africa. That interview will run this coming Friday, 18 February. Meanwhile Koula jetted off to the Big Apple to attend the New York Fashion Week. Her New York fashion fun will be broadcast on Friday, 25 February.

Meanwhile the All Access one who's so far clocked the most air travel since the show's started, Jason Greer (it's a competition between him and Tammy-Anne Fortuin) also left today to fly overseas. Jason Greer just jetted off  - also to America - to go and interview Owen Wilson and Christina Applegate. He will be in Los Angeles this week.

Programming note: M-Net's All Access tonight has Vanessa Marawa, dr. Robert Rey and all the fashion from the J&B Met.

M-Net's weekly entertainment magazine show All Access tonight at 19:00 with presenters Bridget Masinga and Tammy-Anne Fortuin will have coverage of this past Saturday's J&B Met fashions, and there's a profile on Fascinating Aida, the raunchy 3 women cabaret act from London's West End that's making waves in South Africa with All Access presenter Jason Greer.

The entertainment skein visits for former Survivor SA winner Vanessa Mawara who reveals more about her relationship with her brother Robert Marawa and also interviews dr Robert Rey from E! Entertainment's Dr 90210 who visited South Africa recently. (All Access tells me that dr Robert Rey incidentally stayed at the same at the same guest house in Camps Bay where the Kardashian sisters stayed at the end of last year during their Cape Town visit which is where Tammy-Anne Fortuin caught up with him.) Find out what his plans are for ... California (i know, but I don't want to spoil it.)

BREAKING. Is South Africa's Margaret Gardiner in Hollywood joining M-Net's All Access? I know the answer. . .

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Is the glam Margaret Gardiner from South Africa who's living in Los Angeles and who have done many a celeb interview for SABC3's weekly Top Billing entertainment magazine show over the years now joining M-Net's weekly entertainment magazine show All Access that returned this past Friday now at 19:00 with its first fresh episode for the year (without so much as a peep out of M-Net)?

Viewers were surprised when Margaret Gardiner (pictured here with All Access presenter Jason Greer when the show visited her in LA a while back) popped up on their screens on Friday. Is Margaret Gardiner now doing TV interviews for All Access I wondered. ''Margaret and All Access became good friends when Jason Greer was last in LA,'' I'm told. ''She kept in touch and informed All Access that she had the opportunity to talk to Nicole Kidman as well as Halle Berry about their big new movies,'' I'm told. ''Since both we're nominated for Golden Globes and possibly Oscars the opportunity was grabbed.''

So, Margaret Gardiner won't be exclusive to All Access, but will probably used for the show more during the year now. I can be first to spill that viewers would be able to see Margaret Gardiner's Halle Berry interview on 11 February on All Access on M-Net. ''Margaret has incredible contacts and is still very much loved, so as and where the opportunity arise All Access will consider asking her again. Not on a fixed basis, but as opportunities arise,'' I'm told.

M-Net's weekly entertainment magazine show All Access returns with new episodes on 21 January.

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M-Net's weekly entertainment magazine show All Access will be back with new episodes on the pay broadcaster from Friday, 21 January at 19:00.

Meanwhile the weekly entertainment magazine Top Billing on SABC3 that stayed in new episodes right through the end of the year and the beginning of January will visit pastry chef Ariana Bundy in Paris this Thursday at 19:30. Janez visits the South African model Candice Boucher in Brooklyn, New York. A wedding in Simonstown is also part of this week's upcoming episode.

ALSO READ: Will All Access be moved to Mzansi Magic in 2011?

BREAKING. M-Net's entertainment magazine show All Access could be jettisoned in 2011 to Mzansi Magic, says sources.

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I can exclusively reveal that there's been talks and dicussions within M-Net about moving the entertainment magazine show All Access from M-Net (DStv 101) to Mzansi Magic (DStv 107) from early in 2011.

I broke the news earlier this year that All Access would move to a new Friday night timeslot in April and ditch its high-gloss studio format which then all happened, and now I'm told All Access might move again in 2011 - this time to a new channel. The one and a half year old show is currently in production hiatus, having finished its contract for 2010.

''I know that there has been discussions about All Access moving from M-Net to Mzansi Magic but no decision has been taken,'' an M-Net source tells me. Another source says: ''M-Net is planning on moving most of its odd local productions, just not Carte Blanche and the new soap, to Mzansi Magic and other channels slowly.''

Says a third insider source to me: ''All Access is most probably moving to Mzansi Magic soon within the start of 2011,'' and adds: ''All Access wasn't doing very well at all. It's been dropping [in viewership]. Not to be racist but All Access is more a white-skewed show, so if it does move it will have to be adapted for more the black market - more Pabi Moloi's as presenters. Who knows, maybe a new presenter search like what Top Billing on SABC3 does. Mzansi Magic is being positioned as the new home of local South African productions, although there's plans for a new M-Net City channel as well in 2011.''

How long will it be before All Access on M-Net adds a brand-new black man as male presenter?

How long before All Access when it returns in 2011 to M-Net adds a suave and dashing black man as one of the presenters?

Why do I ask? Well. The weekly glam entertainment magazine show Top Billing on SABC3 has just added Simba Mhere as its newest presenter and he's a black man. Furthermore the similarities between Top Billing and All Access is striking, with All Access having changed to even more the past half year to reflect a Top Billing tonality in presentation and form.

Top Billing has Jo-Ann Strauss, All Access has Tammy-Anne Fortuin. Top Billing has Janez Vermeiren, All Access has Jason Greer. Top Billing has Lyndall Jarvis, All Access has Koula. Top Billing has Michael Mol, All Access has Mark Bayly. Top Billing is produced by Tswelopele Production from Cape Town. All Access is produced by Homebrew Films from Cape Town.

The addition of a black man as a male presenter in Top Billing might now prompt All Access to address this glaring presenter demographic gap in its own telegenic ranks as well.

BREAKING. M-Net's All Access entertainment magazine show ends new episodes; has re-edited specials planned for December.

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M-Net's weekly entertainment magazine All Access is off the air after having broadcast its last regular new episode for the year on Friday.

Unlike SABC2's weekly entertainment magazine shows like Pasella and Eastern Mosaic, SABC3's Top Billing and e.tv's The Showbiz Report and kykNET's Kwela who will all continue with new episodes for the remainder of the year, the All Access presenters and production company Homebrew Films are taking a break.

From Wednesday, December 8 at 21:30 M-Net will broadcast a few All Access Special episodes which, as far as I can tell, will be re-edited highlight shows put together from various All Access inserts that were broadcast during the past year. All Access will resume towards the end of January 2011 on Friday, January 21 on the pay broadcaster.

BREAKING. M-Net on Ewan Strydom leaving All Access for SABC3: ''There's a bright future lying ahead for him.''

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With M-Net's All Access presenter Ewan Strydom who's decided to drop the weekly entertainment magazine show to join's SABC3's new upcoming morning breakfast show from October, M-Net is wishing him well, simply saying ''there's a bright future ahead of him''.

All Access was Ewan Strydom's first TV work who's jumping ship after a year and four months from the proven entertainment mag to the as-yet-untitled breakfast show that will be going out on weekdays from Monday, October 4 on SABC3. He's also the first of the original All Access presenter group to leave.

''M-Net and All Access gave Ewan Strydom his big break on television,'' says the pay broadcaster, ''and know that there's a bright future lying ahead for him. It's not unusual for young presenters to spread their wings and we trust that the experience gained on All Access will stand Ewan Strydom in good stead.''

Ewan Strydom's contract with All Access and Homebrew Films ends on November 5, a month after he's started at SABC3's Tswelopele Productions and during which he'll be doing double duty as a TV presenter.

ALSO READ: Ewan Strydom leaves M-Net's All Access for SABC3's new morning show.
ALSO READ: The pent house of the Equinox Building in Sea Point is where SABC3 will be shooting there new moring breakfast show.
ALSO READ: Top Billing presenter and hot doc Michael Mol set to join SABC3's new morning show from October.
ALSO READ: Idols host Liezel van der Westhuizen and 50/50 presenter Katlego Maboe set to join SABC3's new morning show from October.
ALSO READ: SABC3 set to start a brand new morning breakfast show from October.

BREAKING. Ewan Strydom is leaving M-Net's All Access for SABC3's new morning show starting in October.

Ewan Strydom from All Access will become the first original member of the weekly high gloss entertainment magazine show on pay broadcaster M-Net to leave the programme when he joins SABC3's new morning breakfast show that will start on October 4 at 05:30.

All Access that celebrated its first birthday in June is losing the easy-on-the-eyes Ewan Strydom to SABC3's new breakfast show with the working title Op & Wakker. Ewan Strydom will be one of the main anchors on the show.

However I'm told there's ''no bad blood'' between Ewan Strydom and All Access and that he will still be on viewers' TV sets until the end of the year. Basically Ewan Strydom's All Access contract as far as I could ascertain runs until November 5 with the production company HomeBrew Films.

After that the glam high quality primetime show goes into repeats during the holiday season until January 31 before the new All Access season starts on M-Net. That means that Evan Strydom will still be on the show until the end of the year. Will All Access be looking for a new hot hunk to fill Ewwie's shoes come 2011? Too early to tell, but a good idea, I'm told by sources close to the production.

BREAKING. M-Net's All Access going inside the mansion in tonight's episode that serves as the Idols house in this season.

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Yesterday I revealed the front of the mansion which serves as the Idols house this season on M-Net and now I can be first to tell you that M-Net's weekly entertainment magazine show All Access will be coming to viewers from this exact house in tonight's episode on M-Net at 19:30.

Sources tell me that All Access visited the house - a magnificent mansion hidden away in the posh upper hill drives of Johannesburg's elite Northcliff suburb - yesterday to shoot the links for tonight's episode. Expect to see All Access presenter Jason Greer to stroll through the house, I'm told.

INTERVIEW. Mark Bayly on All Access turning one: ''The show's given me more scope to be myself.''

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Over the course of more than a decade covering the South African television industry, if you were to ask me what on screen talent I like the most personally, I will tell you Mark Bayly from M-Net's All Access. Number one coolest guy when it comes to being famous - yet he's completely unpretentious, super funny, clever and just normal (in a mostly not normal environment). Just a guy's guy who does his work and smiles.

I spoke with the ever gracious Mark Bayly at the first birthday party of All Access when M-Net's weekly entertainment magazine show celebrated their first anniversary this past Friday in Johannesburg. Mark Bayly told me about ''the warmest, most heartfelt'' interview he's had the past year, why he's proud of being a part of All Access and who he'd still like to sit down with in the future.

See what he tells me that he now gets to do more, what side of him you won't/don't really see a lot of in the show and what he says about the huge growth curve of All Access.

For my full interview with Mark Bayly of M-Net's All Access click on READ MORE below.