BREAKING. News Flash! No second season for Flash! this year on SABC3.

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I can exclusively reveal first that there will no longer be a second season of SABC3's glitzy weekly entertainment magazine show Flash! this year on the broadcaster.

Sources are telling me that although the public broadcaster's commercial TV channel would like to continue the show . . . there's no money. Flash! that debuted in 2009 on SABC3 with anchor presenters Viwe Soga and Isabella de Villiers (who got fired and replaced after 17 episodes with Rachel Stuart) was set to return in 2010 to SABC3. Insider sources told me long ago that SABC3 was unhappy with the show's duration of an hour and that Flash! would have returned for a second season, retooled as a half hour programme.

Now, there won't be any Flash! in 2010. ''Definitely not this year,'' says a source. The re-commissioning is still pending, which means a second season of Flash! - should the show indeed be re-commissioned by SABC3 - wont be able to go out before 2011.

Gone in a . . . uhm, Flash! (Not really. Just retooled.)

SABC3's weekly entertainment news show Flash! with Viwe Soga and NOT-Isabella de Villiers (she who got fired! although, like e.tv, SABC3 doesn't like or ever actually USE that word),  is not cancelled or going away.

SABC3 says there's ''high hopes'' that the show will be back, although it will be retooled.

''We feel it's dragging. An hour is probably not appropriate for a show such as Flash! It makes it too drawn out,'' says Gesh Conco, SABC3 head of publicity. ''It should probably be shorter and there could be other changes too.''