Magazine show RGB back with new episodes on SABC1 after months of repeats, as co-host Sinazo Yolwa mocks gossip spread by 'fake news merchants' about show's rumoured cancellation.

The long-running and so-called "cancelled" RGB magazine entertainment show on SABC1 returned on Saturday 8 June with a new episode at 19:30 with presenters Sinazo Yolwa and Samora Mangesi, putting to be bed trash reports and peddled rumours about the show's demise.

The Real Goboza and other locally-produced shows on SABC1 like Nyan' Nyan have been on a repeat loop of old episodes for months and missed new season debut dates due to the South African public broadcaster's ongoing financial problems and inability to pay for new content.

The Real Goboza, produced by Urban Brew Studios stopped airing new episodes in January 2019 and have been on repeats since for the past 4 months since the SABC's failure to sign a new contract due to not having the money.

That however didn't mean that RGB, luring over 2.5 million viewers as one of the most-watched shows on SABC1 and in South Africa, was cancelled - just that there wouldn't be further new episodes until the broadcaster can sign a new contract and pay for it.

Yet untrustworthy rumour-peddlers started spreading fake news on social media that RGB was supposedly cancelled, uninformed about how the TV business works and that the show and its intellectual property, although produced by an outside production studio, belongs to the SABC, and that the broadcaster wouldn't can a top-rated show.

It's not clear where and how the fake news around RGB started.

"SABC1, together with Urban Brew Studios is in negotiation for the next season and has already worked on developing a new and improved season with exciting changes that viewers can look forward to. The show is planned to be back on-air with a new season in the coming months," said SABC1 in a statement.

SABC1 didn't issue any programming note or press release to the media that newly-produced episodes of RGB would return to the channel in June on Saturday 8 June but the former co-presenter Sinazo Yolwa who is back, did make mention on camera of the fake social media and rumours about the show's supposed cancellation.

Sinazo Yolwa and the show shared one of the fake messages that circulated on social media about The Real Goboza rumoured demise, poking fun at rumours that RGB was apparently "getting decommissioned" and that "production on the show has already halted and an official screen blackout will happen soon".

"Word on the street is that RGB is dead," said Sinazo Yolwa, with the rumours that were spread by "fake news merchants and reporters".

"But RGB is back baby".

RGB has added Roxanne Robertson and Sibu Mpanza as new field presenters who will be doing red carpet interviews and gossip about social hot topics.

Donovan Goliath steps in as replacement of Phat Joe as permanent new co-host on SABC1's The Real Goboza.

After a guest stint try-out the comedian Donovan Goliath has been roped in as the new permanent presenter of The Real Goboza on SABC1 after the sudden exit of Phat Joe.

Phat Joe (real name Majota Khambule) and the SABC first said his break from RGB would be temporary as he jumped to pay-TV to present M-Net's Take Me Out Mzansi dating game show on VUZU AMP (DStv 103). The show is the revived Take Me Out South Africa format show from Rapid Blue that used to be on SABC1.

The temporary break from SABC1's Saturday evening lifestyle and entertainment magazine show however became a permanent exit as the SABC and Phat Joe, who had presented RGB for 7 years, publicly announced a week and a half ago that the presenter is leaving by "mutual decision" and won't be back.

Donovan Goliath is now joining co-presenter Sinazo Yolwa on RGB after a stint on the short-lived TV guide show The 101 on M-Net.

"I'm really looking forward to bringing my own unique style and a new energy to the show. Aweh!," says Donovan Goliath in a statement.

"We're thrilled to We’re thrilled to officially welcome Donovan to the RGB family and we believe that he will use his talent to ensure RGB reaches new heights," says Sydney Mekgwe-Sitsila, producer of the Urban Brew Studios' show.

"I'm looking forward to seeing an already outstanding presenter continue to grow and develop."

Zandile Nkonyeni, SABC TV head publicist, says the public broadcaster is "excited to have Donovan joining the RGB and the SABC1 family. We are confident that he will elevate the show with his unique ability to connect with guests and resonate with viewers through his humour, insight and charisma".

BREAKING. SABC1 planning a first-ever ''live link'' between its two shows, Live and Real Goboza.

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Of course to expect the relevant incompetent morons at SABC1 to actually tell - let alone invite - the correct relevant press covering TV about it, would naturally be expecting too much of Sleepy Hollow. But I can and will exclusively reveal that SABC1 is planning a ''never done before'' TV broadcast this evening at 20:00 between Live and Real Goboza.

What will basically be happening will be a live broadcast on SABC1 between both shows at the same time, with Live and Real Goboza broadcasting from two different places. The ''live link'' broadcast is part of SABC1's sprucing up of its primetime line-up. Just don't shout to loud. We don't want people to wake up.

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