The start of the second season of The Haves and the Have Nots on Mzansi Magic postponed for a second time.

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The second season of the great Tyler Perry primetime soap The Haves and the Have Nots has been postponed indefinitely again on M-Net's Mzansi Magic (DStv 161), with the start of the show which has been pushed out for a second time - now to May.

The second season of The Haves and the Have Nots was supposed to start at the beginning of March. Mzansi Magic never showed it and didn't alert the press, TV critics or viewers, afterwards claiming the show couldn't start due to that lame SABC excuse: the non-arrival of tapes in time for playout.

The second season of The Haves and the Have Nots was then moved to April - but in a very amateurly fashion Mzansi Magic again could not alert viewers or the press in time, and again for a second time the show didn't start at the beginning of April.

Now The Haves and the Have Nots have been removed from the April schedule, as the show is being portsponed for a second time. I'm told The Haves and the Have Nots are now being moved to May.

The second season of The Haves and the Have Nots on Mzansi Magic abruptly jettisoned to April after the non-arrival of tapes.

Lord, have mercy: SABC disease is (cough, cough) proving infectious and contagious: Mzansi Magic (DStv 161) yanked and jettisoned the second season of the primetime soap The Haves and the Have Nots which was supposed to start on Mzansi Magic this past Saturday due to the "non-delivery" of tapes.

Mzansi Magic made no announcement to the press, didn't inform TV critics or viewers, and will now try to show the new second season of The Haves and the Have Nots from sometime in April.

The truly delicious drama which is simultaneously glitzy glamorous and slutty sensational set in Savannah, Georgia, is oddly also scheduled on Saturday evenings in South Africa, and is getting very little promotional push from the M-Net packaged channel. 

Viewers who have discovered The Haves and the Have Nots on their own though, are utterly hooked by the soapy melodrama and twists and turns. 

The soap is produced by Tyler Perry for Oprah Winfrey's OWN TV channel in the United States and the second season of The Haves and the Have Nots started at the beginning of January.

If you haven't yet watched it, gladly do. You will be pleasantly surprised and instantly drawn into the unbelievable, yet cannot stop watching, storylines.

Oprah Winfrey producing a black 'Downton Abbey' as a brand-new scripted drama for her OWN channel.

Tyler Perry will be producing a brand-new scripted drama, The Haves and the Have Nots for Oprah Winfrey's TV channel OWN; the channel's own black version of Downton Abbey following a rich family and their impoverished maid, Hanna.

Neither MultiChoice's DStv nor On Digital Media's TopTV have added Oprah Winfrey's OWN channel to their pay-TV platforms in South Africa so far, and no South African broadcasters have bothered to secure hit shows on the OWN channel.

OWN has shows such as Oprah Winfrey's high-buzz new talk show Oprah's Next Chapter (which will soon see Oprah Winfrey interviewing Whitney Houston's mother Cissy Houston in a new episode one year after the singer's death) and programmes such as the eye-popping Iyanla Fix My Life, the selfhelp Lifeclass and the movers and shakers profile show Oprah's Master Class.

Whether South Africans TV viewers will get to see The Haves and the Have Nots remains to be seen, but OWN's first scripted series will start in America on the channel in May.

The new scripted drama which will be written, directed and produced by Tyler Perry for OWN, will follow the lives of an affluent family called the Cryers, and the poor housekeeper who works for them, similar to Downton Abbey on BBC Entertainment. Many obstacles, secrets and challenges exist within both sides of the household equation.