Showing posts with label UBettina Wethu. Show all posts
Showing posts with label UBettina Wethu. Show all posts
Thursday, December 23, 2021

SA TV 2021: A shockwave year in television filled with loss, lockdown and an octopus that won an Oscar.

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by Thinus Ferreira During South African television's tumultuous 2021 - bearing witness to shocking unrest and looting, neverending loads...
Wednesday, April 7, 2021

TV CRITIC's NOTEBOOK. The not-so-pretty side of Ugly Betty and how bad and non-existent PR is once again damaging local productions - this time 'uBethina Wethu' on SABC1 and VIU.

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by Thinus Ferreira After all of the effort, casting during Covid, money spent, and making a local adaptation of the Colombian telenovela Bet...
Monday, April 5, 2021

Tonight's TV has a trove of new start-ups from uBettina Wethu on SABC1 and The Estate and Prime News on 3 on SABC3, while The Station and DiepCity start on Mzansi Magic.

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by Thi nus Ferreira Television brims with brand-new local TV shows starting tonight, Monday 5 April, that will make it even harder for viewe...
Thursday, March 11, 2021

Farieda Metsileng cast as South Africa's Bettina in SABC1's local adaptation of Ugly Betty, Coconut Kelz to play the sassy friend.

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by Thinus Ferreira SABC1 has announced that the former MTV VJ Farieda Metsileng will portray the title role of Bettina Sikhakane in the loca...
Tuesday, January 12, 2021

'Are you the "before"?' Anyone can become the world's first black Betty in the open casting call for South Africa's uBettina Wethu series adaptation of Ugly Betty.

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by Thinus Ferreira uBettina Wethu , South Africa's localised Ugly Betty adaptation, is looking for a black Betty and it could literally...