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- The sand in the hourglass has run out for Days of Our Lives on e.tv.
- The long-running American soapie ends on the channel on 11 April as the broadcaster shakes up its primetime schedule.
- A new local telenovela The Black Door with debut on the channel in April.
Days of Our Lives will end on 11 April on e.tv, a few years after the broadcaster took over the soap from SABC3.
"By adding new things to e.tv's schedule and trying to create new content, some of the things have to go since there are only so many hours in a day. Days of Our Lives is discontinued from 11 April," says Marlon Davids, managing director of e.tv channels.
From 11 April, e.tv will broadcast the Clive Morris Productions series Isono that aired on Paramount Africa's BET (DStv 129). It will air in the 20:30 timeslot after the channel's English TV news bulletin.
Imbewu, which will start its 5th season, is moving to 21:00 from 11 April, with the new risqué local series The Black Door to air Mondays to Fridays in the 21:30 timeslot.
The cast of The Black Door, which has been commissioned for 260 episodes, includes, among others, Linda Sebezo, Zamani Mbatha, Velaphi Mnisi, Sello Ramalahloane and Gabisile Tshabalala. It centres on characters whose lives are intertwined with a secretive brothel run by a ruthless owner who neither clients nor ordinary folk dare to cross.
Davids says about the schedule change and dropping Days, "it's something that's needed for us to structure the schedule to create flow to navigate audience in early primetime and keep them on e.tv".
American procedural dramas like the Chicago and NCIS series have also been dropped.
On Sunday nights, the 20:00 movie timeslot is moving to 21:00, with the 20:00 timeslot being filled by local drama series.
The Rewind channel on eMedia's Openview platform is being rebranded to Xposed and will add Viceland documentaries and current affairs programming.
