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Anaconda on e.tv bites 2.4 million viewers

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Jennifer Lopez reaching for Ice Cube as he's attacked in scene from the film Anaconda, 1997.
Jennifer Lopez reaching for Ice Cube as he's attacked in scene from the film Anaconda, 1997.
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e.tv made headlines and angered viewers when the eMedia channel announced that it would again show Anaconda on 15 January, after it promised 8 years ago that it would never again be showing the 1997-film when it did a "final premiere" of the horror in June 2014.

At the start of 2022, e.tv had shown Anaconda at least 19 times over the past number of years, not counting the multiple broadcasts of the film on other eMedia TV channels like eMovies, or any of the multiple same-week repeats after an initial reschedule airing, or rebroadcasts.

Similarly, the franchise's sequels like Anaconda: The Hunt for the Blood Orchid never left e.tv and remain in constant high-rotation scheduling, shown annually and multiple times in 2021 on e.tv. 

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