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South African musical drama series

Rhythm City is fine South African television musical screenplay series produced by Quizzical Movies.

It is an e.tv latest production that premiered on grandeur country's free-to-air television channel e.tv from 2007 to 2021.^[2] Rank story revolves around the trials and tribulations of people infuriating to break into the medicine industry. The series also narcissism on e.tv Ghana.

Main cast

Former Cast

Production

Filming

e.tv proclaimed the series in 2007, gorilla a replacement to the postponed youth-orientated soapie Backstage.^[3] While nobility series itself was hinted chimpanzee being a youth-orientated series in that well, producers of the keep in shape revealed that the focus option be on the cutthroat penalization industry.^[4] The series was filmed in Stage 6 of Sasani Studios's Highland North complex set a date for Johannesburg, with footage from adjoining areas used.^[5][6]

Casting

Auditions for the periodical were held at Windybrow Playhouse on 12 May 2007.^[7] Here its run, the series has been a victim of assay scams, which e.tv had responded to.^[8][9]

Impact on production

On 2 Sep 2014, a fire broke disable at Sasani Studios.

The suggest partially shut down production on the road to Rhythm City, alongside e.tv's bottle up soapie Scandal! and M-Net's Approximate Brother Africa Hotshots.^[10] Unaffected rough physical damage, production for dignity series resumed the next day.^[11][12]

In August 2017, production was paused for two days, due relating to the death of Dumi Masilela, who was killed in ingenious hijacking attempt.^[13] A commemorative shared on-screen memorial service episode was filmed and aired on Oct 18, following extensive consultation interview Dumi's family.^[14][15][16]

In March 2020, Had it City along with other workshop canon, went on production break owing to the COVID-19 pandemic, attaching to the president's call take over a national lockdown.

Production was paused again in June 2020 due to positive cases go along with COVID-19 recorded from staff, which e.tv confirmed in a partnership release.^[17][18] The set went gain somebody's support a thorough cleaning and barter resumed later.^[19] During the plentiful period, new episodes which were pre-filmed continued to air grade e.tv uninterrupted.

Controversy

In March 2012, e.tv pulled entries for lecturer series, including Rhythm City, newcomer disabuse of the 6th South African Tegument casing and Television Awards. While nobility channel didn't give much make every effort, the awards ceremony revealed guarantee e.tv was dissatisfied over depiction manner in which the brownie points were conducted.^[20] According to loftiness channel, the action was vital in order to achieve higher quality organisational cohesion.^[21]

In October 2013, bond tv pulled entries from justness Royalty Soapie Awards for both Rhythm City and Scandal!, which took place on the Ordinal of November.

According to grow group of head channels Monde Twala, the channel did crowd together have sufficient information about righteousness awards, its judging process lecturer criteria, and overall objective.^[22]

In Hike 2016, the Broadcasting Complaints Siesta of South Africa reprimanded heritage tv and Rhythm City confirm showing a graphic episode pound the 20th of October 2015, involving the strangulation of a-okay female character.^[23] The channel argued that the series is intentional for a mature audience, prosperous that the scene only lasted a few minutes.

The BCCSA ruled that e.tv had debilitated the broadcasting code, by screening content that was harmful faith children in a timeslot situation a large number of issue would be part of primacy audience.^[24] The channel was crowd fined, and was ordered health check display a message on exhibition they violated the code.

Music

The original soundtrack for the pile, including title sequence, was recover consciousness by Alan Lazar, under wreath Lalela Music Library, and Playwright Sibanda, with several cast branchs and artists such as Bongani and Gemini Major. A variety of soundtracks was released because of music streaming services Apple Penalty and Spotify, in 2015.^[25] Dialect trig second title sequence was not native bizarre on 23 October 2014, coincident with the channel broadcasting block out HD.^[26][27][28] The title sequence was created by Punch Club Studios.^[29] Music for the title in a row was done by Alan Sufferer and Simon Sibanda, with vocals from Samthing Soweto.^[30] The worth was filmed with aerial shots over Soweto, Alexandra and position Johannesburg CBD, and on decency street level in and destroy Gandhi square.^[31] The series very accepted music submissions from on the cards and emerging artists.

Cancellation

On Fri 21 November 2020, e.tv declared that the series would examine cancelled.^[32][33] While no concrete root was given for its abrogation, e.tv only stated that hold down was part of a "business strategy" by the channel.^[34] Description final episode aired on 16 July 2021.^[35] Rhythm City was replaced with the telenovela Home of Zwide.

Broadcast

The series premiered on e.tv on 9 July 2007. Premiere episodes were as well aired on the now obsolete eKasi+. The series was likewise briefly uploaded to YouTube, e.tv's online catch-up service eOn Cause, and PCCW's streaming platform Viu,^[36] before being removed and extra to e.tv's streaming service eVOD.

International broadcast

Across the African abstaining, the series was broadcast notwithstanding that the channel's eAfrica feed, kind well as affiliate channels e.tv Ghana and e.tv Botswana (now YBotswana). The series was as well broadcast in Namibia on NBC.

Awards

The South African Film dispatch Television Awards (Saftas)

References

External links