Totsiens, Pasella: End of the road for award-winning lifestyle show
SABC s longest running lifestyle show, Pasella , will broadcast its final episode in January 2022. Here is what we know.
The SABC2 lifestyle show
Pasella which airs on Wednesdays at 19:30, is the brainchild of Pieter Cilliers and first aired on 17 March 1998.
Pasella has been broadcasted on SABC2 for the last 23 years and ran for a total of 28 seasons.
Pasella also won a Golden Horn award for Best Lifestyle Programme in the past.
‘Pasella’ presenters over the years
Pasella presenters over the years include Derrich Gardner, Shemane Harris, Paul Rothman, Vicky Davis, Minki van der Westhuizen, Amalia Uys, Hemelbesem, Christi Panagio, Mishka Patel, Eloise Cupido and Jo-Ann Strauss.
Pasella set to end after 28 seasons
Pasella will come to an end.
The show, a combination of travel, food, competitions and all things lifestyle, has been cancelled.
SABC2 announced the cancellation of the show on May 6.
Produced by Tswelopele productions and the brainchild of Pieter Cilliers, the show hit TV screens on March 17, 1998 at 7.30pm.
For longer than two decades the show unearthed talent and introduced a host of presenters such as Derrich Gardner, Shemane Harris, Paul Rothman, Vicky Davis, Minki van der Westhuizen, Amalia Uys, Hemelbesem, Christi Panagio, Mishka Patel, Eloise Cupido and Jo-Ann Strauss.
Gerhard Pretorius, SABC2 channel head, said the decision to cancel the show was a hard but necessary one due to the introduction of a new channel line-up.
Pasella.
Pasella on Wednesdays at 19:30 will be a tribute season .
Maritha Greenland, the SABC2 commissioning editor, says
Pasella will end with a final episode that will be a wrap party, called a Pasella party .
SABC2 has cancelled
Pasella after 23 years and 28 seasons, confirming that the longrunning Afrikaans lifestyle magazine show won t be back after the latest season.
Pasella weathered multiple day and timeslot changes over numerous years on SABC2. It was a yearlong show with weekly episodes until the SABC2 changed it to shorter, broken-up seasons in 2013 after 15 years.
The show started in March 1998 on SABC2 when Pieter Cilliers Productions began the series as a studio-based show. Filmmedia took over production a year later in 1999, Tswelopele Productions got the contract in 2001.
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