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While we hear that Charlie’s coming back, she
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the producers have decided to recast the role –
without even telling Jay, who told us she found
out from a friend on set. More bad news is that
Caitlin’s antics will come to an end by January.
Carine Rous, who’s played the feisty reporter
since September, will leave Isidingo before
the end of the year. Explains publicist Sindiswa
Nene, “Carine is a call actor – she is called if and
when she’s needed, just like any other call actor
on the show. Yes, Catlin’s storyline is coming to
an end but this doesn’t mean that she’s being
written out. We’re not killing her and she could
always come back.” A source on set told us that
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Hillside in 2012, pregnant
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Isidingo, will soon be moving out
of The Deep. She’ll be appearing
on the Afrikaans soap Binneland
from January next year. And
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Dr Vivienne Armandt. The role
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Melissa Claire Egan.
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CBS Drama (channel 134): the
name says it all. From old classics
including Dallas and Knots
Landing to Matlock, Touched By
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CBS Action (channel 133): if it’s
got guns, gore and gadgets,
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see Dexter, Nash Bridges and
even Wonder Woman.
JimJam (channel 310): call the
little ones! Thomas The Train,
Barney and Bob The Builder will
keep your kiddies entertained.
MGM Channel (channel 140):
sit back, relax and get ready for
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Maggie Benedict’s
on her way out.
FEARFUL FAN
Now that the Generations
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that viewers will be
affected. Please, tvplus –
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MOHLATSI, CAPE TOWN
Don’t worry! Generations will
be on our screens in its usual
timeslot without interruptions.
However, the cast and crew
have a lot of catching up to do,
so to prevent loyal fans from
losing out, the Generations
team will be cutting their
December holidays short to
continue filming. The bad
news though is that it looks
like Maggie Benedict (Akhona)
won’t be returning.
Jena dove right
into her new role.
RED ALERT
Hi tvplus, any new characters
to look out for on Rhythm
City? – JJ OLIVER, PRETORIA
Expect to see a fiery redhead
in 2014. The gorgeous former
Scandal! star Jena Dover, who’s
also a practising lawyer, will
make her Rhythm City debut on
22 January for a short stint. She’ll
play newcomer DH’s (Siyabonga
Twala) PA Stefanie, who’ll assist
him in more ways than one if you
get what we’re saying. Turns out
she has an eye for her boss…
It seems Room9’s
checked out for good.
Annie was fun and crazy and
capable of anything. Chelsea
is such a different character
compared to Annie. She’s a
more normal character, loyal
and with good intentions.
What are you favourite shows on
TV? – BUSI NKOSI, JOHANNESBURG
Homeland, The Newsroom
and I’ve just started Game of
Thrones. I know I’m so behind
but everyone tells me it’s so
good. And I’m starting now
with Breaking Bad.
What do you like to do at home?
– AMANDA KLEIN, PORT ELIZABETH
I love exercising. I live with my
fiancé in Santa Monica and we
live close to the beach, so I love
riding my bike and I do a lot of
yoga and I play tennis.
How are the wedding plans? –
EMMARENTIA GELDENHUYS, JOBURG
We’re getting married on 26
July 2014 and the planning is
coming along nicely. We have
a planner who’s helping us.
How do you take care of yourself?
– PRECIOUS SIBANDA, JOBURG
ROOM FOR MORE
Hey tvplus, earlier this year there was a great show
on SABC1 called Room9. Will there be a second season?
– BOKAMOSO KUNENE, KEMPTON PARK
At this stage the production team doesn’t have plans to make
a second season. However, that doesn’t mean it’s over. In July,
Africa Channel UK picked up the first season of this creepy show
and it’s being enjoyed by European fans. Some have likened the
show to Torchwood, which we think is pretty awesome.
I’ve realised how important
sleep is. If you can get as much
sleep as possible, it’ll change
your face and skin.
What would you be doing if you
weren’t an actor? – SWEETNESS
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MODERN FAMILY
5 M-Net 19:30 E1
REVENGE
3 M-Net 19:30 E1
RULES OF ENGAGEMENT
6 SABC3 20:00 E15
MEDIUM
7 M-Net Series Showcase
Phil manipulates Luke, Hayley
and Alex to get them out of the
house so that he and Claire can
have seven kid-free days.
It opens with a bang (which
we won’t spoil), so our second
favourite moment is when Emily
picks up Nolan outside the jail.
Jen and Adam throw Audrey a
really awful baby shower and Liz
brings her own baby – one of the
cats. We all have that friend…
17:30 E7
After all those years of being
married to crazy Allison, Joe
finally flips out.
SEE MO
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P51
THE EXES
2 SABC3 21:30 E11
TWO & A HALF MEN
8 SABC3 21:30 E12
UP SOUTH AFRICA
1 Al Jazeera 20:00 E1
CHUCK
1 SABC2 21:00 E3
Scrubs reunion! Zach Braff guest
stars as a tennis champion and
serves us some “guy love” with
his chocolate bear Donald Faison.
Jane Lynch (Glee’s Sue Sylvester)
is back as Charlie’s therapist.
Then Alan and Charlie watch
Glee and Sue creeps Charlie out.
Meet the kids whose lives are
followed in this touching series –
starting back in 1992, when they
were 7 to 14, 21 and now 28.
The Intersect turns Chuck into
a dancer who can still drop a
rival on the dance floor with an
elbow to the face. Awesome!
Wednesday 4 Dec
Thursday 5 Dec
Friday 6 Dec
Saturday 7 Dec
SPECIAL
SUPERNATURAL
7 SABC3 22:00 E14
END GAME
1 SABC1 20:30 E6
MIND YOUR LANGUAGE
2 SABC3 20:00 E1
Sam confronts his greatest fear
– clowns – and it’s awesome. But
watch for the moment that the
unicorn farts a rainbow!
Busted! Zweli spots mom Khosi
doing the walk of shame from
her bodyguard Thato’s room. But
just look at Thato. So yummy…
Mr Brown gets a new stereotypical student today. Meet
Swedish lady Ingrid Svenson –
we think she’s hot for teacher!
BAGGAGE BATTLES
1 Travel Channel 21:00 E1
BANSHEE
1 M-Net 21:30 E8
Has an airline lost your luggage?
Watching these bottom feeders
pick through “unclaimed” goods
for treasure will make you fume.
Carrie/Ana’s amazing and brutal
fight to the death (we won’t say
whose) with Mr Rabbit’s lapdog
Olek will leave you breathless.
ONE UPON A TIME IN
WONDERLAND
1 M-Net Series Showcase
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18:00 E1
A pond that’s made of dessert
topping? Sheer brilliance!
ANDRÉ RIEU: THE CHRISTMAS
I LOVE
SABC3 21:30
André and his orchestra perform
within a nativity scene, complete
with donkeys and a sleepy cow.
FUTURE SCREAM MACHINES
1 Travel Channel 20:00 E1
See the future of amusement
park rides. The only sad thing is
that we want to be tossed about
by a giant robot arm right now.
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Sizzling!
Sunday 1 Dec
Monday 2 Dec
Tuesday 3 Dec
NATURE’S MIRACLE BABIES
1 SABC3 18:00 E4
BROOKLYN NINE-NINE
1 Vuzu 19:00 E1
MOESHA
1 SABC1 16:00 E1
Watch as baby Aussie numbats
are released into the wild. Other
aww-inducing animals include a
baby wombat and a sifaka lemur.
Deadpan TV tough guy Andre
Braugher wins us over as Captain
Holt pointing out that Jake does
a terrible “robot voice”.
Hop in the time machine back
to 1996 and see why RnB singer
Brandy Norwood was a style icon
thanks to her sitcom.
Get into this!
Everyone’s talking about this
series, but can you get into it if
you just jump in at the middle?
Yes, you can! Here’s how…
THE CARRIE DIARIES
2 M-Net Series Showcase
Drake sings at Kylie’s sweet 16
and gives her a kiss. Glee’s Naya
Riviera (Santana) pops in too.
Sunday 8 Dec
THE BIG BANG THEORY
4 SABC3 20:00 E7
BREAKING AMISH
2 TLC 20:55 E1
Sheldon scolds real-life astrophysicist Dr Neil deGrasse Tyson
about Pluto losing its status as a
planet. Angry Shelly is brilliant.
Amish guy Devon’s baffled
expression at the airport really
gets to us. Alas, Devon, airline
travel makes idiots of us all!
Monday 9 Dec
Tuesday 10 Dec
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1 e.tv 19:30 E1
SURVIVOR: SOUTH PACIFIC
SABC3 20:30 E1
SEAN SAVES THE WORLD
1 M-Net Series Showcase
Hey, it’s Arrested Development’s
Lucille Bluth (Jessica Walter). But
instead of drinking, she humiliates her son by painting nudes.
We love the players’ reactions
to finding out who’ll be on
their team from returning
Survivor stars Ozzy or Coach.
19:00 E7
It’s always good for a laugh
when a “fun dad” finally mans
up and tries to discipline the kid.
SPECIAL
Five things you must know
Rebellious, “complex” rich
boy Sebastian Kydd broke
his on-off girlfriend Carrie’s
heart by kissing her pal Maggie
at the end of season 1.
Carrie and her meangirl ex-nemesis Donna
LaDonna (Chloe Bridges) made
friends at the end of season 1 by
bonding in photography class.
Lindsay Gort is spot-on
as the young Samantha
Jones, Donna LaDonna’s cousin,
whom we meet in season 2.
She’s the first of the familiar
SATC friends that Carrie meets.
Carrie starts season 2
staying in her editor/
mentor Larissa’s New York loft.
Walt turns 18 in season 2
and is out to get his Mr
Right, Carrie’s hot colleague,
Bennet (Jake Robinson). p
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BBC Lifestyle 21:00
We have not one but two OTT
weddings and a first communion
to celebrate. Toddlers & Tiaras
wishes it was this trashy.
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THE REAL HOUSEWIVES
OF NEW JERSEY
4 M-Net Series Reality
20:30 E1
Ashley – excuse us, Ashlee – is
blonde and has a life coach.
90 PLEIN STREET
4 SABC2 21:30 E1
Dineo’s president and yes, she’s
got a new face. Thembi Mtshali
takes over from Warone Seane,
who wasn’t available this time.
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8 E! 22:00 E20
18:00 (starts 3 December) E1 & 2
We go back to the ’80s to watch
Sex And The City’s (SATC) social
columnist and fashionista Carrie
Bradshaw (AnnaSophia Robb)
grow up from the age of 16
and take her first steps in writing, dating and “doing it” (she’s
still a virgin as season 2 starts).
Aside from drama with her ex
Sebastian (Austin Butler), she
has her group of friends – best
advisor Walt (Brendan Dooling)
who’s realised he’s into guys,
sexually experienced academic
overachiever Mouse (Ellen
Wong) and Carrie’s Sebastiankissing homophobic fremeny
Maggie (Katie Findlay) – and
her family, including “bad” little
sister Dorrit (Stefania Owen).
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apie st
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kay, we know it’s not
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strike, soapie star salaries
are definitely in the spotlight. We decided to find out what actors
earn and what their contracts look like.
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It was rumoured that, on cancelled
M-Net soap Egoli (which ran from
1992-2010), big names like Brümilda
van Rensburg (Louwna) and Shaleen
Surtie-Richards (Nenna) earned more
than R50 000 before deductions.
Winnie Modise, Khethiwe
on Generations, is a veteran
actress and could earn up
to R80 000 per month.
VETERAN
Lorcia Cooper, Erin
on Scandal!, is a
known face and
could earn up to
R26 000 per month.
KNOWN FACE
Known faces are actors with between
five to ten years’ experience on screen
and in soaps.
A veteran has over ten years’ experience
on screen and is usually very popular.
SALARY:
R3 000 to R5 000 per episode or
R35 000 to R80 000 per month.
BUMPED UP:
The line between new and known faces
can get blurry. Often a new character
gains popularity very quickly and can
then become a known face before the
five-year average.
BEST-PAYING SOAP FOR A VETERAN:
1. Generations
Between R50 000 and R80 000. Their
highest-paid stars are probably Sophie
Ndaba as Queen, Menzi Ngubane as
Sibusiso and Winnie Modise as Khethiwe.
2. 7de Laan
R35 000 to R60 000. Their highest-paid
stars are probably Pierre van Pletzen in
the role of Oubaas and Vinette Ebrahim
playing Charmaine.
3. Isidingo
R25 000 to R30 000. Robert Whitehead
(Barker) is probably one of the best paid.
IN HOLLYWOOD:
$1 500 to $3 000 per episode or
$156 000 to $312 000 per year.
IN HOLLYWOOD:
$2 000 to $5 000 (or more) per episode or
$208 000 to $520 000 per year.
SALARY:
R2 500 to R3 000 per episode or
R15 000 to R26 000 per month.
Andrea Streso, 7de
Laan’s Danelle, could
earn up to R12 000
per month.
NEW FACE
New faces are start-outs in the industry.
SALARY:
R2 000 to R3 000 per episode or
R8 000 to R12 000 per month.
BUMPED UP:
Sources say that a new face on 7de Laan
earns R5 000 to R8 000 monthly. It could
go up to R12- or R15 000 if the character’s
popular and writers keep them around.
IN HOLLYWOOD:
$700 to $1 500 per episode or
$72 800 to $156 000 per year.
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There are several things than can have an
influence on how much actors will take
home every month:
t How many “calls” you have in your soap.
Not all actors are in each and every episode.
The average actor usually appears in 12
episodes per month; just more than half of
the usual 20 episodes if a soap’s broadcast
five times a week. This means that the
average soap actor may earn in the region
of about R4 000 to R6 000 per week, which
means that they’ll be on the same level as a
known actor.
t The status factor. Are they a new face,
recognisable or an A-list veteran? How
much experience does the actor have? And,
of course, how popular are they and their
character? Even though Diaan Lawrenson
has only been with 7de Laan since 2002,
her character is extremely popular and
she’s likely to earn far more than her years
on the soapie would normally dictate.
t Tax. Actors also pay tax, which means a
deduction of 10-25 percent from their salary.
t Agent’s commission. Agents aren’t free
and can take anywhere between 10 and
20 percent of an actor’s salary. And you
probably need one to get acting roles.
WHO’S THE BOSS?
It’s important to understand who’s responsible
for paying the actors’ salaries. Broadcasters,
like M-Net, kykNET, e.tv or the SABC, appoint
production houses such as Endemol (Isidingo),
Danie Odendaal Productions (7de Laan), Ochre
Media (Scandal!) and Stark Films (Binneland).
The broadcaster pays the production house,
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THE INS AND OUTS OF GUEST STARS
Producers also want flashy guest actors from
time to time to inject some juice into storylines.
Here the salary also depends on various factors
and status plays a very big role in determining
salary. Think of someone like Zama Ngcobo,
who’s played Generations’ Thabitha, or Abigail
Kubeka, who pops in and out of Scandal! as
Daniel’s mom.
Background extra: a paltry R150 to R300 per day.
Background extra with one to five sentences of
dialogue: R400 to R600 per day.
Guest actors: depending on your popularity
this can range anywhere between R2 000 and
R3 000 per episode.
which in turn pays the actors. Liby Nel, 7de
Laan’s publicist, says: “We pay our actors
according to the guidelines set out by SABC2.
Within our budget, we make provision for the
actors and it differs according to their level of
experience.” Annual increases, as with most
companies, vary between 3 to 10 percent.
Do non-soapies
pay more?
Non-soap series typically pay more. But the
shows aren’t ongoing like soapies and are
limited to a certain number of episodes –
13 to 26 – like 90 Plein Street (see p17). The
other downside is that it takes three to six
months for production to wrap and then
you’re out of work again. According to Jack
Devnarain (Isidingo’s Rajesh), multiple factors
determine salaries in other genres and it can
range from R5 000 to R50 000 per episode.
For a movie, an average SA actor can expect
about R60 000 for a couple of months’ work.
HOLLYWOOD HONEYS
Actors in the US earn a lot more than our
local ones. Two And A Half Men’s former
leading man Charlie Sheen took home an
astronomical $825 000 (around R8.5million)
for every episode before he was fired in 2010.
William Petersen (CSI’s Gill Grissom from 2000
to 2013) earned $600 000 per episode (over
R6 million) and Simon Cowell gets $50 million
(R516 million) per year just for the rights to
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American Idol even though he’s no longer a
judge on the hit reality show.
Soap actors also earn more in Tinseltown
than they do in most other countries. In a
recent interview with 5FM’s Gareth Cliff,
Texas Battle (Bold’s Marcus) spilled that bigname co-stars like Ronn Moss (Ridge) and
Susan Flannery (Stephanie) easily earned
$40 000-$45 000 (almost R500 000) a month.
t According to an actor who
we spoke to (who wants to
remain anonymous), it’s
beneficial to get an agent
as most actors love acting
so much that they’ll do it for
next to nothing. An agent
protects the financial interests
of the actor and ensures they
get decent salaries, increases
and opportunities to grow
their careers. Agents also
assist with contract negotiations and quibbles into
higher tariffs per episode.
t The average contract is for
between 9 and 12 months
for a permanent actor (not
a lot of job security there),
while guest actors sign for
even shorter periods.
t Actors have very few benefits
and job security. For example,
Caroline Jacobs, who played
Zinzi on 7de Laan, fell
pregnant in 2012 with her
second child and her contract
was terminated. The lack of
job security is one of the
reasons that the Generations
actors recently went on strike
– you never know when the
writers will write out your
character and you suddenly
find yourself without income.
t Actors also get no medical aid
or retirement fund from the
production house. They have
to sort those out themselves.
t Jack Devnarain, who’s
also the co-founder of the
South African Actors Guild,
encourages actors to become
guild members – it advises
on everything from contract
negotiations to maternity
leave. “We’re seen as a kind
of actors’ union, but legally
we can’t be called that since
there’s a dispute if actors are
employees or independent
contractors,” he says. p
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Straight from Hollywood
The late Cory Monteith,
best known as Glee’s
Finn Hudson.
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eated in the Four Season’s
Hotel in Beverly Hills, the
mood is sombre. We’re
about to watch a special
screening of the Glee
tribute episode to Cory
Monteith, the romantic interest and reallife boyfriend of Lea Michele (Rachel). She’s
avoided discussing his untimely death due
to a drug overdose in a Vancouver hotel
room on 13 July earlier this year.
Cory had been battling drug addiction
for some time, but no one who met the
gentle giant would’ve known. He came
across as the clean-cut all-American
athlete. His charm was that he seemed
totally unaware of his appeal. He had a shy
way of lowering his chin and smiling with
his lips together, like he didn’t want to let
the words inside out. It was a shock to the
entertainment community when his lifeless
body was found in his hotel room.
And only now did Lea talk about what
he meant to her, along with Ryan Murphy,
the co-creator of the show and man who
gave Cory his first big break. Also on hand
are Jane Lynch (Sue) and Matthew
Morrison (Mr Shue). I dreaded a tearfully
sentimental episode where viewers ware
emotionally manipulated. Instead, I found
myself choking back tears. The reason for
Cory’s death is never addressed, but the
impact of losing someone suddenly is
handled with taste and subtlety. The songs
are just terrific and this is an episode that
shouldn’t be missed when it airs on SA TV
screens on Wednesday 4 December.
Farewell,
Finn!
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Our Hollywood correspondent got a rare, inside look
into Glee’s tribute to Corey Monteith (Finn).
The tribute plaque
dedicated to Finn.
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