After a 23 year run on SABC 2, 7de Laan’s final episode on the channel was on Tuesday 26 December last year after the decision to cancel it.
Nearly eight months to the day it last aired, 7de Laan won the Viewer’s Choice Most Popular Show Award at the 7th Royalty Soapie Awards on the weekend. Picture: 7de Laan /Facebookwon the Viewer’s Choice Most Popular Show Award at the 7th Royalty Soapie Awards on the weekend and its viewers want the show back on screens.
“We are incredibly humbled and honoured to have received the Viewers Choice Most Popular Show Award at the 7th Royalty Soapie Awards 2024,” read the soapie drama’s statement on their official Facebook page., we have no doubt it would have. You’ve been an extraordinary part of our story, and we will cherish it forever.”In July 2023, the channel announced that the series would not be recommissioned for another season when Season 24 ends in December.
Things became a bit tense in the comments section of the soapie’s statement when SABC 2’s Facebook admin congratulated the sopaie on their win which viewers of the show didn’t take kindly. “It would’ve been better if you guys kept quiet,” wrote Nompumelelo Nicholene Sibiya responding to the channel’s post.was even initiated to try to save the long-running TV show and asked for other broadcasters to pick it up., not just saving the jobs of cast members and crew but also the number one Afrikaans soapie in South Africa,” read the petition’s statement.
Happening for a seventh year, the Royal Soapie Awards took place in Tshwane’s Heartfelt Arena where TV stars and some politicians came out to celebrate some of the genre’s best performers over the past 12 months.Some of the night’s winners included actress Deli Malinga who scooped the Outstanding Female Villain for her role as Mamzobe in Umkhokha: The Curse. The same show’s director Luthando Mngomezulu walked away with the Most Outstanding Directing Team.
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