SA’S GOT TALENT: HOW ABOUT YOU?
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DUST off your dancing shoes, it’s almost time to audition for the next season of SA’s Got Talent.
The show, which has created a host of superstars, is on the search for South Africa’s next big thing, with auditions for season eight taking place in May. Hopeful contestants can attend the pre-auditions in Joburg, Cape Town and Durban; those who live outside the major cities or in other provinces can enter by submitting videos of their show-stopping acts via an online submission form.
The criteria for entry remain as simple as ever: “Any act. Any age”. Contestants are urged to think outside the box and present their quirkiest and most creative acts to stand a chance to win the grand prize of R500 000.
Marlon Davids, MD of e.tv Channels Division, is looking forward to seeing what talent will dazzle on the SA’s Got Talent stage this year. “We have seen so many of our SA’s Got Talent stars from the over the years go on to achieve great things,” he says. Online submissions for auditions can be done via the SA’s Got Talent audition page here: https://rapidblue.formstack.com/forms/sagt. Online auditions close at midnight on May 31.
These auditions are only for contestants who live in provinces outside Gauteng, the Western Cape and KwaZulu-Natal. Cape Town pre-auditions are on May 13 and 14 at Newlands Rugby Stadium. Gates open at 7am.
Anyone who arrives after midday will not be allowed in the pre-audition queue. Anyone under the age of 18 must be accompanied by a chaperone throughout the entire pre-audition process on the day. the beginning of Jane Tennison’s career as a WPC, and depicts how she went from young and inexperienced to the hard-bitten cop famously portrayed by Helen Mirren in the original. Here it’s Hackney in the 1970s and women police constables are being uneasily integrated into the force. We’re introduced to 22-year old Jane (played by Stefanie Martini), a probationary officer in a world where high-ranking police officers are notoriously chauvinistic and the rulesbent.
Mad Dogs (M-Net 101, Thursday at 11.30pm): The other day I heard a horrible rumour that “they” are remaking The Matrix. Not only is that a dreadful idea on so many levels, but with so many remakes and franchises and sequels, one has to wonder if Hollywood has any original ideas left. US remakes of British and European television series are more often than not, quite awful. I will give them Shameless, however. I haven’t seen that UK series, so my opinion is somewhat tainted. But I have watched the original Bafta-nominated Mad Dogs (British) so I’m approaching this new US version – a “partial remake” – with judgement at the ready, despite it being adapted by the showrunner, Chris Cole. The story begins with four middle-aged friends who have