Television show review: (S)Top Billing
Posted on 23. Aug, 2004 by Cassandra in Totally Whack
Cherryflava spent a quiet Friday night indoors and just so happened to catch Friday’s episode of Top Billing….which turned into an hour of absolute drivel likened to Huisgenoot TV.
Top Billing started life as Prime Time…and in those days, it was a top class show representing the best of SA’s rich and elite. Now the show has fallen into a soggy slum where it’s how cheesy you and your oddly decorated house are. On Friday’s edition they did a whole feature on one of the 5FM DJ’s shoe collection. Beautiful sweeping images of poxy shoes and Ms Jardine’s ego filled the screen for about 10 minutes. Really…has South African high-society slumped to low?
It’s the same people over and over talking the biggest load of crap…the whole show appearing to be one long ad for the Top Billing magazine…which features designer ashtrays that the Oppenheimer’s would thing twice about buying.
It all makes for shockingly bad TV and enough cheese to clog a major artery. Cherryflava is not in the habit of passing comment on TV shows…but this one deserves a flaming.
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Dolly
23. Aug, 2004
Hear, hear! This once well presented and very interesting show has become the armpit of local non-celeb content and a “look-what-I-did-on-my-last-holiday” reel of out of focus polaroids, enough to put my grandmother to sleep. Jan and Mieka De Boer makes for more interesting travel information, and rightly said, I think there are more real life celebrities down at my local video store than there are on Top Billing.
pmh
23. Aug, 2004
Surely there is a right time for all the old stuff to be flushed and trashed. even Evita Bezuidmynought is passing a lot of wind and old bluster, although it’s a darling of a thing to some.
Skye
23. Aug, 2004
The show definately took a turn for the worse about a year ago when they became the employers of ex-celebs that were thrown out of their regular jobs.
The content is poor and just smacks of it being a big media money spinner. Save face guys…can the thing.
Stephan
24. Aug, 2004
I’d rather watch old “Haas Daas die Nuuskas” reruns than Top Billing. Honestly (who throws a cupcake), they must think we are uninformed morons sitting at home and being forced to watch this nonsense on SABC…………..hold on, that’s pretty spot on isn’t it? What you gonna do? At least we pay our TV licences to keep our broadcast standards down ……
alric
23. Feb, 2005
On the 17 feb 05 ,TOPBILLING SHOWED how to spray new life into t-shirts.I would like to know what the (colour) sprays name is and where ,in cape town I can buy it as I am using fabric paint at the moment and would like to explore it.
Vincent Manqele
30. Aug, 2007
I like the show guys, I really enjoy it I make it a point that every friday evening& sunday on miday i watch the show I even miss my study time on friday for the sake of top billing, I wish u guys 2 visit the family of Khumalo(Batsetsana(producer of the show) & Romeo Khumalo).just have a super with them.