Daily Voice 2022-01-17

HOW many times can a TV station air the movie Anaconda before viewers finally have enough? The answer is 19. Local celebrities are leading a public revolt against e.tv after the free-to-air channel announced that they would be screening the 1997 action-horror again during prime time on Saturday. “Can you guess this Saturday’s 8PM movie?” e.tv had tweeted last week. The slang stuk has been broadcast almost 20 times, the last time was apparently in 2014, still too fresh in the memory for viewers. Starring Jennifer Lopez, Ice Cube, Jon Voight, Eric Stoltz, Jonathan Hyde and Owen Wilson, the film directed by Luis Llosa became a cult classic, but it seems that South Africans have become gatvol. Actress Pearl Thusi was one of them, tweeting: “You guys really need a…