Maimane & Pearl Thusi weigh in on e.tv playing ANOTHER 'Anaconda' rerun
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It's 2022. We are living through a pandemic and yet we still have to survive Anaconda repeats on e.tv.
Social media users felt like they were back in the year 2002 this week when the channel's social media pages teased their Saturday night film.
They didn't name the movie but it was clear from the picture clue that TV viewers are in for another repeat of an Anaconda film.
The first film was released in 1997, with a number of sequels since.
e.tv picked up several films in the series and has been showing them ever since, including in their Sunday night movie and Friday Action Night slots.
While some were feeling nostalgic at the thought of watching Anaconda this weekend, others begged the broadcaster not to air it again.
One SA Movement leader Mmusi Maimane said the channel is “behaving like the ANC now”, while actress Pearl Thusi called on the channel to stop pushing “old and non-stop repeat content”.
Podcaster Sol Phenduka joked that he had sent e.tv his Netflix logins so they can show fresher content.
The criticism and mocking didn't bother the channel, which responded by punting the film even more and encouraging people to make a “date” out of it.
You are behaving like the ANC now. You can’t still be showing Anaconda in 2022. https://t.co/SE43XWoHu9
— Mmusi Maimane (@MmusiMaimane) January 13, 2022
Haibo eTV's admin💀💀💀💀#Anaconda pic.twitter.com/sK1UW8mha8
— Sponono👸🏽💉 (@Zininzi83159956) January 13, 2022
Please Check DM. Sent you my Netflix logins @etv
— Solomzi (@Solphendukaa) January 13, 2022
Anaconda? In 2022? Someone needs to upgrade your usb stick bruh . https://t.co/5dYFbZv1Xv
— Boosie (@BusiBadass_) January 13, 2022
Bathong
— MaMpofu 🧸🤎 (@unathimpofu) January 13, 2022
etv 🤝 Anaconda https://t.co/GTDBMmrW8w
Etv wants to make sure no South African dies without watching Anaconda. Unreal commitment.
— 𝐋𝐢𝐭𝐒𝐞𝐠𝐨 🇸🇳 (@GigiPress) January 13, 2022
*Etv plays anaconda again*
— ZULU Cantona (@MjekeUTD) January 13, 2022
Eve: pic.twitter.com/xxEHBDoMiO
At this rate my great grandkids will watch Anaconda on etv.
— 𝙈 𝙄 𝙕 𝘼 𝙍 (@mizar) January 13, 2022
This how etv fetches the anaconda tape pic.twitter.com/eQVJdsf10E
— ChamPAINpapi (@ChaddyAmazing) January 13, 2022
The way etv loves Anaconda, you'd swear the person in charge can communicate with snakes.
— Lord of Knives🔪® (@Rathipa_Rampedi) January 13, 2022
Clearly, after Adam & Eve were banished from the garden of Eden, Eve was hired by etv.
😂😂😂
The bond between etv and anaconda Movies, is the bond I need between Mina neMali this year. 🤞🕯️
— Gawoz’Omkhulu (@uGawozi) January 13, 2022
Execs at etv after every showing of anaconda 🐍 pic.twitter.com/KVrk9lUtRZ
— George of the Jungle 🌿🦩🌴🌳 (@junglegeorge24) January 13, 2022
Three things are guaranteed in life:
— Black Wiz (@BlackWizSA) January 13, 2022
1. Death
2. Taxes
3. Anaconda on eTV
I pray the bond with my girlfriend become as Anaconda & eTV
— doz (@_menzi_ndaba) January 13, 2022
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