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SABC 2 Drawing the Line
Firstly, I must say sorry to all of you dedicated fans who tuned in for two solid weeks only to find that Drawing the Line Season 2 had failed to air on Sunday at 12:30pm on SABC 2 as promised. The SABC did a really good job with publicity this time around, but then it didn’t screen the show. Oh well, you can’t have it all! The show is back on air now, and it is cooking!
This season of the show really ups the ante and promises to deliver much more than the previous one. For those of you who are unacquainted with the show, Drawing the Line is a debate show that fuses theatresports with debates on contentious contemporary issues and audience participation in an effort to inspire the nation to openly engage with issues of morality in a safe, fun, and dynamic way.
I play the host and the Devil’s Advocate, the person who juggles all of the elements of the show in order to keep the discussion cooking. My job is not necessarily to take a side, but rather to push the audience to acknowledge the validity of both sides of the issues presented every week.
I also try very hard to force the audience to vote according to how we really behave as a society, not how we wish to be perceived. This is one of the biggest challenges of the show. We are very good at pretenses in South Africa.
The importance of a show like this cannot be underestimated given the current climate in the country. It’s hard to take a public stand on anything without being attacked, ridiculed or marginalized. People are scared for their safety and for the future.
So we have created a neutral, but heated, environment in TV-land where we debate the morality of issues like voting, polygamy, road rage, condom usage in committed relationships, violence in video games, judging a book by its cover, and lots more.
Joining me in studio every week are our two brilliant debate team leaders: journalist and media personality Michelle Constant and blogger and author Ndumiso Ngcobo.
The scenarios that are portrayed by our enormously talented team of actors form an element of the show that everyone really looks forward to.
The scenarios take the moral issues out of the airy-fairy intellectual realm and make them real. The studio audience is required to vote on the moral issues based on whichever argument they find most convincing.
The way the audience votes impacts directly on the evolution of the scenarios. So the debate is constantly shifting as we get closer to figuring out where we “Draw the Line”
I would love to talk to you directly after every episode, so please feel free to write what you think in this space.
Fan Comments
May 28, 2009, 08:21:47 : Bafana Madida
Relevant, informative, challenges social norms, blunt, crucial to moral regeneration, effective, thought provoking - these are some of the words I could use to describe and account for Drawing The Line. Its such a unfortunate that the new transistion from high school to university has deprived me of television however, watching Drawing The Line air in the previous months, i found myself engaging with motion television.
April 29, 2009, 09:45:59 : Mabatho Mpondo
The show is cool to watch.It forces people to sit down and really think about the direction in which our society has drifted to.To evaluate the loss of good moral values in communities and the loss of good role models for the future leaders of our country.
April 17, 2009, 14:37:11 : boitumelo makhuzeni
draw the line is great , but i wish lattitude come back , are you considering it?
April 14, 2009, 18:13:55 : Thozama Mathe
ncaa thats nice girl hey but how can u help me to come out of the forest
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