Own Correspondent|If you’re a loyal SABC soapie viewer, then you will probably be worried about how you’re going to plan your evenings after it was announced that Isidingo: The Need has been cancelled, while Generations: The Legacy has been taken off-air for a month

It’s hard to picture a Southern Africa television where neither Generations nor Isidingo is on air but that is a prospect that is quickly becoming a reality for a lot of TV viewers.

Sources from within the South African national broadcaster confirmed to Sunday World that SABC 3 soapie Isidingo had been canned after failing to score the kinds of ratings that would attract advertisers.

Despite the fact that Isidingo regularly rates as SABC 3’s most viewed program, the numbers are still not justifiable and the bosses at Auckland Park have had to make a tough decision.

This comes just a few months after SABC 3 cancelled another long-running show on the channel, Top Billing – speaking to the fact that the viewership problem is channel-wide, rather than specific to any show.