Author: Media Blogger

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Media BloggerOctober 6, 2017

[The Film Blog] What exactly is happening on #SGIT Season 2?

No, seriously. Watch this clip we took from today’s episode of Ndani TV’s hit web series, Skinny Girl in Transit ...

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Media BloggerJune 7, 2017

The Media Blog: The Culture Custodian flubs a headline inspiring much chuckle and shaking of head

Everyone knows how important headlines are. They are very frequently the only things that determine what we click, and what ...

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Media BloggerJune 5, 2017

The Media Blog: What the heck is A Nasty Boy doing?

There’s this fairly new website – to be rather honest we can’t tell if it’s new or not because these ...

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Media BloggerJanuary 31, 2017

The Film Blog: This dissection of The Wedding Party is the best thing you will read all day

We haven’t really talked about The Wedding Party, have we? Sure, we’ve acknowledged and celebrated it’s record-breaking box office figures ...

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Media BloggerJanuary 27, 2017

The Media Blog: Gidi Up is back

Or almost back, at least. Less than a full day after another Nigerian online TV platform launched its first webseries, ...

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Media BloggerJanuary 27, 2017

The Media Blog: Our Best Friend’s Wedding is here

2017 is shaping up to be the year Red TV forces us all to take it seriously with this online ...

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Media BloggerDecember 31, 2016

The Film Blog: The Wedding Party just broke the biggest record of them all

Highest grossing film in Nigerian cinema history. Bar none. No qualifiers. No caveats. 200 million naira. Easily surpassing previous record ...

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Media BloggerDecember 31, 2016

The Media Blog: Mania Magazine returns

We probably shouldn’t call it a return, seeing as they never officially “left” or went anywhere to begin with. But ...

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Media BloggerDecember 30, 2016

The Media Blog: Soundcity came out swinging with the MVP Awards Festival

We won’t compare them to The Headies. That would be unfair, because they are clearly operating at completely different levels. ...

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Media BloggerDecember 29, 2016

The Media Blog: The fall of NaijaGistLive has been spectacular to behold

Who would have thought? A news story on a major canadian network about a Nigerian gossip blog? But, it happened. We ...

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Media BloggerDecember 29, 2016

The Media Blog: We’re curious about this Buzzfeed video

It might be nothing. And lord knows we fuss over things that turn out to be nothing sometimes, but we ...

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Media BloggerDecember 29, 2016

The Media Blog: Big Brother Naija has us cautiously optimistic

No, we don’t have any inside info. We haven’t seen or heard anything in particular to suggest that this won’t ...

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Media BloggerDecember 27, 2016

The Media Blog: RED TV might have its first hit on its hands

We’ll be honest. We had reservations about RED TV’s new reality/travel show, ‘Here and Now: The Adventures of TASA.’ But ...

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Media BloggerDecember 27, 2016

The Film Blog: The Wedding Party is only just getting started

One record smashed. Then, another. And now, this. And only a week and a half after release. And the word of ...

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Media BloggerDecember 25, 2016

The Film Blog: We’ll be watching EbonyLife’s Fifty tonight

Fifty isn’t a perfect movie. No gainsaying there. But in the annals of Nigerian movie history, its story will be ...

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Media BloggerDecember 23, 2016

The Film Blog: The Wedding Party smashes another record

Apparently not content with breaking the Nigerian opening weekend gross record, The Wedding Party has gone ahead to break the ...

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Media BloggerDecember 23, 2016

The Media Blog: Mazino on Men’s Corner is not bad at all

We think EbonyLife TV is onto a good show here. Sure, some of the topics are a bit inane, and some ...

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Media BloggerDecember 22, 2016

The Media Blog: The digital TV transition is finally happening

It turns out Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed meant it when he said the Digital TV Switchover (DSO) ...

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Media BloggerDecember 22, 2016

The Film Blog: Gbomo Gbomo Express director plots a return with Catcher

Or Catch.er, as stylized on the poster. Not too much is known besides the stars of the movie as revealed ...

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Media BloggerDecember 21, 2016

The Film Blog: The curious case of the AMVCAs, EbonyLife, and Green White Green

You already know our thoughts on some of the issues we have with this year’s AMVCA nominations. One thing we didn’t mention ...

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Media BloggerDecember 20, 2016

The Film Blog: From Toyin Tomato to Tinuade Coker, Sola Sobowale is not your mate

There she is, as the money-grubbing, man-eating, Toyin Tomato in Super Story’s ‘Oh Father, Oh Daughter’ series. Who could ever ...

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Media BloggerDecember 20, 2016

The Film Blog: Anthill Studios’ ‘Plaything is pretty impressive

Anthill Studios was founded by Niyi Akinmolayan (who also serves as its Creative Director.) They’ve released a new short film, ...

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Media BloggerDecember 19, 2016

The Film Blog: Is The Wedding Party already a hit?

It sure looks like it. A quick glance through Twitter leaves us hard pressed to find a bad word by ...

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Media BloggerDecember 19, 2016

The Media Blog: In praise of BellaNaija’s quiet discipline

2016 has been a pivotal year for BellaNaija. Every year is probably pivotal for BellaNaija, to be honest, but this ...

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Media BloggerDecember 19, 2016

The Media Blog: Betty Irabor just told a very important story

We said it before: publishing magazines in Nigeria is a difficult, largely thankless job. This morning, the publisher of one ...

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Media BloggerDecember 19, 2016

Reading material: What you should be reading if you work in media content (12)

1.  Political reporting in a new age: http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2016/12/journalism-post-truth-trump-2016-election-politics-susan-glasser-214523 2. The Year of Podcasts: https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2016/12/the-50-best-podcasts-of-2016/510698/ 3. Facebook’s Fake News problems aren’t going away ...

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Media BloggerDecember 18, 2016

The Film Blog: Room 315 is a solid piece of work

Now that all the controversy has died down, Niyi Akinmolayan’s Room 315 has finally arrived. See for yourself. If you ...

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Media BloggerDecember 17, 2016

The Film Blog: We hear Mike Ezuruonye’s Brother Jekwu is raking in the cash

Well, at least 20 million naira. In 10 days. And we say ‘we hear’ because the only source for the figure is ...

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Media BloggerDecember 16, 2016

The Film Blog: These are Nigeria’s most searched movies and TV shows in 2016

A quick search on google trends reveals the top 10 most searched movies and TV series in Nigeria in 2016. Most ...

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Media BloggerDecember 16, 2016

The Film Blog: On Nigerian awards, we have to agree with Mildred Okwo

Of course, as far as the AMVCAs are concerned, we think they have had more than enough time to figure ...

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