Author: Media Blogger
The Film Blog: Omoni Oboli, you must be joking
First off, we feel it pertinent to mention that we operate separately from YNaija.com. Our focus is different. We do ...
The Film Blog: A Trip To Jamaica? The AMVCAs also need to do some soul searching
Who would have thought that when we were calling out the Best of Nollywood Awards, and praising the AMVCAs in ...
The Film Blog: #AMVCA2017 Someone feels snubbed
Skinny girl in transit nom hopefully! https://t.co/75y08ZopYL — C. Soon #DamiBants (@DamiElebe) December 14, 2016 Will AMVCA nominate SGIT this ...
The Film Blog: The AMVCA nominations are here!
Announced tonight, the 2017 AMVCA nominations are led by 93 Days, 76 and Oloibiri. Clearly the jury was feeling historical/factual ...
The Media Blog: Ndani Lifestyle is a curious development
In an age where many media platforms are making the move from text to video, it’s surprising (to put it ...
The Media Blog: Emmanuella gets a CNN feature
Not bad for a 6-year-old recording comedy skits from Port Harcourt, eh? We said it before – power shall continue ...
The Film Blog: Should we be worried for AFRIFF?
“It is not a joke, I am serious, I am quitting next year” goes the title of this Accelerate TV ...
The Film Blog: The Best of Nollywood Awards need to do some soul searching
The Best Of Nollywood Awards held last weekend. If you’re wondering why you didn’t hear much about it, it’s likely ...
The Media Blog: “What did you become?” | Someone has finally come for Toke
She’s called Iyabeji (or OroboDiva depending upon some parameters we haven’t quite figured out yet), and she has a vlog ...
The Media Blog: The most important detail from Toke Makinwa’s Rubbin’ Minds interview
You know when someone decides that they are putting their feet on the necks of everyone else, and they won’t ...
Reading material: What you should be reading if you work in media content (11)
1. Fake News didn’t just start today: http://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/read/fake-news-in-1947-was-the-reason-for-a-real-life-x-file 2. American TV is really, really expensive: https://mic.com/articles/161740/here-s-how-much-it-costs-to-make-an-episode-of-the-walking-dead 3. Coming to grips with ...
The Media Blog: It’s 45 minutes until Toke goes on Rubbin’ Minds
Well, the show starts by 3:00 p.m. on Channels TV, and the celebrity interviews tend to take up the final 15 minutes ...
The Media Blog: And we thought Toke was getting ready to chill
As in. We really thought the promo blitz was dying down. How many covers does this make it now? Even ...
The Media Blog: So we watched ‘Afropolitan Chef’ …
We want to call it a bright spot. Because we definitely needs one of those. Yetunde Shorters is a very ...
The Film Blog: Are Nigerian cinemas embracing the times?
For Nigerian cinemas, at least. A quick glance at the Silverbird Cinemas Ikeja schedule shows that a whopping 5 out ...
The Media Blog: Accelerate TV made a good move with this one
No shade to Akah. None whatsoever. We think he’s a great person with tons of potential. But look at this ...
The Media Blog: We’re not sure how we feel about Timini on The Spot
We’re not exactly thrilled. But we aren’t particularly disappointed either. Given the fact he’s filling in for Ebuka, he does ...
The Film Blog: Sadly, we are very disappointed with the movie ’76
You know that sinking feeling in your stomach when you don’t agree with the elite consensus? Yeah we felt that ...
The Film Blog: ‘The Inn’ has our attention
Just yesterday we were talking about stars making a return to the limelight via television shows. Today, we found out ...
The Film Blog: Victor Sanchez Aghahowa’s ‘Baking Bread’ is a plus for the industry
On Sunday the 4th of December, somewhere in Ikeja, Victor Sanchez Aghahowa hosted a bunch of young writers (or aspiring ...
The Film Blog: Is an Ego Boyo resurgence upon us?
Last week we brought you news that director and producer Mildred Okwo was hard at work on set of her ...
The Media Blog: You heard the news where again?
This clip is astounding. Tens of millions of Americans believe these same things. https://t.co/OqK1xtyVub — Jonathan Merritt (@JonathanMerritt) December 1, ...
Reading material: What you should be reading if you work in media content (10)
A tweeting President-Elect: https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2016/12/resisting-trumps-tweets/509222/ Revisiting an ode to investigative journalism that has become more relevant than ever: http://www.vox.com/culture/2016/12/3/13772892/spotlight-movie-of-week-investigative-journalism StarTimes is doing a ...
The Film Blog: ‘Salt’ is a pretty good ebola narrative
The thing about big events or tragedies is that there are tons of other smaller, more narrow events taking place within ...
The Media Blog: Africa Magic’s Jamestown (finally) comes on tonight!
About a year ago we got wind that Victor Sanchez Aghahowa had gathered a crop of actors and ferried them ...
The Film Blog: Mildred Okwo plots her next move
After wowing audiences with her first film The Meeting (actually, her first film was 30 Days, but so few people got ...
The Media Blog: For better or for worse, Skinny Girl In Transit returns
Well, the first episode is here and we are…. not surprised. Whether or not this is a good thing depends ...
The Media Blog: We’re reaching peak Toke levels
We should just call this Toke week at this point. Her dedication to pushing this her “On Becoming” book is ...
The Media Blog: UBA really, really wants to make RED Tv work
Just a few weeks after the announcement of their new webseries, RED TV is out with another trailer. This time, ...
The Film Blog: Omotola is (almost) back
Gird your loins. Director Moses Inwang just released (on Instagram, curiously enough) teasers for his next movie which stars Omotola ...
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