Updating you on the latest reality shows coming to Linda Ikeji TV

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In anticipation of the launch of premier streaming service Linda Ikeji TV on June 1 (it was shifted from May 22 because Linda Ikeji had to soak in the news of her bun in the oven, I think), it’s pertinent that you are updated on the growing catalogue of content Linda has promised us on the eponymous platform.

Coming soon!!! See you!!!

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If you are a Linda Ikeji enthusiast, or you are simply someone who wants to subscribe to another (and probably superior) Netflix-adjacent service in the Nigerian streaming landscape, then it’s easy to get lost down the content rabbit hole as Linda Ikeji doesn’t seem to be slowing down. The blogger-turned-media mogul has the pull, and even the wallet, to capitalise on entertainment trends and while this still revolves around television, who says Ikeji isn’t thinking of poaching a top-tier filmmaker like Kunle Afolayan to produce original movie content?

With just seven days to the launch of Linda Ikeji TV, I’m severely hoping that its library of shows don’t suck.

Ice Prince: Rise and Grind

Ice Prince’s music career is suffering from some kind of stasis. A new legion of rap kids (some from the much maligned Soundcloud era) are taking over the industry and the rapper, in my opinion, is no longer considered as a valuable pop-cultural resource. That said, Ice Prince’s flirtations with Nollywood go far back, as seen in the 2013 Nigeria-Ghana cinematic mashup House of Gold, directed by Pascal Amanfo. And then his strange and mildly unsettling biopic Me Versus Me, which had actress Ireti Doyle gushing over via her Instagram.

Ice Prince: Rise and Grind is a reality series based on the Jos-born rapper, and it will chronicle his beginnings and travails and perhaps focus on that famous Ice Prince era that gave us songs like Oleku and Super Star. If Ice Prince counting his money and bling on television is your thing, then you are in luck.

Magodo Mums and their Single Friend

I haven’t a clue about this poster, and why it looks like the four women had just gatecrashed a Lagos wedding. Linda Ikeji penned the script for Magodo Mums and their Single Friend and this is what she said via her blog: “What would you do if all your friends who you live in the same community with are all married with children and you are not? And some of them even feel they are better than you because you have no husband?”

In a nutshell, Ikeji is trolling unmarried people. Got it.

Highway Girls of Eko

I read “prostitutes” on the poster and I had to cringe. Moreover, the show is seemingly reverberating with the undertones of a thriller, where a group of sex workers stationed themselves by the road, hail down a car and bludgeon the driver with a blunt object. And then zoom away with the car. At the same time, I can’t help but feel that Highway Girls of Eko was strung together as salacious television, as opposed to telling a humanising, non-judgmental story on sex workers.

Now that you have an inkling of what to expect on the soon-to-be launched Linda Ikeji TV, you should also be reminded of Oyinbo Wives of Lagos, Gidi Girls, Made In Gidi, King Toto, Toyin Abraham: True and Bare, The Ex-Girlfriends of Nigerian Entertainers, Annabel: My Life As A Former Stripper, Ajegunle With Love, and repackaged shows like Hot Topics and The Interview.

 

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