Loooooooooool!! Honestly I totally agree with Mr Charles on this. I hardly watch TV, in fact I don’t at all. But when I sometime pass by and see people watch, I hear one or two and then I hear a lady trying to bite her tongue all in the name of trying to speak phonetics.
Hellooooo Mr Charles is so right on this, lol. Below is what he thinks the producers and actors of TV series in Nigeria at the moment are dong wrong. Enjoy!
“Too many contemporary Nigerian TV series on air these days portraying fake lifestyles and unrealistic xters. Is it an alternate Naija? 1st defect; scripts. Too many of the writers are much influenced by foreign series but don’t know how to write for the local audience .
Those writers and Producers write for a terribly slanted middle class audience who mostly came from the grassroots. Confusing everyone. Then the xters they create; whining, soppy and wet bread xters, made worse by actors trying to live up by speaking with silly accents. Please continue…
“In most scenes in some series, it’s torture just watching accented actors TRY to act! Fake settings, blurred plots meet wannabe ambitions. In creating their masturbatory utopia, the Producers of these series only succeed in giving us a cruel dystopia of impossibilities.
“Even the actors/actresses are too foreign influenced in their delivery. Brad Pitts and Jennifer Lawrences Naija styles on Naija screens! Xters are mostly flat. No psychological motivations. Poor back stories. Linear xterisation. Stereotypes. It’s a hollow shame.
“We must create stories with full identity and believable xters peculiar to our environment and locales. We can’t be confusing the kids. You guys know yourselves. There’s got to be some improvements in your art. Writers, Actors, Directors, Producers of TV series. Try more.
“Ok. Some examples as the debate rage on. Tinsel, with its dying plots and yawn-inducing xters, can have a ‘Shalewa’ spin-off and HIT! In Salewa, the grassroots see an aspirational and motivational xter who has consciously redefined herself but sticks to her roots.
“Salewa and her mom are a good example of how the ‘spri spri’ nd ‘local girl’ find a great, believable screen nexus.That’s your audience. And why is ‘Hotel Majestic’ a big hit? Setting, down – to – earth xters and simple plotlines. Good articulation from actors. Voila! HIT.
“Your audience is African first n foremost. There are realities to the African story. Pin those realities down and give the fakes a break,” he wrote on Twitter.
