Since the inception of competitive
reality shows in the Ghanaian
entertainment industry, little or
nothing has been heard or made of
both participants and winners of
these competitive shows. We write
this article with a heavy heart from
collating our findings of what goes
into the making of these so called
reality shows.
Right on top of our heads we can
speak of well-known reality shows
such as Mentor, Miss Ghana, Born
Stars, Stars of the Future, Talented
Kids, Ghana’s Most Beautiful,
Vodafone Icons, MTN Hit Maker, Miss
Maliaka and “The Next Big Thing in
Gh Hip Hop” that have all failed to
promote and propagate names of their
winners and yet proceed to call for
new talents.
NB: The Trace Report isn’t writing
this to favor or discredit anyone,
instead; we as entertainment pundits
are only pursuing the good of the
Ghanaian entertainment industry.
TV3 network has been a forward
patron in television reality shows and
we must credit the quality and
originality of their productions yet
season after season we hear nothing
of and from the winners of their
reality shows. They either organize
some fancy vacation or compensate
them with money and desert them to
their fate. We all can recall the
Tatatulato saga and the mentor 6
winner who is currently pig farming,
talk less of the contestants of the
Ghana Most Beautiful show who now
double as pageantries and marketing
leverages for their sponsors.
Viasat 1, ‘our number entertainer’
totally forgot to entertain their
viewers with Born Stars reality show.
Our entertainment friendly telcos’ who
we hoped to alter trends only made
mockery of themselves, as Vodafone
failed to make Icons from the winners
of their Vodafone Icons reality shows
and MTN decided to produce a
mediocre version of Nigeria’s Project
Fame and named it Hit Maker.
We reserve our remarks on Mr. & Miss
Ghana as the organizers already have
issues to deal and their controversies
have no space in this article.
This bring us to the mother all
controversial reality shows Charter
House. As if displaying the ignorance
of some of their Miss Maliaka
contestants on national television at
the audition stages was not enough,
they proceeded to produce yet
another reality show for their Queen
which lasted only two episodes
during her one year reign. The next
big thing in GH hip hop really was a
unique concept and though its
production was questionable, we
believe it couldn’t have been any
better but the question still remains,
what
has been made of the winner
Strongman?
Hmmm three years ago, when the
very talented Emmanuel Yawson
emerged winner of Stars of the
Future, we honestly believed the
organizers would have invested in his
talent since his kind was rare but
after winning, it was like he cursed
them because nothing has been heard
of the show nor himself after three
years.
We know that the producers and
organizers of these reality shows will
cook up flawless PR’ mechanisms to
defend their blunders after reading
this article but we at the Trace Report
are not interested in whatever
excuses they have, we only wish that
this piece will serve as a wakeup call
to all stake holders in the reality
show industry and halt using their
platform to explore the talents of the
innocent and in the name of helping
them use shows to fill their pockets
with sponsors money.
Submitted By: Trace Report
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