Renowned Ghanaian actor, Kofi Adjorlolo has
called for the ban of telenovelas from airing on
our local television stations. According to the
veteran actor, these soap operas are dwindling
the Ghanaian movie industry.
Speaking to Bra Chef on Radio Univers, he
advised Ghanaians to take a cue from Nigerians
who ones banned these limited-run serial dramas
which made it rare to watch such series in the
country.
He noted that "the telenovelas are 'killing' the
industry so they should stop all these Mexican
things they have been showing; I will say this
over and over again. They should rather
concentrate on what we are doing here. You
know in Nigeria you can't show Mexican series,
at a time it was banned – it's rare."
He stressed that "if I, Kofi Adjorlolo had my own
way as the president of the private TV stations
association or whatever they call it, I will ban it.
I will make sure my executives agree to it and
we concentrate on how to produce more
Ghanaian movies and series. If possible the TV
stations should bring money to produce such
kind of series."
The award-winning actor stated that television
stations that show these series with the aim of
entertaining their viewers are making things
difficult for actors and movie producers in the
country. He added that, TV stations pay higher
amount of money to movie producers who
submit these soap operas to them than those
who present local movies.
"The television stations have made things
difficult for us. I don't even think that they
themselves they realize it. They know that they
want to entertain their viewers by showing them
these films."
"…Even the TV stations prefer to pay the people
who bring the Mexican soaps more than what
they will give to the Ghanaian movie producer."
Kofi Adjorlolo who was recently honoured as a
Nollywood legend disclosed that Ghanaian
movies have received international recognition
because of the improvement in its content so TV
stations "should try as much as possible to
discourage the taste of the consumer for such
soap operas to inculcate the habit of patronizing
local movies."
