Kudos to TV3 for a good GMB season 10
Last Sunday I was watching the grand finale of Ghana’s Most Beautiful with my daughter and wife.
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My daughter loves the programme show and so I had allowed her one hour over her bed time to watch the show to 9pm.
When her time was due we all left midway to go and sleep.
My wife had tipped Badu of Ashanti representative to win because of her ebullience, vivaciousness and strong character over the entire season.
I also knew from snippets of the show I had watched that Badu had really shown herself as one to dominate the final.
My daughter said her favourite was Naa though we all agreed Badu was the front runner.
Thus we left the show midway, when my daughter’s curfew was due, with the hope that Badu would be crowned the champion of the 10th anniversary edition of TV3’s very popular Sunday night reality show.
When I got to know the following day that Badu didn’t win, I wasn’t as shocked as the position she had.
Badu did not win, but she also wasn’t the runner up nor the second runner up or even fourth, she was fifth and last! At least so said the reports.
It was 21-year-old student of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), and Western representative Yaba, who beat four other finalists to win the title.
Her prize, was a four-wheel Suzuki Vitara and a cheque of GH¢10,000 plus a holiday trip to South Africa.
Along with Badu the other finalists who could only hope to have been in Yaba’s shoes were Akos from the Eastern region, Hiba from Northern region and Naa from Greater Accra.
For me though, the most important thing about this season’s Ghana Most Beautiful is not about who won as the effort put in by the station, TV3 to make it a very memorable 10th anniversary edition.
Right from get-go, from when it was launched, till the finale it was obvious TV3 was aiming for something spectacular.
I saw over the period that TV3 had put a lot of effort into the production like they have before but with a bit more.
The girls were given so much exposure with so many mini productions: going back to their home regions to meet their people, chiefs and queen mothers, expose the tourism potential of their regions, going on expeditions, and so much more.
In all the different productions, maximum exposure was given to the show and the contestants as well as the brands that latched on to sponsor the show.
I was explaining on Facebook the other day that if I sponsored this season’s GMB, I would have slept knowing I was getting as much exposure I paid for.
Besides the many production support I also realized that the weekly Sunday night show has a new verve and gusto.
For starters, the venue changed to The World Trade Centre and though I felt the out of studio production came with its own challenges, it was and intention by the station and its production executives to make something different and they did.
Again I noticed that the season came with improvement on the start and end times for the live shows.
TV3 had been so disrespectful of time, especially closing time, for all their reality shows that I wondered where this new discipline came from. Whoever brought that into it need a pat on the shoulder.
The final, at least to the point I watched, had its own challenges when even at some point we heard the producers and directors chatting while a performance was ongoing on stage, but it was also one that they showed intention of making memorable.
That also started on time, as strange as that would sound for a TV3 final show.
All this, show that there was some urgency and a need to make things work at Adesa We and it showed in the 10th anniversary edition of GMB.
Kudos to whoever led the production through the season and kudos to Yaba for winning the top prize.
To Badu and the other three, I wish them well in their next endeavour.
@TheGHMediaGuru
