Viewers have been keeping up with hit TV series Keeping Up With The Kardashians(KUWTK) for the past 10 years as it evolves from a familial docu-series into a global phenomenon.
And as part of celebrating its mega hit series’ 10th milestone, E! will air a 90-minute KUWTK 10 Year Anniversary Special on DStv channel 124 at 6pm.
RADIO and television personality, Anita Erskine has been unveiled as the next guest for the fifth edition of the 2017 LEAD Series.
LEAD (Learn, Evolve, Apply, Dominate) organised by OMNIS2131 has had the likes of Hiplife Grand Papa Reggie Rockstone, blogger Ameyaw Debrah and Nabil Alhassan, CEO OF Event Factory pass through to share their experiences in the entertainment industry.
Four contestants have been eliminated from MTN Hitmaker 6 after the 16 finalists gave their first live performance at the National Theatre on Tuesday, August 12.
Paired for their first performance, the contestants had only one task, to impress the judging panel, made up of TV/radio host, Caroline Sampson, entertainment critic, Francis Doku and award winning music producer, Kaywa to ensure they got a slot in the final 12.
Celebrated satirist and TV host, Kwaku Sintim-Misa (KSM) was last Friday given the Lifetime Achievement Award at the maiden edition of the Comic Awards Ghana held at the National Theatre.
He was given a citation which was presented by actors Oscar Provencal and Nana Ama McBrown after the two had paid glowing tribute to him.
A private radio station at Akyem Oda, Ofie 105.9 Fm, has been crowned champion of radio stations in the Eastern Region.
The 23-month-old station emerged the overall best performing radio station out of 40 in the region competition dubbed, “Eastern Region in a Excellent Media Awards” held at the Lindador restaurant in Koforidua last weekend.
In recent times, there have been talks and competition among celebrities regarding who wore what (slayed) on the red carpet at events.
In view of this, the Slayers Network Group has decided to give fashionistas a face with a new television show called Slayers, to be aired on GhOne Television.
I have been writing this column, Listening and Watching with Francis Doku in this paper, Graphic Showbiz since July 2000.
That makes it 17 years of coming to you with my opinions on things, people and organisations in the broadcast value chain in Ghana.
I will have you know that in all the 17 years that I have been doing this, the number of times I have not produced a piece to any of the editors and acting editors who have ran the paper, to be published in the column won't be up to 17. I could be lying though, but who cares? You don’t, do you?
We are in the middle of the summer and football fans are either happy or sad that their team has bought a player(s) or lost one or more.
One of the most interesting times for football fans is during the pre-season when all the player transfer juice happen.
If there is one club football fixture that has the world watching, it must be the El Clásico between Real Madrid and Barcelona.
Only a handful of matches even come close to attracting as much attention as the game between the two Spanish giants. One of them is the Manchester derby between City and United, as the rivalry between the two splits the city down the middle.
Exactly a week ago today, South African filmmaker Tim Greene posted a video on his Facebook page accompanied by this text “THIS IS INSANE! Turns out Ghana's biggest movie this year is a word-for-word rip-off of our movie SKEEM!”
Andrew Tandoh Adote, the popular Ghanaian performer with Roverman Productions has landed the role as the new host of the hit satirical talk show, The Tonight Show.
Out-dooring of chiefs; historical story-telling; horse-riding and processions; traditional clothing, fashion and food exhibitions; dancing contests and traditional games are some of the components of this year’s Zongofest which was launched in Accra last Thursday.
The management of Kumasi based radio station Ashh FM has reinstated Daasebre Agyei Dwamena, the broadcaster who was suspended indefinitely for faking his disappearance.
Daasebre Dwamena went into hiding on December 7, during the general elections and created fear and panic among his employers, friends, family and members within the media fraternity who thought he was missing. His last known location was Akyeremade in the the Ashanti region.
The blood-curdling screams of a young woman being circumcised at sunrise opens the film, The New Sun. From the start, the subject matter is downright emotionally disturbing, however, that is the sense the filmmaker intends to leave with the viewer.
There is a kind of love-hate relationship between Ghanaian comedians and the entertainment media. The kind has over the years raised tempers, especially from the comedians who suspect that despite all they have done to elevate that aspect of the arts, the media still does not give them the due respect.
Before we got to this place, some people in the media had held the view that many of the comedians we had, especially the stand-up comedians, were not funny.
At the time the leading characters were David Oscar, Foster Koobi and a few others. Those were the graduates of the Charterhouse-organised comedy reality show as part of Stars of the Future.
I must admit that some of the criticisms were too hard. Most of those criticisms were not constructive enough to give room for the budding talents of the only comedians we had to grow fully well to the point that we would enjoy what they gave us.
The reason, if one may find it, was because many consumers of co
