Nigeria will soon
have its own Wisteria Lane. EbonyLife TV and Disney Media Distribution EMEA
have set the ball rolling for a new series, Desperate Housewives Africa which
will be loosely based the hit American TV series, Desperate
Housewives. The show is set to get on air in the summer of 2014.
EbonyLife TV’s CEO Mo
Abudu has come out to say that the show will have “an African soul” and will
feature a cast of new and established pan-African talent that will showcase fashion
by Nigerian dress designers. The series will be filmed
on location in Lekki, Lagos and as Disney EMEA general manager Giovanni
Mastrangelo puts it, it will have “the opportunity to engage African audiences
through locally relevant and entertaining storytelling.”
Desperate Housewives have
been produced in Turkey, Argentina, Brazil and the United States in
Spanish.
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