An Africanized version of hit TV series Desperate Housewives has been announced. The series, co-produced by Disney & Mo’
Abudu’s EbonyLife TV, will be filmed in Lagos, Nigeria. According to general manager, Disney Media
Distribution, Emerging Markets, Giovanni Mastrangelo, the purpose for bringingDesperate
Housewives to Africa
is ‘to engage
African audiences through locally relevant and entertaining storytelling.’
The cast for the Nigerian series will include
actors from across Africa, and producers say production will follow the format
and storylines of the original US version, but with a Nigerian flavour.
Mo Abudu, the CEO and executive chairman of
EbonyLife, said the series spoke universally “to women and to men, about
relationships, marriage and bringing up children. All those stories are there.
And Africans are the original storytellers. Your grandparents would sit you
down at night and tell you tales. We love a good story.”
Abudu, who also fronts a talk show on her
network, said the series would be wholly immersed in African culture, and
feature African fashion and music.
“We are going to give the stories an African
flavour,” she said.
The channel reaches 44 countries on the African
continent.
The Desperate Housewives series already have
five different versions produced for EMEA and Latin American audiences,
including: a Turkish version,’Umutsuz Ev Kadinlari’, the
Argentinean version, ‘Amas
de Casa Desesperadas’, the Colombian/Ecuadorian version, the U.S.
Hispanic version, ‘Donas de Casa Desesperadas‘, and
the Brazilian version.
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