Ok, we're back after a rather long hiatus. A quick look at what's happening in Africa and we have this. The Promise has been shown throughout Subsaharan Africa last year, but here we have the Ghanaians having second helpings from one of their prime networks.
Doing this blog made me learn many new things about international showbiz. One of them is that just because a series is shown means the market asks for it. It was sobering to realize one can always "fake" the market. It has always puzzled me why the Koreans have been showing for nearly 15 years in Peru but they mostly hugged the bottom of the ratings charts, below the other telenovelas shown there which were mostly from Mexico, Brazil, Colombia, Turkey & the Philippines. If "normal" shows were immediately axed for bad ratings, then there must be other extraneous reasons why one is impervious for the longest time to the normal course of things. As if we needed no ratings chart after all? (Well, the network wars are superfluous, after all?). Well, if these days "fake news" , "fake popularity", "fake etc." have become de rigueur, don't be surprised we can have fake everything...
What's good with The Promise is there's nothing fake why it's now showing again in Ghana. The series is popular in Africa.
Doing this blog made me learn many new things about international showbiz. One of them is that just because a series is shown means the market asks for it. It was sobering to realize one can always "fake" the market. It has always puzzled me why the Koreans have been showing for nearly 15 years in Peru but they mostly hugged the bottom of the ratings charts, below the other telenovelas shown there which were mostly from Mexico, Brazil, Colombia, Turkey & the Philippines. If "normal" shows were immediately axed for bad ratings, then there must be other extraneous reasons why one is impervious for the longest time to the normal course of things. As if we needed no ratings chart after all? (Well, the network wars are superfluous, after all?). Well, if these days "fake news" , "fake popularity", "fake etc." have become de rigueur, don't be surprised we can have fake everything...
What's good with The Promise is there's nothing fake why it's now showing again in Ghana. The series is popular in Africa.
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