Executive member of the Film Producers Association of Ghana, Mr. Paul Agyei, has said that era of showing telenovelas each day on the Ghanaian local television stations will soon come to an end.
According to him, the association has had a considerable discussion with the government and that very soon a regulation will come out from the Information and Arts ministries directing TV stations to air telenovelas twice a week.
“When this law is enforced it will minimise the rate at which telenovelas are shown on the local television stations,” he said. .
Mr. Agyei said this when speaking in an interview with Ashh FM Entertainment-Zone last Sunday.
He indicated the influx of telenovelas on the various television networks in the country has caused the neglect of the local movies.
“One of our major concerns was that high patronage of Mexican and other foreign Telenovelas on the various television networks by a majority of Ghanaians has caused to the neglect of the local movies,” he said.
The telenovelas in Ghana came with a huge gesture that swept everyone across the country; parents and children; everyone fell in love with it. As we all know TV3 was the first media outlet to set the pace for the rest of the TV stations to follow suit.
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