{"id":8,"date":"2012-10-16T15:55:33","date_gmt":"2012-10-16T15:55:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.worldculturejournal.com\/?p=8"},"modified":"2013-06-30T00:16:54","modified_gmt":"2013-06-29T23:16:54","slug":"8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/boell.com\/worldculturejournal\/2012\/10\/8\/","title":{"rendered":"from YouTube to TV &#8211; success for Nigerian Sitcom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>reposted from: <a title=\"Televisual (UK)\" href=\"http:\/\/www.televisual.com\" target=\"_blank\">Televisual (UK)<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>British sitcom Meet the Adebanjos is an example of how, in 2012, a show can get off the ground without a UK\u00a0commissioner. <em><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Meet the Adebanjoswas made with money raised by a former city trader from Croydon. It started out on<\/p>\n<p>YouTube, went to DVD and has been sold internationally. In the last few weeks, it has become South Africa\u2019s third most popular comedy.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.televisual.com\/images\/blog\/3_1350291992_Picture%203.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"356\" height=\"215\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The audience for the sitcom about a Nigerian family living in London doubled to 1.4 million after the first week on South Africa\u2019s SABC2.<\/p>\n<p>Osayemi raised \u00a3175,000 to make the first eight episodes through production company MTA Productions, after becoming frustrated with meetings with UK commissioners.<\/p>\n<p>The first three episodes, which were produced by former trader Andrew Osayemi and the show&#8217;s creator Debra Odutoyo, were put online as a taster for the eight episodes on DVD. They got over a million views on YouTube.<br \/>\n<em><br \/>\nMeet the Adebanios<\/em>, which stars stand-up Lateef Lovejoy, has also been bought by Ghana, Nigeria and Uganda. It currently runs on The African Channel in the UK.<\/p>\n<p>The second series will begin filming early next year.<\/p>\n<p>The show has also been adapted as a stage play and will play at London\u2019s Hackney Empire in November.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>reposted from: Televisual (UK) British sitcom Meet the Adebanjos is an example of how, in 2012, a show can get off the ground without a UK\u00a0commissioner. Meet the Adebanjoswas made with money raised by a former city trader from Croydon. It started out on YouTube, went to DVD and has been sold internationally. In the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":[],"categories":[8],"tags":[53,9,10,54],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/boell.com\/worldculturejournal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/boell.com\/worldculturejournal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/boell.com\/worldculturejournal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/boell.com\/worldculturejournal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/boell.com\/worldculturejournal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/boell.com\/worldculturejournal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12,"href":"https:\/\/boell.com\/worldculturejournal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8\/revisions\/12"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/boell.com\/worldculturejournal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/boell.com\/worldculturejournal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/boell.com\/worldculturejournal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}