Telecom
Glo Unveils Electrifying G-BAM TV show
Leading telecoms provider, Globacom has unveiled its electrifying 52-week youth lifestyle TV programme, the G-BAM show. The telecoms giant said the show will enrich the television viewing experience of Nigerians in 2010 with a big bang and eliminate boredom from their Saturday nights.
Globacom’s Regional Director, Marketing Communications, Mr. Charles Jenarius, disclosed that the show will run weekly and feature the company’s brand ambassadors and other top celebrities such as D’banj, 50 Cents, Uche Jombo, KC Presh, Rita Dominic, Basket Mouth, Ego Ogbaro, Monalisa Chinda and numerous other showbiz icons.
Jenarius said that each segment of the show is unique and purposeful. “There is a segment on upcoming artistes which showcases a star-bound personality, someone who is the next biggest thing in Nigerian entertainment. This enables viewers to be the first to know the entire gist about this budding star. The audience will hear his story and his plans first hand from him”, he said.
Selected Glo subscribers and journalists had an opportunity to see excerpts of the new show at the preview on Wednesday last week. Speaking after the event, music star, Sunny Nneji commended the technical quality of the show, saying it was well put together. “It will keep subscribers glued to the TV on Saturday evenings,” he said.
Ego, who was also at the preview, said that even though she was involved in the shooting of some of the episodes, she did not know that the final product would be of such a high technical quality. “There’s really nothing like this on TV yet. I’ll watch it week after week”. Comedian Basketmouth praised the segment on the private lives of stars, saying “it’s exciting”.
The maiden edition opens with razzmatazz and a scintillating performance by upcoming hip hop act, Dagrin. The scene will thereafter fade for the show presenters, Isio De-la-Vega and Illrymz, to introduce captivating Ego in a live performance that leaves viewers asking for more. Thereafter, the vivacious and pretty Nollywood actress Monalisa Chinda engages the audience in bubbly conversation.
The G-BAM show also features a celebrity segment which is essentially a true to life contact with a big time celebrity. The segment shows the act in performance, enabling viewers to hear his or her story first hand and to catch a glimpse of a day in the life of this celebrity. Part of the highlight of the first episode, for instance, is Monalisa in the kitchen.
The show proceeds with racy segments and breezy transitions, ending in a climatic G-Chat segment that ensures that viewers do not miss the latest gist in the entertainment circuit.
The G-chat segment projects newest developments in the showbiz circuit, the show will take the latest and hottest music and sports video feeds from Hollywood. G-BAM show will also highlight the top five songs, cars, bikes, actors and producers of the week.