TV Stations To Stop Showing Telenovelas And Other Movies From 1st May 2021

TV Stations To Stop Showing Telenovelas And Other Movies From 1st May 2021; The Ghana National film Authority has issued a public announcement that suggests that Telenovelas and other unclassified movies would not be showing on our screens from 1st May 2021.
The Ghana National film Authority has released a public statement indicating that no television station, cinema theatre, or movie screening center shall show any unclassified audio-visual contents.

According to the national film authority, they are going to put strict compliance to the development and classification of film act 935 that states ‘all audiovisual contents shall be previewed and classified before exhibition’.

In the press statement signed by Sacrote Safo, the National Film Authority would now scrutinize and classify all contents before they are shown on TV.

By this, all TV shows that do not conform to the social-cultural, national aspirations, and moral standards of Ghana shall be rejected.

What that means is, all TV shows that portray the culture of other countries would not be allowed to show on our screens from 1st May.

By these, it means all telenovelas would be stopped.

In a bid to achieve this, the Telenovelas will have to be put into the unclassified audiovisual content which the laws will have no other choice but to ban them from showing on free-to-air Television, Cinema theatres, movie centers, film libraries, etc in Ghana.

For some time now, movie industry players have been advocating for telenovelas to be stopped on our screens.

Many believe it’s part of the reason why our local movie industry is no thriving well.

It appears as a way to push this agenda, this is the National Film Authority’s way of stopping telenovelas.

The statement reads;

NATIONAL FILM AUTHORITY

PUBLIC ANNOUNCEMENT
As it is stated in the Development and Classification of Film Act 935, all audiovisual content shall be previewed and classified before the exhibition. After several consultations with various stakeholders of the audiovisual industry in Ghana, the general public is hereby expected to note the following:

1. From 1st May 2021, no television station, cinema theatre or movie screening center shall show any unclassified audio-visual content.
2. Such audio-visual content includes feature films, short films, TV series, selected TV programs, documentaries, advertisements, music videos meant for public exhibition and broadcasting.
3. A right owner, licensee, or assignee who desires to exhibit audio-visual content shall submit the content to the Film Classification Committee for examination and classification at least twenty-one days before the intended exhibition.

Anyone who fails to comply with the set rules shall be subject to the Offences and Penalties in Section 27 of the Development and Classification of Film Act 935.

REPUBLIC OF GHANA
Signed Socrate Safo
Chairman Film Classification Committee
www.nfa.gov.gh
MINISTRY OF TOURISM. ARTS &CULTURE

BELOW ARE THE SCREENSHOTS;

source; thedistin

Man locks his head in a cage to quit smoking

Russian guy locks his head in a cage in an attempt to give up smoking. His wife has the only key and only opens it for meals.
These images may seem a bit strange, but they come from a genuine news story. This meme does get the man’s nationality wrong, however, as this man is from Turkey, not Russia.

Turkey English-language news outlet, the Hürriyet Daily News, published a story on 1 July 2013 about 42-year-old İbrahim Yücel’s desperate attempt to quit smoking. According to the article, Yücel designed his own cage after smoking two packs of cigarettes a day for more than two decades:

In an unusual bid to quit smoking, a 42-year-old man in the western province of Kütahya has begun wearing a helmet-like wire cage on his head, locked on two sides.

İbrahim Yücel, who is trying to kick a 26-year habit of smoking two packets of cigarettes per day, gives the keys of his head cage to his wife and daughter when he leaves home every day.

In this way, he is unable to open the cage to smoke during the day, even if he craves a smoke.

It’s unclear how long Yücel ended up wearing the device or if he was ultimately successful in kicking his smoking habit.

The Hürriyet Daily News report was published just two days after Yücel started wearing the anti-smoking cage.

And although the cage — according to the story — successfully prevented him from smoking during this time, we have not been able to find any updates since on Yücel’s smoking habits.