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UK TV: BIG REUNION STARS DAMAGE SET TO APPEAR IN ‘FLY ON THE WALL’ TV SERIES

Digital Spy reports that hit R&B group Damage (minus Coree Richards) will star in their own fly on the wall television series. Jade Jones, Andrez Harriett, Noel Simpson and Rahsaan J Bromfield – will be followed by cameras as they try to continue their musical comeback. Damage apparently also want to use the TV show to give viewers a glimpse inside their private lives, and to ‘give people who don’t get a chance to come into this industry a foot up’. ‘It’s []

LONDON BASED NIGERIAN COUPLE CREATE DOLLS TO HELP CHILDREN CONNECT WITH THEIR ROOTS

Raising their family in London, Nigerians Chris and Ada Ngoforo were keen for their children to stay in touch with their West African heritage. But the couple became concerned that their three young daughters didn’t speak any Igbo, one of Nigeria’s ethnic languages. “We thought amongst ourselves what we can do to actually help them to learn Igbo more,” says Chris Ngoforo. This desire to encourage their children to connect with their roots, coupled with an increasing frustration with the difficulty in []

PRINCE AND 3RDEYEGIRL PERFORM LIVE ON THE ARSENIO HALL SHOW

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lgm1qWOGYEY I really wanted to see Prince perform live in London several weeks ago but it just seemed as if the only ones privy to the following information – dates, venue details and times were ‘industry folk’, annoying famous faces and their hangers-on. I almost lost it when I saw photographs on The Daily Mail website of Kate Moss and Rita Ora (to name but a few) attending his show at Ronnie Scotts. It just looked as if only the well connected and []

ARISE TV 360 INTERVIEWS BLACK BRITISH ENTREPRENEUR SIMONE BRESI-ANDO

Founder of The I’mPOSSIBLE conversation and entrepreneur Simone Bresi-Ando discusses the first international edition of the  I’mPOSSIBLE Conversation which will take place in New York today (March 6th). A laptop, an idea and a dream. That is what I started out with in 2009. I still have that laptop, the ideas keep flooding in and my dreams are so big they often scare me. To get to this point has been grit, blood, sweat and tears. It’s also being random acts of []

CARIBBEAN FILM PREMIER: KEEPING UP WITH THE JONESES -THE MOVIE (TRAILER)

After its successful run on the small screen, the hit Caribbean TV series from Barbados “Keeping Up With The Joneses” (KUWTJ) has now moved to the big screen in the UK. “KUWTJ: The Movie” is centred around the fictional Jones family (father Irving, mother Angela, daughter Tracy and son Nathan) who became famous after starring in a TV reality show. Life is going well but when the Joneses are kidnapped at a beach picnic, all seems to be lost. But hope is []

MP FOR TOTTENHAM DAVID LAMMY TACKLES THE REAL ISSUES FACING US LONDONERS… WE NEED MORE CINEMAS

Labour’s David Lammy has spoken out about the lack of cinemas in London. According to The Evening Standard the MP for a struggling and angry Tottenham undertook research which found 27 out of the 73 constituencies in London had no cinema. An INCENSED Lammy said:  “It’s as if poor people have been written out of the script when it comes to cinema in London. “It’s unacceptable that there are still so many constituencies across the capital where people are expected to travel into the []