It's Sunday morning and as usual there is nothing interesting on TV. In Ethiopia right now people are probably watching Ethiopian Idol reruns. Yes, I said Ethiopian Idol, not American. Our form of Idol is just as popular as the American version and a couple of years ago when it began to air on ETV people of all ages watched and then talked about the contestants all week (to the point where ETV had to start playing reruns on different days of the week). It has some really good singers but mostly really bad ones. And just like here, people are willing to embarrass themselves on television, in front of the whole country. Plus there is the bad guy judge who feels like he is doing the contestants a favor by being as blunt as he can with his criticism. I would have never thought that this type of show would work in Ethiopia but I guess I would have been wrong.
Check out this Ethiopian Idol page on Youtube.
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