Multichoice's Ultimate Love makes debut – The Nation Nigeria

From Amaka Eze

Over  the final couple of years, actuality reveals have grow to be a staple of the Nigerian TV menu. They’re, as controversial as they’re liked, the trimmings of what make for good viewership and excessive rankings.

Consequently, the information of the upcoming airing of a actuality tv present has the sheer energy to set social media agog as younger individuals, specifically, speculate and try to dissect the sort of members they want to see on their screens.

And lengthy after the cameras shut down and the lights are turned off, followers proceed to debate happenings on the present and maintain them trending.

Nonetheless, when MultiChoice Nigeria first revealed its plans to launch a brand new actuality present which  centres on discovering love, I wasn’t fairly positive how I felt about it. I used to be skeptical as a result of love could be a advanced phenomenon and I wasn’t sure it may very well be explored adequately.

Nevertheless, on second thought, and with a greater understanding of how the present will run, I’ve little question that it’s a welcome growth.

For one, the topic of affection is one that can by no means stop to fascinate any viewers. It’s a idea everybody can relate to no matter their age, gender, background, sexual orientation, or faith.

Individuals will proceed to search for love regardless of what number of occasions they get burnt, and any avenue that presents the opportunity of discovering it’s welcome.

Whereas now we have had actuality tv collection within the mould of Guilder Final Search, MTN Undertaking Fame, and Large Brother Naija which targeted on survival, music expertise, and competitors respectively, there’s not been any homegrown actuality present that explored the topic of affection, marriage, and household as its central theme.

This uncharted heat and fuzzy dimension that’s devoid of immorality or nudity is what Final Love dares to advertise.

The organisers of the present have introduced that eight younger males and eight younger ladies will likely be camped in an remoted location the place they are going to be paired for the aim of igniting what might culminate in a lifelong partnership.

The contestants will work together and participate in particular cultural actions which are geared in direction of discovering similarities and customary grounds that may function a catalyst for real friendship.

What’s extra, the (potential) lovebirds get to obtain counsel from somebody who’s “been there and finished that” – “Aunty” -whose mission is to information them via the often-confusing waters choosing the proper companion could be.

To the cynic, all these might seem unnatural. In any case, the contestants will conduct their actions underneath the scrutiny of 24-hour stay cameras.

They are going to level out the truth that in the actual world, males stroll as much as ladies (or vice versa) to woo them, and don’t have the posh of being helped by a system.

I see issues in another way. A present like Final Love is an apt response to the fact of our times-a time when individuals yearn for love-but are too encumbered to take a stable crack at it.

We’re in an age the place increasingly individuals are assembly their companions on the web.

Platonic friendships and romantic relationships are cast on social media by way of direct messages and personal chat rooms. In some cases, the couple is hundreds of miles away from one another and solely get to fulfill a number of weeks or days earlier than they tie the knot.

Whereas there’s nothing inherently flawed on this, it’s troublesome to disregard research just like the one performed by the Michigan State College which revealed that couples who meet in conventional methods resembling introductions by buddies, or via work, hobbies or socialising usually tend to take pleasure in a steady, long-lasting relationship in comparison with their counterparts who met on-line.

The fast-paced nature of at this time’s world, nevertheless, implies that younger individuals don’t have sufficient time to mingle. For a lot of of them who stay in a giant, busy metropolis like Lagos, it’s an never-ending battle to catch a break to unwind, so that they find yourself dwelling the triangular life the place they’re solely discovered throughout the settings of their residence, work, and non secular homes.

The consequence of that is an alarming variety of eligible of bachelors and spinsters who’re with out companions, not as a result of they don’t need one however as a result of they’re too busy attempting to get forward in life.

It’s the rationale contents like Final Love ought to be celebrated. Other than giving younger, upwardly cell people a uncommon alternative to fulfill and join with their ilk, the programme additionally fills the lacuna on the courting scene by offering the right surroundings and steering for like to sprout.

Furthermore, to forestall any likelihood of them getting carried away by the mundane when cupid strikes, they’ve a voice of motive in ‘Aunty’.

What makes this venture much more rewarding is the inducement for the final standing couple to go forward and put a hoop on it in the event that they so need. A completely funded conventional marriage ceremony ceremony and a fully-furnished home is just not a shabby begin to married life by any requirements.

I don’t find out about you however as a eager actuality present viewer and love aficionado, I’m uber excited to embark on the 2 months journey that guarantees loads of surprises, twists, and activates the way in which to crowning the eventual winners of this first-of-its-kind social experiment.