Once again Record TV has a programme on its hands that has incredible potential to be a hit. The Next Top Model hosted by Rebecca Beric Sanger a.k.a Becky.
Despite being clearly on a shoe-string budget, Record TV’s The Next Top Model is more than watchable on Fridays 9:30p.m. with a repeat show on Sunday at 8:00p.m.
It is fascinating; in the same way it was to watch Tusker Project Fame, to see how 20 hopeful girls are whittled down just to one girl who the organisers promise to make the most recognised modeling face in Uganda.
Becky, also the Day-breaker co-host has been itching for a chance to host such a show since she was in Tina School of Beauty and Fashion from where she graduated in December 2008. Perhaps even longer when she was first the host of WBS’ Kook & Dine in 2006.
“I was [bold] and approached Mr. Wavamunno and told him I wanted to be a presenter on his TV during a dinner. I was in my Senior Six vacation.”
Learning on the job – if you watch The Next Top Model –seems exactly what Becky and her three judges are doing with this TV show since it began in February.
The combative trio is obviously trying to imitate Simon Cowell, who has made a career out of blunt talking in American Idol and X Factor.
One of the judges is Richard who runs Divine Models where the winning girl will get a spot. The other judge, Emmanuel Byaruhanga, is a former Arapapa model while the host Becky is a fashion designer.
The judges though are sometime not much better professionally than the girls they are supposed to be grooming into Uganda’s next Eva Mbabazi or Priscilla Ray. For a 30-minute, it is frustrating to spend more than 15 minutes listening to the judges lecturing the girls on what being a model entails. Their training is conducted at Fairway Hotel.
The lack of innovative camera work in a show that primarily depends on visual appeal is equally annoying. The camera man spends more time focused on the judges than the girls.
Not surprisingly, as Becky admits, the programme is yet to get a sponsor. “I have to put in some of my money sometimes,” she says.
But the 6th born of 10 kids to the late Beric Sanger Churchill and Bonita Sanger Manjur is determined to make The Next Top Model work and become an annual event.
The 23-year-old has been keen on television since she first starred in a production highlighting Tooro culture during King Oyo’s coronation.
The Next Top Model is more than a monthly meal ticket for Becky; it is “What I have always wanted to do.”
Sizzling Entertainment
Written by David Tumusiime
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