Popular actor, Charles Inojie, has reflected on the death of his former screen maker in the TV drama, ‘The Johnsons’, Ada Ameh.
He recalled hos central Ameh was to the show but said it was not her death that stopped it.
In an interview with ‘The Nation’, Inojie argued that ‘Mr Johnsons’ might simply have left when ovation was loudes.
He said: “I don’t want to agree that it was the death of Ada Ameh that necessitated the end of the show. Ada Ameh’s death was devastating, it was big enough to end the show the day the news broke, but as a team of cast and crew in agreement with the producers, we told ourselves that the best way we could celebrate her legacy was not to let the show also die because Ada Ameh was someone who loved that show so much.
” I don’t know if those who leave, when they get to heaven, still see what happens here. We felt that it would not be nice for Ada to know that the show is no longer on. So, we agreed as a consensus that we would continue with the show, and we did for two more seasons after her death. We did two years after her death. I am not particularly sure why the show ended because there was no official communication to that effect but as someone who has been on that project since inception till its end, my understanding would be that if care was not taken, the show would start to struggle principally because a lot of the children are all grown moving on with their lives.
“You can’t stop people from embracing fresh challenges that life has thrown at them. We had this issue of continuous changing of cast and all that, and if you are not careful for a show as popular as that, it can begin to dip or water down the essence. My thinking would be that maybe the producer just felt it would be best to quit when the ovation is loudest, before the show begins to suffer low patronage; probably, what happened was the best thing to happen.”
