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TINSEL’S Matilda To Return From Maternity Leave

Matilda ObasekiFans of Angela Dede, played by Matilda Obaseki, one of the key characters on the series, Tinsel, are eagerly waiting for her early return to the tube this year. Obaseki who was temporarily re­placed by Nigerian actress, Theresa Edem in Africa’s popular weekday soap, had embarked on maternity leave. The change, took effect on Monday September 29, 2014.

Edem holds a degree in Animal Sci­ence and Technology from the Feder­al University of Technology, Owerri, and a Certification in Acting from the Royal Arts Academy in Lagos. She has a background in television, film and theatre and has featured in a number of movies including Lonely Hearts, After the Proposal, The An­tique, Take Back your Throne and Obio Iban.

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Viewers should be glad to welcome her back as they tune in to Tinsel on weekdays at 20:30 CAT on Africa Magic Showcase (DStv channel 151) to catch all the drama, intrigue, ro­mance, deception and betrayal that the series brings to their screens.

Shot on location in Lagos, set in the glittering and dynamic world of film production, Nigeria’s most successful soap opera Tinsel marries all the ele­ments of drama, intrigue, romance, deception, betrayal and triumph into one thrilling ‘must watch’ series.

Now in its fourth season, Tinsel continues to track the story of two rival film production houses whose fierce battles for box-office dominance sees them taking their rivalry from film-sets to industry boardrooms and everywhere in between.

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This drama series centers around the energetic and enigmatic Fred Ade- Williams, founder of Nigeria’s biggest independent film company Reel Stu­dios who gets drawn into a battle of wills with daring newcomer Brenda Nana Mensah, whose beauty and in­telligence is only surpassed by her drive to transform her film company, Odyssey Pictures, into a dominant force. And she will stop at nothing. Brenda has installed a “weak link” in Fred’s company… a mole, and her ex­ploitation of it sparks off a corporate war that vibrates through the entire film industry.

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What starts out as a power struggle between two influential studio own­ers soon grows disastrously out of control. No one is immune and ev­erything is put to the test as these ti­tans clash and destinies are changed, forever. With so much at stake, will Fred’s refusal to sink to his oppo­nent’s level cost him everything he’s ever held dear?