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Friday, February 8, 2008

Post Carnival Las' Lap: Brazilian Blunder?

Oh Gad, we bun!... We tired... We Breathless, we Get On enough to Blaze De Trail through a Fiery Carnival for 2008!

We want to thank all our viewers from Trinidad and Tobago as well as Internationally for tuning into Gayelle for our "Hidden Jewels" Season for Carnival 2008. This BlogSpot is a place where you can keep up to date with what goes in D Gayelle and is a place where you can also give us direct feedback on anything and everything about or station. So doh be shy, sent us a shout!

Now, to start off, during Carnival Tuesday Gayelle made an effort to add a different flavour to Carnival coverage by implementing a segment where we showed some clips of carnival celebrations in Rio, Brazil. Most people enjoyed the clips as well as the opportunity to call in LIVE and in our JumpTV chat room to comment on the differences and similarities between the two festivals.

On the other hand, there were some other people who get BLUE vex! Here's one comment that came over our JumpTV chat room:

"Why is "WE OWN TV"  giving us Rio Carnival on Prime Time TV Carnival Tuesday ? and He Uncle Errol went on to say how Rio is the place to be ? so much for "WE OWN" we would never learn!!"

"Errol's praise of Brazilian carnival should remain his personal view.   We, the rest of the world, cannot prefer the suffocating, state-controlled like exhibition to the spontaneous, pragmatic style of the Caribbean.   He must have been duped by the Brazilians"

Now, lewwe set the record straight eh.

The choice to show Rio carnival was to give audiences a chance to see how our mas compares to another Carnival festival like Rio. We received several call-ins on Carnival Tuesday, and what people commented was that although Rio Carnival is choreographed with elaborate floats, Trinidad Carnival gives mas players the freedom of the road to fully express themselves. 

Gayelle, The Channel is not just about wine and jam, we are forward thinking and progressive in how we look at "we" tv and the world around us. 

So what do you think?

Is there room around Carnival time to do a serious comparison between Trinidad Carnival and others around the world?

Chat-meh-Back.


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