Viacom’s dynamic bouquet of quality channels came to life on the
Indian Ocean island of Mauritius during the MultiChoice Content
Showcase Extravaganza on Wednesday night, when journalists battled it
out for fantastic prizes at a ‘Viacombat’ event.
Hosted by Basketmouth and MTV VJ, Nomuzi Mabena, the assembled media
representatives from across the continent played a series of games,
based on programming from Viacom channels MTV Base, Nickelodeon, MTV,
BET and Comedy Central with an MTV MAMA award up for grabs – though
the most-anticipated prize of the evening was a chance to dump the
famous
Nickelodeon Green Slime over a guest of each of the winning team’s
members’ choosing.
With DJ Vigilante presiding over the decks, the groups attempted to
best each other in games including the Nickelodeon Genius Impossible
Quiz,
‘Guess The Tight End’ with BET’s The Wendy Williams Show, MTV Base’s
Break The Beat Down, MTV Ridiculousness Epic or Fail and Comedy
Central South Park Celeb. Even MultiChoice Africa CEO Tim Jacobs and
the General Manager of Corporate Affairs, Caroline Creasy, got in on
the act with a special Lip Sync Battle to Taylor Swift’s ‘Shake It
Off’.
All-round nice guy IK Osakioduwa was pranked by the You Got Got team,
and didn’t let his cool slip for a second when an overenthusiastic fan
kept interrupting his interview with Nomuzi.
Nickelodeon Marketing Manager Lindi Davids was delighted at the fierce
competition amongst the assembled journalists, who really got into the
spirit of the channel-based games. “All of our channels are all about
fun, creativity and quality programming – and that’s exactly what our
media representatives experienced tonight,” she said. “Viacom will be
premiering loads of fresh new content across all our channels on the
DStv and GOtv platforms in the coming months and we can’t wait for
Africa to see it.”
When the games were done and the last Lip Sync Battle lines had been
drawn, the ‘lucky’ recipients of the evening’s Nickelodeon Green
Sliming received their honour – with host Basketmouth, first up.
The MultiChoice Africa Content Showcase is a dynamic 5-day content
extravaganza, which sees a host of DStv’s biggest channels, including
Sony, SuperSport, Zee World, A+E, Disney, MTV Base, BET, Comedy
Central, BBC and M-Net previewing their latest and greatest content,
soon to be seen across the video entertainment services provider’s
platforms. To keep track of happenings at the MultiChoice Africa
Content Showcase, follow @multichoice_africa on Instagram,
@mcashowcase on Twitter, or via #OnlyTheBest.