Huzam covers entertainment for TVM and he's definitely ready for a shot at Entertainment Tonight. He also does a weekly half hour program on entertainment, but struggles to find good story ideas in the small Dhiveli language entertainment industry. I am urging him to think of entertainment more broadly, including video games, art, hobbies, travel and everything else that people do in their spare time.
Tonight he aired a story about the National Geographic programs showing animals "doing it," which is allowed on Maldivian TV while humans are only allowed to be shown holding hands.
We supervised this one pretty closely as we didn't want to see animals humping during the news. The piece came out fine and made an excellent kicker for the prime time news. Good job Huzam!
Oddly, we don't see animals here in Male. The city is so crowded the last thing they need is dog poop on the sidewalks! Besides, dogs are considered unclean in Muslim culture. The only dogs here are the two drug-sniffing police dogs at the airport. We have seen a cat prowling in the TVM parking lot and some people have cats as indoor pets. The Minister of Information raises parrots and has a huge flock of them in his apartment.
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