 Eugene, I know you've been into so many films, or rather just produced so many films, reality shows, but lately you've been into comedy. Why comedy? I mean, this genre is still in line with what we do, because we produce documentaries in reality. I met the stand-up collective team maybe a year, a year and a half ago, and I fell in love with what they're doing. It's fresh comedy. It's nothing like what anybody else locally is doing. It's got an international touch. It's clever. It's sophisticated. So I fell in love with the comedy and the comedians. So it's just a matter of the fact that every time I show up to these things, I get entertained myself. So I'm in love with the content. What's up, guys? A very warm welcome to SPM Baz. My good name is Miski Binge, and right now I am hanging out with a star. He is a brain behind so many reality TV shows that you guys have watched, and he is also an award-winning filmmaker. He is Eugene Mbogua. Hi, Eugene. How are you, Miski Binge? I'm doing very well. How are you feeling right now? I'm a bit nervous, but okay. Otherwise, we have a show tonight with stand-up collective. We filmed this for TV after the success of our first show, Roast House, which we roasted a bunch of celebrities at number seven. So we're taking it from a club and now taking it to an auditorium. We're looking forward to a night of fun comedy. Yeah, excited. What is your specific contribution on this particular show, Comedy Riot? So as Eugene Mbogua, I created the concept for the TV show itself, not the event. And my company, DNR Studios, the team is producing the show for Showmax. So we're filming three episodes tonight. The show hopefully goes on air in about a month, a month and a half. So yeah, we have production partners with stand-up collective. Eugene, I know you've been into so many films, or rather just produced so many films. Reality shows, but lately you've been into comedy. Why comedy? I mean, this genre is still in line with what we do because we produce documentary in reality. I met the stand-up collective team maybe a year, a year and a half ago and I fell in love with what they're doing. It's fresh comedy. It's nothing like what anybody else locally is doing. It's got an international touch. It's clever. It's sophisticated. So I fell in love with the comedy and the comedians. So it's just a matter of the fact that every time I show up to these things, I get entertained myself. So I'm in love with the content. Amazing. Now Eugene, I'm really interested to know what was your first film, or rather TV show that you created and how was it for you? So the first TV show I created never saw the light of day. But my first TV show that made it on TV was called Young Rich. It premiered on K-24 in the year 2013. And we used to profile young and millionaires and we're actually bringing that back. Young Rich. We can't wait to see that. Hopefully next year. Amazing. Now Eugene, what is the status of film in Kenya, film making in Kenya right now? I think it's an exciting time. You've got a lot of investment coming into our industry. If you look at shows like Kina, if you look at shows like Selena, which just ended, if you look at shows like Single Kiasi, there's a bunch of TV shows in the city as well. There's a lot of branded television. There's films that are releasing in theaters. I mean, look at what Abel Mutua and the team is doing. It's an exciting time. It's an exciting time. We've never seen this much growth. We're also coming up from a real bad time, which is COVID periods. But I'd say it's very, very promising. There's a bunch of people releasing new stuff every day. There's an event to go to every other day. It's looking very promising. Talking about investment, how hard or how easy is it just getting sponsorship to just produce and do this film making? How hard? Or even just get your time for your shows? It's difficult. It's difficult. We still don't have... So two elements. The media in Kenya is still very heavily run by advertising. And it takes a long time to get people to see a vision and invest in it. It's also a bit of a problem because the audience does not pay for content. People don't go out and watch shows. People don't go out and watch music. Although, even as I say that, fair enough it is changing. People are going out. I mean, there's a crowd here already. So I'd say it's difficult, but as the quality of the work that we do gets better, it's going to get better and better and you're going to see more people coming along. Yeah. I mean, I believe you're a mentor. A mentor for many people right now. Looking up to you and just wanting to be you. But there are a few things that they need to put in the work. But what are those lessons? One or two? I think I always give the same lesson every time I'm asked this question. And I say, start now where you are today with what you have. Because it's only by doing that you become better. It's only by putting your work out there that you get more people to subscribe to it. Also, start where you are with what you have. Start today. Yeah. Okay. Now, guys, in case you didn't know, Eugene is part of the Real Housewives of Nairobi. Is that true? Yes. DNR Studios is the company producing the Real Housewives of Nairobi. We begin production in maybe in about two to three weeks. It's looking very exciting. We're very excited for the show. We are casting now. The show is going on show next year in March. Yeah. It's looking very exciting. Real Housewives of Nairobi coming to you next year. Yes. I mean, that's quite a big deal. I mean, you're just talking like, you know, is this another deal, you know? But it's quite a big deal. And how did you get this? How did you get this? We applied with a bunch of different companies and we went through a short, very long-term processing process. So we won the contract competitively. It's a very, very big production, budget-wise. It's a partnership between Showmax and NBC Universal. Yeah. The format is this thick. But Showmax have been bringing you amazing content for the last couple of years. It's the home of all the top reality TV. It's the home of some of the best produced content in Kenya right now. So yeah, in Real Housewives, we're really, really looking forward to it. We have some teams coming in from South Africa to help us produce it. There's going to be a lot of knowledge transfer. It's exciting. How is the audition on this one? Do you call it like a haul? How is it? I think people reached out to us and we've also been speaking to quite a number of people as well. It's looking quite, quite exciting. I can't say too much about the auditioning process, but it's ongoing and it's looking very, very good. I love it. It's not even open to the public. No, I mean, the information is there. People have reached out to us. There's been communication back and forth. But no, it wasn't really an open audition, so to speak. Yeah, yeah. Okay, brilliant. All right. Yes, I will. I will, I will in a minute. But what are we looking for? Do you know about Comedy Riot today? What is it? What are we looking for? So tonight you're looking forward to, we're looking to a great night. We're going to have four headliners. So that's a lot of comedians going up on stage and there's going to be open hours. There's going to be a lady with a violin on the stage. So watch out for that. We're looking forward for a lot of great humor, a lot of new arts. Yeah, these guys have been preparing this stuff. It's better than an open mic because it's tested and tried material. And then we're going to package all of this to a TV show that's going to be on Showmax later this year. All right. We're going to be looking forward to that. Eugene, last question. I don't want to be biased, but I want to know what is your favorite TV reality that you have produced so far? I have several. I know. But what's your favorite? Call of Culture, Soul Family, This Love. Come on. All of them are my favorites. Come on. But what was the most challenging one to shoot? I would say maybe the most challenging one was back in the day being Bahati because it was our first time. We had never done a celebrity reality show before. So it was landing on the job as we go. Lots of struggles there. But all the talent you work with is pretty easy. A lot of the guys are mature. It's not as difficult as it seems because the talent you work with is quite so easy. And of course the latest one is Call of Culture. It's streaming right now on Showmax. Soul Family says we're running two hours of streaming. This Love is streaming. We are shooting a new episode of This Love with Orhu and Nameless. We're hopefully shooting season three of Soul Family with Soul to Soul. And now Real Housewives of Nairobi is in production. Amazing. We can't wait to see your contribution on the Real Housewives of Nairobi. Thank you so much for having me. Thank you. All right guys. That was Eugene Mbogwa. He is a filmmaker. And he is part of the Nairobi Housewives of Nairobi. And we can't wait to see what he does there. Thank you so much for watching Buzz. It's Taz. My good name is Miss Kipengi.