Actress, Mary Njoku’s going big with coming TV channel in the UK

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Award-winning Nollywood film studio, Rok, is literally headed for the Sky as it is set to launch a brand new channel on Sky TV, UK on Thursday 29th September 2016.

The studio, headed by Nollywood actress, Mary Njoku, has produced hot movies like Desperate Housegirls, Husbands of Lagos, Losing Control and Cougars, and the new UK-based station is set to bring all of the latest and best Rok Studios produced TV shows, movies and magazine shows to Sky customers 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.

Rok on Sky will be available as a free-to-view channel for all Sky subscribers – that’s around 10 million homes in the UK. Showing awesome originals, such as Single Ladies, Banks Chronicles and Bloodline, as well as some of the most recent smash hit movies including Walking Away, Aso Ebi and Forever.

Ahead of the launch, the actress and CEO had this to say

“I am so happy to finally be able to share the news of this UK Sky channel with Rok fans. We have been working towards this for some time, and now we are launching in just a few weeks – we are all super excited. As a production house, we are obsessed with curating amazing African content and telling African stories our way – and with this next big chapter in the Rok story, we can give millions more people the chance to enjoy our movies and TV series.”

“Rok is fortunate to have worked with so many of the screen greats – the likes of, Mercy Johnson, Mercy Aigbe Gentry, Ini Edo, Desmond Elliot, John Dumelo, to name but a few” she adds. “These actors are instrumental in bringing our storytelling to life. We are also blessed to have a dedicated, hard working and creative production team, who work tirelessly to ensure we release amazing content. Together, as the Rok family, we are now bringing our beloved Nollywood content onto its biggest platform yet – Sky”.

Top Nigerian celebs like Alexx Ekubo, Chioma Chukwuka, John Dumelo, Oge Okoye, Mercy Aigbe Gentry, Ini Edo, Annie Idibia, Yul Edochie, Jackie Appiah, Nse Ikpe-Etim, Patience Ozokwor, Segun Arinze, Funke Akindele are already on the list of guests set to attend the launch, which is timed to celebrate Nigeria’s 56th Independence Day anniversary.

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