Season 1
Ek Se Lalela is a South African youth talk show television series produced by Leaps Media that facilitates discussions on issues that affect youth on a daily basis in a space where young people can raise topics, offer their views, ask questions and teach each other some fundamental lessons.
The series premiered on SABC1 on Monday 30 January 2012, at 17h00. New episodes broadcast weekly. There are 13 episodes in the first season.
Synopsis
Presented by Dineo Lusenga, former production manager for the SABC1 youth show Ses'khona and 5FM DJ, the show is a platform for the youth to exchange ideas and opinions through frank, uninhibited and yet responsible conversation.
The fast-paced, 30-minute talk show provides a useful forum for 16-35 year-olds on a variety of topics relevant to them.
Ek Se Lalela seeks to engage the audience directly via social media and also provides access to visual content and allows the audience to become part of the show. Email, Google Talk, telephone, fax and SMS are in place for maximum audience participation.
Social media allows the show to remain current while addressing timeless topics. The crew's diverse background makes the messages the show delivers more authentic and relevant to the audience.
The team behind the talk show is a group of 20-something dynamic young South Africans. The ambitious group of 13 boys and girls have a common passion for helping the youth understand the world they live in and their roles within that world.
Their diversity offers the show a unique ability to see the world through different eyes, and address matters of national importance with wide-ranging insight.
Besides making the youth of SA aware of their surroundings, the team is set on making the show a catalyst for a global conversation. They address issues that affect the youth on a global scale, and engage them by finding out what they have to say and giving them a platform that will make the world listen.
Out of hundreds of students that applied, only 13 candidates were selected based on the merits they had received during their interview process.
After a gruelling and intense interview the candidates had to "sell" themselves in a one minute presentation that would determine their fate. The interns went through a selection process that tested the skills they acquired through their various specialisations in tertiary education.
They had to find the correlation between their skills and the production function, and then find ways to implement their skills through all the facets of the production.
This would ultimately determine their roles in the production. Not only were they tested on their skills they also had to match their long term and short term goals in their chosen career fields.
The aim of this was to help them to understand how this experience would help them grow individually.