( Photos: WIREIMAGE )
Alicia Keys and Debra L. Lee (BET Chairman and Chief Executive Officer) at the BET United Kingdom launch party at the Cafe de Paris on Saturday in London. BET UK officially launched on February 27th on Sky Digital Channel 209.
Guests at the party included: Musiq Soulchild, Estelle, Soulja Boy, Kelly Rowland’s rumored boyfriend Reggie Yates (the dude with the white scarf) and a whole bunch of UK singers and actors.
SHOUT OUT TO ALL OUR U.K. READERS!
thank god we have BET Back after all those years! its about time!
why does Reggie look soooooooooooooooooooo uncomfortable this look is clearly not him!
I didn’t know about this till today either, thanks CL but true as #11 they still playing same stuff over and over and over and over and over again and again and again but will wait a couple more days before i judge. At least now we can hopefully catch the black awards shows when they happen coz no one ever shows them. Big up UK….
P/S Alesha is THE BEST, Love the blue dress and shoes on the Tiana, she is really pretty and this pic doesn’t do her any justice at all. Rumoured Kelly’s b-friend is nothing special here in the U.K
Bout time and what’s up with Estelle’s sis’ face??? FIX IT BOO!!!
I am still unhappy with this development (BET programming is a hot mess) I would much rather TVOne go to the IK.
correction: UK
Oh great.. so now we’re degrading black folks on an internationally?
correction: on an international level?
i sais negroe..CUZ THA WORD FIT…..AND IM FROM THE SOUTHSIDE OF CHICAGO…I COULD GIV 2 FUCKS ABOUT CAMDEN…AND IF U WAS READIN…U SHOULDA COMMENTED ON THE BACKWARDSNESS OF THESE VERY SAME BLK PPL WHO REVEL IN GOSSIP…WHO WOULDNT WATCH SUMTHIN POSTIVE IF IT SMACKED THEM IN THE FACE…B HYPOCRITES AND TEAR DOWN SUMTHIN THAT INSTEAD F FIX…THEY WOULD RATHER SEE GONE….DUMMIEZ…..ACTIN LIKE SPIRITUALLY BROKE NEGROEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEZ……NO ADVANCEMENT…IM YOUNG AT THE SAME TIME..SORRY IF I WANT 2 SEE MY PPL ON TV…..NOT JUST DOCTORS..AND LAWYERS…I WANNA SEE COMEDIANS AND SHIT TOO…WHATS WRONG WIT COLLEGE HILL..PPL WATCH THE REAL WORLD…WITH NO BLK FACES AT ALL…LIKE I SAID BEFORE…..FUC OUTTA HERE WIT THAT SELF RACISM
*****London residents….I would love to visit London. Can you tell me where is the best place to visit? I love Floetry to death. I’m a black female looking for good London music, shopping, and etx experience. This would be my fist time in London. Just trying to reach out. Catch me at yahoo.
@ 26 – yes, thank u!!! BET was on videotron waaaaaaaaaaaaaaay back in the day, when cable first started comin on the up and up…i remember coming in2 primary school n being like who watched so-so and jus getting a blank stare lol NEWAYS,
Of what i’ve seen so far of BET UK is highly unimpressive – and the excuse that they’re showing repeats cos its new is BULL – if they had put thought, effort and adequate preparation into this, then the programming would reflect that..instead the channel is in some random place, sandwiched btw God knows what – wrong move!
ight reggie dnt look gay he jst looks a hot mess – gay brehs would knw wt to drop nd wt to take out – he just need some serious advice.
GD
U AMERICANS BE SAYiIN HOW U FEEL SORRI 4 US
DAT WERE GETTIN BET UK
BUT IM OVER THE MOON
DO U KNO HOW DRY OUR SHOWS R
THERE AINT 1 BLACK CHANNEL…. NOT 1
DERS NOT EVEN 1 BLACK ENGLISH SHOW
EXCEPT FOR LITTLE MISS JOCELYN WHICH
IS NEVER ON.
AND AS FOR CHANNEL U
WAT A HOLE LOTTA SHiiT
DEY SHULD SEND DAT 2 AMERICA
SEEE HOW RUBBISH IT IS
BUNCH OF EXTREMLEY LOW BUDGET VIDEOS
FROM STUPID ASS NIGGAS
DAT FINK THEYRE SHOWWAAAAH
OH AND DONT EVEN HAVE ANY BLACK GIRLS
IN THERE VIDEOS……
KMT
I LIKE ALL OF BET’S SHOWS SO IM PROBBLY
GNA BEE WTCHING DAT 4 TiiME
SOUF LONDONS FiINEST
its an honour to have BET finally at out screens we should feel proud that we are truly blessed, this channel will opon doors to all black british singers, songwriters,models entertainers who find it hard to break in. The platform in a real media enterprise will be great, it will be much easier for them to break in to the america and finally dominate by showing their talent to everyone, a chance for americans to know that black british culture lives and the queen and biscuit and cakes are not the only thing you find in the uk, cant wait to see what shows and what black people they have choosen to represent us in the uk.
Alicia Keys is so FLY!
That Reggie Yates is super-swishy and there is NO way he’s dating any female, least of all Ms. Kelly. As for BET infecting the world with their foolishness and utter ignorance, smdh.
I’m from the US but I still love Lemar. That man is so sexy!!!! Those eyes……. DAMN! I wonder what different programs they will have in the UK than they do in the US?
I’m so embarrassed by my fellow brits that have been commenting on here… Can we all just learn to speak English please?? How old are we? There is slang and all but you lot are actually speaking a completely different language and making us all look like fools..
Plus, i don’t want BET over here again, I for one will not be watching, BET was cool back in the day when we had it before but now i find its a very disappointing channel. Which represents us wrongly.
Plus leave our Reggie alone, he normally looks cool I don’t know what the hell is wrong with him and that scarf
Ooh, our very own BET!!
Tiana went?! She plays Chelsea fox in Eastenders, and Zarahh played Joanne Jackson in Corrie!
Jamelia is great, Thankyou and Beware of the dog, they are great songs.
Aleshia is there to which is great! Lisa Maffia should have gone too!
We have a few more though!!! Mutya Buena, she is great! Amyyy Wino, all this kind of music!
Pingback: » DESIGNER SPOTLIGHT UPDATE: SAMATA’S MUSE // 'CONCRETELOOP.COM' YOU BETTER ACT LIKE YOU KNOW!
OK…deep breath before I start this…
BET coming back to the UK is an achievement on various levels and I’ll tell you why in some of the following:
Black people (en masse) have been in the UK since the 1950s/60s. We have been in the UK before this but not in the huge numbers this counrty saw back then…so it’s now 2008 and we still haven’t got our act together as a community to start and own a media network sand we’re b*tching when another country’s Black community takes the initiative.
If we really want to control our own image we have to own it, not through just owning TV networks, magazines and radio stations but understanding that every single thing we do is scrutinised, politicised, racialised and blown out of proportion because we’re Black and we do not invest enough in our own communities economic and political power to change things. Whether BET is rubbish or not is not the problem here, the problem is that in so many other parts of our lives we’re not treated equally and sometimes not even like humans because we’re Black and that cannot be solved by BET, Channel U, Hot97 or Choice FM. the answer lies within us all who share the same skin colour but we often forget that. easily turning into the victim and shouting about how much wrong people done to us…there’s no denying this, but in 2008 how long we going to keep saying that and even if we get the reparations, the apologies and the compensation we do rightly deserve for buidling the west to the strong point it is over the majority of the world which is still in development.
There’s no real reason for anyone to be looking to the Tv, magazines and radio to see ‘true’ representations of ourselves…it won’t happen. All the afore mentioned media outlets are run for profit not to make Black people feel better about ourselves. If we have low self esteem why turn to the media to make us feel better…it was never created by us to serve us or our interests. we’re playing and living a game in a framework that was never made for us so why do you want it to be sympathetic to our experience? Yes, in an ideal world, broadcasters should be responsible, but doesn’t make them money; it’s not their bottom line!
We have a responsibility to ourselves to carry ourselves with respect..no one else can teach you that except for your family unit. if you don’t have one, seek one out, because many claim who come from a broken home say it was easy to get into trouble…of course it’s easy, good things tend to be hard but the rewards are much sweeter and longerlasting.
there’s so many points I haven’t covered but it’s late and I guess most of you will be tired of reading this anyway. look for the answers in yourself and carry yourself right…act up to those images ans tereotypes fuels channels like the afore mentioned to reproduce them. When the streets dance to a new beat so will the channels output…but right now we all love the ignorance and it will be the death of us.
@ 149. I agree with you wholeheartedly.
I thought I would have seen a comment like yours sooner but obviously we were too busy to find this post.
I wanted to find out more about the launch party of BET UK and stumbled upon this post. My personal opinion is that the more ambitious and loudest voices will get heard: those whose lives some of us don’t aspire to will be featured, packaged, marketed and sold to the highest bidder in markets where there’s a hungry demand – as it’s been put here degrading, misogynist, ill-perceived, gun-toting, drug-pushing, illiterate, uneducated reflections of black people as a representative of all blacks to the world.
Remember what happened to the Crosby show back in the 80′s? Here in the UK we saw the shows 1 to 3 years later than US broadcast dates. But I believe it disappeared because even black people didn’t want a programme with entirely positive role models. So it was canned. We don’t even see the repeats anymore…. the perceived state of our mindsets from TV execs is that low.
I work for a TV network and I’m realising that it’s difficult to cater for all audiences. Before I came to this post, I already knew the sentiment of African Americans with regards to BET was quite negative. I apologise for underestimating black people’s sentiment in the UK tho’…….. Sorry people!!!
BET, Channel U, Choice FM, Urban TV, Nollywood TV etc etc all have a place, they all have an audience that it’s business owners are catering to. From a business perspective, I admire the way these people got up and put their time, effort, money, blood, sweat and tears on the line to bring their views and experiences of the black experience to the world. It doesn’t matter whether I agree with the points or not.
It’s just unfortunate that so far, TV execs don’t believe that the content that most of us desire will make money. Who says they’re right? Nowadays you can prove anyone wrong with technology. So, I don’t think all is lost. For those ambitious ones, why not start up your own TV network that produces and distributes the content that you feel represents you as a US or UK black person? What makes you think you are powerless to do so?
For those who complain, you have the power do something about it. Find it and make it happen. Just like I am!
BET is wack
Pingback: The Weekend Fill-Up | ..::That Grape Juice // ThatGrapeJuice.net::.. || Thirsty?