TV productions, 2017-2020

Television, produced from Washington, DC

Name: Mela Productions and Event Technology
Telephone: (540) 808-5063

Long before we offered production to other clients, we produced our own shows. Two of them, Senselet and Ye Facebook Arbegnoch, reached a community audience of hundreds of thousands.

13+years producing in the DMV

400K+subscribers & followers across our channels

25.7M+views across our published videos

5.9Mviews on our top video

131+episodes of Senselet, our weekly TV drama

158+productions in our video catalog

Senselet

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The first US-based Ethiopian weekly drama series

A weekly Amharic drama set in the Washington, DC metro area, across Washington DC, Virginia, and Maryland. The story follows an unscrupulous lawyer and the frustrated owner of an Ethiopian convenience store. It aired every Saturday and ran for six seasons.

• First US-based Ethiopian weekly drama series
• Season 1 episodes reached 420K-650K views each on YouTube
• At least 131 episodes across 6 seasons

Presented by: Holyland Pictures and Mela Production
Producer: Mela Production
Written by: Temsgen Afewerk
Story development: Tewodros Legesse Bizu

Cast

Tewodros Legesse, Tsedey Moges Dawit, Temesgen Afework, Mestawet Aragaw, Sofi Admasu, Yodit Mengistu

Watch Season 1, Episode 1 Latest episodes (Season 6) Credits on Mereja

Credits and synopsis from Mereja.com (2019); episode counts and views from the Meznagnia Multimedia YouTube channel (Senselet Multimedia LLC).

Ye Facebook Arbegnoch

የፌስቡክ አርበኞች

A drama series on Mela TV

An Amharic drama series produced for Mela TV, premiering in March 2020 with episodes including The Pilot (Beteseb), Fikir, Tizita, Kin Liboch, and Sera. Episodes were released on YouTube and promoted across Facebook.