About Sun-City
Sun-City is a Ghanaian telenovela produced by TV3 Network Limited and broadcast on TV3 Ghana in 2015. Promoted at the time as one of the first fully locally produced telenovelas in Ghana, the series was created to give domestic audiences a homegrown alternative to the imported Latin American and Filipino soap operas that had long dominated the country's daytime and prime-time schedules. Filmed in and around Accra, the show was packaged as a glossy, serialized romantic drama in the telenovela tradition, with a continuous storyline unfolding across roughly ninety episodes.
The narrative centers on love, ambition, family secrets, and class tension among a network of wealthy and aspirational characters connected to the fictional Sun-City world. Storylines follow tangled romances, business rivalries, and long-buried family histories, with melodramatic reversals and cliffhangers structured to keep daily viewers returning. The format closely follows the conventions of the telenovela genre, emphasizing emotional confrontation, secrets that surface at dramatic moments, and an ensemble of recurring characters whose fortunes rise and fall over the course of the run.
As a flagship local-content experiment for TV3, Sun-City was significant less for a single breakout plot than for what it represented within Ghanaian television: an attempt to prove that domestic studios could mount the sustained, daily serialized drama that audiences associated with foreign imports. It featured a cast drawn from Ghana's film and television scene, several of whom were already familiar to local viewers, and it contributed to a wider mid-2010s push toward Ghanaian-produced telenovelas and series on free-to-air networks.
