Actress and producer Selassie Ibrahim says several Ghanaian television series have failed to stand the test of time because producers try too much to let the series look very glamorous and unGhanaian. The actress who has carved a niche for herself as one of the country’s finest combining acting and production, was speaking in an interview with Myjoyonline.com Tuesday after a press preview of her latest work, The Miser. She explained that the series don’t go far “because we try to be so glamorous and we can't sustain it and we don’t know that kind of life. Ghanaians - we are very different from any other African country. "It's because we can’t sustain the glamour we introduced from the beginning, then we start having problems so you now have to do patches from here and there to get the story running.” The country has over the years seen several productions, such as Things We Do For Love, Suncity, Inspector Bediako, Ultimate Paradise and Home Sweet Home, stop production abruptly due to unexplained circumstances. But the actress said her work will not add to the statistics. “This is a home-based story so we will always have something to do or write about in line with our culture.” She called on producers to however be smart enough to be able to attract sponsors in this competitive market. Her latest work, after her hugely successful The CEO movie released in November last year, The Miser tells the story of a wealthy farmer who hides the fact that he is rich from his family and friends and tries to live a frugal life. He believes in playing tough and living hard by measuring everything in the household including pots of soup and tubers of yam. He tries to dominate his family with his strict, stingy ideologies. The Miser which is a television series from the stables of Selassie’s Smarttys Management and Productions, features stars like Kofi Adjorlolo, Selassie Ibrahim, Nana Ama MacBrown, Nadia Buari, John Dumelo, Roselyn Ngissah, Grace Nortey, James Gardiner, Henry Agba and many others. The series is produced by Selassie Ibrahim and directed by John Izedonmi. According to her, the series “is a typical Ghanaian story and I’m proud to be associated with it because I'm Ghanaian,” adding, “It’s a true story from a region [in Ghana]…I thought this is something else”. It took a year-and-half to finish writing the story for the series which already has 30 episodes. The series will start airing from August 13 on a number of TV stations. Story by Ernest Dela Aglanu/Myjoyonline.com/Ghana