The Daytime Emmys showered 'General Hospital' with five trophies, including best drama, while giving Regis Philbin a fond farewell as a departing talk-show host. NBC's 'Today' show won as best morning show and the syndicated 'Jeopardy!' was named best game show at the annual ceremony Saturday. 'Live with Regis and Kelly' was saluted as best entertainment talk show (its first-ever nod in that category) and for best talk-show hosts. Philbin...
12:23 PM, Jun 25, 2012
New Delhi: Book readings could soon become passe if author Sathya Saran has her way. Hoping to make an instant connect with audiences, the veteran journalist is taking her biography of Bollywood legend Guru Dutt to the masses by enacting the book with a cast of six characters across India. The biography, "10 Years With Guru Dutt: Abrar Alvi's Journey", is a first person narrative of screen writer, filmmaker and...
01:11 PM, May 30, 2012
Prakash Raj loves his mother more than anything else is no secret. Whenever he wears his heart on his sleeves, one clearly sees how much he loves her. The news is that he has taken a break from his busy acting schedule, to take care of his ailing mother who was hospitalized recently. The National Award winning actor has even opted out of a Kannada project to look after his...
10:16 AM, May 24, 2012
Indian theatre has an unbroken history of over two thousand years. Almost contemporaneous with Aristotle's poetics, ancient India produced an encyclopaedic manual on theatre called ...
06:24 PM, May 22, 2012
When Alison Bechdel wrote, 'Fun Home', a graphic novel about her closeted gay father and her relationship with him, it was received with great aplomb. Critics loved it and so did the regular readers. I read it last month and was in absolute love with it. At the end of the book, I wondered, What about Alisons mother? What about her point of view and her life? and the wonder...
01:57 PM, May 22, 2012
'21 Jump Street' stars Channing Tatum and Jonnah Hill say the movie was initially a drama till they came in and made it into an action comedy. ...
05:12 PM, Apr 18, 2012
London: Indian origin actress Freida Pinto says Dev Patel is really dramatic at home and people don't understand how good an actor he really is. The 27-year-old, who has been dating her 'Slumdog Millionaire' co-star since in 2007, says Patel has a 'massive' range of emotions, reported Femalefirst. "Dev has always been an amazing actor, and I feel people have not tapped into a quarter of what he's capable of...
01:30 PM, Mar 26, 2012
Los Angeles: Actor George Clooney's next will be a big screen adaptation of Robert M. Edse's book, which talks about a handful of experts experts who are asked to retrieve artwork stolen by Nazis. The actor is working on the screenplay for the a big screen adaptation of Edse's book "The Monuments Men: Allied Heroes, Nazi Thieves, and the Greatest Treasure Hunt in History", which follows a special force of...
01:20 PM, Jan 10, 2012
Los Angeles: After directing 'The Ides of March', Hollywood superstar George Clooney has signed on to helm another political drama 'The Monuments Men'. The 50-year-old, who has just been honored with Chairman's Award at the 2012 Palm Springs Film Festival Awards, said he is currently busy working on his new political drama, Ace Showbiz reported. Based on Robert M Edsel's book 'The Monuments Men: Allied Heroes, Nazi Thieves and the...
06:00 PM, Jan 09, 2012
A bus was hit by a landslide on the Chungthang-Mangan highway and the injured engineer was airlifted. ...
03:27 PM, Sep 22, 2011
London: 'Devil Wears Prada' star Anne Hathaway is all set to appear in musical drama 'Glee', says the sitcom bosses. The 28-year-old actress will meet with creator Ryan Murphy in the coming weeks to discuss her ideas for her role and Murphy is curious to see what she would like to do on the programme, Femalefirst reported. "I'm meeting with Anne in the next couple weeks. We're not going to...
01:06 PM, Sep 20, 2011
Los Angeles: 'Laying low' must not be in the vocabulary for the television musical comedy 'Glee'. For a show that has been on summer break, it's been an active few months for the popular series about the high school singing choir. The cast members have been on a live concert tour that is now part of the feature length 'Glee: The 3D Concert Movie', which opens in theaters on Friday,...
10:53 AM, Aug 13, 2011
New Delhi: After being a hit with audiences in the small screen, American High school drama-musical TV show will soon be made into a movie.The multi-generational phenomenon that has inspired millions to embrace their inner-Gleek will soon bring them together to experience Glee a whole new way. 20th Century Fox has released the international trailer for 'Glee: The 3D Concert Movie'. The video shows many musical performances onstage as well...
01:58 PM, Jul 16, 2011
Los Angeles: 'Glee' stars Lea Michelle, Chris Colfer and Cory Monteith will not be returning to the fourth season of the hit TV musical, co-creator of the show Ryan Murphy has confirmed. The three characters will be seen graduating at the end of the fall's upcoming third season, The Hollywood Reporter said. "You can keep them on the show for six years and people will criticize you for not being...
03:51 PM, Jul 14, 2011
New Delhi: The second season of American musical comedy-drama television show 'Glee' is finally coming to India. And the promos have been specially spiced up for the Indian audiences. Bollywood star Salman Khan's 'Character Dheela' from 'Ready' has been chosen as the background score for the initial rushes. First season of the hit US show was an instant hit with the Indian audiences. Along with all the glitz, glamour of...
08:12 PM, Jun 17, 2011
Los Angeles: Viacom's MTV said on Wednesday said it was standing by its controversial teen series "Skins" despite an exit of advertisers, a 50 percent slump in audience and calls for a government pornography probe. 'Skins', an edgy new drama based on a British TV series of the same name, features a group of teens who dabble in drink, drugs and underage sex. Some of the largely unknown actors are...
11:30 AM, Jan 27, 2011
Hollywood: "The Cape," from creator Tom Wheeler, delves into the dark, seedy underbelly of a city filled with corruption and power-hungry, comic book characters. The new NBC drama centers on police officer Vince Farraday (David Lyons), who is framed for murder and accused of corruption, and as a result, is forced to create an alter ego based on a fictional comic he and his young son read. Taken in by...
11:01 AM, Jan 10, 2011
New Delhi: A repertoire of 82 plays from across the world, three photographic exhibitions, live theatre projects, an Asia-Pacific theatre showcase and new media theatre will be on display at the 13th edition of the Bharat Rang Mahotsav, the annual theatre festival of the National School of Drama (NSD), from Jan 7-22. The festival will travel to Chennai Jan 11-19 after opening in the capital Jan 7. Vying for space...
11:37 AM, Jan 05, 2011
