Mumbai: Sajid Nadiadwala was here Tuesday named the new president of the Association of Motion Pictures and Television Program Producers (AMPTPP). The filmmaker, the youngest president of the body, says his first mission is to stop piracy. Nadiadwala will now preside over the association as chairperson and ex-officio member of all committees framed and working on different agendas. "This is a big responsibility that has been bestowed upon me by...
05:01 PM, Sep 18, 2012
Mumbai: Filmmaker Mukesh Bhatt has taken over from Ramesh Sippy as the president of the Film & Television Producers Guild of India here Monday. He says he wants to work hard for the fraternity's benefit. Bhatt was earlier serving as the vice president of the guild, an autonomous non-profit premier film trade body. "It is a big honour and a big responsibility to have become the president of such a...
01:10 PM, Sep 18, 2012
New Delhi: For all those viewers who were eagerly waiting for Ram Kapoor and Priya to come face to face after five years, the September 17 episode of 'Bade Achhe Lagte Hain' was extremely disappointing. The moment Ram meets Priya (Sakshi Tanwar), he starts recalling all the nice moments they have spent together. After five minutes of flashback and the camera taking rounds of Ram and Priya, he finally says...
11:10 AM, Sep 18, 2012
Mumbai: The Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) has warned TV channels Colors and Sahara to stop airing the programme 'Sur-Kshetra' that features Pakistani vocalists or face 'consequences'. "We are against (TV) channels who invite Pakistani singers. It is their tactic to create controversies and hence gather more TRPs," said Amey Khopkar, president of Maharashtra Navnirman Chitrapat Karmachari Sena, a group affiliated to the MNS. "We have written to Colors and Sahara...
01:06 PM, Aug 31, 2012
New Delhi: It's a sad day for Indian cinema. AK Hangal, the thespian whose mature take on the plight of the common man in a wide assortment of films delighted and charmed millions over four decades passed away on Sunday at a hospital in Mumbai. Hangal saab's last acting role was in the television serial Madhubala. This is a piece I wrote at the time he wore make-up for the...
11:25 AM, Aug 26, 2012
Mumbai: Veteran actor Avtar Kishen Hangal is in a critical condition, family sources said on Friday evening. "He has been admitted to Asha Parekh Hospital... he is in a critical condition. He is in ICU," Hangal's son Vijay said. AK Hangal, 95, was admitted to Parekh Hospital in Santacruz in suburban Mumbai on August 16. "He had a fall on August 13. On August 16, he was admitted to the...
08:06 AM, Aug 25, 2012
New Delhi: Ye aant nahi ye toh shuruat hai, (this is not the end; it is just a beginning), claims Aamir Khan. For all those who were missing Aamir Khan's weekly dose of social message, a special episode of Satyamev Jayate was aired on Independence Day. Satyamev Jayate ka Safar was basically the summary of Aamir Khans 13 week stint on Indian television. In the special episode, Aamir Khan talked...
02:38 PM, Aug 15, 2012
Los Angeles: NBC's TV coverage of the London Olympics was the most-watched television event in US history, attracting some 219.4 million viewers, the network said on Monday. Despite complaints during the Summer Games of delays in broadcasting popular events until prime time hours, problems with online streaming, and edited versions of the opening and closing ceremony, NBC said that more people watched the 2012 Olympics on television than the 215...
06:16 PM, Aug 14, 2012
PTV decided to snap up Younis Khan as an expert for the upcoming series and T20 World Cup in Sri Lanka. ...
08:39 AM, Aug 14, 2012
New Delhi: The competition is getting tougher with every passing week and all 'Jhalak Dikhhla Jaa 5' contestants are trying their best to woo the judges as well as the audience. Last night, KBC winner Sushil Kumar better known as Antarmukhi on the show, was eliminated. Isha Sharvani, Bharti Singh, Darsheel Safary, Giaa Manek, Gurmeet Chaudhary, Ravi Kishan, Shibani Dandekar, Karan Wahi, Rashmi Sandhu and Rithvik Dhanjani are competing for...
08:47 PM, Aug 05, 2012
Mumbai: A government review has revealed that in Mumbai, 50 per cent of cable TV homes have already been installed with set top boxes. In Mumbai, there is an estimated requirement of 34.85 lakh set top boxes and so far 17.07 lakh set top boxes have been installed. The Cable Television Networks (Regulation) Amendment Act, 2011 has made it mandatory for switchover of the existing analogue Cable TV networks to...
09:30 PM, Aug 03, 2012
New Delhi: Toshiba India has launched what the company claims to be the world's first large-screen glasses-free 3D TV - the RZ1. With a contrast ratio of 9,000,000:1, this 55-inch TV allows a large group of viewers, each facing the screen from a different angle, to share the 3D experience. Priced at Rs 12 lakh, the RZ1 is said to display 2D content at four times of full HD resolution....
04:28 PM, Jul 26, 2012
Mumbai: It looks like Aamir Khan's TV show has been creating the right ripples. We hear that Tim Sebastian, the man behind BBC's famous show Hard Talk, has moved to India to start an issue-based television programme, focusing on socio-political problems in the country. The award-winning journalist's 13-episode show titled 'The Outsider' is scheduled to go on air in October this year. Presently, it is being said, he is conducting...
12:01 PM, Jul 25, 2012
New Delhi: Kaun Banega Crorepati is one of the most popular game shows on Indian television. Based on a UK game show Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?, Bollywood actor Amitabh Bachchan made his television debut with the show in the year 2000. Now, Amitabh is back with the sixth season of the show. Here is the first promo of KBC 6. ...
05:30 PM, Jul 17, 2012
One has come to expect a certain kind of shrillness from Times Now's Arnab Goswami but his efforts at manufacturing outrage on Newshour on Tuesday ...
05:15 PM, Jul 11, 2012
New Delhi: As the latest media reports claim, television show 'Dekha Ek Khwaab' will go off air soon due to low TRPs. Sony Entertainment Television's 'Dekha Ek Khwaab' revolves around the life of a princess named Manyata. Priyal Gor, Abhishek Rawat, Ashish Kapoor and Aruna Irani are in the star cast of the show. As reported, despite enough publicity and prime time slot, the show failed to grab eyeballs. After...
02:00 PM, Jul 03, 2012
Mumbai: Aamir Khan's television show Satyamev Jayate has struck the right chord with the viewers and the film star says that he may come up with the second season of the show. "Right now I have to shoot Dhoom 3 and Rajkumar Hirani's film PK. After completing them, I will come back and take a stock of the situation and then I will decide about the second season of the...
01:51 PM, Jul 02, 2012
Los Angeles: Two Los Angeles police officers won't face criminal charges alleging they leaked a photo of pop star Rihanna's bruised and beaten face after she was assaulted by singer Chris Brown, the Los Angeles County district attorney's office said. An internal report by prosecutors says that after a three-year investigation, they didn't have enough evidence to show celebrity news website TMZ paid the accused officers for the photo, and...
06:35 PM, Jun 29, 2012
The residents of Dholakpur are a resilient lot. They regularly brave demons, robbers, evil wrestlers and various other calamities, big and small. They have a timid, but benevolent king in Raja Indraverma and a beautiful princess in Indumati. And of course, they have Bheem because of whom they emerge unscathed from various assaults. Bheem is the nine-year-old protagonist of Pogo TV's wildly successful animated show Chhota Bheem that runs for...
10:21 AM, Jun 28, 2012
