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
New Delhi: Satyamev Jayate may not have been able to match the TRPS of Kaun Banega Crorepati, but that is not upsetting Aamir Khan. Aamir has said that his show has unprecedented viewership with entire villages sitting together to watch the story unfold. Going by the Television Rating Points that measure the viewership of shows on television, Aamir Khan's much publicised issue based chat show 'Satyamev Jayate' did not take...
11:19 AM, Jun 26, 2012
New Delhi: Bollywood actor Aamir Khan has hit out at doctors who claim his show 'Satyamev Jayate' has tarnished their image. After highlighting social issues affecting Indian society, Aamir Khan, in the fourth episode of his show, turned the spotlight on healthcare and malpractices in the medical profession. He highlighted unethical practices, corruption and scandalous revelations in medical treatment. Soon after, an umbrella body of 21 medical institutions had asked...
07:34 AM, Jun 25, 2012
New Delhi: Aamir Khan's highly talked about television show 'Satyamev Jayate' has become extremely popular in a short span of time. Though latest reports claim that the TRPs of the show is witnessing a decline now, but Aamir's fans cant stop praising him for the brave effort. Lately, during a press conference actor Salman Khan also appreciated Aamir and said that he is doing a great job. Aamir recently appeared...
10:43 AM, Jun 24, 2012
New Delhi: The much-trumpeted digitalisation of cable TV services in four metros will now have to wait for four months beyond July 1, when it was originally scheduled to be introduced. The decision to defer the plan for switchover from analogue to digitised signals was announced by the government on Wednesday as it was found that the metros of Delhi, Mumbai, Chennai and Kolkata were not ready for it. "The...
08:41 AM, Jun 21, 2012
Los Angeles: Psychological thriller 'Homeland' won the top prize at the Critics Choice Television awards on Monday, edging out the much-admired 'Mad Men,' while 'Community' was voted best comedy. Cable channel Showtime's 'Homeland' was declared best TV drama series and its star Claire Danes won the best dramatic actress award for her performance as a bipolar CIA agent on the hunt for a home-grown terrorist. AMC's 'Breaking Bad' brought home...
12:23 PM, Jun 19, 2012
New Delhi: As Vicky Donor zoomed past a three hundred percent ROI Box Office collection and Bittoo Boss too, made impressive inroads, there is a new buzz in B-town circles. Maybe, just maybe, the myth that TV stars (despite their undisputed talent and popularity) can never ever make that breakthrough to become even halfway acceptable movie stars, is about to be exploded after all. Both Ayushman Khurana (Vicky Donor) and...
05:18 PM, Jun 15, 2012
Mumbai: In her small screen 'biwi no.1' avatar as Anandi, actress Pratyusha Banerjee is seen in traditional ghaghra-choli. But for dance reality show 'Jhalak Dikhhla Jaa 5', she will wear skimpy skirts and believes her slim frame won't make her to look vulgar. "I think all bahus (daughters-in-law) should turn glamorous somewhere down the line so that she can prove that she's not only Biwi No.1, she can be the...
12:23 PM, Jun 14, 2012
Beijing: Two models, hosting a late-night weather forecast programme on a Chinese television show, have been forced to cover themselves up after they drew sharp reactions from viewers for being bikini-clad. The Guangdong TV was trying to promote its bikini contest to be held after the on-going Euro 2012 football championship, Shanghai Daily reported. On Saturday, when two young women contestants of the bikini competition, to be organised by Guangdong...
08:36 PM, Jun 13, 2012
New York/San Francisco: Intel is counting on facial-recognition technology for targeted ads and a team of veteran entertainment dealmakers to win over reluctant media partners for its new virtual television service. But so far it's proving a challenge to get the service off the ground, thanks to an unwillingness on the part of major media content providers to let Intel unbundle and license specific networks and shows at a discount...
01:46 PM, Jun 08, 2012
Mumbai: Veteran actor AK Hangal came out of retirement at the age of 97 to shoot for the television serial Madhubala. The veteran actor stepped out of his house for the first time in five months for the shooting of an episode of Madhubala in which he has done a cameo. Hangal pulled off his part in a single-take shot. Hangal has been active in filmdom since 1967 and played...
05:31 PM, Jun 01, 2012
The body of an artist is like a well in which experiences are stored. It is tapped when needed. A senior actor in theater, television and 50 plus films Indhudhar is caught up with three fresh ideas to give refreshing films to the Kannada cinema audiences. Indhudhar holds the record of appearing in over 4000 plus television episodes in those days beginning from 1989. A highly educated middle age multi...
10:58 AM, Jun 01, 2012
New Delhi: He takes tentative steps towards a cluster of people, guided purely by his senses, and the oppressive silence that warns him that something is not right here. The gentle timbre of his voice rings through the air heavy with mourning "yaha itna sannata kyu hai bhai"? Thirty-seven years after AK Hangal shot that iconic scene from 'Sholay', the silence at the studio where the television serial Madhubala was...
03:47 PM, May 31, 2012
