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  • Padma Lakshmi and Gail Simmons invite India to watch Top Chef Season 11

    Padma Lakshmi and Gail Simmons invite India to watch Top Chef Season 11

    MUMBAI: Master of all cooking reality shows, Top Chef is back with its 11th Season. The exciting culinary trail kick started this week, 22 February 2016 at 9 pm Monday to Friday on AXN. Adding some spice to the buzzing new season isthe sizzling host Padma Lakshmi and renowned food writer and judge Gail Simmons who have been specially tweeting and connecting with fans of the show in India. Both Padma Lakshmi and Gail Simmons enjoy immense popularity in India because of their long standing association with the show and the duohave exclusively invited their fans in India to catch the telecast on AXN.

    This season, Top Chef is bringing to its audience a mix of traditional and exotic culinary offerings with a dash of eccentricity. Imagine the popular Quickfire challenge where a famed musician comes out with his version of foodie musical chairs. Tune in to find out if the Chef’testants hit the right note or not. In another episode see the Chef’testants whip out their home-inspired recipes paying tribute to the best cook in the world, their mommy. 

  • Padma Lakshmi and Gail Simmons invite India to watch Top Chef Season 11

    Padma Lakshmi and Gail Simmons invite India to watch Top Chef Season 11

    MUMBAI: Master of all cooking reality shows, Top Chef is back with its 11th Season. The exciting culinary trail kick started this week, 22 February 2016 at 9 pm Monday to Friday on AXN. Adding some spice to the buzzing new season isthe sizzling host Padma Lakshmi and renowned food writer and judge Gail Simmons who have been specially tweeting and connecting with fans of the show in India. Both Padma Lakshmi and Gail Simmons enjoy immense popularity in India because of their long standing association with the show and the duohave exclusively invited their fans in India to catch the telecast on AXN.

    This season, Top Chef is bringing to its audience a mix of traditional and exotic culinary offerings with a dash of eccentricity. Imagine the popular Quickfire challenge where a famed musician comes out with his version of foodie musical chairs. Tune in to find out if the Chef’testants hit the right note or not. In another episode see the Chef’testants whip out their home-inspired recipes paying tribute to the best cook in the world, their mommy. 

  • Colors Infinity to premiere ‘Heartbeat’ season 1 on 24 March

    Colors Infinity to premiere ‘Heartbeat’ season 1 on 24 March

    MUMBAI: This March, the English Entertainment channel Colors Infinity is all set to launch some fresh content with varied entertainment.

    Along with newer episodes of its existing show, the channel is also planning to premiere a new show next month.

    While the channel will air new episodes of its existing show Blindspot from 1 March onwards, it will also premiere the first season of the drama titled Heartbeat on 24 March.

    Heartbeat is a British police drama series set in the background of a fictional town Ashfordly, Yorkshire, has an intense storyline revolving around serious crimes and human tragedies. A piercing plot of a young couple shifting into a small town who end up becoming the target of suspicion for everything that goes wrong, is a must watch and surely to look out for!

    On the other hand, continuing with the ongoing season, Blindspot’s new episodes will see the plot unfolding in the suspense drama of a tattooed girl, who has lost her memory and is unaware of her own identity.

  • Colors Infinity to premiere ‘Heartbeat’ season 1 on 24 March

    Colors Infinity to premiere ‘Heartbeat’ season 1 on 24 March

    MUMBAI: This March, the English Entertainment channel Colors Infinity is all set to launch some fresh content with varied entertainment.

    Along with newer episodes of its existing show, the channel is also planning to premiere a new show next month.

    While the channel will air new episodes of its existing show Blindspot from 1 March onwards, it will also premiere the first season of the drama titled Heartbeat on 24 March.

    Heartbeat is a British police drama series set in the background of a fictional town Ashfordly, Yorkshire, has an intense storyline revolving around serious crimes and human tragedies. A piercing plot of a young couple shifting into a small town who end up becoming the target of suspicion for everything that goes wrong, is a must watch and surely to look out for!

    On the other hand, continuing with the ongoing season, Blindspot’s new episodes will see the plot unfolding in the suspense drama of a tattooed girl, who has lost her memory and is unaware of her own identity.

  • Warner Bros. acquires SVOD service DramaFever

    Warner Bros. acquires SVOD service DramaFever

    MUMBAI: Warner Bros has signed an agreement to acquire DramaFever, a US-based company that operates subscription and on-demand video services, including its flagship DramaFever channel, which offers hundreds of Korean television and film dramas, as well as programming from other countries, to subscribers in the US and around the world.

    DramaFever joins Time Warner’s company-wide efforts to reach audiences directly, including the recent acquisition of iStreamPlanet and the launch of SVOD services with HBO NOW in the US, and, in partnership with Tencent, Hollywood VIP in China.

    DramaFever has a strong and growing subscriber base of diverse millennials and plurals that fits well with the company’s plans to enhance its relationship with that audience.

    DramaFever’s experience in creating and running SVOD services targeted at niche audiences, including for third-parties, brings critical expertise, which will be vital to Warner Bros. as it explores various OTT scenarios and establishes more direct connections with its audiences.

    “This is a great fit for Warner Bros.. With Warner Bros.’ resources, we will rapidly enhance and grow the DramaFever channel. As importantly, we are bringing to Warner Bros. a great and talented team, led by Seung Bak and Suk Park, that will move quickly with our own distribution and creative teams to create and build more OTT services,” said Warner Bros. Television Group president, business and strategy Craig Hunegs.

    DramaFever’s co-founders Bak and Park will continue to oversee the company and report to Hunegs.

    “Warner Bros. is truly the ideal home for us. Combining our deep media sensibilities and experience in developing online video destinations with Warner’s vast library and production expertise will provide an unlimited number of opportunities to create the next generation of OTT services and Internet TV brands,” said DramaFever co-founder and CEO Seung Bak.

    DramaFever, while wholly owned by Warner Bros., will continue to operate under that consumer-facing brand and be based in New York.

    DramaFever was launched in 2009 with 10 Korean drama series. The service continues to expand rapidly and has become the leading online destination for the best TV shows and movies from around the world. Today, DramaFever offers hundreds of series, variety shows, films and kids programs, in multiple languages, and is available in more than 20 countries globally and growing.

    Warner Bros. is acquiring DramaFever from SoftBank. The deal is expected to close in the second quarter of 2016.

  • Warner Bros. acquires SVOD service DramaFever

    Warner Bros. acquires SVOD service DramaFever

    MUMBAI: Warner Bros has signed an agreement to acquire DramaFever, a US-based company that operates subscription and on-demand video services, including its flagship DramaFever channel, which offers hundreds of Korean television and film dramas, as well as programming from other countries, to subscribers in the US and around the world.

    DramaFever joins Time Warner’s company-wide efforts to reach audiences directly, including the recent acquisition of iStreamPlanet and the launch of SVOD services with HBO NOW in the US, and, in partnership with Tencent, Hollywood VIP in China.

    DramaFever has a strong and growing subscriber base of diverse millennials and plurals that fits well with the company’s plans to enhance its relationship with that audience.

    DramaFever’s experience in creating and running SVOD services targeted at niche audiences, including for third-parties, brings critical expertise, which will be vital to Warner Bros. as it explores various OTT scenarios and establishes more direct connections with its audiences.

    “This is a great fit for Warner Bros.. With Warner Bros.’ resources, we will rapidly enhance and grow the DramaFever channel. As importantly, we are bringing to Warner Bros. a great and talented team, led by Seung Bak and Suk Park, that will move quickly with our own distribution and creative teams to create and build more OTT services,” said Warner Bros. Television Group president, business and strategy Craig Hunegs.

    DramaFever’s co-founders Bak and Park will continue to oversee the company and report to Hunegs.

    “Warner Bros. is truly the ideal home for us. Combining our deep media sensibilities and experience in developing online video destinations with Warner’s vast library and production expertise will provide an unlimited number of opportunities to create the next generation of OTT services and Internet TV brands,” said DramaFever co-founder and CEO Seung Bak.

    DramaFever, while wholly owned by Warner Bros., will continue to operate under that consumer-facing brand and be based in New York.

    DramaFever was launched in 2009 with 10 Korean drama series. The service continues to expand rapidly and has become the leading online destination for the best TV shows and movies from around the world. Today, DramaFever offers hundreds of series, variety shows, films and kids programs, in multiple languages, and is available in more than 20 countries globally and growing.

    Warner Bros. is acquiring DramaFever from SoftBank. The deal is expected to close in the second quarter of 2016.

  • Sony Pix to bring back arcade video game fun with ‘Pixels’

    Sony Pix to bring back arcade video game fun with ‘Pixels’

    MUMBAI: Sony Pix is all geared up to air the television premiere of Pixels. The comedy movie inspired by a arcade video game of the same name will air on 28 February at 1 pm with a repeat telecast at 9 pm.

    The disaster comedy full of twists features iconic video game characters like Pac-Man, Donkey Kong, Centipede, Galaga, Frogger, Q*bert, and Space Invaders.

    Based on the original short film by Patrick Jean, the action-comedy is directed by Chris Columbus and is produced by Adam Sandler, Chris Columbus, Mark Radcliffe, and Allen Covert.

    As kids in the 1980s, Sam Brenner played by Adam Sandler, Will Cooper enacted by Kevin James, Ludlow Lamonsoff played by Josh Gad, and Eddie played by Peter Dinklag has saved the world thousands of times. They do it for real in Pixels. When intergalactic aliens discover video feeds of classic arcade games and misinterpret them as a declaration of war, they attack the Earth, using the video games as the models for their assaults and now U.S. President Cooper must call on his old-school arcade friends to save the world from being destroyed by the characters. Joining them is Lt. Col. Violet Van Patten played by Michelle Monaghan, a specialist supplying the arcaders with unique weapons to fight the aliens.

    This movie will also give the fans to see Peter Dinklage in a completely different avatar.

  • Sony Pix to bring back arcade video game fun with ‘Pixels’

    Sony Pix to bring back arcade video game fun with ‘Pixels’

    MUMBAI: Sony Pix is all geared up to air the television premiere of Pixels. The comedy movie inspired by a arcade video game of the same name will air on 28 February at 1 pm with a repeat telecast at 9 pm.

    The disaster comedy full of twists features iconic video game characters like Pac-Man, Donkey Kong, Centipede, Galaga, Frogger, Q*bert, and Space Invaders.

    Based on the original short film by Patrick Jean, the action-comedy is directed by Chris Columbus and is produced by Adam Sandler, Chris Columbus, Mark Radcliffe, and Allen Covert.

    As kids in the 1980s, Sam Brenner played by Adam Sandler, Will Cooper enacted by Kevin James, Ludlow Lamonsoff played by Josh Gad, and Eddie played by Peter Dinklag has saved the world thousands of times. They do it for real in Pixels. When intergalactic aliens discover video feeds of classic arcade games and misinterpret them as a declaration of war, they attack the Earth, using the video games as the models for their assaults and now U.S. President Cooper must call on his old-school arcade friends to save the world from being destroyed by the characters. Joining them is Lt. Col. Violet Van Patten played by Michelle Monaghan, a specialist supplying the arcaders with unique weapons to fight the aliens.

    This movie will also give the fans to see Peter Dinklage in a completely different avatar.

  • Limitless will unite the magic of bollywood and Pritam’s music on 20 Feb

    Limitless will unite the magic of bollywood and Pritam’s music on 20 Feb

    MUMBAI: Wondered how it is when Hollywood grooves to Bollywood music! The latest episode of Limitless on 20 February at 11 pm on AXN is going to give you a visual delight as the entire cast of Limitless will perform on Dil Bole Hadippa, a 2009 hit Yashraj film starring Rani Mukherji and Shahid Kapoor. Pritamda’s music makes the crew perform on the foot tapping number from the film breaking all stereotypes about Hollywood shows.

    This week’s intriguing episode, publicly exposes a list of FBI undercover agents. Show lead Brian Finch played by actor Jake McDorman develops a personal connection with FBI Agent Lucy Church (Christina Vidal), a tenacious rule-breaker and helps her finish a field case before she’s exposed.

    Viewers are in for a special treat this weekend adding on to this already intriguing plot as the adventures of the undercover agents are interspersed with some lavish Bollywood dance sequences. Brianwill be seengrooving to a foot tapping Bollywood number from Yash Raj Films – Dil Bole Hadippa. Joining him on the floor are his co-stars decked up in colorful Indian edding attire. Celebrity choreographer John Carrafa was roped in to make Brian dance to the tunes of award-winning music composer Pritam who is known to have given blockbuster songs to the Hindi film industry since more than a decade. Watch how dance is interweaved in this episode to solve a mystery.

    Limitless, a fast-paced drama starring the handsome and very talented Bradley Cooper is a story of Jake McDorman as Brian Finch and his journey as he discovers the brain-boosting power of the mysterious drug NZT. He is coerced by the FBI into using his extraordinary abilities to solve complex cases for them.

  • Limitless will unite the magic of bollywood and Pritam’s music on 20 Feb

    Limitless will unite the magic of bollywood and Pritam’s music on 20 Feb

    MUMBAI: Wondered how it is when Hollywood grooves to Bollywood music! The latest episode of Limitless on 20 February at 11 pm on AXN is going to give you a visual delight as the entire cast of Limitless will perform on Dil Bole Hadippa, a 2009 hit Yashraj film starring Rani Mukherji and Shahid Kapoor. Pritamda’s music makes the crew perform on the foot tapping number from the film breaking all stereotypes about Hollywood shows.

    This week’s intriguing episode, publicly exposes a list of FBI undercover agents. Show lead Brian Finch played by actor Jake McDorman develops a personal connection with FBI Agent Lucy Church (Christina Vidal), a tenacious rule-breaker and helps her finish a field case before she’s exposed.

    Viewers are in for a special treat this weekend adding on to this already intriguing plot as the adventures of the undercover agents are interspersed with some lavish Bollywood dance sequences. Brianwill be seengrooving to a foot tapping Bollywood number from Yash Raj Films – Dil Bole Hadippa. Joining him on the floor are his co-stars decked up in colorful Indian edding attire. Celebrity choreographer John Carrafa was roped in to make Brian dance to the tunes of award-winning music composer Pritam who is known to have given blockbuster songs to the Hindi film industry since more than a decade. Watch how dance is interweaved in this episode to solve a mystery.

    Limitless, a fast-paced drama starring the handsome and very talented Bradley Cooper is a story of Jake McDorman as Brian Finch and his journey as he discovers the brain-boosting power of the mysterious drug NZT. He is coerced by the FBI into using his extraordinary abilities to solve complex cases for them.