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  • AXN brings season 11 of ‘The Voice’

    AXN brings season 11 of ‘The Voice’

    MUMBAI: The singing reality show The Voice is returning with a new season to its home channel, AXN. With some of the strongest vocalists from across the country, the new season will begin from 24 September and will be aired every Saturday and Sunday at 8 pm.

    The Voice season 11 format features five stages of competition: the blind auditions, the battle rounds, the knockouts, the live playoffs and, finally, the live performance shows.

    Singing sensations Miley Cyrus and Alicia Keys join judges Adam Levine and Blake Shelton this season.

    The judges will also be supported by a new panel of mentors. Shelton will get help from Bette Midler whereas Levine’s team will be working with Sammy Haggar. Cyrus will get tips from Joan Jett and Keys will be assisted by Charlie Puth to aid her team.

    Created by John de Mol and directed by Alan Carter, the show has won several accolades in the past.

  • AXN brings season 11 of ‘The Voice’

    AXN brings season 11 of ‘The Voice’

    MUMBAI: The singing reality show The Voice is returning with a new season to its home channel, AXN. With some of the strongest vocalists from across the country, the new season will begin from 24 September and will be aired every Saturday and Sunday at 8 pm.

    The Voice season 11 format features five stages of competition: the blind auditions, the battle rounds, the knockouts, the live playoffs and, finally, the live performance shows.

    Singing sensations Miley Cyrus and Alicia Keys join judges Adam Levine and Blake Shelton this season.

    The judges will also be supported by a new panel of mentors. Shelton will get help from Bette Midler whereas Levine’s team will be working with Sammy Haggar. Cyrus will get tips from Joan Jett and Keys will be assisted by Charlie Puth to aid her team.

    Created by John de Mol and directed by Alan Carter, the show has won several accolades in the past.

  • Shows on Star English make a clean sweep at Emmy

    Shows on Star English make a clean sweep at Emmy

    MUMBAI: It was an incredible night for the Star English Entertainment Network at the 68th Primetime Emmy Awards as its shows bagged a whopping 34 awards at the ceremony! The Emmys stood testimony to the fact that only does the Star English Entertainment Network strive to entertain its audiences in India but also endeavours to offer them with the best of English content.

    Having won top honours across mostly all the key categories, technical and creative, the network boasts of showcasing the best shows in the English Entertainment genre, be it drama, comedy or action in India!

    Shows, Game of Thrones of Thrones and Veep, that air on Star World Premiere HD in India made Emmy History this year with the former winning a total of 12 awards making it 38 awards over the years – the most awarded TV show since 1949. Veep, on the other hand, broke the record of most Emmys won by a lead actress in the Comedy Genre as the queen of comedy, Julia Louis-Dreyfus won her 5th consecutive award in the category for the show this year. Another show that also premiered in India on Star World Premiere HD, The People v. O.J. Simpson: American Crime Story, won a staggering total of 9 awards at the Emmys with first time nominee and winner, Sterling K Brown receiving a standing ovation from the audiences at the ceremony! Game of Thrones and The People v. O.J. Simpson: American Crime Story dominated the awards scene, grabbing the highest number of Emmy awards this year.

    Other shows premiered and telecast by the Star English Entertainment Network in India that also received their much-deserved recognition and awards were Downton Abbey that said its final goodbye at the Emmys this year,American Horror Story: Hotel, The Americans, Crazy Ex-Girlfriend and Baskets!

  • Shows on Star English make a clean sweep at Emmy

    Shows on Star English make a clean sweep at Emmy

    MUMBAI: It was an incredible night for the Star English Entertainment Network at the 68th Primetime Emmy Awards as its shows bagged a whopping 34 awards at the ceremony! The Emmys stood testimony to the fact that only does the Star English Entertainment Network strive to entertain its audiences in India but also endeavours to offer them with the best of English content.

    Having won top honours across mostly all the key categories, technical and creative, the network boasts of showcasing the best shows in the English Entertainment genre, be it drama, comedy or action in India!

    Shows, Game of Thrones of Thrones and Veep, that air on Star World Premiere HD in India made Emmy History this year with the former winning a total of 12 awards making it 38 awards over the years – the most awarded TV show since 1949. Veep, on the other hand, broke the record of most Emmys won by a lead actress in the Comedy Genre as the queen of comedy, Julia Louis-Dreyfus won her 5th consecutive award in the category for the show this year. Another show that also premiered in India on Star World Premiere HD, The People v. O.J. Simpson: American Crime Story, won a staggering total of 9 awards at the Emmys with first time nominee and winner, Sterling K Brown receiving a standing ovation from the audiences at the ceremony! Game of Thrones and The People v. O.J. Simpson: American Crime Story dominated the awards scene, grabbing the highest number of Emmy awards this year.

    Other shows premiered and telecast by the Star English Entertainment Network in India that also received their much-deserved recognition and awards were Downton Abbey that said its final goodbye at the Emmys this year,American Horror Story: Hotel, The Americans, Crazy Ex-Girlfriend and Baskets!

  • GoQuest to present its formats at MIPCOM 2016

    GoQuest to present its formats at MIPCOM 2016

    MUMBAI: GoQuest Formats, a non-fiction and fiction formats subsidiary of GoQuest Media Ventures- a global multi -platform for content syndication, distribution & production, is keeping up to its promise made at MIPTV 2016 to various global clients that GoQuest will be producing pilots of its 2 formats and presenting it at MIPCOM 2016.  

    The formats are:

    Ultimate Cinderella: A life makeover show, this unique TV program gives a second chance to deserving women changing their lives forever.

    Friends ForNever:  An exhilarating quiz game show where best friends go at each-other for a cash prize.

    This has come on the back of its having generated considerable interest on its paper formats from the participants at MIPTV 2016. This was announced by Vivek Lath, Managing Director and founder of GoQuest Media. The international pilots of the formats have been developed to showcase the novelty and entertainment factor in these FORMATS. The paper format of these shows received great response from participants from China, Greece, France, Germany, Turkey and UAE.

    GoQuest Formats will be presenting three more formats at MIPCOM:

    Sing-A-Songwriter– A unique singing reality show which wraps all the aspects of a song i.e. singing, songwriting and composing into one super music reality format. On Sing-A-Songwriter, every song is a new song.

    Dinner Karaoke: A fun weekend format which searches for a Karaoke star among regular restaurant diners.

    Kitchen 50: 50: A cooking show where two cooks who know each other in real life go against each other in a cook off to win a 10,000 dollar prize.

    All the formats have been designed to elicit a lot of excitement and drama for the viewer’s globally. Ease in execution is another advantage for broadcasters looking to produce these formats.

    Vivek Lath further adds GoQuest has collaborated with vibrant creators from Europe and North America to come up with ideas that have global resonance and cuts across various genres of Reality TV. GoQuest is approaching MIPCOM with an expectation to not only earn a name for itself in the FORMAT space with its offering but also to soak-in the latest trends and the current needs to help our creators and collaborators to continually develop more exciting options in the future”

  • GoQuest to present its formats at MIPCOM 2016

    GoQuest to present its formats at MIPCOM 2016

    MUMBAI: GoQuest Formats, a non-fiction and fiction formats subsidiary of GoQuest Media Ventures- a global multi -platform for content syndication, distribution & production, is keeping up to its promise made at MIPTV 2016 to various global clients that GoQuest will be producing pilots of its 2 formats and presenting it at MIPCOM 2016.  

    The formats are:

    Ultimate Cinderella: A life makeover show, this unique TV program gives a second chance to deserving women changing their lives forever.

    Friends ForNever:  An exhilarating quiz game show where best friends go at each-other for a cash prize.

    This has come on the back of its having generated considerable interest on its paper formats from the participants at MIPTV 2016. This was announced by Vivek Lath, Managing Director and founder of GoQuest Media. The international pilots of the formats have been developed to showcase the novelty and entertainment factor in these FORMATS. The paper format of these shows received great response from participants from China, Greece, France, Germany, Turkey and UAE.

    GoQuest Formats will be presenting three more formats at MIPCOM:

    Sing-A-Songwriter– A unique singing reality show which wraps all the aspects of a song i.e. singing, songwriting and composing into one super music reality format. On Sing-A-Songwriter, every song is a new song.

    Dinner Karaoke: A fun weekend format which searches for a Karaoke star among regular restaurant diners.

    Kitchen 50: 50: A cooking show where two cooks who know each other in real life go against each other in a cook off to win a 10,000 dollar prize.

    All the formats have been designed to elicit a lot of excitement and drama for the viewer’s globally. Ease in execution is another advantage for broadcasters looking to produce these formats.

    Vivek Lath further adds GoQuest has collaborated with vibrant creators from Europe and North America to come up with ideas that have global resonance and cuts across various genres of Reality TV. GoQuest is approaching MIPCOM with an expectation to not only earn a name for itself in the FORMAT space with its offering but also to soak-in the latest trends and the current needs to help our creators and collaborators to continually develop more exciting options in the future”

  • ‘Game of Thrones’ breaks record, bags 38 Emmys

    ‘Game of Thrones’ breaks record, bags 38 Emmys

    MUMBAI: The HBO fantasy drama, Game of Thrones (GoT) has broken records by winning a total of 38 awards at the 68th annual Emmy Awards. The previous all-time record holder, Frasier, had pocketed 37 awards.

    GoT has picked up awards for best writing in a drama series, best directing in a drama series, and best drama on Sunday night. The series became the most-honored drama series after winning nine Emmys at the Creative Arts ceremony, surpassing longtime title holders Hill Street Blues and The West Wing.

    It has only been on six seasons, while Fraiser was on for 11 which makes it stand out.

  • ‘Game of Thrones’ breaks record, bags 38 Emmys

    ‘Game of Thrones’ breaks record, bags 38 Emmys

    MUMBAI: The HBO fantasy drama, Game of Thrones (GoT) has broken records by winning a total of 38 awards at the 68th annual Emmy Awards. The previous all-time record holder, Frasier, had pocketed 37 awards.

    GoT has picked up awards for best writing in a drama series, best directing in a drama series, and best drama on Sunday night. The series became the most-honored drama series after winning nine Emmys at the Creative Arts ceremony, surpassing longtime title holders Hill Street Blues and The West Wing.

    It has only been on six seasons, while Fraiser was on for 11 which makes it stand out.

  • Star Movies Select HD to air ‘The Poseidon Adventure’

    Star Movies Select HD to air ‘The Poseidon Adventure’

    MUMBAI: In continuity of the Book Adaptation Festival, this week, Star Movies Select HD will be showcasing The Poseidon Adventure, an action-adventure disaster film, directed by Ronald Neame. Airing on 25 September at 3 pm, the classic is an adaptation of the novel of the same name by Paul Gallic.

    The film gained the stature of being a modern classic and the foremost disaster movies everyone is a fan of. Set on a retiring ocean liner making its last voyage, The Poseidon Adventure tells the story of a New Year’s Eve celebration that gets interrupted by the sinking of a ship. The film is a high stakes story of survival and it’s no surprise why it’s such a success.

    Taglined ‘Hell, upside down’, the film was the second-biggest-grossing blockbuster at the time of its release in 1972 and introduced several elements to the disaster formula that would become standard in later films in the genre. A cult classic like no other, the film brought forth a number of death defying stunts and scenes that were way beyond its time and still applauded its tale of survival

  • Star Movies Select HD to air ‘The Poseidon Adventure’

    Star Movies Select HD to air ‘The Poseidon Adventure’

    MUMBAI: In continuity of the Book Adaptation Festival, this week, Star Movies Select HD will be showcasing The Poseidon Adventure, an action-adventure disaster film, directed by Ronald Neame. Airing on 25 September at 3 pm, the classic is an adaptation of the novel of the same name by Paul Gallic.

    The film gained the stature of being a modern classic and the foremost disaster movies everyone is a fan of. Set on a retiring ocean liner making its last voyage, The Poseidon Adventure tells the story of a New Year’s Eve celebration that gets interrupted by the sinking of a ship. The film is a high stakes story of survival and it’s no surprise why it’s such a success.

    Taglined ‘Hell, upside down’, the film was the second-biggest-grossing blockbuster at the time of its release in 1972 and introduced several elements to the disaster formula that would become standard in later films in the genre. A cult classic like no other, the film brought forth a number of death defying stunts and scenes that were way beyond its time and still applauded its tale of survival