ARIZONA: The reality TV genre has proved a boon for Fox. Over 18 million viewers watched the first episode of Joe Millionaire.. Now the network is...
MUMBAI: Bollywood heroes are playing negative characters on the small screen. Aayub Khan, of Mrityudand fame, is firming plans to play Karisma Kapoor’s son on Sahara...
His reputation as a street fighter precedes him. His style of functioning may be debatable. His spoken language is not as savvy as those who sit...
MUMBAI: Don’t look, it’s changing. Fashion TV India that plans to add an additional two hours of Indian programming content to the existing hours daily, will...
NEW YORK: The high profile Oscars may be over and done with but the action concerning what some consider the coolest movie awards show, is about...
NEW DELHI: Conditional access system is forcing various stakeholders of the industry to go in for initiatives that were not on the top of their priority...
NEW YORK: This is a move through which media conglomerate Viacom is hoping to push towards corporate governance. The owner of MTV and Nickelodeon has announced...
MUMBAI: From India’s Most Wanted on the small screen to a “wanted person” being chased by legal enforcers to a feature film called Wanted No 1...
MUMBAI: It is that time of the year again when Sony Entertainment Television will be airing Sony to telecast the International Indian Film Festival (IIFA). The...
MUMBAI: Pradipto Sircar, senior VP, ad sales at Sabe TV, has moved to Sahara as senior vice president, sales and marketing. Sircar will be...
WASHINGTON: The US government’s broadcasting board of governors (BBG) is planning to set up a new Baghdad TV channel to air Arabic captioned broadcasts of US...
CONNECTICUT: Sony Pictures Entertainment had an incredible 2002. This year could be a touch different if USA Video Interactive (USVO) has its way. USVO’s subsidiary...
She personifies the image and spirit of the two spirited channels from the Zee stable that have, in a short span, asserted their identity and are...
MUMBAI: Kuchh Ruke Hue Lamhe – When Time stood Still, a 50-minute low budget film has been selected for the New York International Independent Film and...
MUMBAI: The Supreme Court, which was expected to deliver its final verdict on Monday, 10 April 2003 about the Zee’s beleaguered Sunday morning show Kanhaiyya, has...
NEW DELHI: It was a classic case of a set of glamorous people robbing the glam of the word glamorous. Reason: some were not prepared, while...
MUMBAI: Deepak Bukshi, who has directed several TV serials, ad films and telefilms, has sold the rights of his first feature film Meri Marzi to Raas...
NEW DELHI: Finally the radio and TV licence fee issue has been laid to rest. There is no proposal to re-impose licence fee on television and...
MUMBAI: etc networks recently completed one year of its association with the Zee family. To mark the occasion different religious groups offered prayers to commemorate the...
HYDERABAD: Tomorrow Indias first paid digital Telugu satellite television channel MAA TV will celebrate one year of operation. MAA carved a path of its own in...
MUMBAI: Cough, cough may be alright when one is afflicted with an illness but recent news should make even a pauper think thrice before using it...
MUMBAI: Family oriented Hallmark has announced that it has acquired three shows from Sony. The aim is to strengthen the late primetime programme slots, which air...
MUMBAI: Niche infotainment network Discovery channel has launched Discover India, a new series which will showcase modern and contemporary India. The series will present...
MUMBAI: National Geographic’s (NGC) mission is clear-cut! Enable ordinary people to do the extraordinary by affording them the opportunity to tackle Mount Everest and at the...
MUMBAI: Zee English is changing its look. Beginning with the Miss Universe pageant that will be held in Panama in June, the niche channel will revamp...
PARIS: Paul C. Johnson has been named Director of the Television Division at Reed Midem. He will manage Reed Midem’s international television exhibition business, which includes...
MUMBAI: From today, Channel [V] is wholly a Star subsidiary. The Hong Kong-based Star TV, a unit of media baron Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp Ltd, today...
MUMBAI: If saas bahu sagas rake in high TRPs in the north, its the tear-jerking soaps that cast a similar spell in the south. Interestingly, the...
NEW DELHI: As they say in cricket, something’s about to give way. Either the Indian government will buckle under pressure from various factions of the broadcasting...
ROME: The lower house of the Italian parliament passed a fiercely contested bill intended to modernise television and create more choice on the Italian airwaves. A...
ATLANTIC CITY, New Jersey: Tyra Banks will be felicitated at the Bollywood Movie Awards even as she gears up to produce new reality show on UPN....
MUMBAI: Cindy Burbridge, a former Miss Thailand and Miss World 1996, will soon feature on Channel [V]’s show The Juice sometime in the first week of...
When it comes to blockbusters we are really the best.” This is the core of what HBO is trying to reinforce this Summer through its programming...
MUMBAI: The cricket World Cup has wrecked havoc on the listed television companies, particularly because none of them had the rights to telecast the greatest cricketing...
MUMBAI: A century on air and counting. Kagaz Ki Kashtti (KKK), a daily soap which airs on Sahara TV, completed 100 episodes yesterday. Shrishti Entertainment, promoted...
MUMBAI: Zee’s beleaguered Sunday morning show Kanhaiyya continues in suspended animation for another week. The Supreme Court, which was to deliver its final verdict on Friday...
MUMBAI: After news channels, its time for radio! Sahara Swar, the first satellite radio in Mumbai’s suburban trains, will start by July this year. ...
MUMBAI: TV and film actor-turned-producer Kunika Sadanand Lall announced that her first product ‘Strivers and Achievers’ is ready to hit the tube on 13 April. The...
MUMBAI: A female protagonist starts from scratch after her husband ditches her. This is the theme around which Hallmark’s new series Family Law revolves. The show...
MUMBAI: Buoyed by the enthusiastic initial response to its news channels, Sahara intends to adopt a novel strategy of pulling in day time viewers with interesting...
MUMBAI: It could be the fact that the US-led invasion of Iraq is not quite according to script, but viewers in America seem to be losing...
MUMBAI: Kanta Advani, who headed ad sales at Zee TV for a while, has just joined SABTNL (Shri Adhikari Brothers Television Networks Ltd). Advani, who had...
MUMBAI: Sagar Arts is now gearing up to realise the family’s dream of creating another epic Durga – the third in the trilogy, following Ramayan and...
MUMBAI: AOL Time Warner has announced that its Mandarin-language China Entertainment Television Broadcast (CETV) channel has won a limited nationwide broadcast licence. CETV will be...
MUMBAI / NEW DELHI: The great thing about Zee is that it cannot be far behind from what others have done and this time round it...
MUMBAI: BAG Films’ afternoon soap Kumkum – ek pyaarasa bandhan has beaten the veterans of the soap genre with its unprecedented success in the mid-day slot....
Keertan Adyanthaya, Star India’s vice president content & communication for Channel [V], will soon complete his first anniversary with the organisation. It’s been quite a journey...
MUMBAI: The Supreme Court has given temporary relief to Zee’s beleaguered Sunday morning show Kanhaiyya. Last weekend, the apex court temporarily set aside the stay on...
NEW DELHI: The business news channel that the Zee Group has been talking about is taking shape. Zee Biz is expected to be launched around June...
MUMBAI: Private channels and public broadcasters will have to do their bit to create awareness about health related issues. Union health minister Sushma Swaraj asserts that...