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  • Laugh it off with Comedy Central’s new summer line up

    Laugh it off with Comedy Central’s new summer line up

    MUMBAI: Taking forward the promise of unlimited laughter, Comedy Central, India’s leading 24-hour English Entertainment channel, brings to you nonstop laughter and madness. Gear up for a crazy summer as the channel announces the launch of new seasons of some beloved shows and a whole new show with About a Boy – Season 2, Brooklyn 99 – Season 2 and I Survived a Japanese Gameshow – Season 1 and 2. The new seasons are definitely going to give you a splash of high voltage drama filled with humour at its best. Keeping Comedy Central India’s ‘laugh it off’ spirit alive, the channel promises to up the laughter quotient during prime time, beginning this season.

     

    Announcing the channel’s summer season line up, Ferzad Palia, Executive Vice President and Business Head, English Entertainment, Viacom18 said, “The success of Impractical Jokers has shown us India’s appetite for differentiated comedy content. Taking this proposition forward we are happy to entertain Indian audiences this summer with three new shows’ I Survived a Japanese Game Show’; which India will see for the first time, & also the new seasons of Brooklyn Nine Nine & About A Boy. Both these sitcoms are extremely popular in India & have been part of our highest rated shows of 2014”  

     

    About a Boy S2

    About a Boy is a 2002 British-American comedy-drama film co-written and directed by brothers Chris Weitz and Paul Weitz. It is an adaptation of the 1998 novel of the same name by Nick Hornby. The film stars Hugh Grant, Nicholas Hoult, Toni Collette, and Rachel Weisz. The film at times uses double voice-over narration, when the audience hears both Will’s and Marcus’s thoughts.

     

    Brooklyn 99 S2

    Brooklyn Nine-Nine is an American action comedy television series that airs on Fox.  Recently won two Golden Globe Awards in 2014. Set in the fictional 99th Precinct of the New York City Police Department in Brooklyn, the single-camera series follows a precinct team of detectives and a newly appointed captain.

     

    I Survived a Japanese Game Show S1 and S2

    I Survived a Japanese Game Show (originally titled Big in Japan) is an American reality show that inspired shows like Wipeout and Takeshi’s Castle. The show followed a group of Americans, who leave the United States for Japan where they competed in a Japanese style game show. The winner takes home US $250,000. The series won both the Best Reality prize and the overall prize at the 2009 Rose d’Or ceremony.

     

    These shows will be supported by a 360 degree promotion plan which includes an extensive online leg, PR activations, on-ground events and so much more.

  • Books to read before they hit Indian theatres in 2014

    Books to read before they hit Indian theatres in 2014

    MUMBAI: Here’s the review of the fifth book in the 10-part series that features the books being adapted into Hollywood movies in the year 2014.

     

    A Long Way Down – Nick Hornby

     

    Life is looking up…!

     

    Just when you’re about to jump off a building and you’re almost at the edge, two other strangers with a similar motive join you! And to make the situation even more awkward, add a pizza delivery boy WITH A PIZZA!

    And so starts the live action motion picture adaptation of Nick Hornby’s dark comedy, A Long Way Down, one that stands at 3.41/5 from 41,934 ratings on Goodreads. Nick Hornby is best known for About A Boy and High Fidelity, both of which have been made into films to wide acclaim and popularity.

    The story of A Long Way Down is written in the first-person narrative and moves back and forth from the points of view of its four main characters, Martin, Maureen, Jess and JJ; four strangers, who just happen to meet on the roof of a high building in London on New Year’s Eve, each with the intent of committing suicide. Their plans of jumping to death are howbeit ruined when they stumble upon each other on the roof-top. The novel recounts their misadventures as they decide to come down from the roof-top alive – however temporarily that may be!

     

     

    The movie adaptation stars EMMY award winner Aaron Paul (Breaking Bad) as J.J., a wannabe musician who now delivers pizza, Imogen Poots (That Awkward Moment) as Jess, an 18-year old girl with endless family problems, EMMY award winner Toni Colette (Hostages, Little Miss Sunshine) as Maureen, the sacrificial mother of a disabled son and Golden Globe award nominee Pierce Brosnan (Remington Steele, Mamma Mia) as Martin Sharp, the famous talk show host who goes to prison for sleeping with an underage girl.

    Johnny Depp (Pirates of the Caribbean, Alice in Wonderland) originally bought the rights for the book even before it was published. And as soon as A Long Way Down hit the bookshelves, it was shortlisted for the Whitbread Novel Award.