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  • Star Movies looks to shore up viewership with terrorism mini series

    Star Movies looks to shore up viewership with terrorism mini series

    MUMBAI: Star Movies and HBO are going the mini series route in a bid to improve channel share.

    While the latter recently commenced airing Carnivale the Rupert Murdoch owned broadcaster Star Movies will air a show that looks at a critical issue post 9/11 – international terrorism.
     
     
    The Grid will air every Tuesday at 9 pm from 12 October. The BBC and Fox co-production explores both sides of the war on terrorism. The Grid involves a terrorist cell operating on a global level and a team of American and British counter-terrorists who are tasked with stopping it.

    It focusses on the emotional cost of war on victims, as well as the emotional cost on those fighting terrorism, using three American (NSC, CIA, FBI) and two British (MI6) counter-terrorist agents..
     
     
    As had been reported last year by Indiantelevision.com the show’s total budget was in the region of ?10m. It will be based in the US, the UK and Africa.

  • HBO’s ‘Carnivale’ to have supearnatural elements

    HBO’s ‘Carnivale’ to have supearnatural elements

    MUMBAI: “Into each generation is born a creature of light and a creature of darkness.”

    That is the tantalising premise of HBO’s upcoming show Carnivale. The show which will debut on the channel in India soon will, however, be quite different in tone from Sex And The City.

    The series deals with a travelling troupe of carnival and circus performers. The supernatural-infused costume drama is set in the 1930s in America. At the centre of the story is a fugitive Ben Hawkins played by Nick Stahl.

    He finds refuge within a travelling carnival comprised of a tarot card reader and her catatonic/ telekinetic mother, a blind mentalist, a bearded lady, and conjoined twins among other people.

    The carnival is owned by the mysterious and unseen management, who has designs on the young Hawkins. This is where the supernatural element comes in. Stahl’s character has an untapped gift. He can heal the lame and raise the dead for a price like Jesus.

    Complicating things is the fact that Hawkins is disturbed by cryptic and prophetic dreams, which he shares with a Methodist preacher in California, Brother Justin Crowe. Crowe is convinced that he is following God’s will. Unfortunately, Crowe’s plans lead to disturbing and tragic consequences.

    This will lead to an inevitable clash between good and evil. HBO had dealt with the supernatural theme earlier with its series Tales From the Crypt.