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  • FTV head Adams arrested on indecent assault charge

    FTV head Adams arrested on indecent assault charge

    MUMBAI: The head of the Paris-based fashion channel Fashion TV Michel Adams has been arrested in Israel on suspicion of indecent assault.

    Media reports have quoted Israeli police as saying that Adams was arrested on Saturday night following a complaint by a young model who said the FTV chief assaulted her at a nightclub.

    According to the young woman, the incident had taken place Friday during a party at a Tel Aviv bar. Magistrates have ordered that Adams be placed under house arrest for six days.

    The 20-year-old model has accused Adams and a local model agent, Shai Avital, of following her separately to the women’s bathroom at the Fashion Bar in Tel Aviv. Both of them forcibly kissed her on the neck and put their hands in her underwear, she has alleged in her complaint to the police.

    Adams’s lawyer, Sassi Gaz has denied the charge against his client. Avital has been released on bail.

  • FTV relaunching MCM as Trace 1 April

    FTV relaunching MCM as Trace 1 April

    MUMBAI: French fashion channel FTV is all set to relaunch its music channel MCM, which has been off air for a good while now, in the Asian region from 1 April under a new name Trace-By MCM.

    Launching on Asiasat 3 and having a pan-Asian footprint, Trace-By MCM will be completely in English unlike its earlier French speaking avatar, FTV business development head Manivel Malone told indiantelevision.com on the sidelines of the ongoing Ficci Frames 2004.

    The music the channel plays will be urban cutting-edge stuff and may also indulge in a bit of skin show via uncensored music video segments. The channel derives its name as it is a collaboration between TRACE, the US-based transcultural styles and ideas magazine, which reports on the interconnected worlds of music, fashion, film, art, politics and today’s multiethnic youth and FTV.

    Trace will be initially launched as a free to air offering but will ultimately be encrypted, said Malone. He further added that FTV would be launching an interactive gaming channel within the next few months. The details of the channel were still being finalized, he said. Malone had late last year, announced the proposed launch of three interactive channels, Malibu TV, Casino TV and Platinum TV, the first of which will apparently see the light of day shortly