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  • Tech Maven Kinnari Dave gets business head role at Shemaroo

    Tech Maven Kinnari Dave gets business head role at Shemaroo

    MUMBAI: Tech and product evangelist Kinnari Dave has bagged the business head role at  Shemaroo Entertainment after a steady three-year climb through the ranks.

    The digital diva, who previously served as deputy vice president of product and innovation, has been handed the keys to the kingdom just as the entertainment giant battles fierce headwinds in the streaming wars.

    Dave’s elevation comes after nearly six years with the legacy entertainment powerhouse, where she’s been busy transforming dusty catalogues into digital gold. 

    Before joining Shemaroo’s executive ranks, Dave spent over four years as product head at Hungama, another entertainment platform that was once the darling of the pre-Netflix era. Her digital pedigree stretches back to 2013 when she was part of the startup team at Indus OS, India’s homegrown mobile operating system that dared to challenge Google’s Android dominance.

    The tech veteran’s career has taken her through the trenches of mobile gaming at Mobile2win and even a stint flogging digital cameras for Olympus—back when people still bought dedicated devices to take holiday snaps.

    Dave’s promotion signals Shemaroo’s doubling down on digital transformation as traditional entertainment companies scramble to remain relevant in an increasingly crowded streaming marketplace. With skills spanning from AWS architecture to the nebulous realms of Web3 and generative AI, Dave represents Shemaroo’s bet on a tech-first future.

  • Spike to launch as FTA channel in UK

    Spike to launch as FTA channel in UK

    MUMBAI: A new free-to-air TV channel will launch with a bang in millions of UK homes on 15 April, when Spike goes on air offering a mix of British commissions and big-name talent alongside a range of acclaimed drama and entertainment.

     

    Original commissions will feature prominently on Spike from launch. Police Interceptors Unleashed marks a return to British TV screens for actor and former professional footballer, Vinnie Jones, who will front the series, following the work of the high-speed police interception unit. Another new series, Tattoo Disasters UK, will seek out some of the most painful examples of British body art and the individuals having to learn to live with their inky mistakes.

     

    Spike’s launch line-up will also feature some of the most acclaimed and talked about TV drama of recent times, including Breaking Bad, which will be broadcast from start to finish for the first time on British TV. The latest and fifth series of The Walking Dead will also be available on Spike, the first time it will be accessible free-to-air to British TV viewers.

     

    Other acquired dramas that will broadcast on Spike from launch include the British TV premiere of mythological blockbuster, Olympus, Emmy nominated Justified and crime thriller Sons of Anarchy.

     

    Lip Sync Battle, hosted by two-time Grammy Award-winner LL COOL J, will be the entertainment flagship of Spike’s launch schedule. The half-hour original series – based on the cultural phenomenon of lip sync battling seen by millions on television and online – has been created by Jimmy Fallon and his Eight Million Plus Productions, Stephen Merchant, John Krasinski, Matador and Casey Patterson. Merchant also features on-screen as one of the many A-list musical combatants in the series.

     

    Social media comedy phenomenon, Fail Army, has also been reworked for television and will be introduced to UK TV audiences by Spike.

     

    Spike will also be the UK TV home of mixed martial arts. The channel will televise Bellator MMA, the emerging sports franchise featuring many of the world’s greatest fighters including British champion, Liam McGeary, and Paul Daley. Spike has also signed an exclusive deal with the British Association of Mixed Martial Arts (BAMMA) for its tournaments, which will feature in a Saturday ‘Fight Night.’

     

    The channel will also offer a range of reality series from Spike in the US, including Catch a Contractor and Frankenfood, as well as repeats of some of Channel 5’s most popular factual output.

     

    The 24-hour network will be available from launch on the majority of the UK’s digital TV platforms, including Sky TV, Freesat and Freeview, on which it will occupy channel slot 31.

     

    Channel 5 programme director Ben Frow, whose editorial team will oversee commissioning, scheduling and acquisitions for the new channel, said, “Spike is a driven, high-energy channel offering a point of view and programme mix I think is different from anything else on British TV right now. I can’t wait to see our viewers embrace this exhilarating new channel.”

     

  • Animax to premiere ‘Appleseed’ as movie of the month on 26 August

    Animax to premiere ‘Appleseed’ as movie of the month on 26 August

    MUMBAI: Animax, international animation channel will showcase an exclusive premiere of the animation movie – Appleseed on Saturday 26 August at 7 pm.

    Appleseed illustrates a story in the year 2131 and the post-apocalypse period, in a world called Olympus created after a non-nuclear war where the world is dominated not only by humans but mechanical Cyborgs, informs an official release.

    A fierce war has left the world barren and desolate and ex-soldier Deunan Knute travels the wastelands fighting alone, not knowing that the war is over. With no mode of communication and nobody but herself, Deunan is attacked by a helicopter and knocked unconscious, and wakes up in the utopian city of Olympus.

    All seems peaceful and calm, especially after the war and Deunan is quickly brought up to date by her ex-lover Briareos. While she appreciates the happiness of the people of Olympus, Deunan gradually senses something amiss – the tranquility is almost eerie, and she learns from the stunning Hitomi that most of the ‘people’are actually clones.

    With the near-complete destruction of mankind in the war, even Briareos is almost-all machine, and Hitomi herself is a Bioroid. In the new world order Olympus has become the leader to the rest of the countries, depended on for their very existence. But lurking beneath the surface is a web of sinister cover-ups and changes which threaten to destroy mankind while preserving it – tensions are growing, and when Deunan discovers an insidious conspiracy in Olympus itself, she must face her own past in the battle to save the fate of humanity, adds the release.