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  • Sam Smith wins the ‘Record of the Year’ at Grammy Awards 2015

    Sam Smith wins the ‘Record of the Year’ at Grammy Awards 2015

    MUMBAI: Sam Smith dominated the 57th Annual Grammy Awards, which was held on 8 February, 2015, at the Staples Center in Los Angeles, California.

     

    Smith swept the top honours for Record of the Year, Song of the Year, Best New Artist and Best Pop Vocal Album for his smash hit song Stay With Me.

     

    Pharrell Williams beat Smith in the Best Pop Solo Performance category while Pearl Jam’s Jeff Ament scored the Best Recording Package.

     

    Beyoncé took back home the honour for the Best Surround Sound album and closed the night with a powerful performance of Take My Hand Precious Lord.

     

    Kristen Wiigg gave an electrifying dance performance with Sia, while Smith performed to his hit song – Stay With Me with Mary J. Blige. 

     

    The complete list of Grammy Awards 2015 winners are as follows:

     

    Record of the Year: Stay with Me (Darkchild Version), Sam Smith

     

    Album of the Year: Morning Phase, Beck

     

    Best New Artist: Sam Smith

     

    Song of the Year: Stay with Me, Sam Smith, songwriters Sam Smith, James Napier & William Phillips

     

    Best Pop Solo Performance: Happy, Pharrell Williams

     

    Best Pop Duo/Group Performance: Say Something, A Great Big World feat. Christina Aguilera

     

    Best Pop Vocal Album: In the Lonely Hour, Sam Smith

     

    Best Dance Recording: Rather Be, Clean Bandit Featuring Jess Glynne

     

    Best Dance/ Electronic Album: Syro, Aphex Twin

     

    Best Country Album: Platinum, Miranda Lambert

     

    Best R&B Performance: Drunk in Love, Beyonce and Jay Z

     

    Best Rock Album: Morning Phase, Beck

     

    Best Rock Song: Ain’t It Fun, Paramore, songwriters Hayley Williams and Taylor York

     

    Best Rock Performance: Lazaretto, Jack White, songwriter Jack White

     

    Best Music Video: Happy, Pharrell Williams

     

    Best Alternative Music Album: St. Vincent, St. Vincent

     

    Best Urban Contemporary Album: G I R L, Pharrell Williams

     

    Best Country Song: I’m Not Gonna Miss You, Glen Campbell, songwriters Glen Campbell, Julian Raymond

     

    Best Country Solo Performance: Something in the Water, Carrie Underwood

     

    Best Country Duo/Group Performance: The Band Perry – Gentle On My Mind

     

    Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album: Cheek to Cheek, Tony Bennett & Lady Gaga

     

    Best Spoken Word Album: Diary of a Mad Diva, Joan Rivers

     

    Best Metal Performance: The Last in Line, Tenacious D

     

    Best Rap Album: Eminem – The Marshall Mathers LP2

     

    Best Surround Sound Album: Beyoncé – Beyoncé

     

    Best Musical Theatre Album: Beautiful: The Carole King Musical

  • FremantleMedia brings a slew of shows to Asia Television Forum

    FremantleMedia brings a slew of shows to Asia Television Forum

    MUMBAI: Television format owner and distributor FremantleMedia Enterprises (FME) has announced its slate of programming travelling to Singapore at the end of the month for the Asia Television Forum (ATF) 2006.

    FME CEO David Ellender says that a focus on entertainment and reality programmes would lead the way at the ATF this year, with drama and factual titles also on offer. ATF takes place from 29 November – 1 December 2006 in Singapore.

    One of its properties is a 12 part music series Live From Abbey Road. The Killers, Diana Ross, Pink and The Who join a host of other top names from the music world to celebrate the 75th anniversary of London’s legendary Abbey Road recording studios for this brand new series from Live From Abbey Road Limited. With television and DVD rights on offer for the series, Live From Abbey Road is set to be the focus of much attention in Singapore.

    Famed for its role in The Beatles’ rise to fame, the Abbey Road studios will host international A-list artists, as each one hour episode offers an insight into the world of the musician. Artists on the bill to date for Live From Abbey Road include both musical greats and up-and-coming performers – Paul Simon, Massive Attack, LeAnn Rimes, David Gilmour, Pearl Jam, Gnarles Barkley and Corinne Bailey Rae are just some who will gather in celebration of the home of music.

    Also on show at the ATF will be a reality offering from Janice Dickinson, the self-proclaimed world’s first supermodel, in her show The Janice Dickinson Modeling Agency. The series is a no-holds-barred look at Janice as she sets up her own modelling agency. After five seasons as the resident “Simon Cowell” judge on America’s Next Top Model, Janice is now taking the reigns. But this is not a contrived elimination show – this is the real thing. One thing’s for sure, these models better realise that with Janice, it’s her way or the highway.

    American Inventor is a search to find America’s best new invention and to make one struggling inventor’s dream come true. With a million dollars at stake, American Inventor celebrates the best in homespun ingenuity and will be judged by the panel of experts including show co-creator, UK entrepreneur Peter Jones.

    The juggernaut of the reality genre, American Idol, will be back for the ATF, and FME will present the sixth season. The Apprentice Season six will be offered. With a crop of entrepreneurs more intelligent and successful than ever, the competitors’ survival techniques will be tested, this time from Los Angeles, where the rules are different and a powerful perk is bestowed upon winning project managers, with losing teams not only going to the boardroom, but having a new and unpleasant situation to deal with.

    Available for TV and DVD is series three of Project Runway hosted by supermodel, Heidi Klum. This immensely popular series from Miramax and The Weinstein Company was nominated for three 2006 Emmy awards and screens in 21 territories worldwide. The third series sees 15 new fashion designers battling it out for the chance to show their designs in front of the global fashion community in New York and be displayed in the pages of Elle magazine.

    Competing against each other in a series of challenges, through each of which a designer is eliminated, ultimately one will be left to claim their rightful place in fashion’s spotlight. Project Runway is hot property! The third series attracted audiences of up to 5.0 million viewers, ranking as the highest rated programme in Bravo’s 20 year history.

    Falcon Beach will make its ATF debut having already been snapped up by 24 broadcasters worldwide. This is a family drama with the lot – it’s sexy, edgy and full of energy, it’s the essence of summer. Falcon Beach centres on the lives and loves of the town’s young men and women, as they find their way towards their futures in a quiet lakeside town where locals and summer visitors mingle and where seduction, sand, sun and scandal are abundant.

  • Viacom looking to co-produce films in India: Freston

    Viacom looking to co-produce films in India: Freston

    MUMBAI: The start of something new! That is what Viacom president and CEO Tom Freston is looking to achieve in India. The company is looking to co-produce films in India instead of merely exporting its films in to the country though its partner United International Pictures (UIP).

    Speaking this morning at the convention for the business of entertainment Frames Freston said, “It is no secret that Paramount has seen a struggle over the past few years. It is now going through a process of reinvention and while changes are not going to happen overnight we are excited about the future. We are expanding our global portfolio through acquisitions.Viacom was split into two entities last year. This has allowed us to be more focussed and not get distracted by areas like parks and distribution.”

    “The area of intellectual property is one that we are looking at. We want to co-produce films in India. We want our relationship to be a two way street. We strengthened our films business by acquiring Dreamworks. Steven Spielberg will make four to five films a year for us. Mission Impossible III will release in India in June.

    “Another area that we are looking at growing our business is in the home entertainment arena. Where there are many television sets there will also be a huge avenue for DVDs. We are also looking to take Indian and Asian culture to the US. We are doing this through a new New York based channel MTV Desi. This showcases Indian and Asian music and caters to the South Asian population in the US.”

    Freston pointed out that by operating MTV India, Viacom learnt a lot. “When we came in, we partnered with Star in the early 1990’s. Then we re-launched on our own and stumbled badly at first. The audience was simply not interested in Pearl Jam and Beastie Boys. We went back to the drawing board and came out with a channel that showcases Hindi pop. Our VJ’s speak in Hindi and English. This way we express local culture while at the same time exposing the audience to what is going on elsewhere.

    “This strategy was followed elsewhere. Hence, no MTV channel is like the other. In China, it reflects family values. In Indonesia, it is a call to religion. In Italy, it is stylish while in Brazil, it is sensuous. In India, it is colourful and street savvy. When I got a job in the early 1980’s as marketing director at MTV, I knew that it was the beginning of a trend of having a branded channel for specific audiences.”

    Not many readers may know that Freston came to India in the 1970’s and set up a clothes company. “It was a way for me to bring Indian culture to the world. India at the time was the one country outside the US that had a thriving local pop culture. The film stars were larger than life. Today, when I am in India I see my past and future.

    “India has had a huge influence on me personally and my perspective certainly changed those days. I hope that in five years time, Indians see Viacom as a good partner and a better friend. India has 700 million people below the age of 35. This is twice the population in America. This population is multi spiced and is used to accessing information from different platforms like the small screen – the mobile. It is the promised land for content creators and distributors.”