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  • Star World Premiere HD kick-starts the New Year with brand new offerings

    Star World Premiere HD kick-starts the New Year with brand new offerings

    MUMBAI: Star World Premiere HD, India’s premium English entertainment channel is known to bring some of the best and latest English television series. It is the only channel in India to bring all their television shows right after its international telecast. Taking this offering a notch higher, Star World Premiere HD has now started airing the latest shows all seven days of the week, with 4 hours of the most popular shows for audiences to catch every day.

     

    The channel that is home to 70+ new shows and offers over 1000 hours of fresh content to its viewers has acquired some of the most anticipated shows of 2016, day and date, making it ‘the’ channel to look out for in 2016.

     

    Star World Premiere HD will be enticing longstanding fans of the cult sci-fi series – The X-Files, with the all-new The X-Files: Event Series premiering on the channel on 30 January 2016. Marking its momentous return on global television, the series will pick up with a developed plot-line to match new-age conspiracies and technology; not to forget the ever-famous Mulder-Scully pair and what they have come to be 13 years on, on the show.

     

    Ace comedians, Louis C.K. and Zach Galifianakis come together for the first time on television with a brand new comedy, Baskets. The show will be marking its premiere on 24 January 2016 and stars actor and co-creator of the show, Zach as the protagonist Chip Baskets. Audiences that have long known Zach for his role as Alan of the Hangover series will now witness him in an all-new avatar of Chip Baskets. He will be portraying a man aspiring to become a professional clown but has to settle for a gig at the rodeo when he loses the opportunity to attend a prestigious Parisian clown academy.

     

    Cooper Barrett’s Guide to Surviving Life falls next in line with its premiere on 24 January 2016. The show is an American comedy television series that follows Cooper Barrett (Jack Cutmore-Scott) as he figures out his life beyond hedonistic behavior. It revolves around Barrett, his friends and family as they try finding out the real meaning to life while overcoming complex situations.

     

    The creators of popular series Glee, American Horror Story and Scream Queens bring their new show, The People v. O.J. Simpson: American Crime Story which will be premiering on Star World Premiere HD on 8 February 2016. The show comprises of an invincible cast of John Travolta, David Schwimmer, Cuba Gooding Jr., Sarah Paulson, Selma Blair, Jordana Brewster, Bruce Greenwood, Nathan Lane and many more. With a distinct and true plot-line, the show focuses on America’s most sensational and publicized criminal hearing – the O.J. Simpson trial, with a riveting look at what really happened behind the scenes from the lawyers’ perspective.

     

    Not last, neither the least, Martin Scorsese’s foray into television will also be marked with his debut show Vinyl premiering on the channel this February. One of the biggest shows on television in 2016, Scorsese has collaborated with rock n roll legend Mick Jagger to produce Vinyl and this will mark the television debut of Jagger’s son James Jagger too alongside prominent actors Bobby Cannavale, Olivia Wilde, Ray Romano amongst others. Set in the 1970s of New York City, Vinyl follows the uproarious character of Richie Finestra as he looks to bring the music genre into a new era, while trying not to let his company fall under or let his work interfere with his drug and alcohol use.

     

    With English television entertainment and Hollywood’s finest on Star World Premiere HD, the channel promises these offerings as just the beginning of an enthralling television-viewing experience.

     

    After all, why hold back when you can walk side by side with the world’s best television series right here on Star World Premiere HD – home to day and date viewing!

  • FIC to day & date release ‘The X-Files’ across 60+ markets

    FIC to day & date release ‘The X-Files’ across 60+ markets

    MUMBAI: Fox International Channels (FIC) is bringing the next mind-bending chapter of The X-Files to 60+ countries with a day & date release.

     

    The six-episode event series helmed by creator/executive producer Chris Carter and starring David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson as iconic FBI agents Fox Mulder and Dana Scully, will air on FIC’s Fox channels immediately following the 24 January debut on Fox in the US.

     

    The series will return as part of a two-night special event across all licensed territories within the international Fox portfolio starting on 25 January, and will reach audiences throughout Latin America in markets such as Mexico, Brazil, Colombia, Argentina; in South East Asia including Hong Kong, Malaysia, Singapore and Indonesia; and markets in Europe including Bulgaria, Finland, Greece, Italy, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Spain, Turkey and Africa.

     

    The day & date TV launch model is a staple of the Fox programming strategy for its viral, high-profile US series, including The Walking DeadWayward Pines, Scream QueensEmpire, and the upcoming Outcast, which FIC’s in-house studio Fox International Studios developed with Robert Kirkman (The Walking Dead) for Cinemax in the USA and Fox channels internationally. 

     

    The X-Files, an Emmy- and Golden Globe Award-winning pop culture phenomenon, which remains one of the longest-running sci-fi series in network television history, returns 13 years after the original series. Having originally premiered in September 1993, the series went from breakout sci-fi favorite to massive global hit, and became one of the most successful television dramas of all time. The show earned 16 Emmy Awards, five Golden Globes and a Peabody Award.

     

    Produced by 20th Century Fox Television and Ten Thirteen Productions, The X-Files is created and executive-produced by Chris Carter.

  • Star World Premiere HD to simulcast 23 shows in India with US

    Star World Premiere HD to simulcast 23 shows in India with US

    MUMBAI: Starting 23 September, Star World Premiere HD will be airing 23 new and returning shows in India at the same time as their US telecast.  

     

    With this, the channel aims to offers viewers in India an option against illegal downloads and endless waits by giving them the ‘day and date – HD only’ proposition.

     

    The channel’s fall line up includes latest seasons of shows like Downton AbbeyModern FamilyHomeland as well as The Late Show with Stephen Colbert.

     

    Additionally, the channel will also air returning seasons of shows like How To Get Away With Murder (S2), The Blacklist (S3),Fresh Off The Boat (S2), The Walking Dead (S6), Sleepy Hollow (S3), Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. (S3), The Goldbergs(S3), Last Man On Earth (S2) and Black-ish (S2).

     

    The channel will also premiere the Priyanka Chopra starrer Quantico along with shows like Minority Report, Scream Queens,Bastard ExecutionerRosewoodThe GrinderGrandfathered and Life in Pieces.

     

    An official from Star India said, “We understand what consumers in India want and we constantly seek to innovate and pioneer new formats to deliver fresh, inspiring and premium programming. Star World Premiere HD, is ready to begin its year three and we are confident that with a promising and impressive content line-up, our channel is all set to witness another year of an accelerated growth and ever increasing viewership.”