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  • ‘Crime Patrol’ completes 12 years

    ‘Crime Patrol’ completes 12 years

    MUMBAI: While criminal cases have always been a societal problem, it has always been a fascination for crime writers to include it as a narrative for television audiences. One such long running and popular entity has been Crime Patrol. In today’s day and age, when some shows are pulled off air in no-time due to no-show, Crime Patrol, which is telecast on Sony Entertainment Television (SET), has completed a run of 12 long years.

     

    The show was launched on 9 May, 2003 in the 10:30 pm slot on Friday.

     

    Speaking about the show, Sony chief creative director Ajay Bhalwankar says that being a quality product, Crime Patrol has been a matter of pride from the channel’s programming point. Equating Crime Patrol to the North Star in the constellation, Bhalwankar says, “From a house wife living in Meerut to Shobha De, it reaches across a spectrum of audience. Crime works well on Sony.”

     

    While crime stories are sometimes glorified by adding sensational flavours to the plot, the reality documentary’s writer and director Subramanian Iyer begs to differ. According to Iyer, the viewer decides if the matter on the show is sensitive or not. “The theme of the property is to tell viewers how one can remain safe without sensationalising the story and adhering to the facts,” informs Iyer.

     

    Anoop Soni, who hosts the show, adds, “There’s no intention to pick out a particular case angle and sensationalise it. We bring out the smaller and finer details missed out in mainstream news.”

     

    When queried whether the show glamorises crime incidents in the country, Iyer denies and puts forth two fronts. “Firstly, crime rates saw an increase in the country even when the Ramayana was telecast on public broadcaster Doordarshan. And secondly, cases are picked in a manner that affect the common man of India and poses questions that cannot be asked upfront otherwise,” he says.

     

    Soni, on the other hand, informs that the various cases selected for the show, bring out three critical aspects. “Firstly, we showcase what happened at the core of the story. Secondly, we focus on why such an offence was committed and thirdly, how can such situations controlled from being repeated in the future,” he informs.

     

    The research team of the show’s various episodes are spread throughout the country, right from Jammu and Kashmir to Kanyakumari, according to Iyer. In remote villages stringers are employed regularly to fill in details on various cases. While episodes of normal shows have scripts consisting of 28-30 scripts, one single episode of Crime Patrol can have 2,000 to 3,000 pages of script. Members of the research team also attend court proceedings to understand the nitty-gritty of the cases. However, the team behind the show sometimes need to restrict themselves due to the legal bindings in certain cases.

     

    While Crime Patrol is telecast thrice a week on Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays at 10.30 pm, the channel had previously decided to increase the telecast days. However, the idea was dropped as the process of conceptualising to shooting one single episode was a time taking one and could sometimes take even as long as six months.

     

    Highlighting Crime Patrol’s success, Bhalwankar says that police departments of various states have approached the channel for DVDs of the shows as they feel the show has done justice in compiling the narrative of a case. “The Maharashtra Police has taken 150 such DVDs so far. These are used during the training of police officers,” adds Bhalwankar.

     

    Channel officials believe that the show has, in a way, become a social platform of sorts. “This is so because, besides highlighting a case for the audiences, episodes of Crime Patrol have also provided important NGO numbers and contact details as well as creating platforms where donations were required to aid the victims,” Bhalwankar says.

     

    Sony, in the coming months, is also set for a revamp in terms of programming where it seeks to strengthen its prime time slot during the weekday programming. Talking about the same Bhalwankar informs that four new large-scale shows are being brought on board. These include Dil Ki Baatein Dil Hi Jaane starring Ram Kapoor, two mythological shows – Hanuman and Karna and a yet to be titled show starring Rajeev Khandelwal, which will be centred around the famous Newsroom series.

  • “The programming strategy of Sony Pal is very hypothetical currently”: Anooj Kapoor

    “The programming strategy of Sony Pal is very hypothetical currently”: Anooj Kapoor

    MUMBAI: In early January this year, Indiantelevision.com broke the news about the almost six month old baby from the Multi Screen Media (MSM) stable, Sony Pal looking for a revamp. Reason: failure of few of its shows to connect with the hearts of its target audience. 

     

    Launched on 1 September, 2014, the channel targeted women in the age group of 15-34 years in SEC BCDE. 

     

    The channel, from December 2014, had slashed 1.5 hours of content from 3.5 hours and showcased only two hours of original content till February 2015 until they decided to clamp down on fresh content and continue to air repeats.

     

    Sony Pal and Sab SVP and business head Anooj Kapoor had earlier stated, “We are soon going to come back in the same slots, which have been shut down with new programmes in terms of dailies and with consumer feedback on-board. Hopefully, this time around we will go to the next level. We are going to come back with exact consumer expectations as they have articulated after viewing the channel.”

     

    Now until the time that the channel is back with a fresh line-up of shows, MSM has come up with a strategy to put Pal on Prasar Bharati’s free-to-air (FTA) digital platform DD Freedish. 

     

    Moreover, it has added shows of its two other GECs – Sony Entertainment Television (SET) and Sab on Pal to attract audiences from the Freedish market.

     

    However the channel will continue to remain a pay channel on all other platforms. Kapoor reiterates that Pal will continue to be a pay channel and it has not compromised on the pricing of the channel on other platforms. 

     

    So how will getting on Freedish help Sony Pal? According to Kapoor, the idea on Pal is to get a certain threshold level ingredients and get in fresh and original programming again. 

     

    He goes on to say that in the repeat format today, Star Utsav from the Star India stable, gets 67 per cent of its ratings from Freedish. “Our understanding was that if we want to reach anywhere near to those figures, we had to get onboard Freedish,” he said.

     

    It can be recalled that one of the reasons for the failure that Kapoor had stated was of distribution. The channel was not optimally present everywhere at the time of launch. That affected the initial sampling. The fact that, in the digital space, the channel was about 15 LCNs (local channel numbers) away from the leading Hindi GECs made it worse. For the audiences to locate, sample and actually break a habit of viewing other shows was a task.

     

    When questioned about the progress on that front, Kapoor explained, “Whatever the learnings have been, we will plug it in when we bring in fresh programming. And if the channel has already hit a certain threshold, then the investment will also be poured in as that is also required to plug in the distribution gaps.”

     

    When asked about the revamp stage, Kapoor defines its programming strategy currently to be very hypothetical. “We don’t know how much time it will take for us to reach the threshold level. But once we reach there, we will start our original programming.”

     

  • Sony’s rebooted ‘Aahat’ to go on air from 18 February

    Sony’s rebooted ‘Aahat’ to go on air from 18 February

    MUMBAI: Sony Entertainment Television is all set to reboot its popular horror show – Aahat – after a hiatus of four years.

     

    As was reported by Indiantelevision.com earlier this year, SET was gearing up to launch the sixth season of Aahat with an aim to rake in some healthy numbers on the ratings chart.

     

    The show, which will go on air on 18 February, will be aired every Wednesday and Thursday at 11 pm. The launch date of the spine-chilling horror show coincides with Amavasya (no moon day).

     

    Produced by B.P. Singh’s Fireworks Productions, Aahat will showcase stories that are bolder, terrifying and daunting than before. Each episode will be as sleek as a movie with real stories and sinister ghosts. Each episode of the show will feature a popular television actor, making the narration exciting for the viewers. While the first episode will star Shakti Anand, the upcoming episodes will see faces like Sukhmini Sadana, Aradhana Uppal, Abhishek Tiwari and Gurpreet Bedi amongst many others.

     

    Sony Entertainment Television chief creative director Ajay Bhalwankar said, “We have seen that the appetite for horror as a genre has only increased over the years and thus we decided to bring back Aahat for our audiences. Restless, visually sleek, and powered by lithe star performances Aahat offers dark, thought-provoking thrills and I am sure it will be appreciated by our viewers yet again.”

     

    The first episode showcases a hair-raising tale of a couple who move into a new house, which is haunted. The spirit befriends the couple’s little son and starts troubling the family and the story takes a spin into the most horrifying tale ever seen or told.

  • Sony Pal to bring curtains down on existing shows

    Sony Pal to bring curtains down on existing shows

    MUMBAI: The media industry is abuzz with rumours. And the target this time around is Sony Pal, the newly launched channel from the Multi Screen Media (MSM) stable. If rumours are to be believed, the channel, which went on air on 1 September 2014, has already sent notices to producers and actors of the existing shows to wrap up by 13 February.

     

    When quizzed about the rumours, Sony Pal and Sab TV senior EVP and business head Anooj Kapoor told Indiantelevision.com, “We are currently drafting a press release, and the official statement will come in the morning. You will know the exact status then.”

     

    As reported earlier by Indiantelevision.com, the channel had said that it would be revamping its content owing to the failure of a few of its shows, which did not connect with its target audience. By the end of December, Sony Pal was airing only four shows, of the nine that it had launched with.  

     

    The nine offerings were Simply Baatein produced by GR8 Entertainment and anchored by Raveena Tandon, Dil Hain Chota Sa Choti Si Asha, produced by SOL Productions and hosted by Ragini Khanna and Jay Soni, Shashi Productions’ Ek Rishta Aisa Bhi, Miloni Films’ Khushiyon Ki Gullakh Aashi, Singhasan Battisi by Creative Eye, Pia Basanti Re by Rashmi Sharma and Pawan Kumar, Tum Sath Ho Jab Apne produced by Sphere Origins, Sister Didi by DJ’s Creative Unit and Yeh Dil Sun Raha Hain by Balaji Telefilms.

     
    The channel had slashed its three and a half hours of original content to two hours starting from primetime 7.30 pm to 9.30 pm. The current running shows include Yeh Dil Sun Raha Hain, Singhasan Battisi, Ek Rishta Aisa Bhi and Sister Didi.

     

    A producer on condition of anonymity said, “Yes, the channel is undergoing a revamp and it will be back with new shows, post the Indian Premiere League.”

     

    Many in the industry feel that Sony Pal was unable to differentiate its content from the network’s flagship channel – Sony Entertainment Television. “The channel could come back with a more segmented content with a hope to catch viewers’ attention,” added a media planner. 

     

    Kapoor, in an earlier interview to this website, had said, “When we went out checking with our core TG (women GEC viewers) to what they found right and not right with the channel in terms of content, the consumers came up with very interesting answers which threw some pointers on what core corrections were required.”

     
    “We are soon going to come back in the same slots, which have been shut down with new programmes in terms of dailies and with consumer feedback on-board. Hopefully, this time around we will go to the next level. We are going to come back with exact consumer expectations as they have articulated after viewing the channel,” he had said. 

     

    Rumours are also rife that post the revamp, Sony Pal could move from being a pay channel to becoming a free to air channel. 

  • Prashant Bhatt to join Sony Pal as programming head?

    Prashant Bhatt to join Sony Pal as programming head?

    MUMBAI: It was in early January this year when Indiantelevision.com was the first one to report that Sony Entertainment Television’s (SET) sister channel Sony Pal would soon be undergoing a revamp. 

     

    And it seems that Pal has already taken the first step towards it. If sources are to be believed, the former Colors weekday programming head Prashant Bhatt will take in charge as the programming head for Pal. 

     

    It was in October 2014 when this website broke the news of Bhatt had put down his papers at Colors. When contacted Colors CEO Raj Nayak, wished him luck for his future and said, “He is a good guy and I sincerely wish him all the best.”

     

    Recently, the network also got on-board a new commercial head in Raaj Gupta who would be taking care of SET’s sister channels – Sab and Sony Pal. 

     

    However, when contacted, Bhatt denied the development and said, “I will definitely keep you posted about my next step latest by next week.”

  • Zee TV and Life OK are the only gainers: TAM TV ratings week 2

    Zee TV and Life OK are the only gainers: TAM TV ratings week 2

    MUMBAI: In the week 1 of TAM TV ratings where all the Hindi general entertainment channels (GECs) made some gains during the week, week 2 of the ratings has a different story to tell. Almost all the GECs saw a decline in their numbers in week 2 of 2015. The only channels, which grew are Zee TV and Life OK at number three and fourth spot respectively.

     

    Zee TV, this week, posted gains with a rise in its ratings to 432,946 GVTs from 429,663 GVTs. Kumkum Bhagya turned out to be the most watched show this week as it garnered 9,260 TVTs, up from 8,508 TVTs followed by Jamai Raja occupied 7,194 TVTs, up from 6,636 TVTs.

     

    Life OK delivered a marginal growth from 337,915 GVTs to 339,134 GVTs. The comedy genre has worked wonders for the channel as Comedy Classes turned out to be its highlight. It clocked 3,062 TVTs, up from 2,716 TVTs followed by its crime property – Savdhan India, which registered 2,930 TVTs, up from 2,636 TVTs.

     

    Talking about the losers, Star Plus lost from 654,356 GVTs to 612,762 GVTs but still maintained its numero uno position. Its popular shows like Ye Hai Mohababtein and Diya Aur Baati Hum saw a decrease in the ratings. Yeh Hai.. scored 8,841 TVTs, down from 9,078 TVTs and Diya Aur Baati… reported 10,241 TVTs, down from 10,641 TVTs.

     

    Colors at number two settled with 510,208 GVTs, down from 519,544 GVTs. Meri Ashiqui Tumse Hi witnessed a fall from 6,703 TVTs to 6,298 TVTs and Balika Vadhu observed 5,085 TVTs, down from 5,428 TVTs.

     

    At the fifth position stood Sab with 328,467 GVTs, down from 335,130 GVTs. Though its hot property – Taarak Mehta Ka Ooltah Chashmah continued to shine with 8,940 TVTs, up from 8,006 TVTs, but its non-fiction offerings failed to grab eyeballs. Thus, The Great India Family Drama spotted 1,828 TVTs, down from 2,068 TVTs.

     

    Sony Entertainment Television (SET) occupied the sixth spot with 235,415 GVTs, down from 264,461 GVTs. The new series – Bhanwar saw a good start as it delivered 2,160 TVTs. The channel’s crime property – CID saw a decline in the numbers as it noticed 3,791 TVTs, down from 4,542 TVTs.

     

    Additionally, other smaller channels have recorded a rise in viewership. While Big Magic clocked 61,688 GVTs, up from 61,055 GVTs; Zindagi reported 30,340 GVTs, up from 28,232 GVTs; Sony Pal garnered 28,473 GVTs, up from 26,254 GVTs and Epic observed 7,637 GVTs, up from 6,330 GVTs.

     

  • ‘Bhanwar’: Sony revives its tried and tested label in the crime genre

    ‘Bhanwar’: Sony revives its tried and tested label in the crime genre

    MUMBAI: It’s survival of the fittest in a highly-competitive TV world. One needs to keep re-inventing oneself and that’s exactly what works wonders in the end. Likewise, Sony Entertainment Television (SET), has gone back to its tried and tested formula gory crime!

     

    The crime genre has until now, been the bread and butter for the channel.  Programmes like C.I.D, Crime Patrol and at times, Adaalat have gripped audiences and thus, Sony has unanimously got a thumbs-up for its non-fiction, criminal offerings.

     

    SET literally takes the viewer through a virtual reality show. It gives them a gripping courtroom drama series, an enthralling and emotional journey, engaging their consciences in matters of right and wrong, and the ultimate balance of justice.

     

    Christened – Bhanwar – Kalyug Ki Hairatangez Kahaniyaa, its provocative stories will compel our society to sit up and take cognizance of the fact, that for every crime committed under the Indian Penal Code, there is an equally harsh justice system meted out.

     

    You may recall, in the late 1990s, Sony had launched a series with an identical name that dealt with landmark judgements from the Indian judicial system. Produced by TV18, the show was so popular that it enjoyed re-runs on SAB and Fox History to boot. Its audiences were treated royally for over two years on Sony, and its episodes were remarkably directed by Sanjay Ray Chaudhari.

     

    It’s back with a bang with a fresh menu of juicy, judicial cases. Come 10 January, 2015, the two veterans of TV production, Contiloe Entertainment’s Abhimanyu Singh and Sunshine Rise Productions’ Anshuman Kishore Singh, will present true-to-life stories of human excesses, which depict volatile social relationships of today.

     

    SET chief creative director, Ajay Bhalwankar, believes that the name of this series is defined by the twists and turns of true events, which often shows that ‘truth is stranger than fiction.’ “Presented in a unique style, the show promises to raise the benchmark of crime shows on Indian television.”

     

    He feels, “The channel has invested a lot of time in researching and digging out real-life stories that take place in a courtroom. It took three months for the channel to pick up the best stories, which were then executed in a fictional manner.”

     

    With this new property, the channel now has a complete portfolio focusing only on crime properties on weekends, starting with Adaalat at 8 pm, Bhanwar in close succession at 9 pm, followed by C.I.D and Crime Patrol at 10 pm and 11 pm respectively. “Sony has been a pioneer in crime genre. We have made a lot of sense and the outcome has turned out very well. We are confident that audiences will relate to this kind of drama that occurs in a courtroom,” asserts Bhalwankar.

     

    “I think this is a good move that the channel has made. In a way, they want audiences to stay tuned to the channel and sample the content one after the other. C.I.D and Crime Patrol both have been consistently delivering decent numbers and Bhanwar will follow suit and jump on the bandwagon, considering its different content. But on the other hand, experimentations have happened on the channel, but viewers haven’t really accepted it; I hope this one pays off for Sony,” says a media planner.

     

    The one-hour courtroom drama TV series is going to face tough competition from Bigg Boss eight on Colors, Sa Re Ga Ma Pa L’il Champs five on Zee TV, Diya aur Baati Hum and Yeh Rishta Kya Kehlata Hai (Saturday) and Airlines (Sunday) on Star Plus, Supercops vs Supervillains… Shapath on Life OK and The Great Indian Family Drama on Sab.

  • Sony to mesmerise audiences with spine-chilling nights of ‘Aahat’

    Sony to mesmerise audiences with spine-chilling nights of ‘Aahat’

    MUMBAI: Horror and supernatural shows aren’t a novelty for Indian television viewers. The history of horror genre can be traced way back to 1993, when Zee TV launched Ramsay Brothers’ Zee Horror Show and then Sony brought to its audiences Aahat for the very first time in 1996, which thus far is considered as the longest-running horror show on Indian television today. Those were the days of gory scenes and typically white saree-clad women as ghosts.

    Later, came X-Zone (Zee TV – 1998) and Ssshhhh..koi hai (Star One – 2001) which were thriller horror series. Each one of these shows captivated their audiences and ran longer than three successful years.

    The next success in the genre was in 2009, (prior to Fear Files) when Colors launched Balaji Telefilms’ Koi Ane Ko Hai. The show based on paranormal activities got above-average numbers but sadly wound up within six months flat.

    Two years after Sony’s Aahat got a bitter taste of failure in its last season (in 2010), Zee dared to launch Fear Files and not only attracted its viewers with magnetic force, but also prompted the other GECs to follow suit. After a monotonous series of show launches in this genre in the 1990s and early 2000s, the genre was in limbo and the ghosts ceased to frighten people, till Zee TV opened its real files in 2012.

    Zee launched a show based on real-life incidents around paranormal and supernatural activities christened – Fear Files: Darr Ki Sacchi Tasviren and it was heartening that it did so well.

    A year later (2013), SET too thought of jumping on the bandwagon with Bhoot Aya, but failed to grab eyeballs like Aahat did. Again, in the same year, Star Plus’s flanking channel, Life OK too experimented with a series titled Ringa Ringa Roses, but failed to attract the audiences.

    SET is once again ready to keep its audiences spell-bound, with nerve-racking, sleepless nights with the sixth season of Aahat. After a gap of four long years, it is set to make a comeback this January. According to a source from the channel, the move is to rake in some healthy numbers on the ratings chart and is a question of the survival of the fittest in this space.

    It has formerly run five successful seasons from October 1995 right up to November 2010. The series is produced by B.P. Singh and Pradeep Upoor’s Fireworks Productions. Notably, the acclaimed writer Sridhar Raghavan, who penned the spine-chilling, horror stories for the initial 300 episodes of Aahat will again be back on the show as writer. Raghavan has also written for Fireworks Productions’ long-running Sony TV show, CID.

    Media experts believe that to recapture its viewership, it has to further re-invent itself: “Four years ago, the show was definitely successful for its time, but today, a lot of enhancements have taken place in the space, where it has to be much more appealing for audiences to start lapping it up once again,” says Lodestar UM Vice-President Deepak Netram.

    Channels today are investing huge sums of money in the pre-production (research and casting) and production process to crack the code of a successful show. And yet, things go for a toss for Sony. Why is that so?

    A media analyst states two key reasons for the channel struggling at the bottom of the chart. One, the channel relies too much on the single-point tent pole and big properties like KBC and Indian Idol for them to be able to garner the numbers. “They are finite. They don’t last forever. So the minute they go off-air there is a significant drop.”

    Second, not having the foresight to look towards the future.  “Channels like Star Plus and Colors are doing it from time to time. That kind of movement is very important. You can’t be stuck and do only crime, thrillers or horror,” adds the media analyst.

    He further gives the example of Bade Ache Lagte Hai, which did pretty well in the initial stages,   but later on lost a chunk of its viewers. “Doing too much of the same monotonous thing is not always the answer. Therefore, one needs to keep re-inventing in this space. If you are only going to tune into the metros and cater more to the males, the viewership pie will shrink.”

    According to Madison COO, Karthik Lakshminarayan, Sony is going back to its tried and tested formula. “It is a very good strategy in itself by doing something which has worked wonders for the channel in the past. I don’t know whether viewers will accept the Aahat of old again. It depends on what time slot it is put on and other factors. Potentially, it can do well and it might also help the channel to regain its lost numbers.”

    Shifting its agenda from a male-dominated channel to cater to family audiences was the biggest blunder that the channel committed, believe media experts. “Sony is considered to have male- focused content with a slight edge. From there it tried to change and be like any other GEC with their usual soap operas and that is something a Sony viewer will not accept. Going back to where they were is possibly the best thing for them at this point.”

    On similar lines, Netram believes that it has to be a relevant mix of programmes and just can’t be singular or limited genre within the GEC space. He feels that if a channel has too much of a dose of crime and horror, it has its own set of disadvantages. It may get additional male audiences on-board, but might lose out on the female viewership.

    Will Aahat make a successful comeback and be a resounding success? That is a million dollar question comparable to every Friday’s opening weekend’s successful release. “I don’t think so; if it repeats the same level and quality of programming that it was earlier doing. It would be unacceptable to see a similar quality of production that viewers saw four years ago. A sea of change would have to emerge and a channel cannot survive by the lineage of the earlier show. Now everybody is doing horror; why should one be stuck to one channel and not look at the others is a big question,” signs off an anonymous media planner.

     

  • ‘Code Red’, a darker shade of humanity

    ‘Code Red’, a darker shade of humanity

    MUMBAI: A crime thriller has always been sold like hotcakes. And it stands true to television as well. The genre has been a potboiler for the general entertainment space for a long time now.

    While serials like Byomkesh Bakshi (1993), Karamchand (1980s) and Tehkikat (1994) on Doordarshan laid the ground for fictional crime shows, a more advanced form appeared in the reproduction of real life crime incidents in shows like India’s Most Wanted (Zee TV, 1999) and Crime Patrol (Sony, 2003).

    Along with a plethora of fictional crime series, a dramatised real life crime depiction has also gained traction over the years; CID’s run on Sony for 17 years justifies the popularity of the genre.

    Following the trend set by the Hindi general entertainment channels (GECs), youth channels too took the same route. Channel V got Gumraah to focus on youth-based crime incidents in 2012.

    The only channel which hadn’t dabbled in the genre was Colors. Realising the importance, after six years of existence, it is finally launching a finite reality series christened Code Red with a tagline ‘Andhere me Umeed Ki Ek Nayi Kiran’.

    The first promo hit the television screens on 13 December and showed popular actress Sakshi Tanwar advising people to raise voice rather than suffer in silence.

    The show will focus on social issues like suicide and crime against women and children. Sources close to the development say, “The motto of the show is to spread awareness and bring to forefront the crime against women and children in the society.”

    Though the channel tags it as not a crime series, sources say that it will give a broader outlook that would deal with crime and its different components. “It is going to be a very different show than what viewers have seen on television till now. It is a reality show where every episode is going to give out a message of not giving up and to fight back,” says a source from the channel.

    The show is a joint venture of Fremantle India, Optimystix and Shlok Entertainment, a production house helmed by three eminent people – directors of Crime Patrol, Subramanian S Iyer and Neeraj Naik along with prominent actor and anchor Anup Soni.

    Launched as a daily format, it will air for six days a week. The three production houses will helm two episodes each every week.

    Penned for a limited number of episodes, it is set to launch in January 2015.

     

  • Star Plus and MSM channels gain in TAM TV ratings

    Star Plus and MSM channels gain in TAM TV ratings

    MUMBAI: The week 50 of TAM TV ratings observed no change in the ranking order. Talking about the big win, Star Plus saw a significant rise in the viewership as it reported 660,929 GVTs, up from 642,101 GVTs. The channel’s chart topper Diya Aur Baati Hum gained a few numbers and registered 14,010 TVTs, up from 13,109 TVTs followed by Yeh Rishta Kya Kehlata Hai that spotted 9,149 TVTs, up from 8,400 TVTs at number two and Ye Hai Mohababtein at number three observed a drop as it scored 8,931 TVTs, down from 9,359 TVTs.

    Sab was the second highest gainer this week with 287,585 GVTs, up from 281,028 GVTs. Despite a hike, it continued to be at the fifth position of the ratings chart. Family Antakshari observed a rise in the viewership as it registered 1,519 TVTs, up from 1,302 TVTs and Taarek Mehta.. continued to lead the chart with 7,603 TVTs, down from 8,380 TVTs.

    Sony Entertainment Television (SET) too saw some numbers growing this week. It garnered 228,958 GVTs, up from 226,307 GVTs. Most of its offerings have seen a growth. Thus, CID topped the chart with 3,642 TVTs, up from 3,322 TVTs, Itna Karo Na Mujhe Pyaar noted 2,121 TVTs, up from 1,734 TVTs and Adaalat delivered 1,955 TVTs, up from 1,590 TVTs.

    On the other hand, Colors, Zee TV and Life OK observed a drop in week 50. Thus, at number two Colors registered 449,580 GVTs, down from 475,969 GVTs. The channel’s oldest series – Balika Vadhu observed a drop as it scored 4,675 TVTs, down from 4,882 TVTs and Udaan tracked 6,308 TVTs, down from 6,396. The channel’s comedy series – Comedy Nights with Kapil recorded 6,172 TVTs, up from 5,956 TVTs.

    Zee TV, which has been dislodged from its second position for a while now, dropped to 397,607 GVTs, down from 418,920 GVTs. Kumkum Bhagya tops the chart with 6,750 TVTs, down from 7,701 TVTs followed by Jodha Akbar with 6,316 TVTs, down from 6,915 TVTs and at number three stood Jamai Raja that reported 6,274 TVTs, down from 6,427 TVTs.

    Life OK, at number four, witnessed 289,099 GVTs a drop from last week’s 296,175 GVTs. Comedy Classes topped the chart with 2,449 TVTs, down from 2,527 TVTs and Savdhan India scored 2,242 TVTs, down from 2,393 TVTs.

    Big Magic dropped to 59,972 GVTs from 60,843 GVTs; Sony Pal witnessed 31,024 GVTs down from 32,834 GVTs. Zindagi gained and noted 32,917 GVTs, up from 30,630 GVTs. Epic too continued its upward trend as it gained 5,684 GVTs up from 3,693 GVTs.