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  • Sab TV to launch seven new shows

    Sab TV to launch seven new shows

    MUMBAI: Monsoon showers call for some more chuckles on Sab TV. The Adhikari brothers promoted channel, which has adopted ‘Only Smiles, No tears’ positioning since May 2003, has been bullish on building up its humour quotient ever since.

    Amongst the slew of launches that the channel has planned this monsoon are four new comedy shows and three chat shows. The channel will also be making a few amendments to its current programming schedule.

    Continuing its tradition of producing humour based shows, the channel will bring four more this June- July. Amongst them is a detective comedy Jasoos 005. A mix of mysterious yet comical situations, the show stars Sab TV veteran Sushmita Mukherjee, alongside Sooraj Thapar, Nasir Khan, Rakhee Tandon and Liliput.

    Next is a sitcom based on sweet n’ sour comical situations revolving around the lives of a non-vegetarian Punjabi family and a vegetarian Maharashtrian familyChuupke Chuupke. The show, directed by Rajan Waghdhare, has a romantic angle to it. While the storyline sounds suspiciously similar to a 70’s hit movie – the Kamal Hassan, Rati Agnihotri starrer Ek Duje Ke Liye – the sitcom will be minus the emotional drama, of course.

    Hamse Hai Zamanaa is a sitcom revolving around the lives of young men and women of today. It is a lighter look at success, failures and triumphs, that is, the lives of the youngsters.

    Next in line is a unique Hasya Kavi Sammelan Wah Wah. The show will see famous Hindi poets get together to recite humourous poems.

    Although Sab TV’s news channel has not shown signs of launching anytime soon, the channel has been steadily building up its news and current affair content. What with Sab View (an analytical news bulletin programme) functioning smoothly alongside various chat shows, the channel will be launching three new chat shows.

    Watchdog will look into all the scams, scandals and crimes in our country and Zimmedar Kaun? will aim at looking at both sides of the coin on various social issues, while Waqt Hamara Hai is the platform where youth can voice their opinions on issues affecting them.

    In addition to the launches, the channel will get its popular current affairs programmes like Vir Sanghvi hosted Faces & Names, Swati Chaturvedi’s Khuch Khaas Baatein, Jan Sansad by Harish Gupta and Khulla Manch by Manoj Raghuwanshi back in their original evening band at 10.30 pm.

    Meanwhile, now that the elections are over, Sab Views is being shifted to the weekends.

  • DD’s summer bonanza for kids: ‘Bongo’

    DD’s summer bonanza for kids: ‘Bongo’

    MUMBAI: No surprise here. Summer time is children’s time and the pubcaster is all geared to set the ball rolling.

    DD will kick start it’s summer special with a new show for kids- Bongo. Boasting of special effects like 2D and 3D animation characters interacting with real human actors, the show is scheduled to air on Sundays at 12:30 pm.

    Produced by Deepak Punjabi, Harish Punjabi and Sanjay Punjabi of Rudrakshaa Arts, Bongo’s cast includes Lalit Parimoo, Sooraj Thapar, Swapnil Joshi, Sushmita Dann, Raj Kanojiya, Yash Sinha, Flavin, Master Shadaab, Master Smit, Shammi and the animation character Bongo.

    On the unidentified planet Zapata, the species are far more advanced. One day, some dangerous forces threaten the planet’s peace. The solution to ward off this danger lies on Earth. The King of Zapata summons his young and dynamic soldier Bongo. On Earth, a 10-year old boy Sunny is researching on Aliens. Sunny and Bongo become true friends, but Sunny is unaware of Bongo’s mission. What happens next forms the crux of Bongo’s story.

    Speaking to indiantelevision.com at a press conference in Mumbai last evening, the Punjabi trio offered, “For this programme, we didn’t try hard for pitching it on other channels. We would like to keep the rights of our first baby. But we are virtually ready with three more projects – Kajri, Little Hero Bharat and Captain. Talks to put up these serials on satellite channels during the course of this year are on.”

    Punjabis added that they were optimistic about Bongo’s success because it had been slotted immediately after Shaktiman. “It should get a good spill over audience,” said Sanjay Punjabi.

    Punjabis are ready with 13 episodes of Bongo and have been granted a permission of 26 episodes. “We would love to carry it on till 104 episodes,” they concluded.

    No prizes for guessing that the Punjabi trio is trying to cash in on the success of Rakesh Roshan’s super-duper hit Koi Mil Gaya. Whether they can manage to spill over the big screen craze on the small one remains to be seen.

  • Zee debuts 15th series of ‘Kabhie Kabhie

    Zee debuts 15th series of ‘Kabhie Kabhie

    MUMBAI: Seems like the short story format is working well for Zee. The channel will be debuting the 15th series of Kabhie-Kabhie, the weekly three part short story series on the channel.

    The series of three episodes, Mamata will start airing on 15 January at 8 pm.

    Starring Varsha Usgaonkar, Vaishnavi and Sooraj Thapar, Mamata is the story of a divorcee mother torn between career and motherhood.

    According to a company release, Mamata is the story of Meghana (Varsha Usgaonkar), a divorcee mother who is trying to raise her son Rahul single-handedly. Unable to devote attention to both her son and her career, she hires a nanny Chandani (Vaishnavi). Unknown to Meghana, Chandani hails from a well off family who has volunteered to take care of the child, unable to have one of her own.

    So while Meghana works towards building a career, her son is taken care of. Meanwhile, she develops an emotional bond with her boss Varun (Sooraj Thapar) after he helps her to win the custody of her son.

    On the other hand, Chandani and her husband offer to adopt Rahul, an offer that is is turned down by Meghana, much to the Rahul’s disapproval. The series’ climax revolves around whether Meghana finally gives up Rahul to Chandani or decides to look after him herself.

    Zee officials inform that although the show isn’t one of the channel top rankers, it has helped consolidate its position in weekend viewership.