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  • English entertainment & movie channels’ line-up this New Year

    English entertainment & movie channels’ line-up this New Year

    MUMBAI: Taking the Christmas cheer into the New Year, which will be sprinkled with splendid celebrations across every corner of the world, English entertainment and movie channels have also gone that extra mile to wind up 2015 for its viewers.

    What’s in store for viewers are power packed shows and movies as a New Year treat. As we bid farewell to 2015, those who are staying put at home in front of the television on New Year’s eve as well as the first day of 2016, here’s what lined up for that extra doze of enjoyment in terms of movies and shows across English channels.

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    AXN

    The English entertainment channel will enthral viewers with its midnight marathon by airing the sixth season of Sex and the City on 1 and 2 January, 2016 as the New Year special programming from 12 am to 5 am.

    The channel will also telecast the first season of Limitless on 1 January from 11 am to 8 pm. The show portrays a man who gains the ability to use the full extent of his brain’s capabilities.

    Colors Infinity

    The recently launched English entertainment channel will air Mr. Robot on 31 December, 2015 starting from 2 pm all day long. Elliot Alderson is a young cyber-security engineer living in New York, who assumes the role of a vigilante hacker by night. Elliot meets a mysterious anarchist known as Mr. Robot who recruits Elliot to join his team of hackers, named ‘fsociety.’

    Comedy Central

    The year-end will showcase the best of comedy aired on Comedy Central throughout 2015. The channel will air season 1 of Mom, an award winning mother-daughter comedy on 31 December, 2015 from 6 pm to 8 pm. The show follows the story of single mom Christy played by Anna Faris and her battle against alcoholism and drug abuse.

    The channel will also air season 3 of Citizen Khan from 8 pm to 10 pm. The story revolves around a family after it arrives back from a trip to Pakistan, Mr Khan’s mother-in-law announces she wants to move into a home. When Sam, the head of a local care centre arrives, Mr Khan is over-the-moon. That is, until he discovers the mother-in-law may be worth some money. With the help of son-in-law-to-be Amjad, a ridiculous disguise and a spying mission, Mr Khan tries to stop naani moving out at all costs.

    FX

    FX, for the very first time in India will premiere a funny yet terrifying prank show, Scare Tactics on 1 January at 8 pm. Scare Tactics is a hidden camera prank show that puts victims into terrifying situations, usually involving movie-style special effects and makeup that recreates horror movie clichés. The victims, generally four per episode, are set up by friends and/or family in tandem with the producers.

    The channel will also premiere The X-Files – Essential Collection, starting from 1 – 28 January, 2016 every Monday to Friday at 11 pm. The series will consist of 20 selected episodes from previous seasons of The X Files personally chosen and curated by original series creator, Chris Carter along with some never-seen-before footage as a build-up to the all-new miniseries of the cult sci-fi show releasing in 2016!

    Movies Now

    Movies Now, as part of 100 Mania, will air Man of Steel at 9 pm on 31 December. The channel will also add an extra element of excitement for its viewers by giving out an iPhone 6S as a prize on the day.

    Additionally, MN+ will treat its viewers by premiering Kate Winslet’s Little Chaos at 9 pm on New Year’s Eve.

    The channel will also hold the mega-premiere of the Hollywood comedy, That Awkward Moment on 1 January at 11 pm. The movie stars Zac Efron, Michael B. Jordan and Miles Teller, and is written and directed by Tom Gormican.

    The movie revolves around three best friends and the turmoil’s of their relationships, which results in them deciding to stay single and enjoy life. Things however change when the boys Jason, Daniel and Mikey start juggling their single life with their romantic interest as things get really awkward for them to handle.

    Romedy Now

    The channel will add to the joy of New Year by airing the widely loved show How I Met Your Mother all day long from 9 am to 9 pm. The channel will also premiere She’s Funny That Way at 9 pm.

    Star Movies

    The channel is all geared up with an exciting line-up of best of Hollywood movies this New Year. The channel for its 31 December schedule will air Exodus: Gods and Kings at 1 pm followed by Dawn of the Planet of the Apes at 5 pm. Next in line is Real Steel, which will be aired at 7 pm followed by Titanic at 9 pm.

    On 1 January, the channel will premiere X-Men at 2 pm followed with Fantastic Four at 4 pm. X2: X-Men United will see its broadcast at 6 pm with X-Men: Days of Future Past scheduled next.

    Star Movies Select HD

    Star Movies Select HD will air a few blockbuster hits on 31 December starting with Tangled at 5 pm followed by Wall Street at 7 pm. The next in line is The Bourne Supremacy at 9 pm and Gone Girl at 11 pm.

    The channel, for its 1 January treat, will air movies like Mary Poppins at 11 am followed by The Grand Budapest Hotel at 1 pm. The heart-warming movie, Fault in our Stars will be telecast at 5 pm. Viewers will also be able to enjoy other movies like Remember the Titans at 7 pm, Snow White and the Huntsmen at 9 pm and Alan Partridge: The Movie at 11 pm.

    Star World Premiere HD

    The channel has lined up a row of special programming reflecting the spirit of celebration called, Mad Hatter’s Party. The party will begin on 31 December from 12 pm onwards with season 1 of Muppets. The show includes characters Kermit the Frog, Rizzo the Rat, Beaker, Miss Piggy, Fozzie Bear, Waldorf, Rowlf the Dog, Bobo the bear and many more as the cast.

    The Muppets serves as a parody of other mockumentary-style series, such as Modern Family, Parks and Recreation andThe Office, by employing the same single-camera setup filming style with the implication of a documentary crew filming everyone.

    The channel will also air season 7 of Modern Family on 1 January at 12 pm. The show known for its crazy antics among the members of the Dunphy and Pritchett families follows their daily lives as they deal with ups and downs in hilarious ways just like modern-day families in real-life who encounter various situations every day.

    Star World

    Star World and Star World HD, following an online poll asking viewers to pick the show they’d like to watch, will air back-to-back episodes of Two Broke Girls on 31 December and 1 January from 12 pm onwards. The poll, #YouPickTheShow wherein the channel had asked the users to vote for their favourite show was conducted via Star World’s digital properties and the choices given to the viewers were: Two and a Half Men season 12, Two Broke Girlsseason 4 and Melissa & Joey season 4.

  • Star Movies Select HD to air ‘Unbreakable’ and ‘Signs’

    Star Movies Select HD to air ‘Unbreakable’ and ‘Signs’

    MUMBAI: Star Movies Select HD is all geared up to air two movies on their official weekend property Select Sundays. The viewers will see Unbreakable at 1 pm and Signs at 3 pm on 3 January 2016.

    David Dunn played by Bruce Willis is the sole survivor of a devastating train wreck. Unbreakable is the story of a mysterious stranger; Elijah Price played by Samuel L. Jackson, who offers a bizarre explanation as to why David, escapes without a single scratch. It explains the reason which threatens to change David’s family and his life forever.

    Signs is a unique story that explores the mysterious real-life phenomena of crop signs and the effects they have on one man and his family. It sheds light upon everything that farmer Graham Hess enacted by Mel Gibson assumes about the world change when he discovers a message which is an intricate pattern of circles and lines carved into his crops. As he investigates the unfolding mystery, what he finds will forever alter the lives of his brother Joaquin Phoenix and children Rory Culkin, Abigail Breslin. 

  • Star Movies & Star Movies Select HD lines up two premieres

    Star Movies & Star Movies Select HD lines up two premieres

    MUMBAI: Star Movies and Star Movies Select HD is all set to premiere two family movies this festive season. While Star Movies will air Penguins of Madagascar on 25 December at 1 pm and 9 pm, Star Movies Select HD will air Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day on 26 December at 9 pm.

     

    Penguins of Madagascar is directed by Simon J. Smith and Eric Darnell and features penguins namely Skipper, Kowalski, Rico and Private joining forces with a chic undercover organisation, The North Wind to stop the villainous Dr. Octavius Brine from destroying the world. 

     

    This 3D animated action comedy adventure film star the voices of Tom McGrath, Chris Miller, Conrad Vernon, Christopher Knights, Benedict Cumberbatch, John Malkovich and Ken Jeong.

     

    The troop will hide Christmas gifts on the channel’s Twitter handle for the fans. The onlookers have to spot the gift and tweet about it using the #PenguinsOnStarMovies handle. The chosen few who crack the code of the movie get a chance to win a gift of their choice.

    Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day from Disney follows the exploits of 11-year-old Alexander played by Ed Oxenbould as he experiences the most terrible and horrible day of his young life. But when Alexander tells his upbeat family about the misadventures of his disastrous day, he finds little sympathy and begins to wonder if bad things only happen to him. He soon learns that he’s not alone when his mom played by Jennifer Garner, dad enacted by Steve Carell, brother played by Dylan Minnette and sister played by Kerris Dorsey all find themselves living through their own terrible day.

  • Star Movies Select HD to air ‘I Origins’

    Star Movies Select HD to air ‘I Origins’

    MUMBAI: Star Movies Select HD is all set to air the science fiction drama I Origins on 19 December, 2015 at 9 pm.

     

    The drama will be an exploration of the end of science and the picking up of spirituality. The film is produced by Mike Cahill, Hunter Gray and Alex Orlovsky.

     

    I Origins narrates the story of Dr. Ian Gray played by Michael Pitt, a molecular biologist studying the evolution of the eye. He finds his work permeating his life after a brief encounter with a young woman enacted by Astrid Berg?s-Frisbey who slips away from him. As his research continues years later with his lab partner Karen played by Brit Marling, they make a stunning scientific discovery that has far reaching implications and complicates both his scientific and spiritual beliefs. Traveling half way around the world, he risks everything he has ever known to validate his theory.

     

    The movie also stars Steven Yeun and Archie Panjabi, The movie starts as a love story and then morphs into a thriller, propelled always by the push and pull of faith and logic, with tragedy shifting world views over time.

     

    The movie has also bagged the best feature length film award at the Festival Internacional de Cinema Fant?stic de Catalunya, bringing home a revenue of $475,591.

  • Star Movies Select HD to premiere ‘Saving Mr. Banks’ and ‘Mary Poppins’

    Star Movies Select HD to premiere ‘Saving Mr. Banks’ and ‘Mary Poppins’

    MUMBAI: Star Movies Select HD is all geared up to celebrate Walt Disney’s 114 birthday by premiering Saving Mr. Banks at 1 pm and Mary Poppins at 3 pm on December 13, 2015. The two movies will be aired on the channel’s weekend property Select Sundays: A Tribute to Walt Disney. Walt Disney was born on December 5, 1901.

     

    The plot of Saving Mr. Banks is spurred on by a promise Walt Disney made to his daughters. Walt Disney, played by Tom Hanks, embarks on what would become a 20-year quest to obtain the movie rights for Mary Poppins. The author P.L. Travers played by Emma Thompson, proves to be an uncompromising curmudgeon who has no intention of letting her beloved characters become mangled in the Hollywood machine. However, when the books stop selling and she finds herself in need of money, Travers reluctantly agrees to consider Disney’s proposition.

     

    Mary Poppins, directed by Robert Stevenson narrates the story of Jane, played by Karen Dotrice and Michael played by Matthew Garber, the children of the wealthy and uptight Banks family, who are faced with the prospect of a new nanny. They are pleasantly surprised by the arrival of the magical Mary Poppins enacted by Julie Andrews. Embarking on a series of fantastical adventures with Mary and her Cockney performer friend, Bert, played by Dick Van Dyke, the siblings try to pass on some of their nanny’s sunny attitude to their preoccupied parents (David Tomlinson, Glynis Johns).

  • Star Movies and Star Movies Select HD to premiere ‘Dracula Untold’ and ‘The Boxtrolls’ respectively

    Star Movies and Star Movies Select HD to premiere ‘Dracula Untold’ and ‘The Boxtrolls’ respectively

    MUMBAI: On 5 December, Star Movies Select HD will showcase the tale of how Boxtrolls were saved from extermination in the adventure movie The Boxtrolls at 9 pm. 

     

    Additionally, on Sunday, 6 December, Star Movies HD will premiere Dracula Untold at 9 pm and 1 pm.

     

    The Boxtrolls, which is directed by Graham Annable and Anthony Stacchi, is based on a novel Here Be Monsters!by Alan Snow. It narrates the story of Eggs (Isaac Hempstead-Wright), an orphan, who lives with the Boxtrolls — a community of quirky, mischievous creatures who inhabit a cavern beneath the city of Cheesebridge. When villainous Archibald Snatcher (Ben Kingsley) hatches a plan to get rid of the pretty harmless beings, Eggs decides to go above ground, where he meets and befriends feisty Winnifred (Elle Fanning). Together, Eggs and Winnifred devise a daring plan to save the Boxtrolls from extermination

     

    Dracula Untold directed by Garu Shore narrates the story of a young lord Vlad Tepes played by Luke Evans and his family who are living a peaceful life ruling over their small kingdom but when a Turk warlord demands from Vlad a thousand country boys and his son to create an army, Vlad seeks a terrible power that will allow him to protect his kingdom and family from the Turks at a terrible cost.

  • Videocon d2h expands HD offering to 37 channels

    Videocon d2h expands HD offering to 37 channels

    MUMBAI: Videocon d2h has expanded its high-definition (HD) offering to 37 channels by adding Star Movies Select HD and Fox Life HD on channel number 258 and 468 respectively. 

     

    The new channel launches on its platform continue to validate Videocon d2h’s commitment to providing Indian audiences with high-quality content across an array of genres and formats.

     

    Star Movies Select HD will premiere two new films not previously released in India each month, in addition to airing a new movie everyday. Additionally, Fox Life HD features a slate of scripted and non-scripted content that is inspired by real life as well as appealing and appropriate for the entire family. Fox Life HD will be having multiple audio feeds in Hindi, Tamil and Bengali besides English. 

     

    Videocon d2h plans to continue to add more HD channels shortly, with an aim to have as many as 50 HD channels. 

     

    “We have been relentless in our pursuit to gratify our customers’ with an exceptional viewing experience. Videocon d2h’s substantial offer of wide range of HD channels is a testimony to that endeavour.  We remain committed to expanding Videocon d2h’s channel offerings and content as a means to providing a superior viewing experience to our customers, augmented by innovative technology and the best customer service. It’s a simple plan that we believe will result in a major upgrade for India’s TV viewing public,” said Videocon d2h executive chairman Saurabh Dhoot. 

     

    Videocon d2h CEO Anil Khera added, “Videocon d2h has been extremely aggressive and innovative when it comes to technology upgrades, new content offerings and launching new services all in an effort to keep ahead of current industry trends. Fox Life HD with multiple audio feeds and Star Movies Select HD are two premium HD channels that bring even more quality content to our subscribers resulting in a superior viewing experience. Keeping both our promise to provide the best channels and content across all genres and our commitment to customer satisfaction has built a strong level of trust between our customers and Videocon d2h, and we value that relationship.”