MUMBAI: What’s with the K soaps and fast forward leap anyways? After the gradual phasing out of Kaun Banega Crorepati on Star Plus,Kkusum created a winning...
MUMBAI: Des Mein Niklla Hoga Chand seems to be going the Kyunki Saas Bhi Kabhi Bahu Thi way. Ashlesha Savant Tonight’s Des Mein… episode will...
A fiercely independent lady, Shristi Arya never believed in taking life easy. Even as a young girl of 15, she took up a marketing job to...
MUMBAI: B.A.G Films Ltd reported a whooping 177 per cent increase in Net Profit After Tax for the half year ended 30 September, 2003 over the...
Deepak Segal had films in his blood but hated watching them as a kid. Aeroplanes is what excited him. Segal is a walking encylopeadia on...
MUMBAI: While in India it is Star Plus that rules, looking at the Asian region as a whole, leading English movie channel HBO is the winner...
MUMBAI: While in India it is Star Plus that rules, looking at the Asian region as a whole, leading English movie channel HBO is the winner...
It‘s that time of year again, when channels try every trick in the book to attract the viewer, and consequently, the advertiser. Star Plus set off...
Star Plus has always been known for marketing innovations. Recently, it agreed to get involved in a contest – sponsored by Samsung India – during its...
MUMBAI: B.A.G Films Ltd share listed yesterday at the bourses at a price of Rs 14.80 per share. The Stock Exchange, Mumbai, organised the listing ceremony,...
MUMBAI: For probably the first time on Indian television, Star Plus is marrying two prime time rival shows in a programming coup of sorts Prerna (Shweta...
MUMBAI: While Star Plus’ claim to fame can be Saas Bahu genre, it’s thrillers that rule the rooster at Sony Entertainment Television. Come October 10 and...
MUMBAI: When you have dominated the weekday afternoon and evening prime time for a length of time that probably has no parallels in television history, what...
MUMBAI: Production house UTV, currently one of the major software suppliers to Star Plus, is going back to Doordarshan by November. On the cards is a...
If the formula works, then indulge it. That seems to be Star India‘s motto regarding programming strategies for this quarter. And the name of the game...
MUMBAI: Jeet, a new one hour drama based on Fox’s Boston Public, will fill the 8.30 pm slot vacated by the Aman Verma hosted game show...
MUMBAI: It looks like UTV’s Kehta Hai Dil (KHD) is all set to give Des Mein Nikla Hoga Chand a run for its money if one...
The beautiful Poonam Narula Goel is one of the few privileged actors on Indian television who has cut across channels and featured in major soaps and...
MUMBAI: While the number of new launches have dwindled in the past two weeks, the few upcoming programmes this week promise to be action packed. Continuing...
MUMBAI: Shweta Tiwari, TV actress and lead protagonist in Star Plus daily Kasautii Zindagi Kay will inaugurate an exhibition of drawings, paintings of national level artistes...
MUMBAI: Fun at circus could be the theme of the new launches on the tube next week. Though not as hi- key as this week, coming...
MUMBAI: Star Plus is all set to launch another ‘K’ serial – Kahiin To Hoga – on 8 September adding to their already big buffet of...
NEW DELHI: Well, the separation has been made official. Star newsperson Rajat Sharma would go off Star News from October-November; and the top-rated Aaj Ki Baat,...
MUMBAI: An initial public offer (IPO) of Rs 14.86 crores (Rs 148.6 million) from production house B.A.G Films – a company promoted by Anurradha Prasad and...
A mischievous twinkle greets you when you suggest that he would have made a good looking actor. Pat comes the response that probably he should have...
NEW DELHI: Satellite channels like Star Plus, Zee TV and Sony, beaming Hindi entertainment fare, and other Indian channels may have to face longer period of...
MUMBAI: The numbers say it all. Star’s funny side is outshining the sunniest of laugh riots on other channels, with Sab and Sahara TV marking the...
MUMBAI: First time soap producers, Miditech must be patting their back. On the very first day of launch, Saara Akash, the lavishly produced young and yuppy...
NEW DELHI: Star News viewers will witness some reshuffling in its programmes starting 18 August, according to an official statement released recently. Mera Gaon Mera Desh...
Nikhil and Niret Alva are a long way from just being known as celebrity offspring. Nikhil started off in the early 1990s composing music for ad...
MUMBAI: It could well be the silent winner of the season. Kahiin To Hoga (KTH), the Balaji Telefilms’ show that debuted on Star Plus a month...
MUMBAI: When storylines hit a plateau, shake them up a bit with a fast forward seems to be the Star Plus credo. Kaahin Kissi Roz Three...
NEW DELHI / MUMBAI: The Supreme Court on Monday dismissed American novelist Barbara Taylor Bradford’s petition challenging a Calcutta High Court order allowing telecast of mega...
MUMBAI: Star Plus is trying out a completely new treatment for two of its shows, which are not doing too brightly (by its standards) on the...
MUMBAI: Star Movies may lay claim to being India’s number one movie channel but if one looks at the 2003 Asia Pay Television Operators’ Survey, then...
MUMBAI: Since the past few days, there has been a lot of talk that Ketaki Dave was all set to come back in Balaji’s Kyunki Saas...
FCB Ulka executive vice president MG Parameswaran has donned the hat of the president of The Advertising Club, Bombay after the annual general body meeting on...
MUMBAI: The Karishma imbroglio notwithstanding, Sahara Manoranjan has been gaining viewership for its entertainment programmes. As per the recently released TAM media report for Hindi speaking...
MUMBAI: “This is our World… And the rest of the World is still in black and white.” A Kodak moment? Not quite. Just the tag line...
MUMBAI: “This is our World… And the rest of the World is still in black and white.” A Kodak moment? Not quite. Just the tag line...
MUMBAI: If all goes well, the long delayed Kaalki should finally make its appearance on Star Plus by the first week of August. The 45 minute...
MUMBAI: Starting today, Shruti Seth will be replacing Shonali Malhortra in the Star Plus talent hunt show Kucch Kar Dikhana Hai. She will make her...
The camera pans across a young girl, Jyoti Dhawan, who has spent three of her seven years of marriage locked away in a room;who subsisted on...
MUMBAI: It is boom time for ad buyers and media planners who had earlier opted for the current surprise toppers on Star Plus. For the third...
Citing data covering four weeks (week 18-21 ending 24 May 2003) for all individuals in C&S homes across all-India TAM markets minus the south, MAX has...
MUMBAI: The repeat telecast of the Indian Telly Awards 2002 on Star Plus, an event organised by www.indiantelevision.com managed to hold it’s own against the much...
MUMBAI: Tulsi is on her way out. Or so UTV director Zarina Mehta believes. The next two years, said Mehta at a workshop on gender representation...
In this concluding part of a two-part interview with indiantelevision.com’s Thomas Abraham, Star India COO Sameer Nair does some straight talking on programming issues. Excerpts: When...
Star India COO Sameer Nair may not look like it, but his colleagues say he is an extremely shrewd strategist. As part of the Star India...
MUMBAI: Star’s music arm has got itself a brand new anchor presentor. Latest to join the Channel [V] VJ bandwagon is Shruti who has been, thus...