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  • Star World features post-apocalyptic TV show The Walking Dead

    Star World features post-apocalyptic TV show The Walking Dead

    MUMBAI: India’s leading English entertainment channel, Star World, has brought some of the most star-studded, critically acclaimed, and audience-favourite shows to Indian television. Continuing its stride, this April, the channel has announced the airing of all seasons of one of the greatest post-apocalyptic TV shows of all-time:  The Walking Dead. So while you are staying home and wondering what to watch next, Star World is here to reduce your hassle of having to choose the best. Watch The Walking Dead Season one to ten, every night starting 11 PM, only on Star World!

    Based on the comic book series by Robert Kirkman (also the show producer), Tony Moore, and Charlie Adlard, the series features a large ensemble cast who try to survive a zombie apocalypse. The show has been nominated for several awards, including the Writers Guild of America Award for New Series and the Golden Globe Award for the Best TV Series – Drama!

    Coming with an intense story line, this post-apocalyptic America has a virus outbreak which has created shambling undead creatures – call them what you want — zombies, walkers, biters, or roamers, and they are here with one mission: To feed on human flesh! Following perhaps the most popularized apocalyptic scenario, the show, currently on its season 10, has left us all at a cliff-hanger – a zombie horde surrounding a hospital where survivors are hiding! Throughout all seasons, the series follows a small group of close-knit survivors as they’re forced to band together and fend off evil on all fronts in an attempt to rebuild society.

    This show with ten whole seasons of zombie-fighting, award-winning gore, has received a massive cult following around the world. And so, if you haven’t already binged it, find out what the hype is about. Sort out your midnight binge craves and check out The Walking Dead all seasons currently airing in India on Star World every night starting 11 pm.

  • 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 Dead, Wayward Pines, Scream Queens, Empire, 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.

  • Cannes Lions announces Lions Live winners; to live stream sessions

    Cannes Lions announces Lions Live winners; to live stream sessions

    MUMBAI: After a record breaking number of votes, the Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity has confirmed the winners of Lions Live. The online initiative, in partnership with Mindshare and YouTube, brings a selection of sessions from the Festival stage live to people, wherever they are in the world.

     

    As 19,135 people, nine per cent more than in 2014, cast their vote on the sessions they most want to see.

     

    Google, Europe head of B2B brand marketing Donal Mac Manus said, “Cannes Lions is a key moment in the year where creators and innovators from all around the world come together to celebrate creativity and innovation. YouTube are happy to be part of that moment and believe Lions Live is a great opportunity to live stream some of the best elements of the Festival to those who are unable to make it.”

     

    Lions Festivals CEO Philip Thomas added, “The results of Lions Live are always interesting, it shows what’s top of the industry’s agenda. This is a solid mix of current issues – from the buzz around ‘disruption’ to climate change with former Vice President Al Gore, as well as data insights and lessons in creativity from top-performing, global clients – we’re delighted that we can bring this content to those missing out on Cannes Lions this year.”

     

    The Lions Live schedule has been confirmed as:

    21 June: ‘How to Survive a Zombie Attack (and Harness Cultural Trends to Grow Brands)’, hosted by MediaCom

    The guys behind the hit show The Walking Dead talk zombie attacks and cultural phenomena.

     

    22 June: ‘Toolkit for Transformation’, hosted by Razorfish Global & Contagious

    With combined expertise in creative business transformation, consumer culture and technology, Razorfish Global and Contagious offer learning on the future of the industry.

     

    23 June: ‘Sentience: The Coming AI Revolution’, hosted by PHD

    Creator of the World Wide Web, Sir Tim Berners Lee, joins PHD’s Mike Cooper to talk about the revolution that is Artificial Intelligence.

     

    24 June: ‘Marketing For People’, hosted by Unilever

    Keith Weed explores how our industry can transform to market for people in everything we do.

     

    25 June: ‘Social Networking Since 1864’, hosted by Heineken

    Learn about Heineken’s legendary creativity and its role in unlocking social networking around the globe to ultimately elevate their creative output.

     

    26 June: ‘The Cannes Debate: Sir Martin Sorrell in Conversation with Al Gore,’ hosted by WPP

    Sir Martin Sorrell talks Live Earth: Road To Paris, The Climate Reality Project and the role of communications in political and environmental campaigning, with former US Vice President Al Gore.

     

    27 June: ’25 Years of Disruption: Conversation with Today’s Most Disruptive Marketers’, hosted by TBWA

    Some of today’s most disruptive marketers join Jean-Marie Dru to discuss the role Disruption continues to play in creating and growing global brands.

     

    Mindshare global CEO added, “We believe that we work in the most exciting industry in the world and we are delighted to be able to share some of the reason why with the wider marketing world. We believe that marketing has to be fundamentally adaptive to achieve the best results and Lions Live is an experience that adapts by allowing the viewers to decide the content.”

     

    Voting for Lions Live was open to everyone. Across a period of two weeks people were invited to cast their votes through www.canneslions.com. The seven winning sessions for 2015 will be streamed live via the Cannes Lions YouTube channel, https://www.youtube.com/user/canneslions, which will also be updated with Festival highlights throughout the Festival week, running from 21 – 27 June.

  • AMC Global bags international TV rights to ‘The Walking Dead’ companion series

    AMC Global bags international TV rights to ‘The Walking Dead’ companion series

    MUMBAI: Coinciding with an AMC U.S. pickup of two seasons of The Walking Dead companion series (title TBD), AMC Global has announced its acquisition of the international television rights to the series, and plans to air each episode within 24 hours of its US premiere.

     

    Robert Kirkman, Gale Anne Hurd, Greg Nicotero and David Alpert from The Walking Dead are executive producers of the new series, which, like the original, is being produced by AMC Studios. Dave Erickson (Marco Polo, Sons of Anarchy), who co-created and co-wrote the pilot with Kirkman, is an executive producer and showrunner. The series will star Cliff Curtis (Missing, Gang Related), Kim Dickens (Gone Girl, Sons of Anarchy), Frank Dillane (Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince) and Alycia Debnam Carey (Into the Storm).

     

    The new series will be set in Los Angeles and focus on new characters and storylines. The show’s first season will consist of six, one-hour episodes and premiere on AMC in late summer. The show’s second season will air in 2016. 

     

    “The AMC brand is quickly becoming synonymous with the most sought after and compelling content around the world,” said AMC and Sundance Channel global president Bruce Tuchman. “We’re pleased to bring the series to a global audience within 24 hours of the U.S. premiere and ensure that The Walking Dead’s worldwide community of fans can experience this new story together as it unfolds.”

     

     AMC Networks COO Ed Carroll added, “With Robert Kirkman and Dave Erickson at the helm, along with an amazing group of executive producers and cast, this new series will give The Walking Dead fans what they’ve been asking for all along — a look at another part of the zombie apocalypse and one which takes us back to the very beginning of the plague.”