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  • ESS brings three leading TNA wrestlers to Mumbai on 22 September

    MUMBAI: ESPN Star Sports will be introducing TNA Wrestlers – Sonjoy Dutt, the only Indian in the professional wrestling circuit along with two more leading wrestlers – SharkBoy and Simon Diamond at an extravaganza in Mumbai on 22 September.

    The event will be held at Bhavan’s campus in Mumbai at 7:30 pm.
     
     

    ESPN Software India Pvt Ltd vice president sales and marketing Sricharan Iyengar said, “ESPN Star Sports has been constantly working to innovate and localise our programming so as to suit the taste of Indian audiences. As a part of this strategy, we launched TNA Wrestling in Hindi in the month of August this year. Consumers have appreciated the product offering.”
     
     

    “The visit of three TNA Wrestlers is an effort to further accelerate the popularity of TNA Wrestling in India. The three wrestlers will be introduced to the consumers in Mumbai on 22 September. This special event is targeted to reward the wrestling fans who will now get a chance to see and experience their idols live on stage. We are working on a lot more interesting ideas to further build the interaction between the wrestling stars and their fans. Dutt, the only Indian in the professional wrestling circuit, is expected to generate maximum euphoria. More than 3000 fans will be rooting for the star wrestler at Bhavan’s campus,” he added.

    Highlights of the evening include a special interaction of actor Anil Kapoor with Sonjay Dutt. Singer Abby will perform at the function. Mahua and Anshuka, from the erstwhile ‘Viva’ group will also perform followed by a dance presentation from a troupe of Russian Dancers on three selected medleys. The three wrestlers will be introduced to the audience in a very innovative style.

    This event is a part of marketing initiative to further build the popularity of TNA Wrestling in India. Post Mumbai, the wrestlers will also visit the cities of Baroda, Lucknow, Ludhiana, Bhopal and Nagpur.

    Earlier this year, ESPN Star Sports had entered into a three year deal with TNA Entertainment, LLC to broadcast all TNA Wrestling programs on its channels in India and the rest of Asia. Under the deal ESPN Star Sports showcases popular TNA programs – TNA Impact, TNA Xplosion and a special weekly program from the archives of TNA Wrestling.

    In addition Star Sports also features a ‘Monthly Special’ – the ultimate battle after a month long build up, every month. In all, ESPN Star Sports showcases 60 hours of wrestling every month.

    ESPN Star Sports launched TNA Wrestling in Hindi on 2 August this year. This initiative is in line with the channels’ strategy to constantly innovate and localise content to suit the taste of Indian audiences. The sports network roped in two new Hindi anchors – Joe Baath and Manish Batavia to commentate in Hindi.

  • Zee Smile to launch three new shows

    MUMBAI: Zee Smile has lined up a slew of new shows this month. The three rib tickling comedy shows are Comedy Ghanta, Angry Mohan and Kross Connection.

    Comedy Ghanta, an hour full of various comic acts promises to create laughter riot for the audiences and cling viewers for an entire hour. The show will air from 19 September from Monday to Thursday at 10 pm.
     
     

    Announcing the show, Zee Smile business head Nitin Vaidya said, “The response from viewers to our new shows in the past has been very encouraging. We are very happy to present three new shows Comedy Ghanta, Angry Mohan and Kross Connection for our viewers and are positive that they will be highly entertaining for audiences.”
     
     

    Comedy Ghanta is a mixed bag of jokes, spoofs and other hilarious segments. For the first time ever actors like Vijay Raaz, Manoj Pawa, Sanjay Mishra, Kunal Vijaykar, Ketki Dave, Tanaz Currim, and Guddi Maruti are performing on the same platform.

    Angry Mohan, a six minute comedy show about a man who talks on controversial topics and expresses his views. Kross Connection tickles you with satires that are a mix and match of two different topics.

  • BBC Worldwide sells football show to three broadcasters

    MUMBAI: BBC Worldwide has announced that it has sold the upcoming football series The Greatest Show On Earth to three broadcasters. The series which has been made in conjunction with football’s governing body Fifa celebrates the history of the World Cup.
     
     

    The series has been sold to Canal Plus in Spain and RTP in Portugal, and the rights have been licensed to specialist agency Mulipole in Latin America and the Caribbean. These sales follow those already secured earlier this year, to SVT in Sweden and SBS in Australia.
     
     

    The Greatest Show On Earth features a combination of official World Cup Fifa film archive and dramatised reconstructions of epic behind the scenes moments in World Cup history which have been filmed exclusively for the series.

    BBC Worldwide commercial director Motion Gallery Mark Fricker said, “We are very pleased with the strong global broadcast interest in these titles which demonstrate the international television audience’s appetite for quality sport documentaries”.

    Tracing the World Cup story from the 1930s to 2002, The Greatest Show On Earth, will feature football’s major protagonists, including Brazil, Italy, Argentina, Germany, France, Holland and England. The programme will also feature special analyses of developing football nations.

  • AXN to unveil three new shows in September

    MUMBAI: Come September and there will be more action on AXN. The channel has lined up the third season of CSI Miami, which will go on air from Thursday, 1 September at 11 pm.

    The channel will also kick off a new reality show The World’s Wildest Commercials every Wednesday from 7 September at 10 pm. Over 5000 commercial spots will be showcased – from a male stripper selling snack food to a talking chimp selling a cable television service. The thread that binds the content is the commonality of the storytelling style.
     
     

    AXN will also air another new show Las Vegas every Wednesday at 11 pm from 14 September. The drama follows a surveillance team as it maintains security of Las Vegas casino and resort.

    They have to deal with card counting cheats, streaks of random luck on the part of casino visitors, which prove costly. Then there is the threat of rival casinos trying to woo their high rollers. It stars James Caan of The Godfather, Misery.
     
     

    Apart from that, the finale of the fifth season of CSI on AXN has a terrific scene, which will be aired on 8 September at 11 pm Trapped in a coffin six feet under a crime scene investigator imagines that his body is being dissected on the autopsy slab by a doctor while his father looks on. While the doctor pulls out body parts including intestines from the body the father asks him if the death was painful. The two of them even find time to crack jokes.

    Mixing macabre with humour can be tricky but Quentin Tarantino pulls the feat off with considerable aplomb. The director of Pulp Fiction and Kill Bill directed the two part final episode called Grave Danger.

    The coffin scenes reminded this writer of Tarantino’s film Kill Bill where Uma Thurman, in her quest to seek revenge, is also put in one. The crucial difference is that while Thurman is able to literally punch herself out of danger the unfortunate CSI investigator has to wait for help and try to avoid shooting himself in the meantime.

    This special is a race against time as the CSI team led by William Peterson and Marg Helgenberger try to save one of their own before it is too late. Basically the investigator was kidnapped by someone baring a grudge. The dialogue is fast and witty and while Tarantino manages not to intrude on the show’s format he is able to bring his own unique touch to it. The deal came about as he is a big fan of the show. He is even said to be perhaps looking at creating a television series of his own.

    In the US, the final episode managed to get over 30 million viewers making it the tenth time that CSI managed to achieve that. In Canada on CTV, Grave Danger managed a peak audience of 5.4 million viewers and an average of nearly five million. As far as specials go, only the Oscar Awards managed to get in more viewers. In the UK on Five (earlier Channel 5) the fifth season managed a weekly average of 3.3 million viewers.
     

  • ATN to launch three Zee channels in Canada

    MUMBAI: The Asian Television Network International Limited will soon add Zee Cinema, Zee Gujarati and Zee Music to its currently popular South Asian bouquet of channels across Canada.

    All three channels will be 24 hours a day – seven days a week.

    Zee Cinema, Zee Gujarati and Zee Music will compliment the recent introduction of ATN Alpha ETC Punjabi channel, which exclusively brings the deferred live telecast of Gurbani from the Golden Temple in Amritsar.

    The new channels will be available on an a-la-carte basis and are also attractively packaged with ATN’s current and proposed channels.

    ATN owns and operates six television channels across Canada and has been awarded 16 more digital television licenses by the CRTC.

    ATN has programming alliances with Zee TV, Sony Entertainment Television, B4U, Alpha ETC Punjabi, Jaya TV, ARY Digital, Aastha TV, NDTV, ATN Bangla and Kairali.

    It is one of Canada’s largest promoters and distributor of world class cricket. The majority of ATN’s cricket is broadcast live on CBN (Commonwealth Broadcasting Network). ATN in collaboration with the Canadian Cable and Satellite industry is planning to offer the most compelling and comprehensive bundle of South Asian Television Programming across Canada.

  • Disney Channel to slot three movies a day

    MUMBAI: Disney Channel is banking on movies for luring in audiences, lining up 180 popular hits over two months.

    For the first time, The Lion King will be dubbed in Hindi and shown on 28 May at 6 pm.. The other legendary hits include Aladdin, Jungle Book, Treasure Island, Beauty and the Beast and 101 Dalmatians.
     
     

    The Disney Channel will telecast three movies a day, at 8 am, 9 pm on week days, 6 pm all days and a movie double block on weekends at 11am and 1:00 pm, says an official release.

    A promotional campaign ‘Har dil mein hai ek Lion King’ will be launched, featuring Bollywood stars Saif Ali Khan, Akshay Kumar and Bobby Deol. The Disney Channel cinema blitzkrieg is being mounted against a backdrop of on-air promos and interstitials.

    Delivering on Disney Channel’s kid empowerment promise of ‘yahan bas apna jadoo chalega’ is the ongoing Heroes 4 Aladdin contest which has already received 1.25 lakh entries on the 11th day of the three-week promotion.

    Driving destination viewing to the 4 pm. Disney’s Aladdin series, the channel is inviting kids to become heroes by helping Genie rescue Aladdin from the clutches of evil magician Jaffar.

    There are big and small prizes to be won for the brave-hearted including 3 Arabian Nights holidays, 600 T-shirts, 150 sling bags and limited edition posters to every contestant.

    The weekend show Studio Disney has been revamped to expand the popular ‘Take The Mickey Challenge’ into a mini-game show format, informs the media release.

    Tweenaged presenters Devika (11 years), Zain (10 years) and Payal (12 years) anchor celebrity interviews.

    Young audiences will be treated to the never seen before sights such as Harbhajan Singh disguised as a watchman, Rahul Bose dressed as a sardarji, Sania Mirza, John Abraham with braided hair andDino Morea doing a Tarzan impression.