MUMBAI: Sun TV Network promoter Kalanithi Maran has got a relief from the Supreme Court, which today stayed the trial proceedings against him in a Delhi court.The Apex court bench comprising Justice JM Panchal and Gyan Sudha Misra stayed the proceedings at the trial court, wherein a cable operator Jak Communications had filed forgery case against Maran and Sun TV, ...

MUMBAI: The Indian Premier League's (IPL) decree on the contentious issue of player retention has put the team owners on a mathematical test. The big debate disturbing them is whether to consumer 50 per cent of their 9 million cap to retain four players or to put all of them under the hammer.Under the existing contract, only two teams pay ...

MUMBAI: While it was devoid of close matches, the recently concluded tri series between India, Sri Lanka and New Zealand on Ten Sports and Ten Cricket still fared decently and got an average TVR of 2.27. By comparison, the earlier Asia Cup on Neo Cricket got a TVR of 1.7.According to Tam data, 89.3 million viewers watched the tri series ...

NEW DELHI: Star Plus, the flagship Hindi general entertainment channel from the Star stable, is set to launch a new show, come 13 September.Christened KaliEk Agnipariksha, the show will be aired from Monday to Friday at 11 pm.Produced by Fox Studios India, the show is aimed at increasing social awareness about the growing number of cases of sexual crimes against ...

MUMBAI: English entertainment channel WB will kick off the show Human Target on Saturday, 11 September at 8 pm. The lead character Christopher Chance is a mysterious security agent for hire, adept at assuming new identities, a unique private contractor who will stop at nothing even if it means becoming a human target to keep his clients alive.The show uses ...

MUMBAI: Hungama Mobile will be making its digital catalogue of Bollywood and Indian entertainment content available in Europe through their partnership with Wireless Expertise.Hungama Mobile owns exclusive worldwide rights for digital distribution for music, videos and films representing over 300 leading music labels and film production studios, comprising 75 per cent of the Indian entertainment market. Says Hungama Mobile chief ...

MUMBAI: Fox Star Studios said it is entering into the production of Tamil films and has signed a two-movie deal with director-turned producer AR Murugadoss.Fox will co-produce and distribute the two movies. Said Fox International Productions head Sanford Pantich, "We are very excited to enter the Tamil film industry, it looks very promising."After Murugadoss, the studio has decided to approach ...

MUMBAI: Times Audience Network (Tan), the digital video arm of the Times Group, has entered into a strategic partnership with video advertising and analytics platform Tube Mogul to launch PlayTime in India.Play Time, which is a video advertising platform, connects brands with targeted audiences. Tan claims that PlayTime is the first 100 per cent transparent ad platform for video advertisers. ...

MUMBAI: Kansai Nerolac Paints has announced actor Shahrukh Khan as its new brand ambassador.This announcement comes just ahead of the festive season that will see the superstar highlight the company's several eco-friendly decorative paint solutions.Kansai Nerolac has used film personalities in the past to endorse and represent its brands like Amitabh Bachchan and Mohanlal. Kansai Nerolac in the recent past ...

MUMBAI: BBC has announced that the new comedy series, Come Fly With Me, starring and written by the makers of Little Britain, Matt Lucas and David Walliams, has commenced filming.Set in a busy airport, the show features all new characters played by Matt and David, plus special guest appearances throughout the series.The six-part series is now in production in the ...

MUMBAI: BBC Worldwide has appointed Nick Percy to the role of head of strategy.Based in London, Percy will help develop the strategic growth and direction of BBC Worldwide, which drives commercial revenues from BBC owned IP as well as other sources and returns funds back to its parent organisation to be reinvested in new programmes and services.Percy joins BBC Worldwide ...

MUMBAI: Mantri Developers have unveiled their new corporate identity and logo to reflect its expanded strategic focus from a realty brand to an aspirational luxury brand. The new logo is inspired by the signature of the company's founder and & managing director Sushil Mantri. Elegantly crafted with fluid lines, the new logo is a seal of the trust that the ...

MUMBAI: Zing is increasing its entertainment dose for its viewers via Zing Big Screens. Zing Big Screens will showcase Bollywood Movies at 9.30 pm from Monday to Friday.On 8th September, Wednesday, at 9.30 pm, Zing Big Screen is coming up with Pinjar a searing tale of love, lost innocence and honour, all set against the backdrop of the Partition.Urmila Matondkar ...

MUMBAI: IBN18 news channels, CNN-IBN, IBN7 and IBN-Lokmat, have announced the launch of Indian Sports Legends an initiative to honour the living legends of Indian sports who have brought glory to the nation.The awards are aimed at recognising their selfless contribution to Indian sports and for being India's sporting icons who have endured over generations, the company said in a ...

MUMBAI: Cammie King, the 76-year old actress who shot to fame at the age of 4, playing Rhett Butler's daughter, Bonnie Blue Butler in Gone With the Wind has expired. The actress died of lung cancer.King made her debut with the superhit film in 1939, playing the on-screen daughter of Vivien Leigh and Clark Gable. Though her only other acting ...

MUMBAI: Naku of COLORS Laagi Tujhse Lagan is on cloud nine these days. While we know its because of Duttabhau who has now fallen in love with her but also there is a certain Mr. Dabbangg too responsible for her happiness. How? Naku will soon bump into none other than Bollywood superstar Salman Khan himself. In his Chulbul Pandey avatar, ...

MUMBAI: The International Film Festival Summit, held in Las Vegas in the month of December every year witnesses organisers of film festivals around the world congregate. It is for this the New Jersey Film Festival (NJFF) is known as a trendsetter.The selection of films for this year's festival will showcase about 40 films selected from 266 entrants has started and ...

MUMBAI: A weeklong retrospective of Rishi Kapoor films is to be held in Durban, Johannesburg and Pietrrmaritzburg in South Africa from 17 September.The retrospective is part of a festival titled Shared History The Indian Experience to mark the 150-year celebration of the first migration of Indian indentured labour to South Africa.The retrospective and In Conversation with Kapoor, hosted by Teamwork ...

MUMBAI: Freida Pinto has signed a Hollywood period film opposite Spanish actor Antonio Banderas.Titled Black Thirst, the film is directed by Jean-Jacques Annaud of Enemy at the Gates and Seven Years in Tibet fame. It is the story of how America, in pursuit of oil, started targeting the Gulf as early as 1920.The film that stars Tahar Rahim (of A ...

NEW DELHI: The Department of Telecommunications (DoT) allotted 3G spectrum for commercial use on 1 September as promised by it before the auction.The 3G spectrum has been allotted to AirTel, Aircel, Vodafone, S Tel, Reliance, Idea Cellular and Tata Cellular Services who won the bids through the electronic auction conducted by the DoT spread over a period of 34 days ...

MUMBAI: After six long months of debate and meetings, the Indian Premier League (IPL) governing council finally passed its decree on the issues of player retention and the schedule for the subsequent seasons that could make many franchises unhappy.The council allowed teams to retain up to four players three Indians and one foreigner while the rest of the players will ...

MUMBAI: We Are Family, co-produced by Dharma Productions and UTV Motion Pictures, has collected Rs 27 million on Thursday by paid previews.UTV, which holds the distribution rights of the movie, said in a statement that the Kajol, Kareena Kapoor and Arjun Rampal starrer movie had an excellent opening day on Thursday (2 September, Krishna Janmashtami) with special festival previews across ...

NEW DELHI: The Information and Broadcasting Ministry used just over 93 per cent during 2009-10 of the revised Budget of Rs 5.070 billion, which had been cut down from the original Budget of Rs 8 billion.Thus, the actual utilisation as against the original Budget of Rs 8 billion works out to 59.16 per cent.Ministry sources said that the low unitisation ...

MUMBAI: Reliance Capital has transferred four million shares, or 6.92 per cent stake, of TV Today to Quant Broking to meet margin money requirement for trading in derivatives.Quant Broking disclosed that it received off market transfer of securities from a client as collaterals towards initial margin requirements for the derivatives segment. Quant Broking holds 6.92 per cent stake of TV ...

NEW DELHI: Some mysterious and sometimes dangerous inhabitants of rivers including the dreaded large killer catfish that feeds on dead bodies in Indian rivers will be featured in a seven-part series on River Monsters to be telecast by Animal Planet.River Monsters will be aired on Animal Planet every Wednesday at 9 pm in September and October. The episodes will repeat ...