The demand for making sports channels available to DTH operators at 50 % of the rates has been accepted by sports broadcaster ESPN Software India. The demand was made by the Telecom Regulatory of India (TRAI). Earlier, ESPN had been dragged to the court by the TRAI for not complying with its ...

The ten-day long stand-off between Indian television industry workers and producers is likely to come to end as the workers have decided to lift their strike. This move will surely bring delight among the television viewers of India as they will be able to watch the new contents of their favourite ...

The television industry is abuzz with the news that Rahul Mahajan has been disqualified from the reality show 'Bigg Boss'. Reports claim that Rahul Mahajan has broken the code of conduct of the reality show by deliberately fleeing out of the house along with other three inmates. The organisers of ...

After starting its operation in North India, Sun Direct Pvt Ltd has decided to launch its Direct to Home (DTH) service through out the country by November, 2008. The DTH service of Sun Direct Pvt Ltd is now available in Punjab, Haryana, Rajasthan, Himachal Pradesh and Gujarat. Before its launch in ...

The Zee group launched its Tamil satellite channel Zee Tamizh on October 12, 2008. The Zee TV is also operating its Telugu and Kannada channels in south India. According to the director of Zee Group, Punit Goenka the company has decide to launch a Tamil channel with a view to exploit ...

After a long sabbatical following marriage, Bollywood actress Karisma Kapur is ready to face the camera again. Though initially on the small screen where she will serving as judge for the very popular reality dance show 'Nach Baliye'. This will be the fourth season of Nach Baliye and the former ...

Aryan Vaid has scorched the fashion ramp, played Duryodhan in Ekta Kapoor's mythological series Kahaani Hamaaray Mahaabhaarat Ki and is now trying his hands at anchoring. The gorgeous looking actor-model can be seen anchoring a lifestyle show on the Zee Music channel titled Whattalife! It deals ...

Pakistan based ARY channel is going to borrow the content of popular talent hunt show of India, MTV Roadies. The programme of ARY will be a replica of MTV roadies. This announcement was made general manager of MTV India, Ashish Patil in Chandigarh.
 
Talking to media, Patil said that it is ...

Abhishek Bachchan is going to follow his father's footsteps and debut on the small screen. No, he will not be hosting any game show! But he will soon be seen on a chat show titled The Big B's Den, in which he will be shown interviewing his father in the first three episodes. 
 
The ...

With an aim to get an all India level viewership, south India-based DTH service provider Sun Direct TV has decided to expand its presence in the north Indian market too. The service will be available in Punjab, Harayana, Himachal Pradesh and Jammu & Kashmir. The Indian television has been ...

The world's most renowned film company Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) announced its plan to launch its movie channel on Indian cable television. According to Bruce Tuchman, the executive vice-president of MGM Networks, the MGM has entered into a joint venture with India's leading cable distributors, Den ...

When MTV India showed their very popular candid-camera show 'Bakra', viewers rolled down their seats laughing. This time around, they have gone a step further and made spoofs on three blockbuster Hindi movies - Jodhaa Akbar, Taare Zameen Par and Chak De India.
 
Named Jadoo Ek Bar, Bechaare ...

Promising viewers more razzmatazz than any other television reality show, soon will debut on the Colors channel the all new dance show Ek Khiladi Ek Hasina. Slated to begin soon after the conclusion of the ongoing Bigg Boss, Ek Khiladi Ek Hasina will have the dusky former Miss Universe and actress ...

Top notch Indian designers Abu Jani and Sandeep Khosla will soon make their television debut on lifestyle channel NDTV Good Times. The Mumbai based designers will be appear in the talk show Good Times Showcase in conversation with former model cum actress Malaika Arora Khan in the first ...

The current buzz is that that actor-producer Suniel Shetty is coming back with the second season of the hit reality show on Sahara One, 'Biggest Loser Jeetega'. In it, a group of obese contestants from India will compete against one another to lose the most weight.
 
Shetty, who is known to ...

Bollywood actor Aamir Khan is always known for taking the unbeaten path and he has done it again in the latest Tata Sky advertisement. The ad, which will start getting aired Monday, will feature the Dil Chahta Hai actor as the half man-half woman mythological figure 'Ardhnarishwar'.
 
It is ...

The UNESCO has presented India’s Girish Karnad with the ambassadorship of its International Theatre Institute. Karnad, who is now nearing 70, is counted amongst the veterans of Indian TV, theatre and cinema. A number of plays composed by Girish Karnad have received international awards and ...

The drama associated with the highly popular television reality show Bigg Boss II has spilled out from reel to real life. On Tuesday, August 19, hundreds of Republican Party of India (RPI) workers ransacked the office of Colours television channel in Mumbai because their leader Ramdas Athavale had ...

Jade Goody, who was thrown out of Britain's ‘Big Brother' television show for racially abusing Bollywood star Shilpa Shetty last year, is going to take part in the Indian version of the show – Big Boss.
 
Jade Goody is taking part in Big Boss because she wants to clear her name. ...

The fourth season of the United States TV reality program and dance competition, So You Think You Can Dance ended on August 7, 2008 with Joshua Allen being declared the winner. It was for the very first time that the United States of America (USA) wholeheartedly supported and voted a Texan street ...

From August 17 onwards, the second season of the popular reality show Bigg Boss will commence on Colors and will be hosted by no other than the ravishing Shilpa Shetty. The TV audiences, therefore, can look forward to getting their daily doze of masala entertainment as its 14 celebrity participants ...

In order to provide its viewers more ‘relatable, innovative and relevant’ entertainment, the National Geographic Channel (NGC) has revamped itself by launching new packaging, new website as well as new content. Commenting on this development, NGC India senior VP content and ...

The night of Monday, August 4 saw 32 year-old Melissa Lawson of Texas, a mother of five, emerge as the winner of the Nashville Star sixth season finale on NBC. Lawson along with a Hispanic singer from the San Antonio region Gabe Garcia were the two final participants in the highly popular fan-voted ...

Rejoice all those who derive their daily doze of entertainment out of watching the television soaps of Ekta Kapoor. The lady, one hears, is soon going to launch her own television channel. After winning over the TV audiences with her K-Serials such as Kahaani Ghar Ghar Kii, Kasautii Zindagii Kay, ...

American teen star Miley Cyrus is thinking about bidding goodbye to Disney’s highly popular television series Hannah Montana. Miley Cyrus, who will soon turn 16, has been associated with Disney since she was 11. The America’s current teenage sensation, therefore, feels that it is time ...

To heighten the razzmatazz of the finals of Chak De Bachche, Indian cricketers Mahendra Singh Dhoni and Yuvraj Singh have been invited to make an appearance on this children's song and dance reality show. Chak De Bachche is a dance and song competition show, in which children hailing from small ...

English model and former actress Elizabeth Hurley, one hears, is busy working for a television reality show currently in which viewers will get an opportunity to join her and her NRI hubby Arun Nayar on their lavish 400-acre Gloucestershire farm. This TV reality show will focus on the life of the ...

The highly popular American television comedy drama, Ugly Betty is soon going to serve its loyal audiences a visual treat. Sources inform that the forthcoming series of Ugly Betty, which stars America Ferrara in the lead, will have actress Lindsay Lohan in a cameo role serving up fast food. ...

The trials and tribulations in the life of former dynamic Indian Prime Minister, Indira Gandhi will soon be portrayed in a television series titled ‘Indira Gandhi’ on the Hindi entertainment channel 9X. This news was formally announced by the founder and chief executive officer (CEO) of ...

Shilpa Shetty, one hears, has been roped in to host the second season of the Indian television reality show Bigg Boss II which will begin being aired sometime in August this year. The reason is quite simple – the Bollywood actress stirred up quite an uproar globally during her participation ...