• Life OK's Sunday programming experiment

    Attention! An experiment is about to hit Indian televisionscreens come Sunday 23 June.

  • James Gandolfini a.k.a.Tony Soprano of the hit HBO drama bids adieu at 51

    MUMBAI: The 51 year old James Gandolfini, best known for his role on the HBO drama The Sopranos as Tony Sopr

  • David O Russell re-titles his next film

    MUMBAI: David O Russell, well known for his film Silver Linings Playbook has re-titled his next film as American Hust

  • Zee Caf? to launch Grey's Anatomy's latest season on 25 September

    Submitted by ITV Production on Sep 24
    indiantelevision.com Team

    MUMBAI: Zee Caf? is launching the new season of medical drama ?Grey?s Anatomy? on 25 September.

    The show is being presented by L?Oreal and will be telecast every Monday to Friday at 9 pm.

    This is the eighth season of the show. The earlier seasons of Grey?s Anatomy were aired on Star World.

    ?Grey anatomy? revolves around the doctors of Seattle Grace Hospital and how each of them deals with life-or-death consequences on a daily basis. It?s in one another that they find comfort and friendship.

    This season is the most dramatic of all kicks off with the Seattle Grace doctors to learning how bad things are for Meredith Grey, who is the central character. Each character has distinct and vivid personality traits which grips the audiences till the last minute of each episode. Throughout the season they together discover that neither medicine nor relationships can be defined in black or white. Real life only comes in shades of grey, the channel said.

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  • BBC announces Controllers of Business

    Submitted by ITV Production on Sep 21
    indiantelevision.com Team

    MUMBAI: The UK pubcaster BBC has announced that following BBC Vision?s announcement to maximise on-screen spend by creating a single integrated business function across Production and Commissioning, Commercial Director Bal Samra has announced three new controllers of business for Drama, Film and Acquisitions; Comedy and Entertainment; Knowledge and Daytime, and the Controller of Legal and Business Affairs.

    Samra said, "By creating one single operational spine for each of the genre groups and a more strategically focussed, smaller central team, we will reduce duplication and minimise internal transaction costs. I want to create a more effective business model that works today and is fit for the future, which supports commissioners and producers alike and which delivers to our ultimate aim of putting as much money back into content as possible.

    "Through these appointments, together with the changes in the way we work, the savings will enable us to deliver the additional investment announced earlier in the year of at least ?27m for 2013/14."

    The Controllers of Business will be responsible for all the key business functions within their genre. Drawing together slate management, business affairs, commercial, talent rights and production management, they will work alongside the editorial Commissioning and Production Genre Controllers, aiming to improve collaboration and driving best value from the in-house guarantee and provide a better service to indie suppliers too. These are significant roles and critical to the success of the Vision Change plan.

    The four appointments are:

    Nick Betts - Controller of Business, Drama, Films and Acquisitions. He is currently BBC Vision head of commercial and business development.

    Lisa Opie is Controller of Business, Knowledge and Daytime. She is currently Twofour Digital MD, where she leads a team of content producers, web developers and account directors across centres in the UK and the USA. She has also held the position of Director of Branded Business for the Twofour Group.

    Tamara Howe is. Controller of Business, Comedy and Entertainment. She is currently BBC Vision Controller Production Operations and, alongside Liam Keelan, has been leading the Vision Change programme. Prior to joining Vision, she was BBC Children?s COO and was responsible for overseeing the department?s move to MediaCityUK.

    Roger Leatham is controller of Legal and Business AffairsIn this new pan-BBC role, he will be responsible for leading the engagement with the BBC?s rights partners and talent unions and be accountable for legal and business affairs standards across Rights & Business Affairs. Currently the Head of Talent and Rights Negotiation, he has worked across all the output divisions of the BBC, as well as BBC America.

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  • Entourage returns for the final season to HBO

    Submitted by ITV Production on Nov 03
    indiantelevision.com Team

    MUMBAI: HBO will kick off the final season of the show Entourage on 6 November, at 7:35 pm. After that it will air every Sunday before the 9 pm movie.

    The show chronicles the acting career of Vincent Chase, a young A-list movie star, and his childhood friends from Queens, New York City. Based on the life of actor Mark Wahlberg, and his experiences as an up-and-coming film star, Entourage deals with themes of male friendship and real-life situations in modern-day Hollywood.

    The series is known for its array of guest stars, usually featuring at least two celebrities per episode.

    HBO South Asia country manager Shruti Bajpai said, "Entourage - the original created by HBO has been on air for almost eight years now. A glitzy and glamourous Hollywood fairytale, Entourage is one of the most commercially and critically successful series the movie channel till now. It has been among the top-rated series in India over seasons. Keeping in mind the immense popularity of the series, we are bringing the eighth and the final season immediately after the US Premiere for Indian fans."

    At the end of the previous season Chase had gone off the deep end after the boys? failed attempt to stage an intervention for his excessive boozing and not-so-recreational drug use. Now, he is back from a stint in rehab and ready for a new pet project, while each of his crew deal with their own personal and professional challenges.

    As the eighth season begins, super-agent Ari Gold, played by Jeremy Piven, and Mrs. Ari played by Perrey Reeves have recently separated; Eric has broken up with Sloan, played by Emmanuelle Chriqui, after a prenuptial debacle, and is running his own management company with Scott Lavin (played by Scott Caan).

    Drama is shooting his animated series, Johnny?s Bananas, with Andrew Dice Clay; and Turtle is invested in the Avion tequila line and starting a new business venture.

    This season, the stakes are higher, and the money and temptations greater than ever. Spinning a fictional yarn within the real world of LA?s movie studios, nightclubs and mansions, the final season of Entourage will answer question of whether or not our longtime buddies from Queens can achieve the successes of which they have always dreamed.

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