25 November 2017 | Volume 70 - Issue No: 05   Facebook Twitter YouTube YouTube
 
 
 
Specials | Event Coverage
'It is criminal for TV not to think of social change' - PMC's Kriss Barker
For most programming executives and managements in TV companies today, television is all about running on a treadmill chasing ratings, viewership, and the concomitant revenues, followed by the next bonus and promotion. Every trick in the creative book and outside it is resorted to keep the ratings of a show on a high.
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Television | TV Channels
Pogo launches indigenous slapstick comedy Andy Pirki
Pogo is all set to roll out a new show - Andy Pirki - a slang word in the Tulu language (a language spoken on India's southwest coast) which means 'mad cap'. It is a silent slapstick comedy series launching from 3 December 2017, created by Mangaluru based AUM animation studios. The series will be telecasted every Sunday at 9.30 am.
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Movies | International
The modern day economics of film financing
Only 2 per cent of the total movies released in 2016 in the US were computer graphic (CG) animation, yet they grossed more than 21 per cent of the US box office collection. Strong animation brands have longer shelf-life and generate revenue for years.
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Movies | Regional
Bengali film Posto to premiere on Hoichoi before satellite TV
Digital Bengali entertainment content platform Hoichoi has acquired exclusive digital rights of this year's most successful Bengali feature film Posto, ensuring it a world digital premiere today before a satellite TV premiere.
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- Shemaroo appoints Rahul Mishra as its new general manager for marketing
- India had 1,183 million active mobile connections in September 2017: TRAI
  Source: Medianama
   
- Hyderabad: No check on faulty set-top boxes flooding city homes
- ITS officials called back to DoT
  Source: Deccan Chronicle
   
- Kerala High Court turns down I&B Ministry's appeal to stay screening of 'S Durga' at IFFI
  Source: Scroll
   
- I&B Ministry transfers 24 seniors officers of IIS
  Source: India Today
   
- Padmavati Joins the Camp of These 'Dirty Pictures'
  Source: The Quint
   
- TRAI is right
  Source: The Hindu Businessline
   
- Jio reports positive AGR of Rs 4,270 crore for the first time in September quarter
  Source: Economic Times
   
- Telecom sector and the ease of doing business
  Source: ETTelecom
   
- S Durga Okay For Goa Fest, Court Rejects Centre's Appeal: 10 Facts
  Source: NDTV
   
- Will Airtel buy assets of Anil Ambani's RCom after its shutdown?
  Source: Dnaindia
   
   
- Robert Peston: 'I'm not saying Britain is finished, but our current problems are not a blip'
  Source: The Guardian
   
- 'Lose All Your Assumptions About Asian Streaming,' Says Iflix CEO Mark Britt
- HBO's Black Friday Buy: A Snapchat Story Telling You to Stream Instead of Shop
  Source: Variety
   
- Twitter is testing Bookmarks, a feature to privately flag Tweets for later
- Original Content podcast: 'The Punisher' arrives with a bang
  Source: TC
   
- Sky Q launches in Italy next week
- In France, 4.9 million watch TV on the web every day
  Source: Broadband Tv News
   
- Phoenix Films strikes China TV deal
- Facebook launches Nigeria initiative
  Source: Screen Africa
   
- Pressuring Local TV Advertisers, New Wrinkle In CBS-Dish Dispute
- Viacom, Disney See Stock Prices Head In Different Directions
  Source: Media Post
   
- NASA Launched A Satellite For Weather Monitoring
  Source: News4c
   
- Small-cap focus: tech groups behind TV broadcasting
  Source: FT
   
- DStv's R500 million SABC deal could be made public: report
  Source: Business Tech
   
Movies | Hindi
Golmaal Again: Entertaining suspense thriller
The most successful franchise in Hindi films, Golmaal, strikes again. And, aptly, the title is Golmaal Again. The main faces of the franchise -- Ajay Devgn, Arshad Warsi, Tusshar Kapoor, ShreyasTalpade and Kunal Khemu are very much there so are the other regulars, Sanjay Mishra, Mukesh Tiwari, Johny Lever, Murli Sharma and Vrajesh Hirjee..
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Movies | Hollywood
Special screening of Maharaja Duleep Hollywood biopic at Cannes
Even though no Indian feature film has been selected for the 70th Festival de Cannes this year, an award-winning historic film biopic on the poignant life story of the last King of Punjab - Maharajah Duleep Singh.
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