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ID to launch new series ‘Shaitaan: A Criminal Mind’
MUMBAI: ID (Investigation Discovery) will be bringing the intriguing world of mystery and suspense alive with a new series titled Shaitaan: A Criminal Mind.
The series, hosted by TV actor Sharad Kelkar, will premiere on 19 October, 2015 and be aired from Monday to Saturday at 9 pm.
Shaitaan: A Criminal Mind will investigate some of the most startling crimes with an attempt to decode what goes on in the minds of the people who commit these shocking acts. The show will reveal the dark side of the human psyche in a way to show people that crime never pays.
The new series will expose the darker side of the society where crimes are committed for reasons that are sometimes beyond understanding. These people seem like everybody else, until they go over the edge and do the unthinkable.
Kelkar will unveil the stories behind each crime and delve deep into the mind of these offenders to find out the reasons that made them commit these acts of violence.
“ID continues to present the best programmes in the investigative genre on Indian television. The new series Shaitaan will present true stories of real-life cases through dramatic re-enactments and will recreate the in-depth investigation that led to justice being served,” said Discovery Networks Asia-Pacific, South Asia, executive vice president and general manager Rahul Johri.
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Ellison takes his Paramount-Warner Bros case straight to theater owners
The Skydance chief goes to CinemaCon with promises and a skeptical crowd waiting
CALIFORNIA: David Ellison strode into a room packed with thousands of cinema owners and executives at CinemaCon in Las Vegas on Thursday and did something rather bold: he looked them in the eye and asked them to trust him.
The chief executive of Paramount Skydance vowed that his company would release a minimum of 30 films a year if regulators greenlight its proposed $110 billion acquisition of Warner Bros Discovery, a deal that has made theater owners deeply, and loudly, nervous.
“I wanted to look every single one of you in the eye and give you my word,” Ellison told the crowd. “Once we combine with Warner Bros, we are going to make a minimum of 30 films annually across both studios.”
It was a confident pitch. Whether it landed is another matter. Cinema operators have already called on regulators to block the deal, and scepticism in the room was hardly concealed.
Ellison pushed back by pointing to recent form. Paramount, born from the merger of Paramount Global and Skydance Media last August, plans to release 15 films this year, nearly double the eight it put out in 2025. Progress, he argued, was already underway.
He also threw theater owners a bone they have long been chasing: all films, he pledged, would run exclusively in cinemas for a minimum of 45 days, drawing applause from a crowd that has spent years fighting for exactly that commitment across the industry.
“People can speculate all they want,” Ellison said, “but I am standing here today telling you personally that you can count on our complete commitment. And we’ll show you we mean it.”
Fine words. The regulators, however, will have the last one.
