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BBC comes ‘Face to Face’ with Tamil movie star Radhika
This Saturday 15 December at 10 pm BBC World's programme Face to Face will feature Tamil movie star Radhika. The show will be repeated on Sunday at noon.
The show is hosted by popular anchor Karan Thapar, and produced in Delhi for BBC World by ITV. The sponsors are Samsung Digital and Castrol GTX Extra.
Karan Thapar queries Radhika about her dynamic career in films and how she managed to branch out and connect with television audiences with her lead role in the Tamil television phenomenon Chiththi, which completed its amazing run last month.
Radhika has acted in nearly 300 South Indian films, and her serial Chiththi drew stupendous ratings on Sun Television. It was produced by her television production company Radaan. The serial ran for three years and she has these comments to make: "I think women liked my role. I basically played more of myself – a no-nonsense, straightforward person. The way the story was woven and told just caught the imagination."
She has also starred in a few Hindi films like Naseeb Apna Apna, Kudrat Ka Kanoon and Aaj Ka Arjun. Her family apparently did not have high expectations of her when she was growing up as her focus was not quite there. In the show she also recalls her early experiences in film and the influence her father MR Radha – a very famous Tamil film actor of his time – played in her life. She also delves into her personal life, her failed marriage, her daughter and her recent marriage to actor Sarat Kumar.
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News TV viewership jumps 33 per cent as West Asia war draws audiences
BARC Week 8 data shows news share rising to 8 per cent despite T20 World Cup
NEW DELHI:Â Even as individual television news channel ratings remain under a temporary pause, the genre itself is seeing a clear surge in audience attention.
According to the latest data from Broadcast Audience Research Council India, television news recorded a 33 per cent jump in genre share in Week 8 of 2026, covering February 28 to March 6.
The news genre accounted for 8 per cent of total television viewership during the week, up from 6 per cent the previous week. The spike in attention coincided with escalating geopolitical tensions involving the United States, Israel and Iran, which have kept global headlines firmly fixed on West Asia.
The rise is notable because it came at a time when cricket was dominating television screens. The high-stakes stages of the ICC Men’s T20 World Cup, including the Super 8 fixtures and semi-finals, were being broadcast during the same period.
Despite the cricket frenzy, viewers appeared to be toggling between sport and global affairs, boosting the overall share of news programming.
The surge in genre share comes even as the government has enforced a one-month pause on publishing ratings for individual news channels. The move followed regulatory scrutiny of the television ratings ecosystem.
While channel-level rankings remain temporarily out of sight, the genre-level data suggests that when global tensions escalate, audiences continue to turn to television news for real-time updates.
