News Broadcasting
Cameron Diaz to make travel show for MTV
MUMBAI: MTV has scored a coup with Hollywood actress Cameron Diaz. She has signed up with to present her own travel show for the broadcaster.
The show will see the star addressing environmental issues as she travels with her friends. A report in mtv.com stated that the star’s exploits would include sand surfing in the Chilean desert.
The Charlie’s Angels star will also produce the show, which will highlight how she copes without travel amenities and an entourage. Another report in Billboard.com indicates that Hilary Duff and Foxy Brown are among the seven celebrities with new projects MTV has in development. The Lizzie McGuire Movie star Duff also has a comedy pilot deal with MTV’s stable partner CBS.
Brown will star in the reality themed Foxy’s Family. The show will follow the hip-hop star as she balances the demands of her musical career with the family who helps her run it. Television actor Frankie Muniz who stars in Fox’s Malcolm in the Middle will also host a series for MTV. He comes along for the ride as real-life high school students live out their fantasies. In India Malcolm in The Middle airs on Star World.
News Broadcasting
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.
