English Entertainment
A sexy ‘Miss Match’ on Star World
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MUMBAI: Two words to describe ‘crush’ is Miss Match, a comedy series to premier on Star World. The show will air on 8 March at 10 pm. The drama showcases to what happens when a divorce attorney has a penchant for true love, you get Kate Fox – star lawyer in her father’s firm by day, matchmaker extraordinary by night, and the shining hope of many a broken-hearted client. |
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The show highlights an all-grown-up Alicia Silverstone who stars in as Kate Fox, the divorce attorney with a knack for matchmaking.  When a socialite bride credits Kate for her romantic success in the press, Kate soon finds herself inundated with requests to help lonely hearts find true love…and here’s where the fun starts. With best friend Victoria at her side, and flanked by her disapproving father, reluctant legal partner Nick, and nosy receptionist Claire, Kate’s quests to match up lovers more often than not hit the spot. But when they don’t, the results are hilariously disastrous; especially when Kate doesn’t recognize her own Mr. Right while pushing the right buttons for others. |
| The new comedy series will showcase notable guest appearances by Charisma Carpenter (Cordelia Chase in Buffy The Vampire Slayer and Angel), and a rocking soundtrack which includes Macy Gray singing the theme song.
Alicia Silverstone went on to nab nominations in the 2004 Golden Globe Awards as well as the Golden Satellite Awards for best performance by an actress in a television series in 2004. On 10 February Star World introduced a reality programme OutBack Jack which airs at 10 pm. |
From the creators of Sex and the City, Miss Match first aired from NBC network on September 2003. The drama is produced by 20th Television with Imagine Entertainment and Darren Star Productions.
English Entertainment
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.
