News Broadcasting
BBC to air reality show on ‘Perfect Housewives’
MUMBAI: UK pubcaster BBC Three has announced plans for a light hearted reality show Perfect Housewives produced by RDF Media. The show is hosted by Anthea Turner who is said to be the perfect housewife and the ultimate domestic goddess. On the show she sets out to try and re-educate the UK’s self-confessed incompetent homemakers.
In Turner’s home, nothing is out of place and everything is perfectly organised. Every towel is artfully folded and every shoebox is clearly labelled. Anthea believes there is never an excuse for a chaotically-run house. She says, “I passionately believe in the word home and the part it plays in our lives. It’s cool to have a well-run, comfortable and inviting home”.
Each week on this Turner will mentor two hopeless housewives. They will visit Anthea’s home for an intensive housewifery course, in which they are trained how to be a domestic goddess – Anthea style.
The two women will then return to their homes with their new-found knowledge, to compete as this week’s Best Housewife. At the end of the show, not only will the women’s homes be scrutinised by Anthea, but each housewife must host an event of their choice and everything must look like it has come straight out of Desperate Housewives’ Wisteria Lane.
RDF Media is looking for volunteers to take part in this fun new series. They could be anyone who is responsible for looking after their home, including working women as well as stay-at-home mums.
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.
