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BBCW’s quiz show ‘University Challenge’ starts 7 August
NEW DELHI: BBC World will showcase the famous quiz show University Challenge in search of the best talent from the country’s top universities and colleges.
If it is the College Bowl in the United States, it is the University Challenge in Britain. The Indian version of the Challenge is hosted by ace quiz master Siddharth Basu and will be on air from 7 August, with additional appointment to view on Sundays.
Over 27 episodes, the best quizzing teams from the top institutes will battle it out to win the prestigious trophy. A press release says that the current format in the UK involves 24 teams a year. After an initial written application, a team of University Challenge staff tours the UK to interview and test the applicant teams.
In all, teams representing approximately 250 universities or university colleges are seen annually. In each of those cases, a standardised quiz and personal interviews are used.
Following that “road trip”, the average team score on the quiz and the interviews are used to select the 24 teams for the year’s series.
The release adds that there were over 350 entries from prestigious colleges across India. University Challenge in India is being sponsored by Samsung Sound.
There will be other attractions, too, as the launch party yesterday indicated where hot babe Mandira Bedi, Cyrus Broacha, Rahul Bose and Sharon Prabhakar pitted their knowledge against each other along with four students, two each from India and Britain.
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Times Network to air JVC Exit Poll across 5 regions on April 29
Four-hour broadcast spans states and Puducherry with data-led analysis
MUMBAI: Times Network is set to roll out what it calls one of its most expansive election programming efforts yet, culminating in the JVC Exit Poll on 29 April, with a multi-hour broadcast spanning key poll-bound regions.
The exit poll will air across Times Now and Times Now Navbharat, beginning at 5pm and 4pm respectively. Co-powered by Vedanta and Jindal Stainless, the programming aims to combine on-ground reportage with data-driven projections across West Bengal, Tamil Nadu, Kerala, Assam and Puducherry.
The network has deployed over 50 journalists across these regions, gathering voter sentiment and local insights in the run-up to polling. The effort builds on its ongoing election formats such as Election Yatra and Election Premier League, which have tracked campaign narratives and community-level issues.
In parallel, Times Now Navbharat has focused on constituency-level reporting in West Bengal through its Jan Gan ka Mann series, capturing voter opinions across diverse segments.
The coverage has also featured interviews with prominent political leaders. Kerala chief minister Pinarayi Vijayan and Congress leaders Ramesh Chennithala and V D Satheesan have appeared on the network’s election specials. From Tamil Nadu, voices including deputy chief minister Udhayanidhi Stalin, DMK MP Dayanidhi Maran, BJP leader K Annamalai and NTK’s Seeman have also featured in discussions.
On the day of the exit poll, the network’s primetime anchors, including Navika Kumar, Zakka Jacob and Sumit Awasthi, will lead the coverage. They will be joined by a panel of political analysts, psephologists and senior journalists offering real-time insights and interpretation of trends.
The programming will integrate grassroots reportage with analytics from the JVC Exit Poll, aiming to give viewers an early sense of electoral outcomes ahead of the official results on 4 May.
With its combined English and Hindi broadcast reach, Times Network is positioning this effort as a comprehensive look at voter sentiment, blending field reporting, data and debate to decode what could lie ahead when the final mandate is revealed.
