Colors elevates Manisha Sharma; Prashant Bhatt to move out

MUMBAI: The Hindi general entertainment channel (GEC), Colors, has been witnessing many exists lately.

Late last month, came the news of the channel’s commercial and digital head Vivek Srivastava quitting and moving to Times Television Network to head the English Entertainment channels.

Now, highly reliable sources within the industry have confirmed to indiantelevision.com that Prashant Bhatt, who heads the weekday programming head, has been asked to put down his papers. Meanwhile, the current non-fiction head Manisha Sharma has been awarded extra responsibilities of the entire programming department of the channel.

In the year 2012, Colors had split its programming unit into two separate teams to bring more focus on content for weekdays and weekends.

The official spokespersons of the channel were unavailable for comment.

With inputs from tellychakkar.com