News Broadcasting
Dream Team India reveals plans for travel show, Zee’s ‘Chausat Panne’
MUMBAI: Dream Team India Productions, a leading entertainment software provider to India’s leading satellite and terrestrial channels, has recently completed shooting the pilot episode of a travel show in Vienna, Austria. The show will be hosted by actress Nafisa Ali. The production house is approaching various channels for airing the travel show.
Rajeev Mehta, managing director of Dream Team Productions, also confirms that his production house has got a letter of intent from Zee TV for producing the third or fourth of the Chausat Panne series. Tentatively named Lavanya , it is about the travails of a young girl with the same name.
Mehta refused to give more details but said that he has commenced shooting for the 64 episodes that make up one complete run of each Chausat Panne series.
Dream Team India has worked with Zee TV on shows such as Saturday Suspense and a serial called Suhana Safar starring R Madhavan and Gracy Singh. The company has also produced shows such as X-Zone and Rishtey. It had given the mandate of producing a telefilm to veteran director Aruna Raje – the telefilm was aired on Doordarshan through Channel Nine Gold.
While speaking to indiantelevision.com, Mehta says: “My vision is to turn the production house into a front runner in entertainment software. We plan to tap the export markets – especially south Asian markets.”
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.
