News Broadcasting
Fox’s new crime drama takes viewers ‘Inside’ the FBI
MUMBAI: From next month US broadcaster Fox will air the crime drama The Inside.
The show follows the FBI’s Los Angeles-based Violent Crimes Unit (VCU), a rogue division led by the enigmatic Virgil “Web” Webster” (Peter Coyote).
He is not above placing his agents’ lives at risk to solve the city’s most physically threatening and psychologically damaging serial crimes. After the death of one of the team’s profilers, Webster recruited the young and inexperienced Rebecca Locke (Rachel Nichols) to join the squad. Unbeknownst to Locke, Web hired her because he knows the secret she carries as a child, Locke was abducted and held for 18 months before she escaped her kidnapper. Web feels that Rebecca’s traumatic past allows her particular insight into the mindsets of villain and victim alike.
In the first episode titled The Loneliest Number the VCU team investigates a series of suicides. They discover them to be murders linked to a suicide hotline. Meanwhile, Paul (Jay Harrington) suspects that Web’s influence over Rebecca is growing stronger and may lead to fatal consequences.
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.
