News Broadcasting
Hallmark Channel to showcase latest Emmy nominated original productions this season
The Hallmark Channel has announced that its upcoming programme lineup of movies and mini-series have received 20 Emmy Award nominations for 2002 (19 for Hallmark Entertainment original productions).
An official release informs that with this, Hallmark Channel programming features 382 Emmy Award Nominations, 127 Emmy Awards, 131 Academy Award nominated stars and 55 Oscar winners.
Jack and The Beanstalk The Real Story airs on the channel on 24 and 25 September at 9pm in two parts. The Rosa Parks Story, Ride to Freedom starring Angela Bassett premieres on 17 October at 9pm
Anne Rice’s The Feast Of All Saints airs 10 October (Part 1) and I 1 October (Part 2) at 5am. We were The Mulvaney’s will premiere on 10 November at 9 pm.
Another nominated Hallmark title Last Call deals with how American writer F. Scott Fitzgerald lived out his final days – ravaged, raw, tragic and above all, sympathetic, even (or especially) at his worst.
In the past other Hallmark titles which have won and have been nominated include Alice in wonderland, Moby Dick, The Odyssey and What the Deaf Man Heard
The Hallmark programmes nominated for Emmies are as follows
Hallmark Entertainment Original
1. We Were the Mulvaneys
Outstanding Lead Actor In A Miniseries Or A Movie – Beau Bridges
Outstanding Lead Actress In A Miniseries Or A Movie – Blythe Danner
Outstanding Music Composition For A Miniseries, Movie Or A Special (Dramatic Underscore)
2. Anne Rice’s: The Feast of All Saints
Outstanding Hairstyling For A Miniseries, Movie Or A Special – Part I
Outstanding Costumes For A Miniseries, Movie Or A Special – Part I
Outstanding Sound Editing For A Miniseries, Movie Or A Special – Part I
3. Jack and the Beanstalk: The Real Story
Outstanding Makeup For A Miniseries, Movie Or A Special (Non-Prosthetic) – Part 2 Outstanding Makeup For A Miniseries, Movie Or A Special (Prosthetic) – Part 2 Outstanding Music Composition For A Miniseries, Movie Or A Special (Dramatic Underscore) – Part 2
4. Dinotopia
Outstanding MiniSeries
Special Visual Effects For A Miniseries, Movie Or A Special~- Part 3
Outstanding Art Direction For A Miniseries, Movie Or A Special – Part I
Outstanding Costumes For A Miniseries, Movie Or A Special – Part I
Outstanding Makeup For A Miniseries, Movie Or A Special (Non-Prosthetic) – Part 1 Outstanding Hairstyling For A Miniseries, Movie Or A Special – Part 1
5. Last Call
Outstanding Supporting Actress In A Miniseries Or A Movie – Sissy Spacek Outstanding Music Composition For A Miniseries, Movie Or A Special (Dramatic Underscore)
6. Farscape
Outstanding Costumes For A Series
Besides this Angela Bassett has been nominated for Outstanding Lead Actress In A Miniseries Or A Movie The Rosa Parks Story: Ride to Freedom.
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: 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.
