News Broadcasting
HBO lines up Diwali treat for kids
HBO is targeting kids this month. The movie channel has initiated 'Wonder Kids' a package of four adventure films, including three Ninjas Knuckle Up, Harriet the Spy, Gold Diggers: The Secret of Bear Mountain and 3 Ninjas Kick Back. The films will be aired every Wednesday at 9.30 pm.
On November 7, Sean Fox, Max Elliot Slade and Evan Bonifant star in 3 Ninjas Knuckle Up. The three are involved in an adventure, but this could be their toughest challenge to date. Their mission is to find their father and a secret disk that contains evidence that could stop the toxic landfill that is destroying the Indian community. However, the town is owned by a rich man who controls the police and the mayor. The three ninjas might have faced harsh odds before, but they will need all their power to win this time, perhaps even some new tricks will be needed.
Harriet the Spy, based on Louise Fitzhugh's best-selling young people's novel about an 11-year-old girl, Harriet M. Welsch who is determined to be a famous writer when she grows up. Following her nanny's advice, she starts spying on her parents, neighbours and friends, avidly detailing their comings and goings into her secret journal. Her notebook is subsequently discovered, and Harriet finds herself shunned by everyone, and struggling to find a way out.
Gold diggers: The Secret of Bear Mountain, an HBO exclusive, is a movie about friendship and adventure. When Beth moves from L.A. to a small country town in the Summer, she meets Jody, a girl who isn't too popular with the other kids, and then becomes her friend. Jody's dream is to find the lost gold of Bear Mountain with the help of a map that she has acquired from a woman named Molly Morgan, who was thought to have found hundreds of ounces of gold. Beth and Jody have many adventures together. The movie continues digging deeper into Jody's life through Beth's eyes.
The 3 Ninjas Kick Back is about the threesome of Rocky, Colt and Tum Tum who are back with their first adventure since their last! Their grandfather sends them on a mission to rescue a sacred Ninja dagger, which has been stolen. There they get to face a team of trained warriors, led by Miyo, a teenage girl. Gradually Rocky, the trios leader, become good friends of Miyo, who later helps them to retrieve the dagger. Watch this Ninja action on November 28, 2001 at 9:30pm.
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.
