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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.
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Times Network to air JVC Exit Poll across 5 regions on April 29
Four-hour broadcast spans states and Puducherry with data-led analysis
MUMBAI: Times Network is set to roll out what it calls one of its most expansive election programming efforts yet, culminating in the JVC Exit Poll on 29 April, with a multi-hour broadcast spanning key poll-bound regions.
The exit poll will air across Times Now and Times Now Navbharat, beginning at 5pm and 4pm respectively. Co-powered by Vedanta and Jindal Stainless, the programming aims to combine on-ground reportage with data-driven projections across West Bengal, Tamil Nadu, Kerala, Assam and Puducherry.
The network has deployed over 50 journalists across these regions, gathering voter sentiment and local insights in the run-up to polling. The effort builds on its ongoing election formats such as Election Yatra and Election Premier League, which have tracked campaign narratives and community-level issues.
In parallel, Times Now Navbharat has focused on constituency-level reporting in West Bengal through its Jan Gan ka Mann series, capturing voter opinions across diverse segments.
The coverage has also featured interviews with prominent political leaders. Kerala chief minister Pinarayi Vijayan and Congress leaders Ramesh Chennithala and V D Satheesan have appeared on the network’s election specials. From Tamil Nadu, voices including deputy chief minister Udhayanidhi Stalin, DMK MP Dayanidhi Maran, BJP leader K Annamalai and NTK’s Seeman have also featured in discussions.
On the day of the exit poll, the network’s primetime anchors, including Navika Kumar, Zakka Jacob and Sumit Awasthi, will lead the coverage. They will be joined by a panel of political analysts, psephologists and senior journalists offering real-time insights and interpretation of trends.
The programming will integrate grassroots reportage with analytics from the JVC Exit Poll, aiming to give viewers an early sense of electoral outcomes ahead of the official results on 4 May.
With its combined English and Hindi broadcast reach, Times Network is positioning this effort as a comprehensive look at voter sentiment, blending field reporting, data and debate to decode what could lie ahead when the final mandate is revealed.
