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HBO receives 124 Emmy nominations
MUMBAI: If there is a consistent factor about the Emmies then it is that HBO bags the most nominations. For the fourth year in a row, the network is leading with a record haul of 124 nominations.
The miniseries Angels in America, which earlier this year decimated the competition in the Golden Globe Awards and the Screen Actors Guild ceremony, received 21 nominations. Meanwhile, the gangster saga The Sopranos leads in the television shows category with 20 nominations
Angels in America looks at life in the US in the 1980’s during the Reagan era. Justin Kirk, Ben Shenkman, Patrick Wilson and Jeffrey Wright were all nominated in the supporting actor in a miniseries or movie category.
Tony Kushner, who wrote the script from his play, has also been nominated in the writing for a Miniseries, Movie or a Dramatic special category.
As reported earlier by indiantelevision.com, the 56th annual prime time Emmy Awards will take place on 19 September at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles. It will air live in the US on ABC.
Fox was a distant second to HBO with 31 nominations. NBC’s White House drama The West Wing got 12 nominations. In India the show airs on Zee English.
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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.
