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It’s the ‘Knights of November’ this month on PIX
MUMBAI: This month PIX is all set to roll out Knights of November. The month will be packed with some action packed movies and special episodes on the Knights of the industry.
The month starts with Tom Cruise, who tops the list of Knights of the 21st century. A two-hour special episode of Inside the Actors Studio with Tom Cruise will be aired on 5 November at 7 pm followed by Jerry Maguire on PIX of the Week, 5 November at 9 pm.
PIX will telecast another episode of Inside the Actors Studio with Hugh Jackman on 12 November at 7 pm and Seven years in Tibet, a Brad Pitt starrer on PIX of the week, 12 November at 8 pm.
Rage and Honor and Rage and Honor II are scheduled as a great at 8 on 15 and 16 November. Cheap thrills Friday would bring Last Dragon and Year of the Dragon on 17 November at 8 pm and 10 pm respectively.
PIX then has a line-up of Hollywood movies like Men in Black on 23 November, Vertical Limit on the 25 November and Look Who’s Talking on the 26 November. PIX also brings the Indian television premiere of Being Cyrus a Saif Ali Khan starer which will air on the 19 of November as PIX of the Week at 8 pm.
The month will round-up with a special two hour episode of Inside the Actors Studio with John Travolta on the 26 November at 7 pm. “This is a damn good month for all women – it’s the month ruled by the hunk,” said PIX programming head Gitanjali Murari.
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.
