News Broadcasting
‘Scrubs’ to continue for next two seasons
MUMBAI: NBC’s hit medical comedy Scrubs has got an extension of two seasons.
Announcing the decision, NBC Universal Television Group president Jeff Zucker and NBC Entertainment president Kevin Reilly said that the show’s good show had inspired them to give it an extension and they were looking for better things.
Will & Grace and Scrubs combine to earn the two highest upscale indexes (measuring percentage representation of upscale homes in their audiences) among comedies in many key categories for NBC.
The comedy focuses on the bizarre experiences of fresh-faced medical intern John “J.D.” Dorian as he embarks on his career in a surreal hospital crammed full of unpredictable staffers and patients. Scrubs was honored with the Humanities Prize in 2002.
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.
