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Star World & Star World HD to launch ‘MasterChef Asia’ season 1
MUMBAI: Star World and Star World HD are all set to debut the first season of MasterChef Asia on 25 December, 2015.
The show will be aired from Monday to Friday at 9 pm. MasterChef Asia will take the audience on a journey by amateur cooks whipping up some of the Asia’s finest food on television.
The show has roped in Amazon.in as its title sponsor and Bertolli Olive Oil and Nolte as powered by sponsors.
The show will see 15 contestants from eight countries competing for the title. The show will be judged by Hong Kong-born, culinary genius Susur Lee , 3-Michelin star chef Bruno Ménard and Singapore-born, Audra Morrice, a MasterChef Australia finalist.
The 15 episodes will culminate in one home-cook winning the title of the MasterChef Asia winner. The show also features two Indians namely Jasbir Kaur, a homemaker who represents Malaysia and Priya Barve, a marketing manager who represents India on the show.
Speaking on the new offering, an official Star India spokesperson said, “Star World has been the home to the very popularMasterChef franchise. After the success of multiple seasons of MasterChef Australia, MasterChef U.S. Junior andMasterChef U.S., we are extremely proud of bringing this new property. Star World has always been a pioneer in exposing India to global lifestyles and MasterChef Asia helps us take that a step further.
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Ellison takes his Paramount-Warner Bros case straight to theater owners
The Skydance chief goes to CinemaCon with promises and a skeptical crowd waiting
CALIFORNIA: David Ellison strode into a room packed with thousands of cinema owners and executives at CinemaCon in Las Vegas on Thursday and did something rather bold: he looked them in the eye and asked them to trust him.
The chief executive of Paramount Skydance vowed that his company would release a minimum of 30 films a year if regulators greenlight its proposed $110 billion acquisition of Warner Bros Discovery, a deal that has made theater owners deeply, and loudly, nervous.
“I wanted to look every single one of you in the eye and give you my word,” Ellison told the crowd. “Once we combine with Warner Bros, we are going to make a minimum of 30 films annually across both studios.”
It was a confident pitch. Whether it landed is another matter. Cinema operators have already called on regulators to block the deal, and scepticism in the room was hardly concealed.
Ellison pushed back by pointing to recent form. Paramount, born from the merger of Paramount Global and Skydance Media last August, plans to release 15 films this year, nearly double the eight it put out in 2025. Progress, he argued, was already underway.
He also threw theater owners a bone they have long been chasing: all films, he pledged, would run exclusively in cinemas for a minimum of 45 days, drawing applause from a crowd that has spent years fighting for exactly that commitment across the industry.
“People can speculate all they want,” Ellison said, “but I am standing here today telling you personally that you can count on our complete commitment. And we’ll show you we mean it.”
Fine words. The regulators, however, will have the last one.
