English Entertainment
Top Gear returns with a new season on AXN
MUMBAI: One of the best automobile show on television – Top Gear – is back to storm the auto world. The new Season 21 premieres in India on 7 February, and will be telecast every Friday at 9:00 pm, exclusively on AXN. The trio of Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond and James May will be back in action, and the Indian viewers will get a chance to watch their favorite show even before its US premiere.
Commenting on the premier of the new season, AXN India business head Sunil Punjabi said, “At AXN, our efforts have been focused to provide our viewers with the latest international content on the channel. As one of the pioneers in the English entertainment genre in India, we understand the pulse of our viewers and are always striving to provide thrilling and trend setting quality entertainment. Top Gear is the world’s biggest auto show and we are really excited to be able to bring it to the Indian fans before the US. We believe that with this show we will strengthen our relationship with our viewers.”
The new season promises more excitement, more thrills and more speed along with a lot more tear, break and crush. The show in its latest season features some of the swiftest cars on the planet, some more street-legal than others. In the all-new series, hosts Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond and James May will take the viewers on an array of new adventures, challenges and stunts which will keep all the car fanatics glued.
English Entertainment
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.
