English Entertainment
Zee Network enters Australia on PanGlobal TV
MUMBAI: Zee Network has signed a multi-year agreement with the Sydney-based PanGlobal TV to bring its five-channel offering to the South Asian population in Australia and New Zealand. The programming bouquet will be delivered on the PanGlobal TV platform via PanAmSat’s PAS-8 Pacific Ocean Region satellite.
Zee Network will offer five channels, Zee TV, Zee Cinema, Zee News, Zee Muzic and Zee Smile on PanGlobal TV.
PanGlobal TV is a joint marketing alliance between PanAmSat and GlobeCast Australia delivering DTH multi-ethnic programming that reaches tens of thousands across the Australian continent. It is one of nine DTH platforms that PanAmSat supports around the globe, states an official release.
“In one short year, PanGlobal TV signed deals with the top names in multi-ethnic programming. Now, with Zee Network joining our DTH platform, we can offer viewers an even wider array of global fare,” PanAmSat VP Asia Pacific David Ball said. “The addition of such a highly-regarded customer as Zee Network to our programming roster is an ideal way to celebrate our one-year anniversary.”
“Zee Telefilms Limited is very pleased to announce this relationship with GlobeCast Australia,” said Zee Tele international business president Dheeraj Kapuria. “With this extension, Zee Network continues with its efforts to reach out to South Asian Diaspora across the globe. Through these channels, we will be bringing Indian culture and Bollywood into the homes of 45,000 South Asian families in Australia and New Zealand.”
PanGlobal TV offers 24 different channels of multi-ethnic programming, including Zee Network, to viewers across Australia. The line up includes NHK World Premium, MySAT, the Arabic Pay TV service which carries ART, LBC, Al Jazeera, ART Movies, Future TV, MBC and Noursat. It also features Horizon World Plus TV Pty Ltd which distributes a bouquet of five Russian television channels: ORT (Channel 1), RTVi, Teleklub/Detski Mir, Nashe Kino and RTR Planeta. It also hosts TV Plus which offers Serbian services Pink Plus, ExtraTV, BN and BHTV1, the release adds.
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.
