English Entertainment
Catch the ultimate battle between Passion and Profession as Zee Café presents – The Chefs’ Line
What happens when passionate home chefs go against professional chefs? When challengers take on the champions? Calling out to all food lovers, Zee Café, the leading English entertainment channel in India, is all set to bring a brand-new cooking series – The Chefs’ Line, premiering 12th February, weeknights at 9.
In every restaurant kitchen, there exists The Chefs’ Line starting from the Apprentice Chef, way up to the Head Chef. This show is the ultimate competition wherein home chefs will battle against culinary professionals. Each week, four amateur home cooks will try and out cook an entire Chefs’ Line, from one of Australia’s favourite restaurants, in the hopes that their passion will prevail over profession! What’s more? Judging the exquisite dishes, will be three of Australia’s hottest culinary stars: internationally renowned Executive Chef Dan Hong, popular food writer Melissa Leong and Australia’s most famous indigenous chef, Mark Olive.
Speaking about the show, Melissa Leong shares, “We had such a blast filming The Chefs’ Line, and we’re thrilled to be sharing it with India! The show is a celebration of food and family, showcased by the world’s great cuisines.”
Hosted by the expert food critic, Maeve O’Meara, The Chefs’ Line will take the audience on a VIP visit to the featured restaurants, learning about the personalities and the plates behind each of the cuisines. Spanning over 13 weeks, the show will celebrate a different cuisine every week. So, there’ll be new cooks, a new restaurant and a new cuisine to explore. It will also be a culinary visual spectacle presenting varied cultures, people and history associated with them.
So, what are you waiting for? These chefs have come from different worlds and now they are preparing for battle! Which side will you be on?
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.
