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LF presents MasterChef Australia season 8 now in hindi
MUMBAI: From transforming taste buds around the world, MasterChef Australia is a show that needs no introduction.A cult show that inspires many to don their chef hats and fasten their aprons, the show has inspired many and brought international kitchen and cooking style closer to home. Capturing the excitement, delicacies and trepidation of the participants, LF-the reputed lifestyle entertainment brand with a presence in TV, Digital and Events brings MasterChef Australia Season 8 to the Indian turf in Hindi. LF is the only channel to have the rights for the current season of MasterChef Australia and promises to provide mass entertainment to the Indian audience with this popular franchise with a Hindi language feed as well.
Roping in celebrated guests who have enriched the industry with their creditworthy contributions, prepare to be excited as seasoned icons such as Nigella Lawson, Marco Pierre White, Jason Atherton, Maggie Beer, Heston Blumen and Kylie Kwong become regulars on your television screens. This season will also welcome Luke Nguyen, Curtis Stone, Peter Gilmore, Javier Plascencia, Flynn McGarry and Victor Liong with their recipes to be replicated on the show – an absolute honour for the Chefs and a dream come true for the contestants.
With LF at the helm of captivating content, MasterChef Australia Season 8 is the perfect addition to their bouquet,splendid and marvelous to say the least. Enticing Indian audiences to open up to a world of international terminology and recipes, this show is an opportunity for LF’s Indian viewers to not miss out on quality international content. Whether be it with words like ‘sous vide’, ‘roux’, ‘deglaze’, ‘ballotine’, ‘macerate’,or ‘bisque’ or new recipes, impressive descriptions and informative techniques that could make it to your kitchen and drawing room conversations; LF invites its viewers on a journey – of learning and wholesome entertainment
Presented in a reality show format, each season of MasterChef Australia has featured the exploits of 24 individuals as they compete in a series of cooking challenges to win the title of "MasterChef", prize money of $250,000 and a feature column in the monthly cooking magazine "DELICIOUS".Like its previous editions on LF, this season too promises to leave you wanting more amongst the challenges and immunity tests, as it gets tougher than before.
Watch as the clock ticks and the contestants whip up delectable dishes to impress the world loved trio of Gary, Matt and George as they look for the best – amongst the best. With a mixture of both indoor and outdoor challenges, Masterchef Australia Season 8 promises to keep the culinary curious audience in India entertained and engrossed as you guess who will be eliminated next.
Hold on to that immunity pin and get set to ace that pressure test or mystery box challenge along with your favorite contestants, only on LF.
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Warner Bros. Discovery shareholders approve Paramount deal
Investors wave through a $111 billion megamerger but deliver a stinging, if toothless, rebuke over half-a-billion-dollar goodbye packages
NEW YORK: The shareholders said yes to the deal. They said no to the cheque. At a virtual special meeting on Thursday that lasted barely ten minutes, Warner Bros. Discovery investors voted overwhelmingly to approve Paramount Skydance’s $111 billion acquisition of the company — and then turned around and voted against the lavish exit pay packages lined up for chief executive David Zaslav and his fellow outgoing executives.
Not that it will make much difference. The compensation vote is purely advisory and non-binding. The Warner Bros. Discovery board can, and almost certainly will, pay out as planned.
But the symbolism stings. It is the second consecutive year that WBD shareholders have voted against the executive compensation packages, and this time they had good reason. Zaslav’s exit deal is, by any measure, extraordinary. Under the terms filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission, he is set to receive $34.2 million in cash severance, $517.2 million in equity in the combined company, and $44,195 in continued health coverage — a total of at least $550 million. On top of that, Warner Bros. Discovery has agreed to reimburse Zaslav up to $335 million for taxes assessed by the Internal Revenue Service on his accelerated stock vesting, though the company says that figure will decline depending on when the deal closes. As of March 11, Zaslav also held $115.85 million in vested WBD stock awards — and last month sold a further $114 million worth of WBD shares.
Shareholder advisory firm ISS recommended voting against the compensation measure, citing “problematic” tax reimbursements to Zaslav and the full vesting of his stock awards.
Zaslav will be bound by a two-year non-competition covenant and a two-year non-solicitation of customers and employees after the deal closes.
His lieutenants are not walking away empty-handed either. J.B. Perrette, chief executive and president of global streaming and games, is in line for $142 million, comprising $18.2 million in cash severance and $123.9 million in equity. Bruce Campbell, chief revenue and strategy officer, will receive an estimated $121.5 million, including $18.8 million in severance and $102.7 million in equity. Chief financial officer Gunnar Wiedenfels is set for $120 million, made up of $6.6 million in cash severance and $113.1 million in equity. Gerhard Zeiler, president of international, will get $82.6 million, including $11.9 million in severance and $70.7 million in equity.
The deal itself, clinched in February after Netflix declined to raise its bid for Warner Bros., still needs regulatory clearance from the Justice Department and European authorities. Several state attorneys general are also weighing legal action to block it.
Senator Elizabeth Warren, Democrat of Massachusetts, was unsparing. “The Paramount-Warner Bros. merger isn’t a done deal,” she said after the shareholder vote. “State attorneys general across the country are stepping up to stop this antitrust disaster. We need to keep up this fight.”
If it does go through, the combined entity would be a formidable beast, bringing together Paramount Skydance’s stable — CBS, CBS News, Paramount Pictures, Paramount+, BET, MTV and Nickelodeon — with WBD’s portfolio of HBO, Max, Warner Bros. film and TV studios, DC, CNN, TBS, TNT, HGTV and Discovery+. Paramount has said it expects $6 billion in cost savings from the merger, which is Wall Street shorthand for mass layoffs on a significant scale.
The ten-minute meeting was presided over by chairman Samuel Di Piazza Jr., with Zaslav, Campbell, Wiedenfels and chief communications officer Robert Gibbs in virtual attendance. Di Piazza was bullish. “We appreciate the support and confidence our stockholders have placed in us to unlock the full value of our world-class entertainment portfolio,” he said. “With Paramount, we look forward to creating an exceptional combined company that will expand consumer choice and benefit the global creative talent community.”
Zaslav echoed the sentiment. “Over the past four years, our teams have transformed Warner Bros. Discovery and returned the company to industry leadership,” he said. “Today’s stockholder approval is another key milestone toward completing this historic transaction that will deliver exceptional value to our stockholders.”
Paramount Skydance struck a similar note. “Shareholder approval marks another important milestone towards completing our acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery,” it said in a statement, adding that it looked forward to “closing the transaction in the coming months.”
The shareholders have spoken on the merger. On the pay, they were ignored before the vote was even counted.
