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Relive memories that take you back to mom’s food
MUMBAI: Celebrating culinary skills that let you relive memories with mom’s food, Living Foodz announces new show Amma Superstar with Chef Pallavi. Starting July 10th, this show marks Chef Pallavi’s debut on television. The show will leave the viewers craving for some good home cooked food by their very own Amma Superstars
This 26-episode series brings stories from different walks of life. Amma Superstar highlights different relationship bonds that showcase the mother like love and comfort through food. Amma Superstar has individuals participating in pairs like friends, caretakers, roommates in the hostel and neighbors apart from only mothers and children. Following a fun and interactive format, the participants in the show are seen participating in games such as food quizzes, rapid fires, picking the odd one out and true or false. The participants will be seen recreating their Amma’s special recipe and sharing memories and anecdotes around food. Chef Pallavi creates recipes that remind her of similar memories as those featured in the episode.
The show will witness celebrity participants such as celebrated Chef Saransh Goila,actress Amrita Prakash from the show Shakti – Astitva Ke Ehsaas Ki and popular television and theatre actor Rytasha Rathod best known for her role as Badho in the show Badho Bahu. Chef Saransh Goila will be seen alongside his mom on television for the very first time. Interacting with Chef Pallavi sharing how the famous Goila Butter Chicken was created and the special twist that makes it what it is.
Sharing her experience as the host of the show, Chef Pallavi Nigam says, “Amma Superstar captures stories that will rekindle memories with our favorite maa-ke-haath-ka-khana. This show brings different relationships and bonds that remind us of our mom’s love and the connect with food. I have stayed away from home as I studied in Italy, I used to miss my mom’s home cooked food and thus relate to stories where people have connected through food that has the homely warmth and comfort. The viewers will relive their memories with their mom’s special food. I am excited for my debut on television with Living Foodz and look forward to the launch of the show.”
Living Foodz, Business Head, Mr. Amit Nair says, “We are excited to bring Chef Pallavi Nigam on board with the launch of ‘Amma Superstar’.Through this show we bring back memories shared around food that is just like mom’s.The show will resonate with our viewers as the participants share stories that they have with people who with culinary skills have taken them back to their mom’s food and her memories.”
Tune in to Living Foodz every Tuesday and Wednesday at 2:30PM, starting July 10, 2018. Repeat telecast of the episodes will air on Tuesday and Wednesday at 5:00PM and 8:00PM. The show is sponsored by Freshwrap, Wonderchef, Tata Sampann and Preet Lite.
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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.
