English Entertainment
Star World premieres season 2 of Ted Talk Nayi Baat hosted by Shah Rukh Khan
MUMBAI: Star World, India’s leading English Entertainment channel, is known for showcasing an array of distinguished, popular content. With star-studded, critically acclaimed and award-winning shows in its programming roster, the channel strives to innovate its offerings for the Indian viewers.
Taking the entertainment ante higher, Star World is now all set to premiere Season 2 of Ted Talk Nayi Baat, a showcase of videos by inspiring speakers designed especially for the Indian audiences that reflect the issues affecting India and the world. The season premieres on the channel on 2nd November at 9:30 PM and will air every Saturday and Sunday at the same time.
After the astounding success of season one, the second season will once again be hosted by none other than Shah Rukh Khan – an epitome of success and hard work, who continually inspires audiences through this own life experiences. Focusing on social issues and their solutions devised by citizens of all ages starting 13 years, Season 2 of Ted Talk Nayi Baat will turn the spotlight on innovators, scientists, artists and more who are all striving to reimagine and rebuild a new India.
From Kshitij Marwah who developed the technology of 3D photography & very recently 360 cameras to Gitanjali Rao, a 12-year-old young innovator of a quick, low-cost test to detect lead contamination in water, writer-director and cancer survivor Tahira Kashyap-Khurrana who is blazing the trail by fighting the many stigmas that the Indian society plagues us with, and many more, Ted Talk Nayi Baat aims to introduce Indian audiences to change makers who are relentlessly working to develop the country and further inspire countless other Indians to break new ground in their own lives.
Created in partnership with TED, Ted Talk Nayi Baat is also reflective of the first ever association made by an Indian channel with the global platform that brings together world's leading thinkers and is devoted to spreading ideas in the form of short, powerful talks.
Catch Season 2 of Ted Talk Nayi Baat on Star World every Saturday and Sunday at 9:30 PM starting 2nd November and inspire yourselves by watching some of the most moving stories of ordinary people doing extra-ordinary work!
Other speakers include – social scientist and author Deepa Narayan, Indian activist, lawyer and founder of SheSays, Trisha Shetty, water warrior VK Madhavan who tackles development issues in the Himalayas, Mani Vajipey, Co-Founder & CEO, Banyan – a high technology social venture that takes an integrated approach to recycling & waste management and more!
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.
