English Entertainment
Star World set to air sitcom ‘Modern Family’
MUMBAI: Star World, India’s preferred English General Entertainment Channel, is bringing the award-winning sitcom ‘Modern Family’ for its Indian viewers this June. This show has the unique distinction of having received 21 wins and 46 nominations from the Primetime Emmy Awards in its six year run. Starting 22 June, Monday to Friday at 8 pm, viewers will get a chance to catch up on the whole comedy series week-on-week.
The ‘mockumentary’ style show is centred on the lives of patriarch Jay Pritchett and his large, dysfunctional family. Constantly appreciated by critics and audiences alike, this show has been especially noted for its writing and acting prowess. The series stars famous actors Ed O’Neill, Sofia Vergara, Ty Burrell and Julie Bowen among several other talented cast.
Modern Family has won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Comedy Series for 5 consecutive years, one for each year since its launch. It has also won the Golden Globe Award for Best Television Series, and a host of other awards.
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.
