English Entertainment
Star World with Sitcom Binge Week, brings a high dose of comedy with popular sitcoms to make you laugh your way through the New Year!
MUMBAI: Star World, India’s leading English entertainment channel, is all geared up to bring a binge worthy special programming line-up – Sitcom Binge Week for last seven days of the year. In preparation for the holiday rush, Star World brings to your home, a television comedy feast by airing all top-notch sitcoms – Modern Family, Fresh Off the Boat, How I Met your Mother, and The Office. Starting off from 30th December 2019, this exciting slot will go on till 5th January 2020.
The show that gained major cult following and ran for almost a decade, How I Met Your Mother, remained popular throughout for its unique structure, humor, and interesting dramatic elements. This long running series depicts Ted Mosby verbally retelling the story to his son and daughter of how he met their mother. With an extremely loyal fan-base, this show won hearts in India and around the world. Star World will air back to back episodes from season 1 to season 3 throughout this year’s last week every day from 8AM to 12PM!
Set in the 1990s, the sitcom Fresh Off the Boat, depicts the life of a Taiwanese-American family. Starring the Golden Globe nominee Constance Wu, and Critics Choice TV Awards nominee Randall Park, the show recently announced to star Indian film actors – Preity Zinta and Vir Das. Watch this humorously charming family sitcom airing on Star World throughout this week from 1PM to 4PM!
The multi Golden Globe and Primetime Emmy Award winning series, Modern Family, is centered on the lives of three different families and starring Sofía Vergara, Sarah Hyland, Ariel Winter, Ed O’Neill, Ty Burrell, Julie Bowen, among others. Evenings call for some family time and starting just at the perfect time, watch the season 1 and 2 of Modern Family from 5-6PM on Star World.
And last but not the least, comes one of the most loved comedy show ever – The Office (US). This show certainly holds a special place in every fan’s heart for mixing that special mockumentary styled humor no other show has been able to manage! The show stars some of the Hollywood’s renowned actor – Steve Carrell of Evan Almighty and Crazy Stupid Love, along with the most loved personality and Oscar nominee – John Krasinski. Also starring Jenna Fischer, Mindy Kaling, and Rainn Wilson, the show has been known for popularizing the mockumentary format on television. This show was nominated for 9 Golden Globe awards and 42 Primetime Emmy awards during the course of its run, for its writing as well as for the cast’s stellar performances. Star World, brought this rib-tickling comedy show to the Indian TV for the very first time this year. Watch the show’s season 8 and 9 from 7PM to 8 PM only on Star World!
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.
