Canadian TV channel acquires rights of Jay Hind!

MUMBAI: In a role reversal of sorts, Jay Hind! the online comedy show produced by Undercover Productions, has found a time slot on Canada‘s Bollywood Times – a Hindi specialty television channel owned by FDR Media Group.

Anchored by Sumeet Raghavan and with close to 230 episodes, the show has been online for the past two years and has amassed around 110 million views till now, averaging at close to 150,000 views a day.

FDR Media CEO Ron Maitra said, “Bollywood Times showcases Jay Hind! in HD – and reinforces our core promise – the best programming from around the world that is also socially relevant for our Canadian viewers.”

Undercover Productions Ltd founder, CEO and creator and director of Jay Hind! Abhigyan Jha said, “When we launched the show the entire team was bound by the commitment of putting India on the global entertainment map. Initially movies and television shows were viewed on the internet, but Jay Hind! has pioneered a new trend where an online show will be aired on a television channel.”