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Colors Infinity to premiere latest international shows within 24 hours of its international telecast
MUMBAI: Colors Infinity has started premiering shows and the list includes – Riverdale, The Flash, Arrow and Mr. Robot, etc. Adding to the festivities and excitement of the season, this October the channel is bringing shows one cannot afford to miss!
Viacom18 head of programming – English entertainment Hashim Dsouza said, “Colors Infinity has always taken pride in its premium content. The shows on our line-up are critically acclaimed and highly anticipated across the globe, therefore becoming even more pertinent to bring them to the Indian audience within hours of their international telecast.”
Here’s is the list of the shows this October:
The Good Doctor – Season 1
Tuesday, 3 October | 11 PM
From the creator of House: David Shore and Executive Producer Daniel Dae Kim, The Good Doctor centers on Shaun Murphy, a young surgeon with autism and savant syndrome who relocates from a quiet country life to join a prestigious hospital’s surgical unit.
Absentia – Season 1
Monday, 2 October | 10 PM
After being declared dead in absentia, an FBI agent must reclaim her family, identity and innocence when she finds herself the prime suspect in a string of murders.
The breakout series of 2016, Riverdale will return on Colors Infinity with more blood, betrayal, friendships, romance and Bughead!
Riverdale – Season 2
Thursday, 12 October | 10 PM
If the first season of Riverdale had you at the edge of your seats, prepare to be blown away in the second season of this dark-adaptation of the Archie-comic series. After discovering the killer of Jason Blossom, the second season picks up from the nail-biting cliffhanger finale.
Back to save the day from the supervillains, The Flash, Arrow and the Legends of Tomorrow return with the newest seasons of their shows, starting October 11.
The Flash – Season 4
Wednesday, 11 October | 10 PM
Season 3 finale saw Barry traipsing off into the Speed Force. The new season picks off 6 months later, with Team Flash stepping up to protect the city in a Barry-less world.
Arrow – Season 6
Friday, 13 October | 10 PM
Arrow S5 capped one of its best seasons ever with an explosive finale that left the fate of nearly every major character hanging in the balance. Who would survive? Who would be left behind? We will seek the answers to these questions in Season 6.
Legends of Tomorrow – Season 3
Wednesday,11 October | 11 PM
Possibly one of the most intriguing shows last year, Legends of Tomorrow S3 will pick up with the Legends having “broken” time and needing to run around endlessly to fix it. This season promises great fight scenes, clowns, and even dinosaurs.
But that’s not all! Back with their latest seasons to Colors Infinity, Mr. Robot, Lucifer and Blindspot return to pick-up from where they left off at their season finales, with Elliot being shot, Lucifer facing his own demons and Jane deciphering her tattoos.
Mr. Robot – Season 3
Thursday, 12 October | 11 PM
One of the trippiest thrillers of the decade, Season 3 of this Emmy-award winning series will shed more light on the trickeries of the hacktivist group fsociety, the sinister plans of The Dark Army, and survival of evil E-Corp.
Lucifer – Season 3
Tuesday, 3 October | 10 PM
Season 3 of Lucifer will return to confront the problem of the returned wings of angel for Lucifer, the kidnapping and the unresolved issues with his mother. We will also see television’s Superman Tom Welling (Clark Kent/Smallville) join the cast as Murcus Pierce.
Blindspot – Season 3
Monday, 30 October | 11 PM
Season 2 explained Jane’s tattoos, Kurt’s political future, and Roman’s missing memories. Season 3 will take forward this story and reveal more challenging conflicts, more ink and more fistacuffs!
Adding music and symphony to the anticipated madness, Colors Infinity returns for the third successive year with its homegrown show Renault Kwid presents The Stage 3 styled by Jabong and co-powered by Motorola.
The Stage – Season 3
Saturday, 7 October | 8 PM
Embarking on this magical journey, Colors Infinity begins the search for the successor to the crown of India’s most talented English singing artist! With a bundle of surprises in store for the viewers, The Stage is set for India’s best English singers to compete with the best.
Don’t miss the delirium of entertainment and bandwagon of action, drama, thriller and suspense as Colors Infinity unleashes its Instant Premieres this October!
UK: The aerial is losing its grip. As broadband becomes the default way Britons watch television, the UK is edging towards a decisive, and divisive, question: should Freeview be switched off by 2034? The issue, highlighted in reporting by The Guardian, has exposed deep fault lines over access, affordability and the future of public service broadcasting.
For nearly 25 years, Freeview has delivered free-to-air television from the BBC, ITV, Channel 4 and Channel 5 to almost every corner of the country. Even now, it remains the UK’s largest TV platform, used in more than 16m homes and on around 10m main household sets. Yet the same broadcasters that built it are now pressing for its closure within eight years.
Their case rests on a structural shift in viewing. Smart TVs, superfast broadband and the Netflix-led streaming boom have pulled audiences online. Advertising economics have followed. By 2034, the number of homes using Freeview as their main TV set is forecast to fall from a peak of almost 12m in 2012 to fewer than 2m, making digital terrestrial television, or DTT, increasingly costly to sustain.
But critics say the rush to switch off risks abandoning those least able, or least willing, to move online.
“I don’t want to be choosing apps and making new accounts,” says Lynette, 80, from Kent. “It is time-consuming and irritating trying to work out where I want to be, to remember the sequence of clicks, with hieroglyphics instead of words. If I make a mistake I have to start again.”
Lynette is among nearly 100,000 people who have signed a “save Freeview” petition launched by campaign group Silver Voices. She fears the government is about to “take [Freeview] away from me and others who either don’t like, can’t afford, or can’t use online versions”.
Official figures underline the fault lines. A report commissioned by the Department for Culture, Media and Sport estimates that by 2035, 1.8m homes will still depend on Freeview. Ofcom’s analysis shows those households are more likely to be disabled, older, living alone, female, and based in the north of England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland.
Freeview is owned by the public service broadcasters through Everyone TV, which also operates Freesat and the newer streaming platform Freely. After two years of review, DCMS is expected to set out its position soon, drawing on three options proposed by Ofcom: a costly upgrade of Freeview’s ageing technology; maintaining a bare-bones service with only core PSB channels; or a full switch-off during the 2030s.
The broadcasters have rallied behind the third option. They argue that 2034 is the logical cut-off, when transmission contracts with network operator Arqiva expire. By then, they say, the cost of broadcasting to a dwindling audience will far outweigh the returns from TV advertising.
Ofcom agrees a crunch point is approaching. In July, the regulator warned of a “tipping point” within the next few years, after which it will no longer be commercially viable for broadcasters to carry the costs of DTT.
Others see risks beyond economics. Questions remain over whether internet TV can reliably deliver emergency broadcasts, such as the daily Covid updates, in the way that universally available DTT can. The UK radio industry has also warned that an internet-only future for TV could push up distribution costs and force some radio stations off air if PSBs no longer share Arqiva’s mast network.
“It is a political hot potato,” says Dennis Reed, founder of Silver Voices, who says he has “dissociated” his organisation from the government’s stakeholder forum, which he believes is “heavily biased” towards streaming.
The Future TV Taskforce, representing the PSBs, counters that moving online could “close the digital divide once and for all”. “We want to be able to plan to ensure that no one is left behind,” a spokesperson says, adding that rising DTT costs could otherwise mean cuts to programme budgets.
The numbers show the scale of the challenge. Of the 1.8m Freeview-dependent homes projected for 2035, around 1.1m are expected to have broadband but not use it for TV. The remaining 700,000 are forecast to lack a broadband connection altogether.
Veterans of the analogue switch-off, completed in 2012 after 76 years, recall similar fears of “TV blackout chaos”. Around 6 per cent of households were labelled “digital refuseniks”, yet a targeted help scheme and a national campaign, fronted by a robot called Digit Al voiced by Matt Lucas, delivered a largely smooth transition.
This time, the BBC is less keen to foot the bill. Tim Davie, the outgoing director general, has said the corporation should not fund a comparable support programme for a Freeview switch-off.
Research for Sky by Oliver & Ohlbaum suggests that with early awareness campaigns and digital inclusion measures, only about 330,000 households would ultimately need hands-on help ahead of a 2034 shutdown.
Meanwhile, viewing habits continue to fragment. Audience body Barb says 7 per cent of UK households no longer own a TV set, choosing to watch on other devices. In December, YouTube overtook the BBC’s combined channels in total UK viewing across TVs, smartphones and tablets, albeit measured at a minimum of three minutes.
That shift may accelerate. YouTube has recently blocked Barb and its partner Kantar from accessing viewing session data, limiting transparency just as online platforms consolidate power.
“When the government chose British Satellite Broadcasting as the ‘winner’ in satellite TV it was Rupert Murdoch’s Sky instead that came out on top,” says a senior TV executive quoted by The Guardian. “There already is such an outsider ready to be the winner in the transition to internet TV; it is YouTube.”
Freeview’s future now hangs on a familiar British dilemma: modernise fast and risk exclusion, or protect universality and pay the price. Either way, the aerial’s days as king of the living room look numbered.
