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Rupert Murdoch's Star cable network's entertainment, movie and sports channels are among the most popular in the burgeoning Indian market. Star News is the No. 2 Hindi news channel in India and its market share is growing...
...SPAN was not so predictable a development. It started with the House of Commons, the British men in crisp suits bellowing and sweating in the clear colors of Channel 24. They would yell and debate and point and lose their tempers—granted, over referendums in counties I’d never heard of, or over rights to voting procedures which I’d also never heard of. I am slowly learning, in bits and pieces, about Ireland and the rocky relationship of England to the EU—but more than that, parliamentary TV is entertaining. It?...
Across the Channel, where our allies are supposed to be, the satire of Bush is only a shade less vicious. The title character of The Madness of George Dubya, a comedy in its sixth month on the West End, is another childish dimwit, who wears red cowboy pajamas and mangles the names of his enemies ("Saddama bin Laden"). Creator Justin Butcher says the play grew out of his outrage at the way Britain was "sleepwalking into war at the behest of the Administration in Washington." Unfortunately, the topical jokes soon give way to a long, obsessively detailed parody...
...another sitcom. But she also had the idea that what happens behind the scenes of any TV show is often juicier than what makes it on air. For the show-about-the-show, her agent paired her with veteran reality producer R.J. Cutler (American High). ABC Family channel ultimately bought the cooking show, Domestic Goddess, which starts in September...
...editorial control and only a credit at the end of each episode. An entire low-budget series can be created for $500,000, less than it can cost to produce a top-quality TV ad. This is something Heinz realized when it made Dinner Doctors on Britain's Channel 5. The campaign built around the cooking show, including a website and supermarket promotions, cost about $3 million and "was a better way to optimize our spend than traditional advertising," says Heinz spokesman Michael Mullen. In line with Britain's strict advertising rules, Heinz had no input or product placement...