Sanju Baba and Salman Bhai were back onstage to host the Bigg Boss finale on Colors. Actually, that should be “Bigg Boss Fie Fie Fie Fie Fie! Poonam Saxena writes.
Three months of patience and fair play paid rich dividends to TV actress Juhi Parmar, who Saturday won the fifth season of the controversial reality show "Bigg Boss" and the prize money of Rs.1 crore.
It is already in its 24th season in America. When it premiered there in 2000, reality show Survivor was an instant hit.
Many of you, dear readers, probably don’t watch Hindi serials on GECs (general entertainment channels). And who can blame you? Poonam Saxena writes.
The best thing about Colors’ Bigg Boss (I can't believe I wrote that; can the words ‘best’ and ‘Bigg Boss’ go together? Isn’t it an oxymoron?) is Sunny Leone.
Move over, celebs. The small town aam aadmi is the hottest new star in advertising and on television. Echoing the aspirations of small towns in advertising and television is not a passing fad, say sociologists.
Who doesn’t like a couple of good murders? If you’re a TV crime show, you definitely do. And if you’re a crime channel, you positively love them. Especially if they’re executed by serial killers. Think about it. If someone told you they were going to make a TV series about a boy who likes murdering pets and who grows up to become a serial killer, what would you think? Even if you’re not as squeamish as I am (I’ve often ‘seen’ entire films with eyes squeezed shut), you’d have to admit — it’s not a very, um, charming idea. And if there was such a character in a TV show, you’d expect him to be the villain, the Bad Guy, the antagonist. Well, if you’ve seen Dexter, you already know that you would be completely wrong.
Okay, before anything else, Zee TV has just launched a serial called Hitler Didi. Seriously? Hitler Didi? Do they have a Goebbels Bhaiyya and a Himmler Chacha also waiting in the wings? What were they thinking? Poonam Saxena writes.
High on emotion, excitement and drama, popular game show Kaun Banega Crorepati 5 has become the highest rated non-fiction programme on Indian television, registering 7.2 TVR and 8 TVR for two episodes when 'aam admi' Sushil Kumar won the Rs 5 crore jackpot.
Season 2, which has just started, is a distinct improvement. It looks better (more like the international MasterChef shows) and flows better too.
There’s one more man in the Mahila Mandal now. The Bigg Boss house (Colors) has a new entrant, Amar Upadhyay.
Poonam Saxena writes.
At last count, there were more than 30 entertainment-infotainment channels on my TV (only the English and Hindi ones, that is; and I'm not even counting the movie channels).
The first Indian MasterChef show with Akshay Kumar (Star Plus) was a bit like a cake that remained slightly undercooked. Specially when you compare it with MasterChef Australia (Star Plus), which is — and this is a truth universally acknowledged – truly masterful.
Fortunately — or unfortunately (depending on how you look at it) — I was out of the country during most of the Anna Hazare drama. But I believe news channels showed viewers nothing but Anna and friends all day and all night long.