Zee Chief Punit Goenka Unpacks Sony Merger Deal, Streaming Growth, IPL Bid Plans – APOS India

Melanie Chandra and Surina Jindal are celebrating Diwali as first-generation Indian Americans in Comedy Central’s Hot Mess Holiday, premiering on Saturday night.

One of the season’s hottest queer dancefloor events, Juicy A Love Affair, lands in Cape Town on Saturday 18 December.

Cynthia Littleton Business EditorAMC Networks hopes to mark a new beginning in the coming year as it prepares for some very big goodbyes.AMC is preparing to leverage the marketing platform provided by three buzzy series finales — AMC’s “The Walking Dead” and “Better Call Saul” and BBC America’s “Killing Eve” — to drive awareness and subscribers to its growing suite of streaming services, from drama-centric AMC Plus and SundanceNow to the niche-targeted Acorn TV, ALLBLK and Shudder.The company

ViacomCBS’s Bob Bakish said he and chair Shari Redstone both bought stock last month in a show of faith that the shares are undervalued and investors to will start acknowledge that, with a few prods.

Naman Ramachandran The Indian arm of Sony is planning to produce local content that has the potential to travel globally.Speaking at Singapore’s Asia TV Forum and Market on Friday, Vivek Krishnani, MD at Sony Pictures Entertainment Films India, said: “We are strongly focusing on creating Indian IPs, which can crossover into the mainstream and therefore, to that extent, some of the content that we’re creating for certain OTT [streaming] platforms, does have the ability to appeal to audiences,

Binky Felstead is now a mumma of two to five-month-old Wolfie and four year old daughter India - who she shares with ex Joshua ‘JP’ Patterson - and she says her husband Max Darnton has been brilliant with the new baby. Just months into settling in as a family of four, Binky has now shared her plans of how many more children she would like in the future with her new husband.

Revelación, released March 2021, was already nominated at the Latin Grammys for a music video earlier this year. Now it's nominated for Best Latin Pop Album at the 2022 Grammys, alongside Pablo Alborán (Vértigo), Paula Arenas (Mis Amores), Ricardo Arjona (Hecho a la Antigua), Camilo (Mis Manos), and Alex Cuba (Mendó).

Selena Gomez is, at last, a GRAMMY-nominated artist!The 29-year-old singer earned the Best Latin Pop Album nominationTuesday thanks to her hit EP, Revelación. She’s got stiff competition in that category with Pablo Alborán’s Vértigo, Paula Arenas' Mis Amores, Ricardo Arjona’s Hecho A La Antigua, Camilo’s Mis Manos and Alex Cuba’s Mendó rounding out the nominees.It's been a long time coming for Gomez, who dropped the single «De Una Vez» in January and her EP in March.

Naman Ramachandran Post pandemic, the Indian streaming audience is willing to consume varied content and Netflix plans to serve them more from around the world, as well as a plethora of local content, according to Monika Shergill, VP, content, Netflix India.Speaking at the APOS India media conference on Tuesday, Shergill said, “Over the last couple of years, we’ve had a dramatic growth… what we really seen and learned over the last couple of years, particularly, is that Indian audience is

Congratulations are in order for Freida Pinto, who has announced the arrival of her baby boy with husband Cory Tran.Taking to her Instagram on Sunday evening, the Slumdog Millionaire actress revealed that she had welcomed her first child on her husband's birthday.The 37 year old Indian beauty shared a snap of her resting with her newborn in her arms, while in another image, adventure photographer Cory slept with the youngster on his chest.

Naman Ramachandran Saurav Vishnu’s award-winning documentary short “Tailing Pond” is being expanded into a six-part documentary series with the involvement of “Sex and the City” actor Cynthia Nixon.Nixon narrated the documentary short, which investigates the horrifying effects of uranium extraction on the health of the indigenous population of Jadugora, Jharkhand in East India, where thousands of children are falling ill and dying from radioactive waste pollution.

A mum died in an ambulance crash after breaking her back whilst on holiday in Cuba.

Naman Ramachandran The first series from leading Indian studio Yash Raj Films’ streaming arm YRF Entertainment will be an as yet untitled investigative thriller, Variety has learned.Set in Bhopal, the capital of the central Indian state Madhya Pradesh, the series is budgeted at INR1 billion ($13.4 million) and will be a four-hero project, Variety understands.

Matt Donnelly Senior Film WriterSTX Entertainment is up for sale only 16 months after it merged with Indian studio Eros International.The combined entity, ErosSTX Global, announced Tuesday that it was engaged in talks with a third party to sell the division behind films like “Bad Moms” and Jennifer Lopez’s “Hustlers.” The company has hired Lazard as a financial advisor on the potential transaction.

Wait a minute — did Emma Roberts break up with baby daddy Garrett Hedlund?!

Naman Ramachandran Leading Indian studio Yash Raj Films (YRF) is to enter India’s burgeoning streaming market, Variety has learned.YRF’s streaming business (alternatively know as over-the-top or OTT) will be called YRF Entertainment and is being set up with an initial investment of INR5 billion ($67.1 million) Variety understands.

Disney shares are down 8% in heavy trading, extending a selloff that started yesterday after the media conglom posted weaker than expected earnings and streaming data for the September quarter.