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I guess the title of this post would be self-explanatory to some, and meaningless to others. No, this is not about any urge to document old and historical castles, but rather Castle, the TV series which concluded Season 2 in India. This series was aired from May 3, 2010 on Star World between 10 pm-11pm every week, from [...]

Gary Coleman is dead. Seeing this news on my Twitter timeline suddenly took me back into a time long long ago. Gary was a child actor and probably best known for his role as Arnold Jackson in the hit TV series of the ’80s, Diff’rent Strokes.. a time when TV series were just pure fun! [...]

I was surfing channels when I chanced upon the reality dance show, “Ek Khiladi Ek Haseena”, which showcases the dancing skills of Indian cricketers. While some of the performances were ok, what took the cake was the outfit worn by the host of the show, Sandhya Mridul.

The Indian Information & Broadcasting Ministry has decided to play it’s part in upholding Indian morals and values. The target: The ”chocolate man” in the Axe deo advertisement that has been doing the rounds of all the channels lately. The ministry has asked the Indian Broadcasting Foundation (IBF) to advise channels not to show the ad for the Axe deo, ’Axe Dark Temptation [...]

The Consumer Electronics Show at Las Vegas was the venue for Panasonic to display what is arguably the world’s largest TV at 150 inches. The plasma panel features an 8.84 million-pixel image resolution, and the screen is the equivalent of nine 50-inch sets with an effective viewing area of 11 feet.

ESPN has acquired Cricinfo, the online Bible of world cricket. Cricinfo was founded in 1993 and has more than 7 million monthly users. It was not immediately clear how much ESPN would be paying for this deal. Cricinfo is the next best thing to watching live TV in terms of the ball-by-ball coverage and commentary [...]

It was more out of curiosity than anything else that I happened to tune in to Sunday’s episode of Koffee with Karan, featuring Mallika Sherawat and Sanjay Leela Bhansali. At first glance, it seemed an unusual pairing, but as the show went on, they seemed to find several things in common and got along like [...]