Amma Only, On Prime Time

Never have Indian television channels been subjected to the frenetic pace, frenzied reporting and commentating as they all did on Tuesday, December 6 when J. Jayalalitha wa...

Snakes In The Living Room!

Snakes In The Living Room!I can’t believe this that our desi news channels have no clue about geographic locations in

various cities. Take for example, early ...

True Review Television - Doordarshan’s Tribute To Mothers

Last Sunday, which was also Mother’s Day, as I watched the Prerna Awards on DD National, I was overwhelmed by the stories narrated on stage by Daughters who acknowled...

True Review Television - Bollywood On Prime Time

Dia Mirza is yet another Bollywood denizen to walk into the small screen. Known more as a conservationist rather than just an actor, one couldn’t have possibly though...

True Review Television - Documentaries, In Search Of A Platform

An Oscar recognition for a documentary is a win-win situation, in most parts of the world. Though news channels pick up human interest stories and flash them predominantly ...

Content Makeover

Television channels are known to have shrugged their shoulders at non-Hindi preferred viewers. The argument being: these eyeballs aren?t money spinners. It is indeed ironic...

Few Proponents Of Locally Produced English GEC Shows?

English GECs have always faced the ‘acquired’ versus ‘original local content’ dichotomy. We explore the reasons why the genre has not experimented w...

How Automating Evolution Could Give Machines Imaginations.

Imagine if, decades from now, a computer spat out a brilliant design for a vehicle so novel that we humans have no choice but to call it an act of imagination. One day, Uni...

True Review TV - Oh, The Fickle Viewers!

As Dil Ki Baatein Dil Hi Jaane wraps up in mid-August, one hopes for a dignified end. The show is being unceremoniously guided out because viewers in the interiors don?t id...