The Office has enjoyed so much success over the past nine years that it’s easy to forget it wasn’t the first workplace-based series to grace our screens. Some of television’s finest sitcoms have revolved around a single place of employment. We look at some other workplaces which need mention. Deadliest Catch Workplace: Sea The Alaskan fishing show points [...]
Colors’ upcoming season (6) of Jhalak Dikhhla Jaa has gotten in an interesting line-up of contestants in singer Shaan, actress Drashti Dhami, Siddharth Shukla, Meghna Malik, Aarti Chhabria, Laurien Gottlieb, amongst others. Though the name of Karanvir Bohra has also been making rounds for a while now. Along with him, the ace comedian Suresh Menon [...]
BBC America’s new TV series Orphan Black is an edge of the seat thriller about a woman who steals the identity of her look alike which in turn triggers a series of events that have far reaching consequences. There are several philosophical questions that one comes across while watching BBC America’s new TV show Orphan [...]
A mix of Dexter and Sherlock, Hannibal isn’t exactly a watch-while-you-dine kind of series. Apart from the cannibalism, a sure appetite killer, the series is too intense and demands your full focus. NBC’s recent foray into the world of psychotic killers — Hannibal — is one of the most intense dramas in this genre. The series [...]
Sundance Channel’s new drama Rectify is one of the best TV shows of the year and it’s extremely poignant in its style of depicting how one man, who has been sentenced to prison for almost 20 years, struggles to fit into the world around him. There are so many good American TV shows these days [...]
The secret history of Leonardo da Vinci’s tantalising life comes alive on the new series Da Vinci’s Demons. In a land of myth, and a time of magic, the destiny of Florence rests on the shoulders of a young heretic — Leonardo Da Vinci. Or so the makers of Starz’s new series would have us believe. [...]
You have known him as Morpheus in the Matrix movie series, now see Laurence Fishburne as Jack Crawford in the much talked about series on AXN, Hannibal. Here’s what the actor had to say about his new role. Q: What do you feel about playing Hannibal? Laurence Fishburne: I don’t necessarily have a set idea [...]
The workplace makes for a good setting for television shows. Proof being that so many shows revolve around this very premise. We take a look at some of the best bosses on TV. Who knows your boss might just get inspired.
In a season full of intense drama and thrills, Bluestone 42 lends just the comedic relief you need. As sitcoms go, this one is pretty much off the charts. BBC 3’s new comedy is centered on a British bomb disposal squad in Afghanistan. Nothing brings out the gallows humour quite like being on the frontlines [...]
Even as Top of the Lake is dark and disturbing, the seven-part mini-series is a strangely compelling drama that sucks you in despite your best efforts. Not just another police procedural: If you’ve liked The Killing, you’re going to dig this. Detective Robin Griffin (Elizabeth Moss) has returned home to visit her dying mother when [...]
It’s David vs Goliath as Rajasthan take on Mumbai’s might
Kolkata: They have shown remarkable fighting spirit despite the demoralising spot-fixing scandal and the Rajasthan Royals will now look to upstage the mighty Mumbai Indians in the second qualifier here tomorrow to book, what would be, a dream final berth in the Pepsi IPL. On paper, Mumbai Indians may appear stronger but Rajasthan will be [...]
21 lawmakers back Chandigarh-born as top US judge
Washington: Ahead of an expected Senate vote on the nomination of Chandigarh-born Indian-American legal luminary Srikanth ‘Sri’ Srinivasan to a top US court, 21 lawmakers have penned their support for him. Srinivasan, 46, currently principal deputy solicitor general of the US last week won unanimous approval from the Senate Judiciary Committee for his nomination as [...]
It was like bereavement: Dravid on spot-fixing
New Delhi: Rajasthan Royals skipper Rahul Dravid says dealing with the turmoil caused by the spot-fixing scandal, which has left his team’s reputation in tatters, has turned out to be as tough as handling “bereavement in some ways”. “I would not lie it was a very tough phase for us. It was a blow to [...]
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Reporter’s diary: Waste not flowers
A flower is most beautiful when it is in the garden, like a deer or a lamb seen in its natural habitat. If this wisdom is known to the mayor and the GHMC, they would not have wasted several hundred lovely flowers at the function declaring the GHMC’s plan to open 14 biodiversity parks on [...]
Reporter’s diary: Bravo, Naidu
TDP leader Chandrababu Naidu is a visionary. Few will doubt this considering what he did to give Hyderabad a modern face, and many of his welfare schemes are now implemented (of course, renamed after Rajiv Gandhi or Indira Gandhi). But many could not understand his logic of asking for a ban of `500 and `1,000 [...]
Reporter’s diary: Who’s this footloose at CCS?
For some time now, staff in the powerful central crime station are being cowed down by a sada home guard who is said to be close to a senior IPS officer. CCS staff whisper that he is the eyes and ears of the officer and therefore gets a free run. Recently, when three ruffians who [...]
Reporter’s diary: Jubilee Hills show
Talking of thick skinned civic officials, one could take a look at the picture above. Here the building contractors of the rich and the mighty make insulting gestures at law and the GHMC. It seems to say, “Right to walk? Forsooth! Building rules? My Right Foot!”
Reporter’s diary: GHMC, practice what you preach
So the GHMC preaches about how cleanliness is next to godliness and has all sorts of clean and green quotes in every other corner of its office and parks. But if you walk into the head office, you’ll wonder what stops the staff from practicing what they preach. The entire office is permeated with the [...]
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