Articles with tag: TV
I Spy Hindutva
Vaibhav Jain May 5, 2008 interacts: 137Attempts have been made to 'saffronize' at both the ground level (by editing textbooks) and by challenging conclusions of scholars who have attempted to rewrite history.
Media: The more things change...
Beena Sarwar Nov 30, 2007 interacts: 77Where only one Najam Sethi was picked up under the Sharif regime, over the past eight years, dozens have been picked up and tortured by Pakistan’s secret agencies.
Musharraf and The Media
Moeed Pirzada Nov 20, 2007 interacts: 15With the imposition of martial law, all TV channels suddenly disappeared. BBC and CNN and Fox all were gone.
The Cost of a Pakistani Journalist Life
Imran Ali Teepu Nov 4, 2007 interacts: 5What matters more? the media coverage or the person covering it? Ask a media owner of newspaper or the television and it’s the coverage.
Where's the news?
Nadeem F Paracha Oct 14, 2007 interacts: 83The so-called "movement against Musharraf" and the unfolding "democratic revolution" seems like a shrinking reality no bigger than a 26-inch TV screen.
Pakistani Twist to “Aliens in America” TV Series
Ras Siddiqui Sep 27, 2007 interacts: 58Are the Pakistani and Muslim community here in America ready for raunchy American teenage humor?
Fox off!
Nadeem F Paracha Jun 12, 2007 interacts: 91What is sicker? State brutality or the brutality being turned into a sensational slide show by the channels to improve their ratings and attract viewrship?
The PG Hamid Talat Khan Show
Nadeem F Paracha Apr 30, 2007 interacts: 25Hello viewers, I am PG Hamid Talat Khan, with another episode of the PG Hamid Talat Khan Show, in which we talk to some of the country’s leading politicians and also take calls from our viewers.
Its media, Jim, but not as we know it
Bhaskar Dasgupta Apr 2, 2007 interacts: 1The traditional media is mutating into something that normal users havent really picked up on yet, what’s going on?
Pandora Box of Television in Pakistan
Shahnawaz Farooqui Feb 21, 2007 interacts: 246How can dozens of TV channels run profitably in a country, where the total volume of the advertising industry is not more that six to seven billion rupees?
To Hug or not to Hug
sameena khan Feb 2, 2007 interacts: 38This is going to last me a lifetime! She gushed to Shah Rukh Khan, the new, dapper and witty host of Kaun Banega Crorepati that started yet another season on Jan 22, 2007.
Ba, Beti aur Bahu
Farzana Versey Apr 5, 2006 interacts: 95Uma Bharti is putting on the loner act for only one reason – to save the BJP’s top rung. The real loner here is Sonia. Her godfathers are ghosts. Are both of them “mind-controlled victims”?
How Real are Reality Shows?
Sabaa Ali Mar 24, 2006 interacts: 10These shows are fired by sensationalism. Unless a complete 24 hour day can be shown, editing will ensure that the mundane will be subdued and the dramatic will be blown out of proportion. Contestants have complained that their personalities have appeared
Culture Cloning
Shaista Rameez Nov 19, 2005 interacts: 417The scariest picture the media presented of the cultural invasion of Pakistan five years back was a little child singing “Aati kya khandala” in the streets
Scoop or Sting
Aniruddha Bahal Mar 20, 2005 interacts: 5If there is a dearth of ideas let me suggest some for India TV
Should I stay or should I go?
Nadeem F Paracha Nov 6, 2004 interacts: 16They say channels like Indus Music and Musik are the two leading reasons behind the quantum growth of pop artists and bands seen in the last two years or so. Is this also why GEO is now planning to come up with its own music channel, AAG?
The new face of Reality
Zainab Mahmood Oct 26, 2004 interacts: 16In a furious race to outdo each other networks are airing reality TV shows with newer and crazier twists every few months.
Contemporary Sit-Coms
ahmad hayat Sep 26, 2004 interacts: 3It is really difficult for people to tell whether I am talking about desi movies or sit-coms. The only apparent difference being that the sit-coms are over-acted upon by a specific set of college dropouts pretending to be yet in their teens.
The Directors’ Cut
Nadeem F Paracha Sep 26, 2003 interacts: 14the advent of all the ARYs, Geos, Indus Visions, IMs, Uni-Pluses and whatnot, has paved the way for a string of new directors/producers in Pakistani tele-plays. Most of these, however, have succumbed to the plastic-coated demands of churn-out television o
