| While news channels must've enjoyed excellent TRPs by continuously airing the "kiss", on Great Indian Laughter Challenge II contestants were happily churning joke after joke related to the episode with anchors Shekhar Suman and Navjot Singh Sidhu thoroughly enjoying themselves. |
| The show that wrapped up on Star One last week made one thing clear. To say that our sense of humour is pathetic is an understatement. It's banal, disgusting and crass. The more unbearable the jokes, the better the chances of winning the grand title. This time the grand finale was a sorry spectacle. |
| What really is a winner is Meow Mix House on Animal Planet. For those who love cats, this show's for you. I haven't seen it on the telly yet, but on www.meowmixhouse.com, the clips of two episodes that have been aired on the channel are delightful (if very short). |
| Meow Mix House is basically a spoof on the reality show genre, with about 10 cats living together and one getting voted out every week. A good break from boring television serials where characters take a 20-year leap (read Kyunki Saas Bhi Kabhi Bahu Thi, where protagonist Tulsi Virani is now 60 years old while Ba, another popular character, is 104 years old), or serials in which women howl and cry, vamps shriek and shout and villains plot and kill. |
| Then there are serials that are hell bent on playing Hindi film songs in the background and showing love scenes that are only getting bolder. Last heard, Viraasat, the new serial on Star Plus, is replete with such scenes and is helping the channel fuel TRPs. |
| While Hindi serials, despite all the tadka, look bland, on Times Now, Life's Like That gets a thumbs up. Aired every weekend, the programme, anchored by Geetanjali Kirloskar, takes on interesting topics. |
| From individuals explaining why they ventured into that extra-marital affair, to youngsters lambasting the call-centre jobs where, as one of them revealed, "I had to take permission to even go to the loo," the hour-long programme is entertaining and effective. |
| And finally, after Yash Raj Films' tepid effort of getting Aamir Khan and Kajol to interview each other before the release of Fanaa, it was "the making of Krrish" by Filmkraft that turned out to be a winner with Hrithik Roshan showing off his martial arts skills to the hilt. |
| Sadly, Roshan junior was dull in his performance at the IFFA awards aired on Star Plus recently. Plus, there was no Shah Rukh Khan, no cameras zooming in on Aishwarya Rai (I doubt she was even there) when Salman Khan kicked his hands and feet all over the stage, and no cameras on Rekha when Amitabh enacted a sequence from Black on stage. |
| Barring the Bachchan khaandan, an occasional Rani, Rishi Kapoor, Preity Zinta and Roshan bahu Suzanne, there were hardly any cats in sight. |
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