Zee Bangla launches the first sketch comedy show in Bengali TV, Apur Sangsar “ conducted by Saswata Chatterjee (Bob Biswas from Kahani fame). It is a family circus where there are neither lions nor jokers yet you shall swing in the trapeze of laughter. Apus family includes Sarbojaya, the widowed mother of three sons who is obsessed with Dev the Superstar and in prayers she chants that her eldest son Apu, a bank employee be like him. Whereas the youngster sons Topu, an aspiring poet and Dipu, a filmstar by heart, are both unemployed. To add to it Apus wife, Sharmila, is an aspiring actress who got married to Apu just because he stays close to the film studios. Last but not the least the garnishing comes in the form of Dhananjoy, the male help in the house, who is always upto never ending mischief. In addition Celebrity Guests will be present in every episode to add on to the comedy confusion.
From KQED in San Francisco and the Virus Laboratory of the University of California, Berkeley, comes a distinguished series of eight half-hour programs on the nature of the virus. Prepared using a National Science Foundation grant, the series is designed to explain to the viewer some of the basic facts about viruses, those structures so essential to life and health, facts which for the most part have only been discovered in the past twenty-five years. Drawing on advanced scientific techniques such as microcinematography, electron microscopy and freeze drying, as well as on animation, large-scale models and drawings, the programs combine lectures with demonstrations to give the viewer an extremely vivid picture of this complicated topic. Particularly emphasized are facts about the virus' relation to bacterial disease, to polio, and to cancer, and new information about viruses which may not yet be generally known to students of biology or to the non-scientific public.
No taboo puppet show explores the often unexamined corners of Japanese society. The guests that appear on “Nehorin Pahorin” are all regular people involved in interesting subculture spaces or activities that rarely get mainstream media attention.
The guarantee of anonymity enforced by the decision to turn every visitor into a pig puppet prompts those on the show to go into greater detail about their story, whether they worked as a secretary for a member of the Diet or became addicted to host clubs.
Country music variety/talk show featured performances by country artists, comedians, and other performers, along with interviews and discussion of the country music industry.
Split Screen was a television series that originally aired from 1997 to 2001 on IFC. The series focused on independent filmmaking in America and was hosted by John Pierson. Split Screen featured segments from many notable filmmakers, actors, and actresses including: Kevin Smith, Spike Lee, Matt Damon, Edward Norton, Buck Henry, Wes Anderson, Steve Buscemi, John Waters, John Turturro, Christopher Walken, Richard Linklater, Errol Morris, Miranda July, and William H. Macy.
The comedy panel show that gets ahead of itself by running out in front of the news cycle. As the world goes off script it is time for a show that takes a long, hard and hilarious look at “what happens next”.