MUMBAI: Riding on the wave of an action-packed India ? Sri Lanka series, NEO Sports Broadcast Pvt. Ltd. continues to entertain cricket fans across the country. Super Star Amitabh Bachchan will be present exclusively on ?Extra Cover?, a programme enveloping the Live Cricket on NEO Cricket on December 12, 2009. Mr. Bachchan along with anchor Manish Vallecha will share their expert comments on the 2nd T20 match to be played between India and Sri Lanka, live on NEO cricket on December 12th at 4 pm.

The viewers watching ?Extra Cover? will witness a very exclusive and interactive session with the Big B. Apart from this, a series of SMS driven contests will be run on NEO Cricket giving its viewers a chance to win loads of prizes.

 
Commenting on the occasion, Mautik Tolia, Executive Vice President ? Programming, NEO Sports Broadcast Pvt Ltd said, ??NEO Cricket is privileged to have the legendary Amitabh Bachchan on it?s show Extra Cover for the first time ever. It is going to be one special experience for the viewers to listen to his unique insights during the 2nd T-20 India vs Sri Lanka match on December 12, 2009. With Team India raring to strike back after the 1st T-20 defeat, this sure is one match and one show that no one can afford to miss.?

MUMBAI: Channel [v]‘s latest promotion activity for its next tent pole launch IDEA [v] THE PLAYER has proved to be a grand success. The channel engaged with over 4.5 lakh unique visitors through a huge online exercise that finally culminated in the largest congregation of supporters for ?The Player?. At the very outset during the call for entry phase, the channel ran an online contest where viewers had a chance to participate and win upto Rs.5 Lacs. The contest from start to end was carved in a well thought pattern which captured the core essence of the show, complete with activation on social networking sites.

Within just a short span of 10 days, the contest received more than eight thousand entries flooding from all parts of the country. On the basis of which 200 participants were short listed to take part in the various online challenges garnering thereby the much needed word-of-mouth for the show.

The final leg of the activation was all the buzz created by the onground event which made the Top 10 ?Players? from all the online contests gather supporters for themselves to be crowned as ?The Player.?

The 10 final contestants were given 48 hours notice to collect as many supporters in person to vouch/vote for them as ‘The Player‘. Each of the 10 contestans were given t-shirts from Channel [v] with their individual player code printed on it.

 
To show support towards the player of their choice, the supporters were required to wear the t-shirt assigned to the player of their choice. The more supporters a contestant gets, the more money he wins. Each supporter wins the contestant Rs.2500, therefore in order to win the complete Rs.5 Lacs, a contestants would have to get a total of 200 supporters along with him. On the evening of 8th December Mumbai witnessed the snowballing of mobs at the Chitrakooot grounds where massive crowds started building up all in support of the respective participants.

Finally Dinesh Nair & Nimish Gulla from Mumbai brought in a crowd of close to 400 supporters together. Dinesh, a wildcard entry contestant from Star Com made a cool sum of Rs. 4.95 lacs for his 198 supporters & Nimish walked away with 4.92 lacs for his close 197 supporters. All in all it was a massive turnout of supporters for The Players.

This is for the first time that Channel [V] has collaborated with Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation for a reality show. The show is a trademark of FOX.

Tune in to Idea [v] The Player starting this Saturday at 7 PM only on Channel [v].

MUMBAI: Zee Tv?s SaReGaMaPa the biggest reality singing competition and the platform that has created great singers for more than a decade, completes a jourey of successful 1000 episodes this Saturday. To celebrate this occasion, Zee TV is all set to create a history on Indian television wherein the entire music industry will come to celebrate the momentous evening.

The star-studded event would witness who?s who of the music industry and all those who made Zee TV?s SaReGaMaPa a success story. Notable singers like Asha Bhonsle, Kailash Kher, Udit Narayan, Abhijeet and many more would be a part of this glorious moment. Talented singers of today like Shreya Ghoshal, Sanjeevani, Kunal Ganjawalla, Raja Hassan and many more who started their singing career on this stage, are expected to grace the occasion and express their gratitude towards SaReGaMaPa. Sonu Nigam, the very first anchor of SaRegaMaPa alongwith Shaan, Aditya Narayanand and ofcourse, Dhairya & Afsha will be the hosts of the evening.

 
The 1000th episode is also the conclusion of Hero Honda SaReGaMaPa MegaChallenge, the eight- weeks series of fierce competition between various states. Vaishali Made who has been the winner of tow series of SaReGaMaPa, is the captain of the Maharashtra team while West Bengal is headed by Abhijeet Ghoshal of Kolkata. The finale to be held on December 11th in Mumbai will be telecast on the evening of December 12th at 8 pm.

MUMBAI: CNBC-TV18 goes "Inside the Mind of Google," giving viewers the fascinating story of how two graduate students took a one-time research project and in barely a decade turned it into a global technological powerhouse. This special show reveals how Google has climbed to its pre-eminent position, its strategy for increasing its already huge footprint, and how the company plans to address the biggest issue in today‘s digital age: privacy.

The one-hour documentary delivers a comprehensive look at Google‘s crown jewel-- its Internet search engine- the most visited web site in the world. In fact, despite formidable competition, nearly two-thirds of Internet searches worldwide are done on Google.

Google Vice President Marissa Mayer speaks on the simple, uncluttered and clean "look" that has made Google a stunning economic success as well as a cultural phenomenon. Further, the show takes viewers inside the "Googleplex," the company headquarters famous for its amazing perks and casual, fun atmosphere and a place where some of the brightest minds in the world actually want to work. It‘s the setting for a corporate culture, created by founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin, that‘s inspired ideas that have transformed the way we interact with information, the Internet and each other. Have you ever wondered how Google makes its money? It‘s "AdWords," Google‘s revolutionary advertising program, which generated more than 95% of the company‘s total four billion dollar profit in 2008.

 
The show profiles a 93-year-old cowboy who recently took his company -- the Paul Bond Boot Company- into the 21st century and began advertising on Google. The documentary reveals how Bond‘s company, like many others, is doing well thanks in part to Google, the Internet‘s most successful inhabitant. The world is going mobile, and Google is working furiously to go along. The show gets an exclusive behind-the-scenes look at a team racing to develop a new technology for mobile phones. With more than four billion mobile phones worldwide, more and more people are accessing the Internet through these devices. With tough competition from the industry leading Apple iPhone, and in an effort to secure a big piece of that growing market, Google is working to improve and market Android, its operating system for mobile phones.

This exclusive one-hour documentary is presented by CNBC Global?s Maria Bartiromo. The show will air on December 12th, Saturday at 7:30 pm and repeat on Sunday 7:30 am on CNBC-TV18.

MUMBAI: BBC World News presented the final programme of the World Challenge 09 series, announcing the Safe Bottle Lamp Project as the winner. The Sri Lankan initiative produces inexpensive lamps from recycled glass as a solution to burn risks in developing countries.

Burns caused by makeshift kerosene lamps are a common problem in parts of Sri Lanka, where a fifth of the population has no access to electricity. These accidents often cause severe pain, scarring and sometimes even death. To prevent these injuries a Sri Lankan surgeon, Dr Wijaya Godakumbura, has designed a simple lamp using recycled glass, which can be easily mass produced at a low cost.

Now in its fifth year, World Challenge remains extremely popular, with more than 127,000 people around the world voting online for their favourite finalist. The final programme airs on BBC World News this weekend, showcasing the presentation ceremony hosted by the BBC?s award-winning presenter Zeinab Badawi. The Safe Bottle Lamp Project will receive a US$20,000 prize grant from Shell. Details will also appear in Newsweek magazine.

Two runner-up projects will each be awarded US$10,000 by Shell. The first runner-up is Danamon Go Green, an Indonesian initiative dedicated to converting traditional market waste into organic compost to be distributed amongst local farmers. Second runner-up is BTTR Ventures, an American project that aims to turn one of the largest waste streams in America into a highly-demanded, nutritious and valuable food product for local consumers.

 
Paul Gibbs, Head of Programmes, BBC World News says: ?Over the last five years, the unique projects featured in World Challenge have continued to amaze and inspire BBC World News viewers. The competition?s ongoing success and popularity illustrates an unwavering interest globally in the field of sustainable development.?

Rhona Murphy, Publisher and Managing Director, Newsweek International says: ?World Challenge continues to cast a wide net for sustainable ideas that benefit people - and the planet. Newsweek is proud, with partners Shell and BBC World News, to celebrate the fifth anniversary of this global call to action.?

Bjorn Edlund, Executive Vice President, Communications, Shell says, "Organisations and businesses of all sizes, including Shell, are increasingly looking for technologies and ways of doing business that have a more positive impact on the environment. It‘s humbling to see so many small projects achieving this against such challenging circumstances and at Shell, we are pleased to honour and support all those involved in World Challenge, and particularly the winning project, for their outstanding achievements."

World Challenge is a global competition rewarding grass roots projects that give something back to their communities. It is run by BBC World News, the BBC?s international news channel, and Newsweek, the weekly global current affairs magazine, in association with Shell. To mark the fifth anniversary, this year?s series included a special celebratory programme, World Challenge Five Years On, looking back at previous winners and how the projects have developed since.

MUMBAI: This week, Omar Qureshi helps his audience decide which of the two most awaited movies would be a worthy watch over the weekend. The famous movie critic shares his take on the two most awaited movies of the season? the sequel to the Twilight Saga...New Moon and the Ranbir Kapoor starrer Rocket Singh ? Salesman of the Year.

To begin with, Omar reviews Rocket Singh ? Salesman of the Year, which features the current heartthrob of the country Ranbir Kapoor and the pretty debutant Shazahn Padamsee. With all the recent hits given by Ranbir Kapoor, this movie too holds high expectations from the audience. Rocket Singh - Salesman Of The Year is about a salesman named Harpreet Singh Bedi (Ranbir Kapoor) who has just graduated, and his marks are, well, let‘s say a little embarrassing. But marks never stopped him from dreaming of an exciting and adventurous career, and they never will. He takes a deep, positive breath and dives into the world of sales, rumoured to be an ultra cool career for all smart people blocked from entering medical, engineering or business schools by brainless entrance exams.

 
It‘s everything he dreamt of, with its smooth dressing, smoother talking men and women who can sell ice to an Eskimo, dreams to an insomniac, and a lifetime mobile connection to a dying man. But soon, his idea of success begins clashing with the strange ways of these ‘professionals‘ and ‘bosses‘ he looked up to. The story is about how he slowly becomes a conman and how he starts operating a parallel company within the same company in which he is working without the knowledge of others.

Next is the much awaited sequel to the Twilight, New Moon. The series that made everyone fall in love with vampires. The story continues with Edward leaving Bella, her whole world is turning upside down. With Bella‘s heart broken, she turns to Jacob (Jake) her best friend to fill the void that was left by Edward. As Bella spends more time with Jake, she learns that there are more than vampires in the town of Forks.

So tune in to ?The ZoOm Review Show? find out which movie definitely is worth a watch this weekend on Friday, December 11, 2009, 7:30pm only on ZoOm.