MUMBAI: As the competition intensifies, the pressure to give their best performance mounts on the contestants of Jo Jeeta Wohi Superstar. After the series‘ first elimination in Friday‘s episode, Saturday‘s episode brings cheer to the show with the first Challenger among the top three performers, Himani, Vineet and Rahul Vaidya moving into the Champions league.

Complete with its highs and lows, the episode has electrifying performances by seven Champions. Challenger, Abhijeet Sawant wins accolades for his performance on the song ‘Alvida Alvida‘ and receives rave responses from the judges while Prajakta witnesses her toughest day as she is faced with a challenge of performing despite having a bad throat. Giving her best performance, she was almost on the verge of quitting the show but changed her mind and decided to stay and take on the challenge. Even the judges supported her in this decision.

While Debojeet and Aishwarya managed to impress the judges with their flawless singing, Rooprekha and Ishmeet were not that impressive. Vishal felt there was an evident discomfort in Rooprekha‘s voice while Ishmeet‘s performance was the weakest of the show.

Stay tuned to watch the latest addition to the Champion in Jo Jeeta Wohi Superstar Saturday, 19th April, 10 pm only on Star Plus.

MUMBAI: NDTV Good Times will launch another series called Free Fall, based on adventure sports, on 21 April at 10 pm.

MUMBAI: Many of the sets resemble the real ones used in the original films. The Saw producers were so impressed, they asked if they could use the bathroom set from Scary Movie 4 for Saw III.

Anna Faris (Cindy) and Regina Hall (Brenda) are the only two cast members to appear in all four Scary Movie films.

TV fans will recognize Regina Hall from her one-season stint in Ally McBeal. In Scary Movie 2, she made fun of Ally star Calista Flockhart.

In the original Scary Movie, Regina Hall played a high school student, even though she was 30 at the time.

Someone is crushed by a car at the end of Scary Movie 4, just like in the previous ones. This time it‘s James Earl Jones, the film‘s narrator.

Most of the special effects in the film were in the parody of War of the Worlds.

This is the first film in the Scary Movie franchise, to be shot in HD.

The movies spoofed in Scary Movie 4 include War of the Worlds, The Grudge, The Village, and Brokeback Mountain.

Scary Movie 4 co-stars Regina Hill, Leslie Nielsen and Craig Bierko are currently starring in another film spoof. The trio reunited for Superhero Movie, a comedy parodying the blockbusters Spider-Man and Superman.

Although she is best known for her role in the Scary Movie franchise, Anna Faris has also starred in Oscar-winning fare like Lost in Translation and Brokeback Mountain.

While Anna Faris is grateful to the Scary Movie films for giving her a start in show business, she also feels that they‘ve limited her options. "[The Scary Movie films] have given me a career, but they‘ve also sort of boxed me in. What really surprised me when I first moved here is that the industry thought of actors as either comedic or dramatic. And I‘m still confused. I understand that maybe some people are better at one or the other, but I can‘t understand why it‘s so divided. I‘ve been able to chip away at that a bit; I think it gets easier as my body of work expands."

A natural blonde, Anna Faris died her hair dark for the first two Scary Movie films so she could resemble Neve Campbell from the Scream franchise.

Scary Movie 4 director David Zucker is a veteran of film spoofs. His earliest film is the 1980 hit Flying High. He also helmed the Naked Gun series as well as the 1986 comedy Ruthless People. Scary Movie 4 reunites the director with his Naked Gun star, Leslie Nielsen.

Film critic Roger Ebert once described Leslie Nielsen as "the Laurence Olivier of spoofs." Some of his other parodies include 2001: A Space Travesty, Spy Hard, Repossessed and Wrongfully Accused.

In Scary Movie 4, Leslie Nielsen plays President Baxter Harris. In reality, his brother was the deputy Prime Minister of Canada.

MUMBAI: Get ready to dive behind the sofa as three brave ghost hunters visit some of the most hair-raisingly haunted sites in New Zealand, from hotels & theatres to the seaside!

Do you believe in ghosts? Three brave New Zealanders are about to find out if they are cynics or believers in the new series, Ghost Hunt. Hosts Michael Hallows, Brad Hills and Carolyn Taylor will put their fears aside while exploring New Zealand‘s haunted sites.
The Ghost Hunt team use a combination of technological gadgets and old fashioned bravado in their pursuit of paranormal activity.

Its a frightening tour and no-one knows this better than host Carolyn Taylor. Since filming Ghost Hunt, Taylor has started sleeping with her light on. "I didnt want to go into each and every location," Taylor laughs. "I was so scared every shoot, it‘s a feeling you just can‘t get used to!"

Taylor had many eerie experiences during filming. "I am prone to seeing strange coloured lights that no-one else can see," she says. "In a few episodes, the video footage showed lights flashing across my face, but I know for a fact I was in a pitch black room. It goes to show Im not making things up!"

Taylor has one message for cynics: "Everyone is allowed their opinion, but whether or not you believe, you certainly can‘t say that the unknown doesn‘t exist!"

This week Ghost Hunt will take you to the heart of Wellington, where we visit a theatre full of famous & active spirits, including a Russian ballet dancer who was allegedly killed there.

MUMBAI: After months of stringent screening and many aptitude tests in Delhi and Mumbai, Kya Aap Paanchvi Pass Se Tez Hain? has hand-picked extremely smart, intelligent and spunky kids to be the classmates on the Paanchvi ki kaksha on the show that is hosted by none other than Shah Rukh Khan. The intelligent batch of classmates includes Shriya Sharma from Palampur, Dheirya Sonecha from Mumbai, Anubhav Motilal from Delhi, Shreeparna Ghoshal from Delhi and Milanjeet Singh Bhatti from Chandigarh.

Premiering on 25 April, 8 pm on Star Plus, Kya Aap Paanchvi Pass se tez hain? is a television game show based on the international Mark Burnett format ‘Are you Smarter than a 5th Grader?‘.

It‘s a question-based game that challenges adults to remember the lessons that they were taught in elementary school. The game takes on a classroom theme, with host Shah Rukh Khan at the head of the class. Five first to fifth-class students, called classmates, are on hand to help contestants earn high marks and win big money. The atmosphere is relaxed and almost casual, even while the possibility of winning a million dollars hangs in the balance. However, the pressure of going back to school for the participant, keeping their reputation intact and taking help from merely a nine-year-olds isn‘t going to be that easy.

Kya Aap Paanchvi Pass Se Tez Hain? on Star Plus is played by a single contestant, who attempts to answer questions taken from elementary school textbooks. Each correct answer increases the amount of money the player banks; a maximum cash prize of Rs 5 crores can be won.

Five classmates sit at school desks to start the game. The contestant selects one classmate to come up and stand at a podium next to her, to help out with answers during the game. All of the kids write down their own answers to each question as the game progresses to both help the contestant and add interest to the game. After every two questions, the contestant must choose another classmate to come to "the front of the class" and take the podium to help him/her if required. Notably, upon getting an answer incorrect or deciding to prematurely end the game, the contestant must state that they are, in fact, not smarter than a Paanchvi Pass.

The contestants can make use of their lifelines in three forms:

Taank Jhaank gives the contestant an opportunity to review his current teammate‘s answer before submitting his own.

Nakal means the contestant may opt not to answer the question at all, but rather, let his current teammate answer for him. Unlike the "Taank Jhaank" cheat, in this instance, the contestant cannot reject his teammate‘s answer & has to go with it.

Bachao, this cheat is triggered automatically if the contestant gives a wrong answer. If the contestant‘s current partner turns out to have the correct answer, the contestant is then ‘saved‘.

The only instance in which two cheats can be used on the same question is if the

contestant opts for Taank Jhaank, rejects the kid‘s correct answer, gives a wrong answer himself, and is then saved by the kid through Bachao. Other than this one scenario, the cheats must necessarily be used individually.

If the contestant makes it to the 11th and final question, he cannot use the classmate‘s help in answering the question even if any of his cheats have not been used.

The kids are bright and add fun, innocence and authenticity to the show. So, play along on Kya Aap Paanchvi Paas Se Tez Hain?, a show that will make for great family viewing with loads of entertainment and edutainment.Get ready to laugh and be laughed at when taking help from our five classmates, besides humbly accepting that, "I am not smarter than a fifth grader".

MUMBAI: As the Premier League Dart series heads towards a stunning finale, it is fast turning into a battle between youth and experience, and Ten Sports, the most watched sports channel in the Sub-continent, will be there each week till the winner is decided for the cash-rich tournament.

With just three weeks remaining, the action promises to be intense and super-charged at the Wembley Arena on Thursday, April 17.

Veteran Phil Taylor, who was undefeated in the first three years of the competition, seems to have recovered completely from his early season setbacks, and is just one point behind league leader and debutant James Wade, who has 16 points from 11 weeks.

But Wayde has the arduous task of taking on third-placed Raymond van Barneveld, semi-finalist in the last two seasons, at Odyssey Arena in Belfast next week, while Taylor has three lowly-ranked opponents in the next three weeks, and his 8-2 win over Barneveld last week is sure to give him an extra dose of confidence.

The top four players at the end of 14 weeks of league stage, head to Cardiff for the playoffs. The semi-finals are to be best-of-21 affair, while the final will be a best-of-31 set match.

Live telecast from Wembley Arena starts at 1:00 am IST on Friday, April 18.