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English general entertainment channel Star World will launch five new shows in different genres – comedy, crime and drama.

Brand initiative as “full load of training in March, the watch includes Dexter, Mr. Sunshine, giving hope, Las Vegas and the community.

Star World is to strengthen its Torrentz initiative, launched last month to combat piracy in the channel. Bringing the latest and best show in Hollywood this month is Mr. Sunshine, and “Raising Hope. Carrier says it will also play an important role in the solution recommendation system for its viewers with new offerings, they can see.

Star India GM, senior VP, English Channels Saurabh Yagnik said, “Star World is committed to bringing the best in English entertainment to its viewers in India. The objective is not only to get the freshest in entertainment but also create innovative ways to engage our viewers with our content across multiple screens and platforms. Our viewers find crime and drama appealing and we are revamping that genre in our 9 and 10 p.m. slot.

“We have been driving this category so far and will continue to do so thereby spurring on the growth of the category overall and our channel specifically. It won’t be long before we also organize live chats with international stars of our channel. The English GEC space has tremendous potential for growth and we are continuously innovating, listening and coming up with new initiatives that fulfill viewer expectations.”

Former ‘Friends’ star Mathew Perry stars in ‘Mr. Sunshine’ which is also his own production. He will guide viewres on the dos and don’ts of overcoming a mid-life crisis at 40. The show is based on a concept by Perry, which he planned to co-write, star in and produce. Ben Donovan (Perry) is the sports arena manager for the Sunshine Center, a second-tier arena in San Diego. He goes through a mid-life crisis when he turns 40, while dealing with the unusual demands of his job and his unpredictable boss.

The show starts on 26 March and airs every Saturday at 10 pm.

Another show, Las Vegas, kicks off on 7 March and airs Monday-Friday at 9 pm. It will showcase all one needs to know about the high-stakes and glamorous world of Casinos and its underbelly. It focusses on a team of people working in the fictional Montecito Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada—dealing with issues that arise within the working environment, ranging from valet parking and restaurant management to security.

Following that at 10 pm is Dexter. It is a crime drama about a serial killer who only kills serial criminals. Dexter Morgan is played by Michael C Hall, a serial killer who works as a blood splatter analyst. The series shows him balancing an everyday life with his secret identity, all the while keeping up a facade of normality.

Community is a sitcom about a group of students studying at a community college in Colorado. Community centers on Jeff Winger (Joel McHale), a suspended lawyer who was forced back into school after his college degree is deemed invalid. The series focuses on Jeff’s experiences while attending the Greendale Community College in Greendale, and the people he meets there. It kicks off on 14 March and airs Monday-Friday at 11 pm.

Another comedy raises the hope, which involves 23-year-old who has to raise her child, conceived by a single night with the help of his family imperfect baby’s mother (who killed multiple partners) is sentenced to death and executed when the baby is only six months. Begins March 26 and will air every Saturday at 10:30 pm.

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There are a few ways to look at the jam-packed two-hour season finale of “Grey’s Anatomy.” It was a cleaning-out of a couple of characters that were going nowhere; it was a whirlwind tour through a bunch of long and drawn-out romantic story lines; and it gave several actors massive, Emmy-baiting showcases.

But mostly, it was an absorbing and suspenseful story that went just a little off the rails from the sheer amount of business heaped upon it.

It began with Gary Clark, who’s been suing the hospital over the death of his wife. He showed up with a gun and almost immediately did away with the little used Dr. Reed Adamson, one of the Mercy West imports, in the supply room.

More significantly, he shot Alex, who dragged himself into an elevator where he waited patiently to be discovered — much like Carter once did in the famous “Carter and Lucy get stabbed” sequence on “ER,” in the shadow of which this episode inevitably exists. When Reed’s body was discovered, the hospital went into lockdown.

Meanwhile, Lexie and Mark found Alex and dragged him into a conference room, where Mark cut him open and Lexie stuffed balled-up surgical gloves in his mouth to keep him from screaming. (Seriously, pretty intense, this whole thing.) Their battle to save Alex was on.

In the most harrowing story of the episode, Clark came into the room where Bailey was hiding with Percy and a patient named Mary (played by Mandy Moore). Bailey heard Clark ask Percy if he was a surgeon, and when Percy said yes, Clark shot him. So when Clark dragged Bailey out from under the bed (yikes!) and asked her if she was a surgeon, she lied and said she was a nurse. Once Clark left, Bailey’s battle to save Percy was on.

Meanwhile, Meredith was elsewhere in the hospital, happily learning that she was pregnant. But before she could tell Derek, Clark found and shot him as a horrified Cristina and Meredith looked on from the opposite walkway. (It must be said: It was a very nicely composed sequence). Meredith and Cristina’s battle to save Derek was on.

Down in the OR, Owen and Teddy were mid surgery when the lockdown began. They had to move the patient, making Avery the only one there to receive Meredith and Cristina when they brought Derek in. This left only Cristina to do Derek’s surgery.

But when Clark found them (he really got around), he put a gun to Cristina’s head and demanded she stop working on Derek. A horrified Meredith and a conveniently arriving Owen looked on as Avery bluffed Clark into thinking Derek was dead long enough for Clark to leave — and then, naturally, they saved Derek’s life anyway.

Alex was spared, too. Lexie barely survived an encounter with Clark herself, then announced to the half-conscious Alex that she loved him. This fact was not lost on Mark, who proposed to her last week. Lexie didn’t even mind when Alex briefly mistook her for Izzie in a state of delirium, so their relationship seemingly is on track.

Not everybody is so lucky: Owen picked Cristina over Teddy, but Cristina had already dumped him by then, so it’s not quite clear whether she intends to take him back.

But you can’t win them all. When Bailey heroically dragged Percy through the corridors of the hospital only to find that the elevators were stopped for the lockdown, she realized there was no way to get him to the OR and that he would die. She sat on the floor with him, cradled his head in her lap and stayed with him until he died. So that’s two Mercy Westers who didn’t find spots in the story and got themselves killed as a result.

Much of the episode worked, until one part that felt like it had been tacked on for no good reason: Meredith miscarried while all the madness in the OR was developing.

There was a lot to like about the episode: Bailey’s devastated explosion of temper at the elevators, Cristina’s speech to Meredith about how she herself couldn’t operate on Derek with Meredith in the room, and the scene in which Webber calmly talked Clark into killing himself to end the standoff.

But the miscarriage felt very much like an add-on, not quite earned. Having a pregnancy announced and lost in the same episode seems manipulative, and not really up to what was going on the rest of the time.

The other unsuccessful segment involved Arizona and Callie, who once again bickered annoyingly during an otherwise tense and serious story. They then got back together once again because they papered over their child issues again, with Arizona apparently agreeing to have kids even though she still doesn’t actually seem to want them.

All in all, it was a very well-done finale, but it got away from the writers just a little at the end. With the shooter seemingly everywhere you didn’t want him and everyone trapped with precisely the most dramatic person possible, it got a little ridiculous.

But in the end, the acting — including big nights for Chandra Wilson, Sandra Oh and Ellen Pompeo — carried it off.

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