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I can exclusively break the news that TopTV will be adding an Indian bouquet of channels from November that TopTV will be calling Top Star and which will initially consist out of 4 popular TV channels that include
Star Plus,
Star Gold,
Star Vijay and
Channel [V].
I was first RIGHT HERE to break the news last month that TopTV is feverishly working on putting an Indian bouquet together, and now I have all the exclusive details first on TopTV's brand-new Top Star bouquet straight from reliable sources, although TopTV is silent on the specifics. Top Star will debut on TopTV channels 370, 371, 372 and 374 on Monday, November 1 with 4 News Corp. owned Indian channels. TopTV is not talking but I can reveal that this additional Indian bouquet will be free to all TopTV subscribers from November until the end of December. From January 2011 the bouquet will cost an additional R60 per month for those TopTV subscribers who wish to subscribe to Top Star.
According to reliable sources, TopTV has secured great Indian channels for its Top Star bouquet.
Star Plus is a general entertainment channel in Hindi who's channel logo is a ruby-coloured star. It shows mostly family dramas and made-for-TV movies. I can tell you that Star Plus will definitely carry English sub titles on all its shows.
Star Gold is a Bollywood channel and a sister channel to Star Plus. Star Gold will be broadcasting the best of Bollywood movies. Star Gold owns one of the biggest Indian film libraries in the world from classic Bolly to contemporary films in a wide variety of genres. Star Gold will also be carrying English sub titles on all of its movies.
Star Vijay is a Tamil language general entertainment channel but when it debuts on Top Star in November, all its prime time shows will have sub titles, which I'm told will be expanded in time to the whole Vijay schedule. The channel has several soap operas but it is Star Vijay's growing number of reality shows that has seen a dramatic rise in the channel's popularity under viewers.
Channel V - or the
correct spelling which is
Channel [V] - is a music and lifestyle channel that broadcast music videos, special events, music concerts, and a huge number of reality shows, interviews with Bollywood stars.
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