Author: Arabian Media staff

The 18th edition of the TATA Indian Premier League (IPL) emerged as a record-breaking season, crossing a combined global viewership of over one billion across TV and digital platforms, according to data released by JioStar, the league’s official broadcast and streaming partner.Despite a mid-season suspension, the tournament reported 840 billion minutes of cumulative watch-time, marking the highest in its history. On linear television, Star Sports delivered 456 billion watch-time minutes and recorded the highest average TV ratings across demographics. The final match on TV reached 169 million viewers and registered 15 billion minutes of watch-time—both all-time highs for a T20…

Allison Tolman is thrilled to be working in Los Angeles, on a critically acclaimed half-hour show that has aired 18 episodes. She also feels a little guilty. “The side effect is survivor’s remorse,” says the star of NBC’s St. Denis Medical. “It’s odd to be getting good news when no one else in town is. You feel like you can’t talk about work.” But Tolman did talk about work over Zoom in May, revealing how her new gig as workaholic nurse Alex is a career first, the lessons of her Fargo success and why she’s still not sure Hollywood knows…

JENNIE had a pretty rough time taking on the infamous Hot Ones challenge. During her appearance on the web series Thursday (June 19), the BLACKPINK star — who admitted early on that she doesn’t eat spicy food — began the episode with optimism, but ended up crying for help and running tearful laps around the table after facing the fiery gauntlet of hot wings. “In my daily life, I have nothing — no spice in my life,” JENNIE told host Sean Evans at the top of the show. “I don’t like spicy food or anything to do with spice. If…

More than two decades ago, 28 Days Later helped bring the zombie genre back to life. The film starred Cillian Murphy as Jim, a bicycle courier who awakens from a coma to discover that he is among the survivors of an incurable virus that has decimated the U.K. Screenwriter Alex Garland knew director Danny Boyle and producer Andrew Macdonald after the trio worked on the 2000 feature adaptation of Garland’s novel The Beach that starred Leonardo DiCaprio. Garland, who was a fan of George Romero’s 1968 Night of the Living Dead as a teen, was getting pizza with Macdonald when…

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. The public perception of a CEO’s personal brand is paramount. People don’t care about performative social media posts, and are suspicious when leaders always say “the right things”. Instead, they want to know that the companies they invest in are led by authentic leaders who speak to their values, principles and vision for the future.This era calls for authentic human branding. The most trusted companies are led by executives who bring clarity and transparency to the forefront, and don’t allow the necessity to look perfect to distract from the brand being real.…

With three weeks left to go, James Gunn and DC Studios‘ Superman is tracking to open in the $135 million range at the domestic box office. If that forecast is right, Superman would land high up on the list of DC openings, although it would lag well behind the $166 million domestic debut of 2016’s Batman v Superman: The Dawn of Justice, not adjusted for inflation. At the same time, it would come in safely ahead of the last solo Superman movie, Zack Snyder’s 2013 film Man of Steel ($116 million). Opinion, however, is sharply divided as to just how high Superman…

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. AI, although established as a discipline in computer science for several decades, became a buzzword in 2022 with the emergence of generative AI. Notwithstanding the maturity of AI itself as a scientific discipline, large language models are profoundly immature.Entrepreneurs, especially those without technical backgrounds, are eager to utilize LLMs and generative AIs as enablers of their business endeavors. While it is reasonable to leverage technological advancements to improve the performance of business processes, in the case of AI, it should be done with caution.Many business leaders today are driven by hype and…

Elliot Page and his Pageboy Productions are showing love to the documentary A Deeper Love: The Story of Miss Peppermint by signing on as executive producers of the Oriel Pe’er-directed film. The news comes just days ahead of the 80-minute documentary’s world premiere at Frameline49 in San Francisco on June 26. A Deeper Love examines Peppermint’s transformation from making history on RuPaul’s Drag Race and Broadway (Head Over Heels) as the first out trans woman of color to utilizing her platform as an activist for LGBTQ equality. The film, which has been in the works for years and features never-before-seen footage,…

Trace Cyrus Accuses Dad Billy Ray Cyrus of Missing Grandma’s Funeral to Attend Fashion ShowMiley Cyrus says she wasn’t the one having a party in the U.S.A. on the set of Hannah Montana.  According to the “Flowers” singer, she was blamed for smoking weed on the set of the Disney Channel show, when it was actually her dad Billy Ray Cyrus who was flying high. During an appearance on the June 19 episode of Sorry We’re Cyrus, her mom Tish Cyrus asked about a “core memory” from Hannah Montana, which ran from 2006 to 2011. “Dad smoking pot and everyone…

A group of 110 bike taxi drivers from ride-hailing platforms like Ola, Uber, and Rapido met with Karnataka Health Minister Dinesh Gundu Rao and Dasarahalli MLA S Muniraju on Thursday, days after the state banned bike taxis. The team of drivers, all part of Namma Bike Taxi Association, urged the government to reverse its crackdown and submitted a petition on behalf of drivers across the state, demanding legal recognition of bike taxis and a policy framework to avoid confusion. This meeting followed a series of open letters that were sent to Chief Minister Siddaramaiah, Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge, and MP…