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For all the fans of sci-fi, there is good news. Star World has come up with a new show "Eureka". It’s about how government has been secretly relocating the world’s geniuses and their families to the town of Eureka. Here daily life straddles the line between the absurd and the ridiculous. U.S. Marshal Jack Carter (Colin Ferguson) learns this when he’s stranded there . The town’s eccentric inhabitants unleash a scientific creation still unknown to the outside world, Carter steps in to restore order and is let in on one of the country’s best-kept secrets.

With TRP metres spreading across the heartland, channels are showing amazing interest in small town stories. If "AmberDhara" talks of conjoint twins from Lonavala, "Bidaai" is set in Agra. Now Star Plus has come up with a story from Kanpur called "Santaan". Move over metros, it is the Hindi heartland that is bringing in the moolah for the channels.

The magic of "Chak De" is refusing to die down. Recently the film has won an award at a film festival in Melbourne, where the film was shot. Sagarika Ghatge, who was in Australia along with the director of the film Shimit Amin and co-actress Tanya to receive the award, says, "It feels simply terrific to receive the award where we actually shot the film." Meanwhile, Shah Rukh recently said it is only his films that give him competition. "Now ’Om Shanti Om’ is the competition for ’Chak De’."

Tired of Bollywood and Hollywood? Here is an option. UTV is launching a new channel that will show only world cinema. Shantonu Aditya, Chief Executive Officer, V&S Broadcasting says, "It is the first of its kind 24-hour channel dedicated to contemporary world cinema. We will show latest box office hits from Japan, Korea, Hong Kong and Iran as well as European and South American movies."Targeted at viewers in the age group of 18-35 the channel will offer the global Indian consumer newer kind of content and entertainment. "The films will have English subtitles. We are building a library of 400 films and some of them have already been cleared by the Censor Board."

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