{"id":8744,"date":"2009-11-13T17:36:09","date_gmt":"2009-11-13T17:36:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tat.reddaisytrading.co.uk\/index.php\/2009\/11\/13\/slumdog-millionaire-to-get-uk-tv-premiere\/"},"modified":"2009-11-13T17:36:09","modified_gmt":"2009-11-13T17:36:09","slug":"slumdog-millionaire-to-get-uk-tv-premiere","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/2009\/11\/13\/slumdog-millionaire-to-get-uk-tv-premiere\/","title":{"rendered":"Slumdog Millionaire to get UK TV premiere"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"content\">\n<h3>Channel 4 to screen Oscar winner as part of \u2018India Season\u2019<\/h3>\n<div><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" hspace=\"10\" vspace=\"3\" align=\"right\" width=\"232\" height=\"215\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/Image\/ArticleImages\/SlumdogMillionaire_232x180(2).jpg\"\/>OSCAR winner Slumdog Millionaire will premiere on UK terrestrial television this winter on Channel 4, the broadcaster has announced.<\/strong><\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>Channel 4 will screen the film as part of a special season celebrating India. <\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>The film, which won eight Oscars and seven BAFTAs, was aided in its production by Channel 4\u2019s film-making arm, Film 4. <\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>The \u2018Slumdog Millionaire\u2019 theme will continue into the season with a special Dispatches programme which will reveal the brutal reality of life on the streets and in the slums of Mumbai from the vantage point of four of India&#8217;s real \u2018slumdogs\u2019.<\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>The broadcasters \u2018India Season\u2019 will also feature a number of existing programmes which have been adapted for a single episode to incorporate the India theme. <\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>Among these are The Slumdog Secret Millionaire, in which a British Indian female entrepreneur leaves behind her affluent lifestyle to go incognito in India, and Gordon\u2019s Great Escape which will see chef Gordon Ramsay embark on his first ever trip to India to marvel in the culinary delights of the curry-loving country. <\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>Other highlights from the season will include \u2018Grand Designs\u2019 presenter Kevin McCloud exploring Mumbai\u2019s breathtaking architecture, and an all-night movie tribute to Slumdog Millionaire and Bollywood composer A.R.Rahman featuring screenings of <em>Rang De Basanti<\/em> and <em>Jodhaa Akbar<\/em>. <\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>Also showing is Bollywood blockbuster <em>Om Shanti Om<\/em> starring Shah Rukh Khan, and featuring cameos from the biggest stars of contemporary Indian Cinema. <\/div>\n<p>&#13;\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Channel 4 to screen Oscar winner as part of \u2018India Season\u2019 OSCAR winner Slumdog Millionaire will premiere on UK terrestrial television this winter on Channel 4, the broadcaster has announced. &#13; Channel 4 will screen the film as part of a special season celebrating India. &#13; The film, which won eight Oscars and seven BAFTAs, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11753,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8744","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorised"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8744","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8744"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8744\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}