Office Office

SAB TV is all set to bring back Pankaj Kapoor starrer Office-Office.

<em>Office Office</em>, that award winning rib tickler is making a comeback to Indian television after a hiatus of two years. But this time round, the show will not air on Sab TV, the channel it originally launched on, but on one of the Star channels. There will be no modifications to the original format on the show, that will air in the next two months on either Star Plus or Star One. Eagle Video Films' Rajeev Mehra, the producer of the show says, "Yes, we are coming back with <em>Office Office</em>. And it is going to be the same; there will be no major changes in the show."

The Batliwallas have taken over Sony's backyard. Literally. The latest additions to the Sony programming portfolio, Jamshed, Shahrukh, Gulshan and Meherbanoo Batliwalla are a crazy lot, occupying a tastefully done up Parsi cottage right behind the Sony corporate office in suburban Mumbai. They look curiously like the family that inhabits <em>Kumars at No 42</em>, but then, that's understandable. Sony's bought the rights to the show and Parsi-ised it at the hands of the inimitable J D Majethia, maker of rib ticklers like <em>Khichdi</em> and <em>Sarabhai vs Sarabhai</em>.

The Technical, Trade and Programming Nite of the Indian Telly Awards 2004 was a spectacular precursor to the Popular Nite that follows on 19 November It was a dazzling night, alright!