Daily News Snippets: Wed 28th September

B4U to sponsor Diwali event at Trafalgar Square
B4U Network today announced that it will be sponsoring the Mayor of London?s popular Annual Diwali Event, at Trafalgar Square, London on Sunday 16th October 2005. Diwali is the festival of lights and it has religious significance for Hindus, Sikhs and Jains and many communities throughout the capital celebrate it.

?We are delighted to be sponsoring what is arguably the biggest Annual Diwali event in London. At B4U Network, we strive hard to entertain our viewers and the event at Trafalgar Square is an extension of that,? stated Sunil Rohra, CEO of the B4U Network.

B4U Network will be promoting its new interactive services and will be creating a special programme on the event, which be screened on B4U Movies and B4U Music on Diwali, 1st November 2005.

New celebrity chat show for Doordarshan
Kabhi Film Kabhi Life, produced and directed by Saira Banu, is scheduled to go on air on 1st October at 11.30 am.

This weekly programme will have celebrity anchors Farida Jalal, Annu Kapoor, Javed Jaffri and Javed Akhtar, in a frank chat with a top notch star and will air on DD1.

Among the actors being interviewed are Dilip Kumar, Amitabh Bachchan, Madhuri Dixit, Govinda, Hema Malini, Shah Rukh Khan, Rani Mukerji, Aishwarya Rai, Lata Mangeshkar and Salman Khan. (From Mid-Day)