MUMBAI: Star India non-fiction content engine head Monika Shergill has decided to move on from the company after a stint of five years.

Confirming her movement to Indiantelevision.com, Shergill said, "Yes, I have put in my papers at Star. I had absolutely wonderful time at Star and it?s a great organisation to work with."

Though she refused to comment on her next venture, she hinted that she might be associated with Star in future.

Shergill had joined Star in 2007 as programming head for Star One. Later on in December 2009, she was appointed as the non-fiction head of Star Plus. She took over the role of Star India non-fiction content engine head in 2011.

Prior to joining Star, she was with Sony Entertainment Television (Set) for five years as the associate creative head.

MUMBAI: Star India business head - Hindi channels Nitin Vaidya has put in his papers after a short stint of 14 months.

He had joined Star India in May 2011 and was heading Hindi TV channels - Star Plus, Star One (which is now discontinued), Star Gold and Star Utsav.

"Yes I have quit. It was an interesting and excellent experience," Vaidya told Indiantelevision while confirming the development.

Prior to Star India, Vaidya was Zee Entertainment Enterprises Ltd (Zeel) COO - National channels and Zee TV business head.

MUMBAI: Finally it is happening. Star One, the youth-focussed Hindi general entertainment channel from the Star India stable, is going to be replaced by a new channel ?Life OK? on 18 December.

While Star One will cease operations on 16 December, Life OK will go on air on 18 December. The channel will also have a complete new set of programming and packaging sans ?Star? branding.

The channel?s philosophy is ?cherishing what you have?. Life OK will remind and invite everyone to value the things that well and truly matter in life like family ties, relationships, valuing traditions and peace of mind, while in the eternal quest for more.

Among the programming, Life OK will have shows like Devon Ke Dev... Mahadev (8 pm), Tum Dena Saath Mera (8.20 pm), Meri Maa (9 pm), Dil se di dua... Saubhagyavati Bhava?, Sapno Ke Bhanwar Mein and Hum Ne Li Hai...Shapath.

Star India was in the process of transforming Star One since quite some time. It had appointed former Sony Entertainment channel EVP and business head Ajit Thakur as GM for Star One in August.

The decision was fuelled by the fact that seven-year old Star One, which was giving a tough fight to Sony at some point of time, was lagging behind, garnering only 30-40 GRPs (gross rating points) on a weekly basis. At the same time Sab, the comedy family entertainment channel from Sony has also gone way ahead.

NEW DELHI: Even as Star One has announced the second edition of the programme to be aired shortly, the Delhi High Court today upheld the show cause notice issued by the Information and Broadcasting Ministry on the telecast of two episodes (17 and 21 July 2009) of the controversial TV reality show " Sach Ka Saamna" by Star Plus.

Justice S. Muralidhar turned down the plea of Star India, and said that the content shown in the programme was "vulgar, indecent and against good taste and decency".

He said the programme where certain individual volunteers agree to sit on the hotseat after having gone through a lie detector test violated the Programme Code prescribed under the Cable Television Network Rules.

Star Plus had on 27 November 2009 been issued a warning by the Information and Broadcasting Ministry for using language that was vulgar, indecent and against good taste and decency in its programme ?Sach Ka Saamna? through the questions by presenter Rajeev Khandelwal or the answers by the various personalities on the show after a notice issued to the channel on 22 July that year and a personal hearing given later on 8 September the same year.

The Ministry had said the channel should keep Indian ethos and culture in mind while formatting programmes, and enjoined upon it to strictly adhere to this guideline.

The warning was issued under the Uplinking Guidelines, the terms and conditions of the permission granted and the provisions of Section 20 of the Cable Television Networks (Regulation) Act, 1995, asking the channel to strictly adhere to the Programme Code prescribed under the Cable Television Networks (Regulation) Act 1995 and Rules framed thereunder. .

The Channel had been issued a show cause notice for telecast/re-telecast of the programme on 17 July and 21 July as the contents of the programme appeared vulgar, indecent and against good taste and decency. It was observed that the anchor of the above programme sought replies to questions regarding infidelity, incest and other subjects that were not suitable for unrestricted public exhibition, especially keeping in view the Indian ethos and culture.

The questions and replies followed by a polygraph test, resulted in great embarrassment not only to the participants and their families but also to the viewers watching the programme along with their families. The questions appeared offending against good taste and decency; contained obscene words, appeared to malign and slander segments of social, public and moral life of the country and were not found suitable for unrestricted public exhibition.

The Inter Ministerial Committee (IMC) constituted by the Ministry to look into the complaints against violation of Programme and Advertising Codes had previewed the recording of the show and also considered the reply submitted by the channel before coming to its conclusion. It felt that the programmes were not suitable for unrestricted public exhibition. The channel violated Rule 6 (1) (a), (d), (i) and (o) of the Cable Television Networks Rules, 1994 as amended from time to time.