If last year turned out to be an extremely star-studded one for the small screen, 2011 looks set to be no different. Entertainment channels have lined up innovative reality shows with Bollywood A-listers like Shah Rukh Khan, Hrithik Roshan and Mallika Sherawat.
Television will be quite a battleground in the coming months with innovation and experimentation being the key drivers, say channel spokespersons.
"Playing safe will be the most unsafe thing in 2011," warns Saurabh Tewari, head of programming-Fiction, Imagine TV.
Imagine TV is bringing King Khan's magic with Zor Ka Jhatka, the Indian version of internationally popular adventure show WipeOut.
TV will be high on glamour with Bollywood hunk Roshan (top right) and sultry actress Sherawat (top left) making their debut with STAR Plus' Dance Olympics and Colors' Chak Dhoom Dhoom Team Challenge respectively.
Other Bollywood beauties — Preity Zinta and Lara Dutta —have been offered to host Colors' Guinness World Records, Ab India Todega, but final announcement is yet to be made.
Tinseltown's original disco dancer Mithun Chakraborty will retain his position on Zee TV's Dance India Dance Doubles show.
Another season of Kaun Banega Crorepati with megastar Amitabh Bachchan on Sony, and a follow-up to STAR Plus' successful cookery game show MasterChef India 2 too is in the offing for 2011, apart from the sixth season of Sony TV's hit singing reality show Indian Idol.
