NEW DELHI: Make this summer vacation even more enjoyable with Discovery Kids’ special treat of three animated adventure movies based on the inspiring and timeless stories of Tintin. In each movie special premiering every Sunday starting May 12th at 10 a.m., Tintin will engage kids with his intriguing escapades, curious mind, riveting investigations and solve the deepest mysteries.

All animated adaptations of one of the most popular comic classics of all times, Tintin movies premiering on Discovery Kids include Tintin and the Calculus Affair airing May 12th, Tintin and the Lake of Sharks airing May 19th and Tintin and the Prisoners of the Sun airing May 26th.

The intrepid young reporter Tintin and his trusted aide Snowy travel around the world accompanied by an interesting cast of characters including Captain Haddock, Professor Calculus and the detective Twins Thompson and Thomson.

Rahul Johri, Senior Vice President and General Manager - South Asia, Discovery Networks Asia-Pacific, said, “This summer vacation kids will be presented with an exciting line-up of television entertainment with the biggest animation series, Transformers Prime and three Tintin movies from Discovery Kids. Tintin will entertain, engage and enlighten the kids with his clever and curious adventures all through the month of May.”

Follow Tintin on his adventures with Discovery Kids’ installment of exciting Tintin movies:

· Tintin and the Calculus Affair: In Tintin and the Calculus affair, mysterious events unfold at Moulinsart, chandeliers explode, glass shatters and mirror cracks. Professsor Calculus is deep in nuclear physics and later, gets kidnapped! His invention – a machine capable of destroying objects with sound waves gets the unwanted attention of the secret services and it is up to Tintin and Captain Haddock to help him keep the machine in good hands. Will Tintin and Haddock outwit the secret agents and find Professor Calculus?

· Tintin and the Lake of Sharks: Shark Lake, the headquarters for a worldwide art theft operation has the criminal mastermind Rastapopoulos behind it all. Will Tintin be able to solve the mystery? Will the evil Rastapopoulos go free? Watch as Tintin uses Professor Calculus’s inventions, and his own good sense and courage, to rescue people and put an end to the schemes of the crooks in Sildavia.

· Tintin and the Prisoners of the Sun: Professor Calculus is kidnapped while Captain Haddock, the Thompson twins and Tintin are condemned to death. How will they escape? Watch Tintin and Captain Haddock continue their efforts to rescue the kidnapped Professor Calculus through the Andean villages, mountains, and rain forests before finding a hidden Inca civilisation in the temple of the Sun.
 

New Delhi: TLC presents British Michelin star Chef, Gordon Ramsay in a new series where he puts Chefs? skills to the test before crowning the best of the best in RAMSAY?S BEST RESTAURANT. In this new series, Ramsay tours the whole of the United Kingdom to seek out the very best British restaurants. Will their food be able to stand a series of rigorous tests? Can the Chefs cope cooking under Gordon?s watch and in a kitchen that is not their own? And how will they fare under the glare of the cameras? Find out, in RAMSAY?S BEST RESTAURANT only on TLC.

RAMSAY?S BEST RESTAURANT premieres on TLC on July 25 and will air every Wednesday at 8:00 p.m.

Gordon and his team will plough through thousands of nominations from the restaurant-going public, scrutinising well-loved restaurants in immense detail. Each competition will focus on a different type of cuisine including Indian, Italian, and British.

Rahul Johri, senior vice president and general manager ? South Asia, Discovery Networks Asia-Pacific said, ?TLC prides itself on consistently introducing new and innovative programming formats that are presented by world famous hosts such as Gordon Ramsay. In RAMSAY?S BEST RESTAURANT, Gordon Ramsay travels the length and breadth of the UK in search of brilliant restaurants that deliver gastronomic perfection. We are sure that Gordon with his keen eye for details will entertain our viewers.?

Gordon will get inside the heads and under the skin of owners, Chefs and their front of house teams, hearing stories of courage and vision from people who have sacrificed everything to achieve their dream of running and owning a brilliant restaurant. In each show, Gordon will pit the contenders against each other in a series of extreme challenges to see who has what it takes to come out on top.

RAMSAY?S BEST RESTAURANT is not simply a search for professional excellence, it is a deep personal journey for Gordon - he will be meeting people every step along the way who, just like him, have an enormous and unyielding passion for cooking. Join Gordon as he discovers the finest, and awards one of them the accolade of RAMSAY?S BEST RESTAURANT.

New Delhi: On 15th April 1912, the RMS Titanic hit an iceberg and sank, claiming the lives of two-thirds of those on board. Everyone knows the story of the Titanic: the fifteen hundred passengers and crew who lost their lives when she hit the iceberg, the fatal shortage of lifeboats, and the heroic band that played on as the ship went down. But, how did water made its path of destruction through the ship and how in just under two hours, laid her and its victims to rest on the ocean floor? What happened afterwards?

To commemorate the 100th anniversary of Titanic?s ill-fated maiden voyage, Discovery Channel brings two special programmes INSIDE THE TITANIC and TITANIC: THE AFTERMATH, recreating the events, using first-hand stories of the survivors. Exploring how the sea water made its way, what happened after 1500 people were left unaccounted for, including the voyage of the ship sent to recover lost passengers, the entirely new forensic system that had to be established to identify the dead, the rarely seen photos taken to aid that identification process, and the impact that echoes through the generations of the victims, the programmes bring new insight into the story. The two-part special will premiere on Discovery Channel on Saturday, 14th and Sunday, 15th April at 8 pm.

Commenting on the programmes, Rahul Johri, senior vice president and general manager ? South Asia, Discovery Networks Asia-Pacific said, ?Discovery Channel continues to build on its commitment to bring exclusive, topical and engaging content for its viewers. A century after the Titanic disaster, Discovery Channel will reveal unparalleled details of what really happened on the ship before and after its tragic hit with the iceberg. Featuring interviews with the descendants, archive footage, unseen photographs and dramatisations, the programmes will uncover unknown aspects of the Titanic story.?

The sinking of the Titanic was the biggest maritime disaster in history and continues to fascinate researchers even after 100 years. Now, for the first time, Discovery Channel?s programmes showcase what happened from the point of view of the killer itself: the Water. Airing on Saturday, April 14th, INSIDE THE TITANIC is a powerful and compelling film recounting an unknown aspect of the Titanic story - exactly how does a ship, that?s thought to be unsinkable, drown on her maiden voyage? Inspired by those who were onboard, INSIDE THE TITANIC dramatises the testimonies of people who witnessed the disaster firsthand. The programme follows the water as it bursts through walls, seeps silently under doors and engulfs freezing passengers. Stories are told through action-led reconstruction of eyewitness reports, drama interviews based on transcripts, and the highest quality effects, including the sounds those on board would have heard as the sea surged through the ship. By following the water, this compelling film reveals exactly how the Titanic sank.

For the families of its victims the impact of the catastrophe resonated down the generations. To air on Sunday, April 15th, TITANIC: THE AFTERMATH provides a gripping account of how families of the Titanic victims found out the truth about what had happened to their loved ones, and how their lives would never be the same again after the sinking. Beginning where other accounts usually end, TITANIC: THE AFTERMATH tells the story of the remarkable mission to recover and identify the bodies of victims. The docudrama reveals how a Canadian team, charged with recovering Titanic?s lost passengers, had to invent a whole new forensics system to identify the dead. Led by Halifax public servant John Henry Barnstead, the team inspired a breakthrough in forensic methodology - a procedure still used in mass disasters today. The experiences of Barnstead, the recovery team and other characters are re-created in exceptional detail in this compelling programme.

Meeting the descendants of three people on-board, TITANIC: THE AFTERMATH reveals the impact of sinking on the fate of their forbears and what happened next. Jock Hume died playing the violin he loved. His grandson, Christopher Ward, travels to Scotland and to Nova Scotia to find out more. John Jacob Astor was the richest man on the ship who perished after ensuring his pregnant young wife was safely aboard a lifeboat. His young wife Madeleine survived and their granddaughter, Jackie Astor Drexel, follows their story. In 1912, John Barnstead was Halifax?s registrar for deaths whose efficient methodology became the model for modern forensics. Now, his descendent, also named John Barnstead, finds out how John Barnstead Senior created a model for future disasters involving mass loss of life. Featuring emotive drama and unseen photographs of the Titanic dead, this is a powerful and moving record of an unknown aspect of the Titanic story.

The three central characters came from different sides of the class divide, but died together as the ship sank. Two of them would leave posthumously born children who would thereafter wear the scars of the disaster. The third would be the man responsible for identifying the victims after death, and whose pioneering forensic work, undertaken under the relentless prying gaze of the world?s media, would define how victims of disasters were treated for years to come. The three men are:

? Scottish violinist Jock Hume of the Titanic band, who heroically played until the end only to have his family scandalously treated by White Star Line after his death.

? Passenger JJ Astor, the richest man on the ship, whose wife and unborn son survived the disaster, only to be ostracised by Astor?s aristocratic family.

? Coroner JH Barnstead, who set up a remarkable and influential system for examining and identifying the victims as they were returned to Halifax.

New Delhi: RA.One represents a significant milestone in Indian cinema. One of the most ambitious and expensive science fiction films with world-class visual effects and animation wizardry, it has proved India?s expertise to produce high quality VFX films. Deconstructing the production of one of the most illustrious films in its one-hour special, Discovery Channel will premiere REVEALED: THE MAKING OF RA.ONE, on Friday, March 30th at 8 pm.

The programme will repeat on Sunday, April 1st at 8 pm. A unique initiative by Discovery Networks, the programme will also simulcast on TLC, Discovery Science and Discovery Channel Tamil.

A celebration of glorious triumphs in innovation and technology, Discovery Channel will provide unique access to various aspects of filming the movie.

REVEALED: THE MAKING OF RA.ONE will provide an account of some of the biggest challenges to produce the film including release of all 3500 plus VFX shots on time. A 5,000- strong team from India, UK and the US, including 400 at Shah Rukh Khan?s own company Red Chillies VFX worked in shifts in 14 studios across the world. A testimonial for its accomplishment, the film has also won the National Film Award for best special effects. Achieving the unprecedented, the movie proved the expertise to create cinema at a global scale. The first to use Dolby 7.1 surround sound, RA.One raised the bar of excellence in Indian cinema.

Commenting on the programme, Rahul Johri, senior vice president and general manger - South Asia, Discovery Networks Asia-Pacific said, "Discovery Channel brings signature mix of compelling, high-end production programmes across genres including, science and technology, exploration, adventure, in-depth and behind-the-scenes glimpses to entertain and inform its audiences. Taking viewers on a cinematic journey, the programme Revealed:

The Making of RA.One will captivate their fantasy about unique filming techniques."

Shah Rukh Khan expressed, "RA.One is a landmark film. It demonstrates the growing confidence and capability of the Indian talent to produce films of global benchmarks. I am happy that Discovery Channel will decode the path-breaking technology and never-seen-before concepts that were used to create RA.One. Viewers will able to appreciate the entire creative process from the closest distance possible. A must-watch for every Indian movie fan."

REVEALED: THE MAKING OF RA.ONE will lift the curtain off the science behind production of India?s much acclaimed science fiction film, revealing how this spectacular film has transformed into reality after crossing numerous obstacles. The programme will delve into the designing of highly stylised action sequences, special-effects, the look of the characters and the sets and will explain the challenges faced by VFX team while making the film.

The experts talk about their experiences through the process, discussing their reactions.

Director Anubhav Sinha said, "When I started working on the special effects of the film, I had the confidence that we have the talent to visualize it and to execute it. Discovery Channel?s programme attributes the genius and hard work that has gone behind creating one of the most technically advanced indigenous films."

Sharing his experience, sound designer <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resul_Pookutty> Resul Pookutty said, "RA.One raised Bollywood?s bar in sound design by taking it to a whole new level.

Discovery Channel viewers will appreciate the significance of good sound as a key element in producing a good movie."

Having an amalgamation of the industry?s best from around the world, RA.One has amazing footage of science in action, stunning photography, realistic imagery and pioneering techniques. Discovery Channel?s programme will admire the visual effects and adulate the Director?s vision.

The programme will also give an overview of how the time was devoted to designing separate software for the characters and the objects. Designed by experts Robert Kurtzman and Tim Flattery, the superhero suits were further enhanced digitally to create an impact of electricity

passing through the suits look real. The challenges, to name a few, ranged from the painstaking time slicing procedure to make the protagonist and antagonist fight in mid-air, to a highly stylised car chase with a crash to a bus, to recreating a miniature CST collapsing into mere rumbles, to the elaborate cloning process to create the 10 avatars of RA.One, to the fight-till-death sequence in the gaming arena, never once compromising with quality. Designing of the antagonist?s face, a sequence where RA.One comes back to life through cube formation and takes the form of actor Arjun Rampal took over a year to produce. The entire team spent sleepless hours on re-creating images which looked real whether it?s the cars crashing or the train going out of control, bent on massive destruction.

Revealed: The Making of RA.One is produced by Red Chillies Entertainment in association with Discovery Channel.