MUMBAI: Star One‘s The Great Indian Laughter Challenge 3 enters its 3rd week with a bang! For the first time ever in the history of Laughter Challenge, will a woman contestant - Aarti Kandpal give the others a run for their laughter! The show will air on 25 May 9.00pm. With loads of fresh comic talent from India and Pakistan, the episode will have the audiences in splits as the contestants put their best foot forward to showcase their wit and characteristic humour! Watch the wonder-duo Shekhar Suman and Navjot Singh Sidhu judge the competition in their trademark style! Catch the stunning Parizaad Kolah and Shonali Nagrani as they sizzle through the show and crack up during the performances.

Produced by Endemol India, a global leader in television and other audiovisual entertainment, TGILC 3 definitely aims to set television screens ablaze!

For unlimited laughter and dhamaal, tune-in to TGILC 3 on Friday and Saturday at 9 pm only on Star One.

MUMBAI: To celebrate the 50th edition of the show, Living Golf spends time with the man who is widely regarded as the greatest player of all-time - Jack Nicklaus.

The Golden Bear, who retired two years ago after playing his final major championship at St Andrews in Scotland, returns to the scene of his emotional farewell to recall that day, talk about his life off the fairways and reflect on a hugely successful career.

LIVING GOLF ‘s Justin Armsden chats to the busy 67-year-old who is travelling around the world and overseeing the development of his thriving golf course design business, with projects currently under construction in no less than 50 countries.

Also in this episode, Living Golf brings you the most recent and first upmarket addition to the Cyprus golfing scene. Built in 2002, it is part of a five-star hotel and villa complex that overlooks the Mediterranean Sea. The show goes off the beaten golfing track to explore the game‘s growth in Cyprus and how the Aphrodite Hills course was built with the preservation of archaeological sites around the course posing a challenge for developers.

Airtimes: Indian Standard Times

Saturday, 2 June at 1700, 2300

Sunday, 3 June at 1300 and 1900

Monday, 4 June at 1900, 2300

MUMBAI: HBO, the world‘s greatest movie channel, returns with season 3 of the Emmy and Golden Globe winning HBO original series ‘Deadwood‘. Find out what happens to the lawless town of Deadwood as the third season of 12 episodes premieres for the first time on Indian television. Created and executive produced by David Milch ( NYPD Blue), the Emmy and Golden Globe winning western drama series will kick off its third season on 4 June at 11 pm and thereafter every Monday after the 9pm movie.

DEADWOOD won five out of 11 Emmy nominations for its second season: Outstanding Cinematography for a Single-Camera Series (James Glennon), Outstanding Costumes for a Series ( Janie Bryant), Outstanding Art Direction for a Single-Camera Series (Maria Caso), Outstanding Non-Prosthetic Makeup for a Series ( John Rizzo) and Outstanding Hairstyling for a Series (Carol Pershing). The HBO Original Series was also nominated for 11 Emmys for its first season and won two (Directing for a Drama Series ? Walter Hill, and Sound Editing for a Series).

The ground-breaking HBO Original Series also boasts of a Golden Globe Award, won by Ian McShane who plays Al Swearengen, the notoriously violent town boss of Deadwood and one of television‘s most scene-stealing villains.

Shruti Bajpai, Country Manager, HBO South Asia said, "HBO ‘s mantra is to bring Indian viewers the best international programming including movies, original productions and acclaimed series. The final season of Deadwood combines artistic excellence with outstanding drama, action and adventure to create yet another path-breaking HBO Original."

In this final season, the lawless era in Deadwood is coming to an end. As the town‘s first elections approach, the strategic alliances that protect hard-earned interests are becoming more critical than ever before. Facing down an unexpected threat from a powerful man aiming to reshape the town in his image, the founders must put up their strongest front yet if they expect to survive.

HBO brings the best of Hollywood by premiering the top blockbuster movies on television first in South Asia through exclusive licensing deals with four major Hollywood studios ? Paramount, Sony Pictures Entertainment (Columbia/ TriStar), Universal and Warner Bros.

Prime time viewing on HBO includes HBO Blockbuster Of The Month, a special television event that premieres a mega blockbuster movie every month, HBO Saturday Nights, which premieres a new box office hit each week throughout the year; HBO Sunday Super Hits, which showcases the blockbuster hits, star-studded hits, favourite genre hits, Asian hits, highly acclaimed hits and so much more. In addition, HBO features at least 3- 4 new movie showcases every month to offer viewers an interesting mix of Hollywood movies based on exciting themes. For more information on HBO log on to www.hbosouthasia.com.

MUMBAI: Love always finds a way in this new comedy series, which premieres on Star World this week! How I Met Your Mother is a comedy about Ted and how he fell in love with his wife Robin. As Rob tells his kids how he met their mother, we get a glimpse into the past as he narrates what happened through flashbacks. Tune into this exciting comedy, "How I Met Your Mother" starting this Thursday, 31st May at 8 p.m. only on Star World.

In the year 2030, Ted (voiced by Bob Saget) gathers his daughter and son to tell them the story of how he met their mother. The story begins in 2005 with Ted (Josh Radnor) as a single, 27-year-old architect living with his two best friends from college, Marshall (Jason Segel) and Lily (Alyson Hannigan). Lily, a kindergarten teacher, and Marshall, a law student, have been dating for almost nine years when Marshall proposes.

Their engagement causes Ted to think about marriage and finding his soul mate, much to the disgust of his friend Barney (Neil Patrick Harris), a womanizer with a lucrative though unnamed corporate job. Ted begins his search for his perfect mate, immediately falling for ambitious young reporter Robin (Cobie Smulders), who quickly becomes part of Ted‘s group of friends. When Ted meets Robin, he is sure it is love at first sight, but destiny may have something else in store.

This series won two Emmy Awards in the year 2006 for outstanding art direction and cinematography in a multi-camera series. Created by Craig Thomas and Carter Bays, the show is drawn from their friendship with Ted based loosely on Bays and Lily based on Thomas and his wife.

So don‘t forget to tune in to the pilot episode of "How I Met Your Mother" this Thursday, 31 May only on Star World!!!

How i met your mother premieres 31 May , Thursday at 8 p.m. Friday at 1:00 a.m., 10 a.m., Sunday at 7:30 a.m.

MUMBAI: This June, get out your boxing gloves and start warming up as PIX gears up to get you with one knockout movie after the other on KNOCKOUT June only on PIX.

Beginning with an ode to Sylvester Stallone every Monday on Perfect 10, PIX brings you the awe-inspiring tale about the struggle of Rocky Balboa. Catch the Rocky series Part I to IV - the movie series that made Sylvester Stallone a living legend.

In 1975, virtually unknown in Hollywood, Sylvester Stallone wrote the script of Rocky in three days after attending a boxing match between the small-time underdog Chuck Wepner and the great Muhammad Ali and then was born Rocky Balboa.

Rocky, of course, was the fictitious alter-ego of the multi-talented Stallone. After a hard round of negotiations with Irwin Winkler and Robert Chartoff, a team of experienced and knowledgeable filmmakers, Stallone struck a deal wherein they allowed him to play the title role. The rest as they say is history.

Rocky II took off from where Rocky ended, with the entire cast of Rocky reuniting with Stallone at the helm as writer and director in pursuit of the heavyweight championship. In Rocky III, Balboa goes through changes internally and externally in attempts to improve his personal life and hold on to the heavy weight title and finds its not nearly as difficult to reach the top as it is to stay there. In Rocky IV Rocky comes out of retirement to do battle for the greatest prize of all - America. "World War III" - instead of being fought with guns and Atom bombs, being fought with fists - and Rocky is representing the free world. So get in the ring for a knock out experience with the Rocky series throughout this month only on PIX!

Moving from one living legend to another, catch the male half of Brangelina, Brad Pitt, in some of his best acting roles from 12 June to June 15 on Perfect 10.

Watch Brad in Thelma and Louise, the movie that got him noticed and started him on his road to stardom. Also coming up on 13 June is Legends Of the Fall, an epic tale of three brothers and their father living in the remote wilderness of 1900s USA and how their lives are affected by nature, history, war, and love. This film is followed by Seven Years in Tibet on June 14 due to which Brad was banned from entering China. Lastly catch Brad in Snatch directed by Guy Ritchie better known as Madonna‘s husband. Did you know that Pitt asked director Guy Ritchie if he could be in his next film after watching Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels - an action packed English comedy, look out for it on Perfect 10, Saturday 16 June, only on PIX!

And the punches keep coming as PIX brings you a two movie special with Marlon Brando on 22 - 23 June and at 10 pm. Watch this legendary actor excel in Island of Dr. Moreau, a film about Dr Moreau an obsessive scientist who is experimenting on turning animals into humans and A Dry White Season a sensitive film on Apartheid in South Africa.

The action continues?On 30 June, PIX brings you the critically acclaimed, Oscar winning film Platoon. Platoon is a film on the Vietnam war made by Director Oliver Stone based on his own experiences in Vietnam. In this film, Charlie Sheen plays Chris Taylor, an idealistic student who dropped out of college, joined the army, and volunteered for Vietnam. His idealism and view of war in general rapidly changes during the course of the film.

After all this action, let‘s double up with laughter. From 4 June to 9 June. PIX has lined up some great comic capers - Nadine, My Man Adam, No Small Affair, The Opposite of Sex on Great at 8. This line up will sure tickle your funny bone!

And as if that wasn‘t enough, PIX brings you another round of greats with 4 super episodes of Inside the Actors Studio (ITAS). On 3 June, catch the legendary Robert Redford in a 2 hour special Inside the Actors Studio followed by his film The Natural. Get set for a 2 hour special with the multi talented Barbra Streisand followed by one her most hilarious films The Owl and the Pussycat at 9 pm on 10 June. Catch Martin Sheen on 17 June in Inside the Actors Studio followed by his film Little Girl who Lives Down the lane which also stars Jodie Foster. And lastly don‘t miss Jude Law in ITAS on 24 June.

So don‘t let the rains dampen your spirits and knock yourself out with great stories well told this June only on PIX!

NEW DELHI: The gods of rock are coming to shake you up. Join The History Channel this May to witness some of the greatest moments of rock in its entertaining new offering, History Rocks.With decades of multi-platinum success and sold-out tours, some of the greatest musical icons like Queen, Deep Purple, The Doors, The Who, Rolling Stones, The Beatles, Led Zeppelin and Santana are featured in this one-of-its-kind series that fuses music and history together. Starting May 28, tune-in every Monday to Thursday at 10 pm onwards till June 7 for a slice of the glory that marks these legendary performers.

An eight-part series, History Rocks brings together great concerts, rare documentaries and interviews featuring these gods of music and offers a unique glimpse into the life of these rock legends. "History Rocks gives viewers a chance to be up, close and personal with the legends of rock we love, adore and revere," said Rajesh Sheshadri, Vice President, Marketing, The History Channel.

Be it Deep Purple or The Doors, this May relive the magic of their music and rock on with The History Channel!

History Rocks includes the following episodes:

Queen-Live in Budapest - Monday, 28 May - Aside from showcasing Queen‘s largest ever stadium performance, ‘Live In Budapest‘ includes montages of highlights of band‘s legendary visit and allows a unique insight into the Hungarian film making style adapted to western Rock ‘n‘ Roll.

The Who - Live at the Isle of Wight Festival - Tuesday, 29 May - In 1970, 6,00,000 people came to the Isle of Wight Festival to attend a music festival at 2 am on August 30. The Who appeared and gave one of their most memorable performances featuring hits like Water, Magic bus, Eyesight to the blind, Heaven and hell, The acid queen, Pinball wizard, Fiddle about, We‘re not going to take it and many more classic numbers.

Santana - Live At Montreux 2004 - Wednesday, 30 May - On 15 July 2004, Santana took to the stage in Montreux accompanied by a stunning line-up of guests to perform a concert of songs about peace and understanding that they dubbed "Hymns for Peace".

Deep Purple - Live at Montreux - Thursday, 31 May - Deep Purple needs no introduction as they are one of the all-time great British rock bands. Their association with Montreux goes back to the early seventies, when their attempt to record their album "Machine Head" at the Montreux Casino was thwarted when it promptly burnt down, forcing them to make the album in the rooms and corridors of the Grand Hotel instead.

The Doors: Soundstage Performances - Monday, 4 June - These performances are a truly unique compilation of three different Doors concerts at three distinct stages in their career; from their early days, a concert in Toronto in 1967, from their only European tour in 1968 and then from New York in 1969. Also included is Jim Morrison‘s only on camera interview.

Rolling Stones - Truth & Lies - Tuesday, 5 June - They are the greatest Rock and Roll band in the world. They have inspired wild yells from musical millions and gasps of horror from the establishment. This lively episode showcases what their contemporaries, fans and critics said about the songs, the scandals, the crises and the excesses. Also features news footage and interviews from the band.

Beatles - From Liverpool to San Francisco - Wednesday, 6 June- This one hour special witnesses the adulation and hysteria that gripped the world wherever The Beatles traveled. Through their extensive and open interviews with the world‘s media and archive footage of their journeys, the program gives an insight into what it was like for the Beatles inside the bubble of Beatlemania.

Led Zepplin - Thursday, 7 June - The story of the top rock band that got its name when drummer Keith Moon predicted how the band would go over with audiences after hearing their demo tapes. Led Zeppelin‘s first album reached number 10 on the charts in 1969, and their popularity continued to grow with each subsequent album.