Kbc-4, new season now on Sony Options

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Amitabh Bachchan to host KBC 4 on Sony
By: Bollywood Mantra Staff on 12th June 2010





Amitabh Bachchan is back. He is signed to play the host of the most popular quiz show, ‘Kaun Banega Crorepati’ season 4. Earlier aired by Siddharth Basu’s Synergy on Star Plus will now be aired by Sony entertainment channel.


According to the show’s actual quizmaster, Siddharth Basu: “Star relinquished the KBC license some time back. And yes, the show is with Sony now. All the questions regarding the show and the host will have to be addressed to them since they are the broadcasters now. Of course, my company, Big Synergy, looks forward to producing it for them.”


Shahrukh Khan was also on the card but finally the decision went in favor of Amitabh. KBC was Big B’s first appearance on Indian television. It was one of the most popular show on Indian television but went off air due to some unknown reasons. Now that it is back again, TV-goers will be entertained as well as informative.


Sony is yet to make the official announcement. Hopefully, the show will go on air by the end of this year.

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Many changes in store for KBC 4


Subhash K Jha

Posted On Wednesday, July 14, 2010 at 03:45:02 AM


Season four of Kaun Banega Crorepati is going to be much snappier that the earlier editions with several changes set to be incorporated into the format. Even the way the show’s superstar-anchor Amitabh Bachchan conducts himself will be zara hat ke.





Confirms a very reliable source from the KBC crew, “KBC has been tweaked quite a lot. It’s going to be faster. The number of questions has been reduced to 12 from 15. And now there is a timer for the first 7 - 30 seconds to answer or the clock stops you. There are some innovative options for phoning a friend for help.


Amitabh Bachchan

There will be three experts from various fields on call and you can talk to them as options for an answer. They will appear on TV live as opposed to a voice.”

Interestingly, the Big B was supposed to anchor the next season of Bigg Boss but Colors missed out because of the delay in getting contestants for Fear Factor.

Says a source, “Fear Factor was to have members of the Indian cricket team as contestants. Everything was settled, but then the IPL controversy broke and BCCI cancelled the players’ participation.

This was a big setback for Colors, so they had to delay their programming till they were able to find alternate participants.

That is all sorted out now. But the process took time and attention and they got late in contacting the Big B for Bigg Boss. When the Big B did not hear form them he thought they were not doing it with him and that’s how Sony got the Big B for KBC.”