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Television THEY
are home to the fastest, slowest, longest, shortest, fattest,
thinnest`85.the list goes on and on. In fact for the past 55 years
the Guinness World Records — known till 2000 as the Guinness
Book of World Records — have been chronicling some of the
most difficult, challenging and weird achievements by men and
women around the globe. Though the records have ranged from funny
(the loudest burp) to the weird (largest collection of
aeroplane sick bags) and from human endeavour (heaviest car
balanced on head) to stomach-churning achievements (most
rattlesnakes held in the mouth), they have caught the
imagination of the world. Guinness World Records Smashed! every
Wednesday at 10 P.M. on AXN is an entertainment series that
reinvents record breaking by inviting members of the public and
well known faces to attempt new world records! Presented by Fearne
Cotton and Ben Shephard, it features people, who are ready to go
to any lengths and risk everything to get an entry into entry into
the Guinness World Records. Daring heroes Extraordinary things can happen
when ordinary people tap into their inner strengths and face
challenges that circumstances throw at them. Heroes from
Monday to Thursday at 10 P.M. on Star World is an epic science
drama that chronicles the lives of ordinary people, who discover
they possess superhuman abilities and how these powers affect them
in their daily lives. The surprise package is one of its lead
characters, Dr Mohinder Suresh (Sendhil Ramamurthy), who is a
genetics professor from India driven to confirm and champion his
father’s theory that there are people with extraordinary
abilities living among us. Suresh’s father had died at the hands
of one of these special people. This is the fourth season of the
series titled Redemption. It opens six weeks after the
events of the last season, with the heroes trying to settle back
into their ordinary lives but not for long. The biggest challenge
this season is a dangerous set of people with powerful evil
powers, led by a charismatic boss called Samuel. The heroes must
muster up all their super powers to stop him and his band from
destroying the world. — NF
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