MUMBAI: English GEC Zee Caf? will air the fifth season of ?The Big Bang Theory? from 6 August at 11 pm on Mondays to Fridays.

Zee Caf? will start airing the fourth season from 3 July to build continuity and help viewer collection.

In the series, Leonard Hofstadter and Sheldon Cooper are both brilliant physicists working at Cal Tech in Pasadena, California. They are colleagues, best friends, and roommates, although in all capacities their relationship is always tested primarily by Sheldon?s regimented, deeply eccentric, and non-conventional ways. They are also friends with their Cal Tech colleagues mechanical engineer Howard Wolowitz and astrophysicist Rajesh Koothrappali.

The foursome spend their time working on their individual work projects, playing video games, watching science-fiction movies, or reading comic books.

As they are self-professed nerds, all have little or no luck with popular women. When Penny, a pretty woman and an aspiring actress originally from Omaha, moves into the apartment next to Leonard and Sheldon?s, Leonard has another aspiration in life, namely to get Penny to be his girlfriend.

MUMBAI: Strengthening its presence at the Comic-Con International: San Diego, the Warner Bros. Television Group has announced that it will present 16 series at the world?s leading pop culture convention.

WBTV has revealed that the pilot episodes for Arrow, 666 Park Avenue, Cult, The Following and Revolution will be screened on Preview Night.

All five TV series will also have panels with cast members and creators during the subsequent days of the convention.

It will also be running panels for Fringe, Supernatural, Nikita, MAD, The Big Bang Theory, The Vampire Diaries, DC Nation, Person of Interest and Children?s Hospital.

MUMBAI: US broadcaster CBS has renewed 18 series for the 2012-2013 broadcast season.

The renewals include four comedies, nine dramas, three reality series and two newsmagazines. The returning shows encompass every night of the week and every hour.

The renewed comedies include the multi-year pickups of ?How I Met Your Mother? and ?The Big Bang Theory?; ?2 Broke Girls? and ?Mike And Molly?.

Also in comedy, CBS and Warner Bros. Television are in preliminary discussions regarding future seasons for ?Two and a Half Men?.

Renewed dramas are ?NCIS?, ?NCIS: Los Angeles?, ?Hawaii Five-0?, ?Criminal Minds?, ?CSI: Crime Scene Investigation?, ?Person Of Interest?, The Mentalist?, ?Blue Bloods? and ?The Good Wife?.

Among the Network?s returning reality series are ?The Amazing Race?, ?Undercover Boss? and ?Survivor?.

News magazines ?60 Minutes? and ?48 Hours Mystery? will also return in the fall. CBS Entertainment president Nina Tassler said, ?This large-scale renewal is testimony to the strength, stability and success of a deep and diverse roster of top-rated programming. It positions us for continued success next season and certainly creates an environment that will give our new shows the best possible chance to succeed.?

MUMBAI: At the 63th Primetime Emmy Awards which recognise the best that US television has to offer, ?Mad Men? and ?Modern Family? again won for best drama and comedy series respectively.

Another repeat winner was Jim Parsons who won for comedy actor in a leading role for ?The Big Bang Theory?. Julianna Margulies won for ?The Good Wife? in the category best actress in a drama series. PBS? Downton Abbey did well in the miniseries/movie categories,

Kate Winslet won for her title role in the HBO miniseries ?Mildred Pearce?. Her co-star Guy Pearce also triumphed.

Filmmaker Martin Scorcese won for directing the pilot episode of ?Boardwalk Empire?. ?Modern Family?s Julie Bowen and Ty Burrell also won statues. Kyle Chandler was also awared for playing the lead in ?Friday Night Lights?.

Peter Dinklage won Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series for ?Game of Thrones