Mumbai: English general entertainment channel Zee Caf? is gearing up to launch Outsourced on 19 January.

The comedy based show will air Monday-Friday at 11 pm.

Zee Caf?, which focuses on sourcing the international content to the young, urban Indian palate, showcases programmes ranging from popular sitcoms to reality series and live concerts to stand-up comedy acts. With the new show, Zee Cafe aims to bring American television for Indian audience.

The show revolves around US-based Western Novelty that decides to outsource its personnel to India and as a result a large number of employees are let go. When the call center Todd manages in Seattle is outsourced to India, Todd travels there to train his replacement. A lone American is supposed to manage the call center and must explain American popular culture to his employees. Todd Anderson is instructed to travel to Gharapuri to train Purohit to replace him. He travels there via Mumbai, and finds his name comically mispronounced as ?Toad?. He finds that he must sensitise himself to the Indian culture before he could even think of Americanising Purohit and his subordinates. Housed in a new building that looks like an above-ground bunker, the call center is staffed by willing novices whom Todd trains to sound American.

With the assistance of the new assistant manager, Asha Bhatwadekar, he sets about learning about gods and deities worshipped in India, reveling in Holi festivities, common lingo, the importance of cows, and eating at Mc Donnald?s. And he soon finds that a new ?India? has been discovered for outsourcing and what is meant by ?Holiday in Goa?.

The show got nominated for People?s choice Award 2011 for favorite New TV comedy, Best Performance - Comedy and for People?s Choice Awards 2011 for NAMIC.

MUMBAI: English GEC Zee Caf? kicks off the new show ?$#*! My dad says? tonight at 11 pm. Based on the "$#*! My Dad says? twitter account, with over a million followers, this hilarious and heartfelt comedy is the story of a son searching for approval from a standoffish father who?s seen it all.

William Shatner stars in the show as Ed, a 72 year old living breathing fountain of wisdom with the pressure of a fire hose.

A thrice divorced ex - doctor and veteran of three wars, Ed hates beating around the bush. And if you on his property after 9 PM without prior notification, chances are he?ll greet you with his shotgun.

Ed is a very opinionated. His two adult sons, Henry and Vince, are accustomed to his unsolicited and often politically incorrect rants. When Henry, a struggling writer and blogger, can no longer afford his rent, he is forced to move back in with Ed, which creates new issues in their tricky father-son relationship. As weeks go by Henry is unable to find a job as a writer, mostly due to the lack of good material. He finally lands a job, when during his interview Ed interrupts with an irrational phone call that sparks the interest of the eccentric editor conducting the interview. Henry is ultimately hired, but is forced to continue living with Ed in order to be able to continue to write about his father?s unsolicited rants, hence the title of the show.

MUMBAI: English general entertainment channel Zee Caf? is upping its laughter quotient with ?Better with You?, a daily show that kicks off on 19 October.

The romantic sitcom will air Monday-Friday at 11 pm. It revolves around three couples in different stages of their romantic relationships. One is a long marriage, one an unmarried relationship, while the third one is engaged and expecting a child. 

Three very different relationships, one tightly intertwined family. Maddie and Ben have been dating for nine years - a relationship marked by contentment and affection, seeing their commitment to one another as a "valid life choice". Maddie?s younger sister, Mia, has been dating Casey for seven weeks - they are beyond smitten with each other and thrilled to explore so many things they don?t know about each other yet. But when they announce they are getting married and having a baby, it?s news that completely throws Maddie for a loop.

Surprisingly, the girls? parents, Vicky and Joel, couldn?t be more pleased. Married 35 years, they have recently adopted a carpe diem type of attitude, much like Mia?s, mostly due to getting older and losing a good portion of their savings when the economy tanked.

To make matters worse, Maddie?s parents, have their issues, approve of the union, leaving Maddie and Ben questioning themselves about their own relationship.

MUMBAI: Zee Cafe is making an on air push for channel perception branding. The English genneral entertainment channel said next month is when viewers will "Get High" on the channel.

To spark off Diwali, five new shows are launching - Vampire Diaries - Season 2, Better With You, Weeds, Rizzoli and Isles and Keeping up with the Kardashians.

Next month will culminate in Billboards Music Awards 2011, which is being brought to India for the first time by the channel.

Zee Caf? kicks off the second season of ?Vampire Diaries? on 3 October. This airs Monday-Friday at 10 pm. Based on the novel series penned by L.J. Smith, the series follows the events in the town of Mystic Falls, Virginia, a fictional small town haunted by supernatural beings.

The main focus of the series is the love triangle between the
female protagonist Elena Gilbert and the vampire brothers Stefan and Damon with dark pasts. The season picks up immediately after the events of the season one finale. The second season focusses on the return of Elena?s doppelganger, Katherine, the Sun and Moon curse, and the arrival of Klaus.

On the comedy side, the channel will launch Better with You from 19 October. It will air Monday-Friday at 11 pm. The romantic sitcom revolves around three different relationships that are tightly intertwined in one family.

In order to fulfill its brand promise of Get High, the channel aims to spice up the weekend with the quirky show, ?Weeds?. Kicking off on 8 October, it will air Saturday-Sunday at 10 pm. This single camera dark comedy explores a widowed mother and her family as they take to selling marijuana to support themselves.

During the course of the show, the family progressively gets entangled in a mesh of illegal activities. The show takes a sarcastic view of how off-colour characters struggle with fake suburban reality, in which everything is "all style, no substance".

Before that the channel will have the drama ?Rizzoli and Isles? from 1 October. It will air Saturday-Sunday at 9 pm. stars The one-hour drama is based on the ?Rizzoli and Isles? series of novels by Tess Gerritsen.

On the reality front, the channel will showcase two shows of Keeping up with the Kardashians, including Kourtney and Khloe take Miami which airs Monday - Friday at 9 pm. The shows profile one of Hollywood?s most high profile families as its members seek fame, fortune and domestic bliss.

The Billboard Music Awards is being brought to India for the first time by Zee Caf?.. The 2011 edition will kick off with a bang, as pop stars like Rihanna, Britney Spears and the Black Eyed Peas rocked the stage at Las Vegas? MGM Grand, while Taylor Swift, Justin Bieber, Taio Cruz and Lady Antebellum snagged the first awards of the night. Other performers taking the stage during the Billboard Music Awards included Beyonce,Nicki Minaj, Far East Movement, Mary J Blige and Lil Wayne.

Zee Caf? business head Anurag Bedi aid, "It?s time to Get High!!! Zee Caf? gives a golden opportunity to its viewers to go high by experiencing all genre of entertainment whether it?s romantic comedy or supernatural drama or the raunchy series of Kardashians and many more to add. This October, Zee Caf? has lots in its store for its viewers. We are getting more aggressive as far as content is concerned. We?ve always dared to experiment with our content to give our viewers an experience never felt before. October 2011 we would be showcasing five new shows that would encompass different genre of entertainment, giving our viewers a holistic entertainment package."

MUMBAI: English GEC Zee Cafe will air the sitcom, ?Mike and Molly?, from 13 September.

The daily series will show Monday-Friday at 11 pm.

Set in Chicago, Illinois, the series follows two people, Mike Biggs (Billy Gardell), a police officer who wants to shed some pounds, and Molly Flynn (Melissa McCarthy), a fourth-grade teacher wanting to embrace her curves, who meet at an Overeaters Anonymous group and become an unlikely pair.

The sitcom is a love story. It?s about two people, ordinary yet extraordinary, who have always protected themselves and relied on their ability to laugh through life. Now, with the help of each other -- and the Overeaters Anonymous meeting where they met -- they are learning to open up and trust one another.

But falling in love is no easy task, especially when surrounded by friends and family who are just a little too close -- and a little too opinionated. However, they also have to deal with the comments, jokes, and criticism from Mike?s fast-talking partner Carl McMillan (Reno Wilson) and his witty sarcastic mother Peggy (Rondi Reed), Molly?s slim, promiscuous sister Victoria (Katy Mixon) and nymphomaniac mother Joyce (Swoosie Kurtz), Samuel (Nyambi Nyambi), a Senegalese waiter at the officers? favourite restaurant, and Vince, Molly?s mother?s boyfriend, with a smart tongue. Mike also gets some dating advice from Carl?s grandmother Nana.
 

MUMBAI: English GEC Zee Cafe will air the show ?Pretty Little Liars? on 31 August at 10 pm.

The show will air Monday-Friday.

The series follows the lives of four teenage girls ? Aria Montgomery, Emily Fields, Hanna Marin, and Spencer Hastings ? whose clique falls apart after the disappearance of the queen bee of their group, Alison Di Laurentis. The girls swear they will never tell what really happened that night. They think their secrets will bind them together, but just the opposite happens.

Now one year later, after the discovery of Ali‘s body, the mystery surrounding Alison‘s disappearance resurfaces, the girls begin getting messages from an anonymous source, "A", who threatens to expose their secrets ? including long-hidden ones they thought only their close friend Alison knew.

As the show continues, they discover more secrets that can harm not only them but the ones around them.

But it couldn‘t be Alison. Could it? Whoever it is, they seem to know all the girls‘ secrets, and seem to be watching their every move. The girls are friends again, but will they be there for each other if their dark secrets come to light?