Zee Café
Country | India |
---|---|
Broadcast area | India Bangladesh Nepal Sri Lanka Pakistan Southeast Asia |
Headquarters | Mumbai |
Programming | |
Language(s) | English |
Picture format | 1080i HDTV (downscaled to letterboxed 576i for the SDTV feed) |
Ownership | |
Owner | Zee Entertainment Enterprises (to be merged with Sony Pictures Networks India) |
Sister channels | &flix &privé HD |
History | |
Launched | 15 March 2000 |
Former names | Zee English (2000-2005) |
Links | |
Website | www |
Availability | |
Cable | |
Available on most cable systems | Channel slots vary on each provider |
Hathway | Channel 30 |
Space Time Network (Nepal) | Channel 353 |
Asianet Digital TV | Channel 473 (SD) Channel 842 (HD) |
Kerala Vision | Channel 222 |
Bengal Digital (Bangladesh) | Channel 154 (SD) |
Satellite | |
Airtel digital TV | Channel 168 (SD) Channel 169 (HD) |
Dish TV | Channel 450 (SD) Channel 35 (HD) |
MNC Vision (Indonesia) | Channel 162 (SD) (Coming Soon) |
Sun Direct | Channel 260 (SD) |
Tata Sky | Channel 210 (HD) Channel 211(SD) |
Videocon d2h | Channel 181(SD) Channel 935 (HD) |
Dish Home (Nepal) | Channel 406 (SD) Channel 964 (HD) |
Dialog TV (Sri Lanka) | Channel 90 |
IPTV | |
PEO TV (Sri Lanka) | Channel 85 |
Singtel TV | Channel ??? (Coming Soon) |
Zee Café is an Indian pay television channel owned by Zee Entertainment Enterprises. The channel mainly syndicates popular American and British television shows to appeal to the English-speaking population of India.
History[]
Zee English was launched in the Indian subcontinent on 15 March 2000, as competition to Star World. Initially free-to-air, the channel was later encrypted as part of the Zee pay-television bouquet.[1]
The channel underwent a rebranding on 28 March 2005 and was renamed as Zee Cáfe, along with a new logo and promotion deals.[2]
The channel's high-definition feed was launched on 23 September 2015, for a bench test in limited markets and nationwide on 21 November 2015.[3]
International distribution[]
Zee Café launched on Sky in the United Kingdom and Ireland on 15 July 2010. The channel originally served as the Zee's network hybrid channel, used to broadcast shows from a number of its existing channels in India.[4]
On 11 September 2012, it was repositioned as a classics channel, airing re-runs of old Zee TV programming, covering cookery, dramas, horror and mythology. At the same time the channel became free-to-air.[5]
On 10 June 2013, Zee Café UK was replaced by Zee Lamhe, another free-to-air classics channel from Zee.[6]
Current programming[]
- The 100[7]
- American Idol[8]
- A Million Little Things[9]
- BattleBots[10]
- Charmed[11]
- City on a Hill[11]
- Community[12]
- Dexter
- The Drew Barrymore Show
- Dynasty[13]
- Evil[14]
- FBI[9]
- The Good Fight[15]
- Grey's Anatomy[11]
- L.A.'s Finest[11]
- The Late Late Show with James Corden[16]
- Love Island UK[17]
- Magnum P.I.[11]
- MasterChef Australia[18]
- McMafia[19]
- Nancy Drew[20]
- Our Cartoon President[9]
- Our Girl[21]
- Riverdale
- SEAL Team[11]
- Star Trek: Discovery[13]
- Supergirl[11]
- The Titan Games[22]
- The Unicorn[11]
- World of Dance[9]
Former programming[]
Comedy-Drama[]
- A Very English Scandal[23]
- The Benny Hill Show[24]
- The Carrie Diaries[25]
- The Catch
- Hart of Dixie[26]
- Make It or Break It[27]
- The Mind of the Married Man[24]
- The Mysteries of Laura[28]
- No Tomorrow[29]
- Pushing Daisies[30]
- Red Band Society[31]
- Togetherness[32]
- Ugly Betty[33]
- My Wife and Kids
- Weeds[34]
Drama[]
- Agatha Christie's Poirot[35]
- Agent X[36]
- American Crime[37]
- Army Wives[30]
- The Arrangement[38]
- The Assets[39]
- The Astronaut Wives Club[40]
- Believe[7]
- Beyond[41]
- Body of Proof[42]
- Born to Kill[43]
- Broken[43]
- Central Park West[1]
- Cloak & Dagger
- Code Black[44]
- The Collection[43]
- Criminal Minds[16]
- Criminal Minds: Beyond Borders[44]
- Criminal Minds: Beyond Boundaries
- Doctor Foster[43]
- ER[1]
- Eye Candy[45]
- Famous in Love[46]
- The First[23]
- Fleming: The Man Who Would Be Bond[47]
- The Following[48]
- The Fosters[7]
- From Darkness[49]
- The Fugitive[24]
- Gilmore Girls[50]
- The Good Wife[51]
- Gossip Girl[30]
- Gotham[52]
- Guerrilla[53]
- Haven[54]
- Hostages[7]
- House of Cards[9]
- Huge[55]
- Inhumans[56]
- In the Dark[43]
- The Kettering Incident[57]
- Kung Fu[24]
- La Femme Nikita[58]
- Les Misérables[59]
- Lethal Weapon[9]
- Lost[60]
- The Loudest Voice[11]
- Maigret[43]
- The Mentalist[61]
- Mistresses[62]
- MotherFatherSon[59]
- Murder in the First[63]
- New Blood[64]
- The Night Manager[23]
- No Ordinary Family[55]
- The Originals[65]
- The O.C.[66]
- Oz[24]
- Paula[43]
- Penny Dreadful[13]
- Penny Dreadful: City of Angels[67]
- Perception[62]
- Press[68]
- Pretty Little Liars[31]
- Raising the Bar[69]
- Recovery Road[70]
- Reign[7]
- Renegade[24]
- Resurrection[71]
- Rizzoli & Isles[34]
- Rookie Blue[72]
- Runaways[73]
- Rush Hour[74]
- Scandal[9]
- Secrets and Lies[71]
- The Shannara Chronicles[44]
- She Spies[50]
- The Sinner[23]
- Six Feet Under[24]
- The Son[11]
- The Sopranos[24]
- The Split[59]
- SS-GB[47]
- Still Star-Crossed[75]
- Switched at Birth[40]
- Taboo[53]
- Terminator: TSCC[30]
- Thirteen[47]
- Time After Time[76]
- Top of the Lake[43]
- Training Day[77]
- The Twilight Zone[1]
- Twisted[7]
- Unforgotten[43]
- Valor[16]
- The Vampire Diaries[71]
- War and Peace[47]
- The West Wing[24]
- Wisdom of the Crowd[78]
- Wolf Hall[43]
- The Young Pope[53]
Reality/other[]
- America's Funniest Home Videos[79]
- America's Got Talent[80] (moved to Colors Infinity)
- Chef Vs Fridge
- Candid Camera[81]
- Celebrity Family Feud[82]
- Celebrity Name Game[83]
- The Chefs' Line[16]
- The Cut[66]
- The David Letterman Show[1]
- Drop the Mic[84]
- The Ellen DeGeneres Show[85]
- Fameless[16]
- Family Food Fight[86]
- The Gong Show[87]
- Got to Dance[88]
- Just for Laughs: Gags[89]
- Keeping Up with the Kardashians[34]
- Live at the Apollo[90]
- Oliver's Twist[91]
- Splatalot![92]
- Survivor: China[30]
- Top 20 Funniest[93]
- The Toy Box[94]
- Victoria's Secret Fashion Show[35]
- Wheel of Fortune UK[95]
- The X Factor[80]
- The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
Science Fiction[]
- The 100
- 11.22.63[53]
- Class[47]
- Colony[96] (shared with Star World)
- Counterpart[23]
- Journeyman[30]
- The Whispers[97]
Sitcoms[]
- 9JKL[9]
- 18 to Life[55]
- Aliens in America[30]
- American Housewife[98]
- Back to You[30]
- Better with You[34]
- The Big Bang Theory[9] (shared with Star World)
- Caroline in the City[24]
- Carol's Second Act[11]
- Cougar Town[40]
- Everybody Loves Raymond[99]
- Friends[24]
- Full House[24]
- The Great Indoors[100]
- Ground Floor[28]
- Happy Endings[35]
- Happy Together[9]
- Here's Lucy[1]
- The Hogan Family[24]
- I Dream of Jeannie[101]
- Joey[102]
- Just Shoot Me!
- The King of Queens[103]
- Kevin from Work[104]
- Mad About You[24]
- Malibu Country[35]
- Melissa & Joey[16]
- The Middle[9]
- Mike & Molly[40]
- The Millers[105]
- Mind Your Language[30]
- Mixology[106]
- The Odd Couple[107]
- Parks and Recreation[55]
- The Real O'Neals[44]
- Rules of Engagement[108]
- Seinfeld[109]
- Selfie[105]
- Three's Company[1]
- Trial & Error[110]
- Two and a Half Men[71]
- Unhitched[30]
- Will & Grace[16]
- Young and Hungry[9]
Documentary[]
See also[]
- List of Indian television stations
- Zee Network
References[]
- ^ a b c d e f g "Zee English and Movies launched".
{{cite web}}
: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ "Zee dons a New Look". 28 March 2005.
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: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ "Zee Café to launch Zee Café-HD". 20 November 2015.
- ^ "ZEE Cafe launches on Sky Digital EPG". BizAsia. 15 July 2010. Archived from the original on 17 August 2010.
- ^ "ZEE Cafe set to reposition as classics channel". BizAsia. 6 September 2012.
- ^ "Lamhe replaces ZEE Cafe in UK". BizAsia. 10 June 2013.
- ^ a b c d e f "Zee Cafe to woo viewers with fact, fiction and fantasy". Indian Television. 9 May 2014.
- ^ "American Idol is now playing in India exclusively on Zee Café". Adgully. 17 April 2019.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l "16 Shows you can't miss this Christmas season Zee Café's got you covered this winter with an extensive binge line-up". Indian Television. 26 December 2018.
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: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ "Zee Café brings BattleBots Season 3 with Breakfast To Bed Binge". Indian Television. 24 December 2019.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k "Zee Café brings in the festive cheer, premiering new shows and latest seasons with two new content blocks - 'Along with the US' and 'Hollywood on Café'". Indian Television. 9 October 2019.
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: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ "This Lockdown, Zee Café Recreates The Fun Times at College with 'Community'". Indian Television.
- ^ a b c "Zee Café launches weeknights block 'Greatest of All Time'". Indian Television. 9 January 2020.
- ^ "Watch as the lines between science and religion begin to blur with 'Evil' Premiering on Zee Cafe". Zee News. 24 June 2020.
- ^ "This April, Zee Café encourages viewers to gear up for 'The Good Fight'". TellyChakkar. 13 April 2020.
- ^ a b c d e f g "This April, Zee Café has 'All Eyes on New' with a spectacular line-up of shows". Adgully. 5 April 2018.
- ^ "ZEE Cafe announces 'Love Island UK S3'". Adgully. 18 February 2020.
- ^ "ZEEL English cluster launches #WeStayInCoronaStaysOut campaign". Television Post. 8 April 2020.
- ^ "Zee Café launches the third season of BBC First with Nawazuddin Siddiqui". The Economic Times. 24 July 2019.
- ^ "Zee Cafe airs the thrilling mystery 'Nancy Drew'". Zee News. 27 May 2020.
- ^ "Watch BBC First drama 'Our Girl' on Zee Café". Adgully. 23 September 2019.
- ^ "When Dwayne Johnson got goosebumps". Outlook. 13 March 2019.
- ^ a b c d e "Zee Café to premiere five mini-series in its 'Hollywood on Café' content block". Television Post. 17 October 2018.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n "Zee Cafe goes Glocal". 2 July 2005.
{{cite web}}
: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ "A new prequel to Sex and the Pity!". Hindustan Times. 5 July 2013.
- ^ "Hart of Dixie (2011)". TVWish.
- ^ "Zee Cafe launches new show 'Make It or Break It'". 17 January 2011.
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: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ a b "Zee Cafe brings you a royal parade of shows this July". Adgully. 1 July 2015.
- ^ "No Tomorrow". TVWish.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j "Zee Café brings in 11 current US season shows to India". exchange4media. 28 September 2007.
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: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ a b "Non-stop entertainment this Valentine's week only on Zee Cafe". Adgully. 12 February 2016.
- ^ "Togetherness". TVWish.
- ^ "Ugly Betty". TVWish.
- ^ a b c d "Get High on Zee Cafe this October". 26 September 2011.
- ^ a b c d "Zee Cafe has a vibrant show line-up this December". Indian Television. 27 November 2013.
- ^ "Agent X". TVWish.
- ^ "American Crime". TVWish.
- ^ "The Arrangement". Archived from the original on 18 July 2020. Retrieved 18 July 2020.
- ^ "Book Adaptations- The Assets". TVWish.
- ^ a b c d "Zee Café content line-up for January 2016". Indian Television. 8 January 2016.
- ^ "Beyond (2018)". TVWish.
- ^ "Zee Cafe showcases new show, 'Body of Proof". 6 April 2011.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j "Zee Cafe brings back BBC First with 12 shows". Best Media Info. 26 July 2018.
{{cite web}}
: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ a b c d "All Eyes on New: Zee Cafe unveils new brand positioning". Indian Television. 17 October 2016.
- ^ "Eye Candy (2015)". TVWish.
- ^ "Famous in Love (2017)". TVWish.
- ^ a b c d e "British drama brand, BBC First, consistently performs on Zee Café". Adgully. 24 October 2017.
- ^ "'The Following' Season 4 premieres on 8 March only on Zee Cafe". Adgully. 8 March 2016.
- ^ "'From Darkness' to air on 23 August at 10 PM only on Zee Café". Adgully. 22 August 2017.
- ^ a b "Zee Cafe brings in New seasons". Indian Television. 14 October 2005. Archived from the original on 18 July 2020.
- ^ "Zee Café is all set to captivate viewers with The Good Wife". TellyChakkar. 22 May 2014.
- ^ "Zee Café brings viewers 'Gotham' starting from 23 June". Indian Television. 20 June 2016.
- ^ a b c d "Zee Cafe's new Rated 'H' shows to captivate millennials". Indian Television. 13 October 2017.
- ^ "Supernatural show Haven faces a Lockdown on Zee Cafe". Adgully. 16 April 2012.
- ^ a b c d "English medium". Hindustan Times. 29 May 2012.
{{cite web}}
: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ "Marvel's Inhumans (2017)". TVWish.
- ^ "The Kettering Incident (2016)". TVWish.
- ^ "Zee Cafe to kickback with 'Best Comedy and Drama' Tag". Indian Television. 3 November 2004. Archived from the original on 18 July 2020.
- ^ a b c "Zee Café kicks off third season of 'BBC First' block". Television Post. 6 August 2019.
- ^ "Zee Café beefs up prime time with 'Lost' series". exchange4media. 8 July 2013.
- ^ "The suavest crime solver 'The Mentalist' is back on Zee Café!". The Times of India. 13 March 2015.
- ^ a b "Sit back and watch as Zee Café spoils you for options this February". The Times of India. 4 February 2015.
- ^ "Murder in the First". TVWish.
- ^ "New Blood". TVWish.
- ^ "Zee Cafe brings The Originals first time in India". Adgully. 6 November 2014.
- ^ a b "Zee Cafe presents new reality show 'The Cut'". Indian Television. 9 May 2006. Archived from the original on 18 July 2020.
- ^ "Zee Cafe brings 'Penny Dreadful: City of Angels' this July". Zee News. 7 July 2020.
- ^ "Witness the cut-throat rivalry between two media houses with 'Press'". Adgully. 17 September 2019.
- ^ "ZEE CAFE KICKS OFF 'RAISING THE BAR' ON 4 FEB". Indian Television. 2 February 2012.
- ^ "Recovery Road". TVWish.
- ^ a b c d "Sip on some coolers as Zee Café brings you the best entertainment getaway this April!". The Times of India. 4 April 2015.
- ^ "Zee Cafe raises its entertainment ante with new show, ROOKIE BLUE". Adgully. 11 February 2012.
- ^ "Marvel's Runaways". TVWish. 16 October 2018.
- ^ "'Rush Hour' Television Reboot premieres on Zee Café and Zee Café HD". The Times of India. 13 April 2016.
- ^ "Still Star-Crossed (2017)". TVWish.
- ^ "Time After Time". TVWish.
- ^ "Training Day". TVWish.
- ^ "Wisdom of the Crowd (2017)". TVWish.
- ^ "ZEE CAFE KICKS OFF 'AMERICA'S FUNNIEST HOME VIDEOS'". Indian Television. 21 August 2009.
{{cite web}}
: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ a b "Zee Café bolsters line-up with 3 of America's biggest reality shows". Best Media Info. 9 January 2014.
- ^ "Candid Camera (2014)".
- ^ "Celebrity Family Feud". TVWish.
- ^ "Celebrity Name Game (2014)". TVWish.
- ^ "Drop the Mic". TVWish.
- ^ "Zee Cafe sets the social media space abuzz with 'The EllenDegeneres show'". Adgully. 19 September 2013.
- ^ "Family Food Fight (2017)". TVWish.
- ^ "The Gong Show (1980)". TVWish.
- ^ "Got to Dance (2009)". TVWish.
- ^ "Just for Laugh Gags". TVWish.
- ^ "Live at the Apollo (2015)". TVWish.
- ^ "Zee Cafe is in a full revamp mode". Indian Television. 14 November 2005.
{{cite web}}
: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ "Splatalot (2011)". TVWish.
- ^ "Top 20 Funniest Promo". YouTube. 7 July 2017.
- ^ "The Toy Box (2014)". TVWish.
- ^ "Wheel of Fortune (2002)". TVWish.
- ^ "Colony". TVWish.
- ^ "The Whispers". TVWish.
- ^ "American Housewife". TVWish.
- ^ "'Everybody Loves Raymond' comes to Zee Café this World Laughter Day". exchange4media. 3 May 2019.
- ^ "The Great Indoors (2016)". TVWish.
- ^ "Zee Café brings the ultimate sitcom of the 60s - 'I Dream of Jeannie'". Adgully. 15 June 2020.
- ^ "Zee Café to launch comedy 'Joey' on 12 July". Indian Television. 10 July 2006.
{{cite web}}
: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ "The King of Queens (1998)".
- ^ "Kevin from Work (2015)". TVWish.
- ^ a b "Zee Cafe ushers in the festivities, with three brand new shows, this November". Adgully. 2 November 2015.
- ^ "Mixology (2014)". TVWish.
- ^ "Zee Café's 'Breakfast To Bed Binge' to air 'The Odd Couple' on 31 Dec". Indian Television. 30 December 2019.
- ^ "Rules of Engagement (2007)". TVWish.
- ^ "Watch Seinfeld This May Only on Zee Café". Adgully. 16 May 2020.
- ^ "Trial and Error". TVWish.
External links[]
- Television stations in Mumbai
- English-language television stations in India
- Television channels and stations established in 2000
- Zee Entertainment Enterprises
- 2000 establishments in Maharashtra