MUMBAI: English general entertainment channel Zee Cafe will air Miss World 2012 live on 18 August at 5 pm.

The show will simulcast on Zee Studio and Zee Trendz.

Miss World 2012 opened with a live concert on 24 July. It is the 62nd edition of the Miss World pageant. The finale will be held in Dongsheng Fitness Center Stadium, Ordos, Inner Mongolia, China.

This year 117 contestants from all over the world will compete for the crown, breaking the previous record of 115 contestants in 2010 edition. Miss World 2011, Ivian Sarcos of Venezuela will crown her successor at the end of the event. The contestants will visit to Hong Kong, Sanya and Shanghai.

This year, apart from the Miss World 2012 award, the challenge events include titles like ?Beach Beauty?, ?Sports?, ?Beauty with a Purpose?, ?Multimedia Award?, ?World Fashion Designer Award?, ?Top Model? and ?Top Talent?.

Zee Caf? has roped in Orra the Presenting Sponsor while it is powered by Cadbury Bournville. Aquaguard and Radio City join the board as co-presenting sponsor and radio partner respectively. Zee Caf? has also signed an alliance with TGIF as restaurant partner. TGIF will aid in enhancing the visibility quotient to the event by various branding activities. Also, TGIF will be screening the live events.

The Miss World pageant was created in the United Kingdom by Eric Morley in 1951. Since his death in 2000, Morley?s wife, Julia Morley, co-chairs the pageant. The winner spends a year traveling to represent the Miss World Organisation and its various causes. Traditionally, Miss World lives in London during her reign.

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: Zee Caf? is launching its new fiction property GCB (formerly titled Good Christian Bitches and then Good Christian Belles) on 2 June, simultaneous to its US launch.

On Zee Caf?, the show will air every Saturday at 11 pm.

GCB is an American comedy-drama television series created and written by Robert Harling, produced by Darren Star, and starring Kristin Chenoweth, Leslie Bibb, Jennifer Aspen, Miriam Shor, Marisol Nichols and Annie Potts.

Based on the "semi-autobiographical" novel Good Christian Bitches by Kim Gatlin, the series centers on a recently widowed mother of two, who moves back to the upscale Dallas, Texas, neighbourhood with her mother, where she grew up.

MUMBAI: Zee Caf?, the English general entertainment channel (GEC) from Zee Network, has renamed its weekday 7.30 pm slot as ?Half Past 7?. The channel is launching four new weekly shows in this time band.

The channel will air a crime show every Monday, comedy on Tuesdays, Reality on Wednesdays and drama on Thursdays.

Starting today, the channel will air Covert Affairs, followed by Love Bites, Top Chef Masters and A Gifted Man on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday respectively.

Covert Affairs is a crime show based on a 28-year-old CIA trainee, Annie Walker, who is sent out into the field to work at the Domestic Protection Division (DPD).

Love Bites is a new rom-com anthology series that tells modern stories of love, sex, marriage and dating, more like an anthology of snippets of love struck, dysfunctional people jumping through hoops and doing crazy things, all for love.

Top Chef Masters will see 24 ?world-renowned? chefs competing against each other.

In A Gifted Man, a gifted surgeon played by Patrick Wilson, suddenly has his life changed when his ex-wife dies and goes on to teach him about life from the beyond the grave.

MUMBAI: English GEC Zee Caf? will kick off the show Rookie Blue from 13 February.

The show will air Monday-Friday at 10 pm.

The series centres around the lives of five rookie cops from 15 divisions who have just graduated from the academy. Rookie Blue is a youthful, heartfelt, character-driven workplace drama about five rookie cops plunged into the high stakes world of big city policing - a world where even the smallest mistake can have life-or-death consequences.

The series follows them just out of the police academy where they bonded together, fought together, drank together, worked together and slept together.

And now they?re on the job together. They?re kids with guns, learning firsthand the hardest kind of policing there is. They are first responders and they are about to learn that no amount of training prepares you for life. They must learn not only to deal with their duties as police officers, but also deal with the problems and expectation of their families and friends.

In the premiere episode, "Fresh Paint" triumph turns to humiliation when a high-stakes takedown of a suspect goes awry. Andy McNally has made a critical rookie mistake, ruining a long-running undercover drug sting, and tries to make up for it by going face to face with a volatile gunman who already has one man?s blood on his hands.

Andy, a 26-year-old perfectionist and honest to a fault, has always just wanted to be a good cop. Her father was a cop, and while he wasn?t the best cop -- or the best father - Andy knows she?ll never find this sense of family, loyalty and excitement in any other job.

The other ?first responders? to jump into the fray include Traci, Andy?s best friend, a single mom with a six-year-old son. Traci is street smart, sardonic and highly independent - all of which hide a deep well of insecurity. Then there?s Dov, the archetypal thrill-seeker whose attitude stems from being raised by hippie parents; Chris, the straight-and-narrow poster boy for the force and a walking talking police manual; and Gail, the self-serving politico from cop royalty, whose ambition is so blind that she?ll trample anyone who gets in her way.

Add to the mix Detective Sam Swarek, a rogue training officer, and Luke Callaghan, a charming workaholic homicide detective, and Andy will have more on her hands on and off the beat then she could have ever foreseen.

MUMBAI: English GEC Zee Caf? is all set to air its new show, ?Raising the Bar?, from 4 February.

The show will air Saturday and Sunday at 9 pm. The legal drama centers on a group of young lawyers who were classmates and friends in law school, but now find themselves professional adversaries, working on opposing sides of the same case and facing off in the courtroom.

Idealistic public defender Jerry Kellerman does whatever it takes to assist the helpless and disenfranchised, which often leads to clashes in the courtroom presided over by Judge Trudy Kessler, a hardliner hoping to become the city?s next district attorney. Jerry has many clashes with both law enforcement and the assistant district attorneys (ADAs) such as Michelle Ernhardt, the beautiful and occasionally devious attorney with whom he has had a turbulent secret fling.

In the pilot episode, viewers are introduced to public defender Jerry Kellerman, whose passion and energy for defending his clients occasionally leads him to question the justice system. While defending a man he is certain is innocent, Jerry struggles to navigate the system while remaining humble in front of a judge who despises him. Meanwhile, in the district attorney?s office, Michelle tries to right a wrong in a rape trial but runs up against her boss, who doesn?t want the DA?s office to be embarrassed by winning a wrongful conviction.

The show stars Mark-Paul Gosselaar, Natalia Cigliuti, Gloria Reuben and Teddy Sears.