| MUMBAI: Zee English's year end bonanza
includes three new shows. With rival English entertainment channel
Star World seriously bolstering its programming line up, Zee's English
entertainment arm's announcement of new shows comes at a good time.
Starting 8 December every Monday, is Larry David's satire Curb
your Enthusiasm. Next in line is new comedy series Half and
Half, which is scheduled to air every Thursday at 10:30 pm starting
11 December.
While the fifth season of HBO's Sopranos will hit the US
small screens on March 2004, Zee English will premiere season three
of mobster soap Sopranos on 14 December, which will are every
Sunday at 9 pm.
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brand new comedy series that premiered last year in USA, Half &
Half, stars Essence Atkins and Rachel True as half-sisters Mona
and Dee Dee who have only one thing in common: their father. Created
by Jeffrey Klarik and produced by Yvette Lee Bowser, the show has
been nominated for several awards including the golden globe and Emmy
awards.
Mona
is a budding music executive raised by her single mother, Phyllis,
to be an independent woman who does things in her own free-spirited
and sometimes sardonic style. In usual sitcom style, younger sister
Dee Dee is a privileged honour-roll college student who grew up in
a two-parent home, but searches for her own identity out of the shadow
of her overbearing mother, Big Dee Dee. 
The
candid, unsparing and self-deprecating Curb Your Enthusiasm brings
the off-kilter comic vision of Larry David- the co-creator and co-producer
of yet another Zee English alumnus Seinfeld. Winner of Golden
Globe for best TV series, this HBO show ranked seven in the entertainment
weekly's list of top ten TV shows. 
Stylish,
shocking and dark humorous series, Sopranos takes a fresh new
look at organised crime from the psychiatrist's couch. Starring James
Gandolfini, Lorraine Bracco, Edie Falco and Michael Imperioli, the
series is about a New Jersey gangster and family man Tony Soprano
and his gang who reluctantly seek the professional services of a smart
and sophisticated therapist. 
