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This Lockdown, Zee Café Recreates The Fun Times At College with ‘Community’
College is not just an institution but a phase in our lives that we all cherish! From the countless lectures bunked to the candid canteen conversations and from meaningless banter with your buddies to the misadventures and memories, here’s an ‘adda’ that truly unleashed the madness in you. This lockdown with virtual being the new reality, fret no more as Zee Café brings this ultimate hangout to your television screens with the new-age hit sitcom ‘Community’! With its premiere on Monday, July 13 airing weeknights at 7, the channel presents viewers with a go-to guide to everything woke with a show dedicated to every study group that went the distance.
Created, written and executive produced by Dan Harmon (Rick and Morty) and executive produced and directed by Emmy Award-winning directors and Marvel maestros Joe and Anthony Russo (Avengers: Endgame), comes a story of a ‘bindass’ bunch of misfits in a zany sitcom that is a constant reminder that you’re never too old for college! Starring Joel McHale (The Soup), Ken Jeong (The Hangover), Emmy Award winner Chevy Chase and the multi-talented actor and hip-hop sensation Donald Glover (Atlanta) aka ‘Childish Gambino’ among others, ‘Community’ on Zee Café is non-stop barrage of pop-culture references around television and movie tropes that make it an exciting watch.
The plot revolves around a disjointed study group who accept their crazy selves through the comfort and chaos with one another. Soon, this lovable set of loons turn into one happy family at the fictional Greendale Community College in Colorado. Much of the story revolves around Jeff Winger (Joel McHale), a slick lawyer who is disbarred from his law firm upon faking his degree. He is forced to attend college and gain some real qualifications. However, turns out that he is not the only misfit in this unusual community. With a snooty girl, a nerd, a brash black woman, a cocky former high-school jock, a neurotic drop-out and an eccentric retiree, here’s one whacky study group that is the definition of all things insane. Be it Abed (Danny Pudi) and Troy’s (Donald Glover) bromance and sarcasm on screen or the eccentric rapport between the characters, this is one community filled with unique oddballs that you’d definitely want in on!
Somewhere between the last page doodles and the tic-tac-toe, here’s a community of students who never went by the book and debunked all of life’s ‘fundas’ on their journey to graduation!
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EPIC Company unifies all brands under single EPIC identity
IN10 Media rebrand aligns TV, digital and films into one ecosystem
MUMBAI: The EPIC Company, formerly known as IN10 Media Network, has announced a sweeping brand consolidation, bringing its television channels, digital platforms and content IPs under a single identity, EPIC.
The move is aimed at simplifying the company’s structure while creating a more connected content ecosystem spanning television, digital and films. By aligning multiple verticals under one umbrella, the company is looking to present a sharper, more cohesive face to both audiences and partners.
As part of the transition, several channels have been rebranded to align with the EPIC identity. EPIC will now operate as EPIC TV, while Nazara becomes EPIC Bharat, Filamchi is now EPIC Bhojpuri, Gubbare transitions to EPIC Kids, and ShowBox is reintroduced as EPIC Music. Ishara will continue under the identity EPIC Parivaar, maintaining its core positioning.
The company has also refreshed EPICON, its streaming platform, to reflect a more unified and modern brand experience. The overhaul is designed to improve content discovery and create a seamless experience across platforms.
This consolidation follows the recent launch of EPIC Studio, a unified production arm that brings together Juggernaut Productions and MovieVerse Studio, as the company expands its footprint across films, OTT and television.
The EPIC Company managing director Aditya Pittie said, “As our scale has grown, it has become important to simplify how we operate and how we present ourselves to the ecosystem. This consolidation gives us a clearer, more future-ready structure to partner, invest, and build at scale, while ensuring that for viewers, the experience is more seamless and intuitive.”
With the rebrand, The EPIC Company is positioning itself as a platform-agnostic content network, focused on scale, simplicity and integrated storytelling. By bringing everything under one banner, it is aiming to make its content universe easier to navigate and harder to ignore.
