Local Times Season 1
7 episodes · about 4 hours · complete season
Filmi Score · season 1
Good
4 reviews · provisional
52
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Series premise
What happens when four friends try to save a dying newspaper with nothing but blind ambition, street smarts, and each other? Local times is a heartfelt comedy of misadventures, where the real headline is the friendship that keeps them going-even when nothing else does.
Where to watch
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Season 12026 · 7 episodesGood · 4 reviews–
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Cast & crew
Created byAbbhinav Kastura, Praveen Muthurangan, Satwik Gade and 2 more
Season 1 directed byNaveen George Thomas
Season 1 written byPraveen Muthurangan
CastRishikanth
Abdool Lee
Adwitha Arumugam
Maurish Dass
Pandiarajan
Chinni Jayanth
Harini Sundararajan
Nanditha Sreekumar
Series premise
What happens when four friends try to save a dying newspaper with nothing but blind ambition, street smarts, and each other? Local times is a heartfelt comedy of misadventures, where the real headline is the friendship that keeps them going-even when nothing else does.
Where to watch
Availability by JustWatch · some watch links pay filmi.ai a small commission; it never changes what we show or how we score.Family Room
Is Local Times season 1 OK for kids?
Parents should know
A light, comic workplace drama about four friends trying to save a small newspaper. Critics describe warmth and camaraderie; no violence, language, sex, or substance content noted.
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The record, item by item
Positive messages · Clear · From the synopsis Synopsis · not a review
“the real headline is the friendship that keeps them going”
Positive messages · Clear · Reviewer on record
“very sincere, very clueless and very endearing quartet” view the record →
Positive messages · Clear · Reviewer on record
“a warmth in each of them and the pleasure of seeing a group of well-meaning-but-useless people trying their best” view the record →
Role models · Some · Reviewer on record
“a running gag of just how little needs to be said for him to compromise on his journalist ethics” view the record →
What the critics said
4 reviews read · the critic’s own number where they gave one
13 Mar 2026
The critic finds the plot flimsy, overstretched and often silly, but says sharp performances and a steady supply of comic moments keep the season… Read it there →
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Vishal Menon · 14 Mar 2026
The critic calls it a low-stakes workplace comedy best enjoyed as background viewing, praising the warmth of its likeable ensemble while finding… Read it there →
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17 Mar 2026
The critic frames Local Times as a comic tribute to print journalism's struggles, praising the cast, the grandfather's performance, cinematography… Read it there →
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Narayani M · 13 Mar 2026
1.5/5, stated in the text — not a formal rating. Read it there →
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