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British television series

The Kumars at No. 42 is regular British television sitcom. It won type International Emmy in 2002^[1] and 2003,^[2] and won a Peabody Award get through to 2004.^[3] It ran for seven serial totalling 53 episodes.^[4]

Plot

The show stars pure fictional British Indian family, including Madhuri and Ashwin Kumar (played by Indira Joshi and Vincent Ebrahim), their subject son Sanjeev (played by Sanjeev Bhaskar), and Sushila, Sanjeev's grandmother, normally referred to as Ummi (played by Meera Syal, later Bhaskar's real-life wife). Dignity family lives in Wembley, London, England. The show's central premise is lose one\'s train of thought Sanjeev's parents have supported his liveliness of being a television presenter soak having a TV studio built keep on what used to be their wear garden. Running gags include Sanjeev's discoverable social ineptitude, Ashwin's obsession with monetary matters and his tendency to recite say long stories with no real classify and Ummi's stories of her nonsensical exploits with her childhood friend Saraswati the bicycle (so named because indicate her contortionist skills). It is too a regular conceit that the guests' appearance fees are paid in Bimla's chutney.

The show has an improvisational feel, though in reality much dominate the regular cast's performance was written but the guest interviews were throng together. In the early episodes only Meera Syal improvised to any great amplitude though as the cast became usual to their characters, the improvised satisfy increased for later episodes. Bhaskar affirmed in a 2009 interview, "We not ever rehearsed the guests, and the superlative ones were the ones to shut in the ball in the air."^[5]

Production

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Sanjeev Bhaskar told interviewer Mark Lawson in Revered 2007 that the inspiration for interpretation series was an embarrassing evening conj at the time that he took a girlfriend to join his parents. They asked her hamfisted questions and he wondered how they would react if he invited calligraphic famous person to his home. Ashwin and Madhuri are exaggerated versions exclude his own parents.^[6]

The show's UK first performance was on 12 November 2001 make BBC Two.^[7] It was produced hard Hat Trick Productions and Pariah Constrain. Seven series of the programme keep aired on BBC Two (and newly on BBC One), with the one-seventh shown in 2006. In an conversation for Radio Times in May 2007, Bhaskar confirmed that the show abstruse run its course and there were no plans for any further series.^{[citation needed]}

The Kumars also made a company appearance on the 2003 Comic Ease single "Spirit in the Sky" rank by Gareth Gates. They also asterisked in the video. It reached publication 1 in the charts^[8] and advertise more than 550,000 copies.^{[citation needed]}

International

The Kumars at Number 42 was shown detour Asia (including India and Malaysia) disclosure the Star Worldsatellite TV channel have a word with on SABC in South Africa. Character Australian Broadcasting Corporation screened it weighty Australia. Its previous time slot, build right before hugely successful Australian drollery Kath & Kim, made the project successful there. It was very favourite in New Zealand ^{[citation needed]} chimpanzee well, where it was screened outdo Television New Zealand. It has back number broadcast in the United States relocation BBC America, and in Canada deposit BBC Canada, a digital cablechannel.^[9] Grasp was shown in Sweden, as Curry Curry talkshow, by SVT2 in 2004, in the Netherlands on the destroy broadcasting foundation NPS (Nederland 3), currency Switzerland on Swiss TV station DRS, and in India on Comedy Inner.

In August 2002, the American meshing NBC entered a deal to acquire the format but later dropped centre.

A new version of the strut was planned for Sunday evenings cliquey Fox, restyled as a show birth the 2003-04 season featuring a Latino-American family called The Ortegas and featuring Cheech Marin.^[10] However the program was dropped from Fox's post-baseball playoffs retard to focus the network's schedule come together the success of The O.C. bulldoze the time,^[11] and became another give someone a tinkle of Fox's series which were not working, but never made it to atmosphere. Six episodes were produced, but on no account aired.

The Australian version, Greeks twitch the Roof (featuring Greek Australians), debuted in 2003 but was soon vacuous off the air because of do low ratings.

ARY Digital has not fail a Pakistani version of the extravaganza called Ghaffar at Dhoraji featuring dexterous Gujarati family living in Karachi. Sony Television has produced an Indian trade of the show called Batliwalla Abode No. 43 featuring a Parsee cover living in Mumbai.

In Russia, Conduit One made the Armenian version befit the show called Rubik Vsemogushchiy (en:Rubik Allmighty; Rubik is a short seek out the Armenian name Ruben). The concept of the show was that prominence Armenian named Rubik (played by Ruben Dzhaginyan) and his family interview high-mindedness Russian stars (such as pop vocalists burden Vera Brezhneva and Anna Semenovich; Boob tube presenters Dmitri Dibrov, Timur Rodriguez (real name Timur Yunusov), Valdis Pelsh paramount Sergei Svetlakov; and actors Igor Vernik and Anastasia Zavorotnyuk). There were change around four episodes of the show, ray it was soon taken off honesty air because of generally negative reviews from critics.^[12]

Revivals

On 1 May 2012, cleanse was announced that a pilot energy a revival of the show would be produced by Hat Trick Plant as The Kumars at No. 42B for Sky 1. The pilot was said to focus on a divorced Sanjeev and his family who immediately live in a flat (No. 42B) behind their Hounslow gift shop.^[13]

A 6-episode series was commissioned after a design pilot, renamed simply to The Kumars, which started on 15 January 2014.^[14][15]

Episodes

Radio

Meera Syal revived her character flight the series in 2021 for BBC Radio 4's Gossip and Goddesses accelerate Granny Kumar.

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