The Kumars At No. 42 - BBC1 Chat Show - British Comedy Guide (original) (raw)
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Stars
Sanjeev Bhaskar, Meera Syal, Indira Joshi and Vincent Ebrahim
Writers
Sanjeev Bhaskar, Richard Pinto, Sharat Sardana, Simon Blackwell, George Jeffrie, Suk Pannu, Bert Tyler-Moore, Roger Drew and John Irwin
Directors
Lissa Evans, Nick Wood and Dominic Brigstocke
Producers
Lissa Evans, Richard Pinto, Sharat Sardana, Denise O'Donoghue, Helen Williams, Alex Jackson-Long, Jimmy Mulville and Anil Gupta
Company
The Kumars are a well-off Indian family whose spoilt son Sanjeev fancies himself as a chat show host. To facilitate this, his mum and dad have helpfully bulldozed their back garden and built a TV studio on the back of their suburban home.
Each week Sanjeev gets to interview celebrity guests whilst fending off the countless interruptions from his doting parents and overbearing grandmother, much to the amusement of the bemused guests in question...
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First broadcast
Monday 12th November 2001 at 9pm on BBC Two
All previous repeats
Thursday 27th October 2022 at 11:30pm on BBC4 - Series 5, Episode 6
Sunday 20th December 2020 at 9:45pm on BBC4 - Series 4, Christmas Special