The Kumars At No. 42 - BBC1 Chat Show - British Comedy Guide (original) (raw)

The Kumars At No. 42. Image shows from L to R: Ummi (Meera Syal), Mum (Indira Joshi), Sanjeev Kumar (Sanjeev Bhaskar), Dad (Vincent Ebrahim). Copyright: Hat Trick Productions

Genres

Chat Show, Sitcom

Broadcast

2001 - 2006

Channels

BBC One, BBC Two

Episodes

53 (7 series)

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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Additional details

Production

Studio

Camera set-up

Multi-camera

Picture

Colour

Broadcast details

First broadcast

Monday 12th November 2001 at 9pm on BBC Two

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