Sanjeev Kohli

Writers' Guild Awards 2013 shortlists

Nominations for Jo Brand, Vicki Pepperdine, Joanna Scanlan, Jesse Armstrong, Sam Bain, Stefan Golaszewski, Susan Calman, Sanjeev Kohli, Donald McLeary, David Sedaris, Alice Lowe and Steve Oram.

There was a lot going on in A Nice Arrangement, another strong entry in the variable but mostly excellent Love Matters series.

Writer Sanjeev Kohli threw a fake romance, lesbianism, societal expectation and torn loyalties into a plot that, at heart, was a simple love story.

Thanks to engaging performances from Shazad Latif and Zahra Ahmadi as Satpal and Priya, the perfect couple who weren't really a couple, A Nice Arrangement had the light touch of a superior romcom while also exploring the pressure of living up to the expectatiions of those who mean the most to you. What could have played out as a faerce was actually rather endearing.

The ending, or non-ending, was gagging for a follow-up series to be made,. Let's hope they get it, because here was a love triangle that hit all kinds of odd and funny notes.

Sanjeev Kohli writes sitcom based on search for love

Kohli says the blind date experiences of his teens and early 20s inspired the scripts for A Nice Arrangement, which will be shown on Sky Living in February.

The sitcom set in a Glasgow corner shop returns for a welcome new series, its fifth. Written by and starring Sanjeev Kohli and Donald McLeary, Fags, Mags And Bags is multicultural, without being the least bit worthy or earnest, and it's genuinely funny. In particular, shopkeeper Ramesh (Kohli) is a great comic creation. In the opening episode of this six-part series, the arrival of a new butcher's shop brings strife to the street.

Sanjeev Kohli wants Still Game back... so as to woo Isa

Sanjeev Kohli yesterday revealed his burning... to rekindle romance with Still Game's Isa.

Sanjeev Kohli beats brother Hardeep in father's ranking

A dad has sparked a sibling war between his two celebrity sons - by admitting he prefers one to the other. Parduman Kohli, father of broadcaster and presenter Hardeep Singh Kohli and Still Game star Sanjeev Kohli, reveals in a radio interview that Sanjeev is his No.1 son.

Laugh? You'll want to write your own sitcom

Sanjeev Kohli is a man on a mission: to find out what makes great comedy.

BBC Writers Room Details

More information on Newswipe from the BBC Writers Room website. Features in-depth interviews with producer Gareth Edwards and established writer Sanjeev Kohli. Note: The show was still called 7 On 7 when this web page was created.

A second six-part series of that United Nations of Accents set in the shopping area of Glasgow. Not that Glasgow itself lends any atmosphere to the show, but it does explain the number of Scots appearing alongside English types of various geographical provenance, and several Indians.

But the action of Sanjeev Kohli and Donald McLeary's sitcom is hardly site-specific - instead it dwells in a slightly surreal world of non sequitors and one-liners, of jokes that stumble over each other in their urge to be heard, of gentle puns and mundane, everyday phrases rendered hilarious by context and fine acting. Plot? Well, in this first in a new series there's a missing cat and the problem of telling Brian the cobbler that he smells terrible. But you don't come here for the story, you come for the sheer joy of hearing clever people having fun with words.

Sanjeev Kohli in 'woeful' blast at BBC

Sanjeev Kohli, the Scots star of the BBC television series Still Game, has branded Radio Scotland's comedy output as 'woeful'.