The Kumars At No. 42 - BBC1 Chat Show

TV chat show / sitcom
BBC One / BBC Two
2001 - 2006
53 episodes (7 series)

Comedy chat show set in the living room of host Sanjeev Kumar, surrounded by his quirky and typically British-Asian family. Stars Sanjeev Bhaskar, Meera Syal, Indira Joshi and Vincent Ebrahim.

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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

Hat Trick Productions

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...