Over at MSN TV today: I've reviewed Sky's revival of BBC spoof chat show The Kumars at No42, now shortened to THE KUMARS...
The desire for low-risk success means channels aren't above reviving other defunct hits from yesterday, and the BBC appears to have the most tombs worth raiding. ITV already have Birds of a Feather flying again, and now Sky has resuscitated Emmy-winning comedy The Kumars at No. 42 and re-titled it as The Kumars. Comedian Sanjeev Bhaskar plays a version of himself hosting a chat show from his family home, bankrolled and aided by his fictitious family: solemn skinflint father Ashwin (Vincent Ebrahim) and offbeat grandmother Ummi (Meera Syal, now Bhaskar's real-life wife). The Kumars are back for business, although the show's reflecting the global economic downturn since it went off-air.
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