3 Bafta nominations for The Kumars at No 42

Popular chat show with an Indian flavour The Kumars at No 42 leads the nominations for this year’s Bafta TV awards. The show, featurin...

Popular chat show with an Indian flavour The Kumars at No 42 leads the nominations for this year’s Bafta TV awards.

The show, featuring Sanjeev Bhaskar and Meera Syal, has won three nominations at UK television industry’s leading awards. The show, is up against BBC One’s Test the Nation and Friday Night with Jonathan Ross as well as ITV1’s I’m a Celebrity…Get Me Out of Here for best entertainment programme or series, the BBC reported today.

The show features a fictional immigrant family ‘‘the Kumars’’ who have bulldozed their back garden and built a studio there for the family’s spoilt son Sanjeev (Sanjeev Bhaskar), who wants to be a celebrity talk show host.

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Among the celebrities to be grilled in the make-shift studio are film maker Ismail Merchant, footballers Gary Lineker and Michael Owen and pop singer Ronan Keating.

Albert Finney and James Nesbitt are the other two nominated in the best actor category. Jessica Stevenson (BBC Tomorrow la Scala!), Sheila Hancock (Bedtime), Vanessa Redgrave (The Gathering Storm) and Julie Walters (Murder) are the nominees for the best actress award. Eastenders and Coronation Street figure again in the best soap category along with BBC’s Doctors and channel 4’s Hollyoaks.

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