The Kumars at No. 42 The Kumars at No. 42 The Kumars at No. 42 is a British television show. It won an International Emmy in 2002 and 2003, and won a Peabody Award in 2004. It ran for seven series totalling 53 episodes. The show stars a fictional British Indian family, including Madhuri and Ashwin Kumar (played by Indira Joshi and Vincent Ebrahim), their adult son Sanjeev (played by Sanjeev Bhaskar), and Sushila, Sanjeev's grandmother, normally referred to as Ummi (played by Meera Syal). The family lives in Wembley, London, England. The show's central premise is that Sanjeev's parents have supported his dream of
The Kumars at No. 42 Switzerland on Swiss TV station DRS. In India it was also aired on Comedy Central. In August 2002, the American channel NBC entered a deal to buy the format but later dropped out. A new version of the show was planned for Sunday evenings on Fox, restyled as a show in the 2003-04 season featuring a Latino-American family called "The Ortegas" and featuring Cheech Marin. However the program was dropped from Fox's post-baseball playoffs schedule to focus the network's schedule on the success of "The O.C." at the time, and became another one of Fox's series which were scheduled, but