The Independent newspaper reports today that Kumars at No.42 may finally be coming to an end. Or moving to another channel, it’s not clear exactly.

Meera Syal told the newspaper: “We won’t do another series in its present form for the BBC because we have now done seven, amazingly. We have had interest from other quarters about doing something different – but keeping the family together. So we’re exploring that.”

So maybe an off-shoot of the current format. After seven series though, isn’t it time to lay it to rest? The Kumars first went out on BBC Two in 2001. The format was also sold to Australia, Germany, Israel, the Netherlands and the USA.