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One tweet on Twitter was pondering how many men would be looking for the actress on twitter....


https://twitter.com/BhavnaLimbachia

That was called 'All About Me'. You are right about how bad it was!

I'd be prepared to watch again. Yes it did seem a throw-back comedy and maybe we are all so fed up with cozy middle class sit coms and supposedly clever series that many are enjoying On the Buses etc on 10. There were one or two mildy funny situations and a fair bit of cringyness .
I liked well-spoken mum as she shows up Mr pomposity..wasn't that the point?
I loved Little Miss Demure who of course was nothing of the sort. I think her deviousness was funny (although like a previous poster , I did think of poor Shafilia Ahmed ) and also noticed how beautiful she was in her hijab let alone her gold kecks. I loved Khan's reaction to Dave and Dave himself. It certainly isn't high brow and of course comedy doesn't have to be successful. I feel like giving it a chance on the grounds that I like at least three characters and want to see how they develop.

When I saw the rolls, all I could think of was Bend it like Beckham...from 10 years ago...as for CK; RIP BBC comedy...

Oh never heard of that., google is my friend, so is a certain download site...

Sparkle this and Sparkle that. I needed a translator.

It wasn't until I saw the credits that I discovered some place called Sparkhill.

You learn something new everyday.

How many people know a Basil Fawlty, Hycinth Bucket, Victor Meldrew?
Lots of people seemed to enjoy CGM despite not being Asian, but they got the humour in the characters.

I didn't watch too much of it, found it a bit cringey, but hey ho it's formulaic, that's not a reason in and of itself to ditch something.
Someone's going to like it, it's just not for you and probably not for me either.
Then again I rarely LOL in real life at anything, even programs I do find amusing.

Bugger me, I'd have thought the context would have been a clue, but maybe not for you.

I watched China - A culinary adventure - documentary about one type of Asian and then this comedy about another kind of Asian and the difference between the two shows was so massive.


I would be so annoyed if I was a British Pakistani

Still puzzles me about the fact that they get Indian actors/actresses to play Pakistani characters (if Wikipedia is to be believed, Adil Ray is British Pakistani), as with the majority of the characters in this series.

Dear lawd, what kind of daft criticism is that, what's your point.
China, and Pakistan thousands of miles away, hugely different cultures, the the latter is shot through the dual prisms of British comedy, then the influences of 40 plus years of immigration.

Yes the differences are massive, it's totally your fault if you thought there was going to any kind of common theme between the two.

Oh my goodness, I thought that was a clever pun on words, not an actual comedy! I hope it was a good one, the title alone had me giggling.

have to agree, it was dire.. crap at it's best.

No I mean one show was really good and one was really rubbish. I know they were different kinds of shows, but they could have taken a few production values from the other one and made this one better.

Yes

I live close to Sparkhill, many of the jokes you won't understand unless you're a local/live in similar areas

Probably not that many nowadays. They were funny in their day and as a snapshot of Britain those shows are still enjoyable but I don't think they represent the lives of most British people in 2012. So to have a Mr Khan who's like a 1970s sitcom character is a bit odd. Unless we're being told that British Asians in Birmingham are still living in the 1970s.

You're just compounding one confusing 'point' with another if you ask me, but I'm not getting into it.
Just say it was poor, crap or whatever.

Now that's a criticism that surprises me. I knew a lot of people would dislike it and find it unfunny, but the one thing it really, really isn't is PC.

I can't help suspecting some people think that a programme that contains anyone with a brown skin is automatically "PC gone mad".

I preferred the other daughter (though both were lovely)

Have I fallen asleep and woken up in 1973?

What a pile of crap this show is....when was this pitched to Bbc ...in the 70's to appeal to who?

All of this. Hopefully it remains non-PC and the wife tones it down a bit.

Get the feeling that minority comedies are viewed through a harsher prism and get almost no leeway.

Nope - it's just that we saw enough of that 70s-era shite back in the 70s...

the commissioning of this dud and its greenlighting for broadcast are what's PC about it... the actual dire 'comedy' is just plain awful whatever the style.

Seems to cover it, one popped up earlier Guardian readers won't like it, the other one claims it's written by a Guardian reader.
Start with premise then look for evidence to support it. or start with premise and talk guff.