Originally posted by: TheM5393
Shows ONLY move forward for TRP, the 'gap year' Mandy the blogger was talking about was also the time when Kundali Bhagya was the no.1 show for 52 consecutive weeks. I mean if you have only started watching now for 'Karan-Preeta' I understand why you would feel frustrated. But I am going to be all intellectual and talk about the economics of ITV shows,😆(Coz I am a little off in that direction).
So basically we all know that Kundali Bhagya is a spin-off of Kumkum Bhagya, and factually speaking when the spin-off was announced Kumkum Bhagya was the number 1 show, so being the spin-off of the no.1 show with great casting helped Kundali Bhagya immensely (to say the least) !! In the very first week of its inception Kundali Bhagya was within the top 10 shows in the BARC Urban GEC ratings, and continued to climb steadily up. As Sanjay Gagnani (Prithvi) and Ruhi Chaturvedi (Sherlyn) have already confirmed that initially they were hired as cameo's in the show, with short contracts. However, the fact that the show was doing well to begin with but became number 1 post Prithvi's entry cemented his and Sherlyn's place permanently in the Kundali Bhagya cast.
The dragging and the elongation of the current plot in Kundali Bhagya being partially because of Zee tv is also kind of sort of true, the fact that despite Kumkum Bhagya being as successful a serial that it has been by 2018 the makers had no option but to take a 'time-leap' in the show. Currently most if not all long running shows try and 'want to avoid' time-leaps as much as possible. But even more than that considering Kumkum Bhagya became overtly dependent on Abhi and Pragya, the makers being the same have conscientiously tried to avoid that in Kundali Bhagya. Although, Karan and Preeta are the 'leads' but the plot does NOT 'solely' revolve around them. The audience are interested in other characters and the plot arch's that those other characters bring.
So, as long as Kundali Bhagya has the TRP it will drag without much actual resolution in plot for as long as possible, or at least till crosses the 1000th epi, in my opinion.