Originally posted by: spdp
KD & Alice should speak up. Beyond Pandyastore, liked his this talk.
They are only two completely committed to this show.
I agree with him finite shows are the way to go, instead of stretching a wafer thin story.
I grew up watching finite shows in late 80s and all of 90s. Dekh Bhai Dekh was a family comedy show and every character was fantastic, was a finite show with 65 episodes spread out for 65 weeks which is almost 1 year and 3 months. I always wait for Thursday night at 8 pm to watch it on DD. Who can forget Urvashi Dholakia as Shilpa, the cutest GF of Sanju AKA Sanjay Diwan played by Vishal Singh. He was many girls crush in my own school 😆
Likewise there were so many finite shows - Actor Madhavan's Banegi Apni Baat in Zee and again Ghar Jamai in Zee
Hip Hip Hurray in Zee- again a school based show- all young actors back then and something of them are even famous now like Rushaad Rana, Kishwer Merchant
Sony's Saaya, Sea Hawks - all different genres but finite.
Even reality shows like Sa Re Ga Ma Pa had stalwarts as judges - would run for year as it was a weekly program - that's how I knew Shreya Ghoshal, Vijay Prakash, Bela Shende whereas Sunidhi Chauhan won Meri Awaz Suno judged by Lata Mangeshkar on DD
Such were the programs back then and there were several more, can keep going on. Even MTV and Channel V used to be awesome -got introduced to KK, Mohit Chauhan, Palash Sen and his band Euphoria, Shaan and Sagarika (brother-sister duo) and many more such talent.
DD,ZEE and Sony had much better shows in the 90s, SP was struggling, so was Ekta, both joined hands together and ruined the entire TV scene and it's been 22 years, still they cannot get out of this BS.
I want finite shows back on ITV and the scene will be much better than what we have today and the genres they can explore is infinite.
Now wonder when Kruttika Desai says those were the golden days, I completely relate to her.