Comedy never takes a last breath that soon. Every year for once or twice, there will be a comedy show to retain a set of audience. But the quantity could be less.
But after JCPKH, Sab TV did not brought a single comedy show. Even TMKOC turned into social drama like MS and WKD. JCPKH it we see clearly was also drama along with horror and comedy. It's because of continuous comedy and it's makers we could not figure it out as drama and if sone other PH made that show it would have been another chudail daayan type of depressing show. MS may be comedy still now but it only keeps bringing social messages which kills the comedy. But still I see it as last proper comedy show. Sab Satrangi and Pushpa Impossible could have been made comedy but they turned out to be drama shows instead. Sab TV's business head claimed in March that it's no more a comedy channel. No wonder they brought Prashant Bhatt as programming head last year who earlier worked with Colors and Dangal. Now even Alibaba is flopping getting 0.6 at 8pm prime time which no one expected. Only WKD and PI getting food ratings due to their time slots. It's clear many viewers stopped watching this channel. Now even if bring comedy, it will flop as it would be hard to bring old viewers back.
ABAE I got to know that it's more of racism promoted there which is coated with comedy. From whatever clips I saw I too feel the same. The FL's saas hates her while her hethaani plots against her. On top of that, her husband don't even love her but see her as ticket of US. They put down foreigners by mocking their culture, language, rituals just to glorify Indians. So I don't it as actual comedy show. Maharaj Ki Jai Ho on the same channel found much better than this.
If not for Bhabhiji and Happu, the comedy era would have completely gone. These 2 shows are only run by channel as they are only saving the channel since till now otherwise the channel won't last even few months if they shut these 2 shows along with their repeat telecast. The third comedy was getting just 0.1 even at 9:30pm. May be because either people found that show boring or simply any new show flopping on the channel while Bhabhiji and Happu being watched as a habit like people still watch TMKOC after so many years.
Comedy needs to be back because the comedy lovers have nothing to watch apart from Bhabhiji and Happu which may also end after few months when their ratings hit 0.1.
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