The Kapil Sharma Show

The Kapil Sharma Show, also known as TKSS, is an Indian Hindi language stand-up comedy and talk show broadcast by Sony Entertainment Television. Hosted by Kapil Sharma, the first season of the show premiered on 23 April 2016. The series revolved around Sharma and his neighbours in the Shantivan Non Co-operative Housing Society. The filming of the show took place at Film City situated in Goregaon East, Mumbai. The first season of the show was produced by Sharma's banner K9 Productions in association with Frames Productions while the second and third season were jointly produced by Salman Khan Television and Banijay Asia with K9 Productions and TEAM (Triyambh Entertainment and Media) as the creative producers. The show's fifth season was launched in September 2022 in which Archana Puran Singh reprised her role as the guest judge. As per the reports, the team also saw some new actors joining the star cast.
The format is largely identical to that of Sharma's former show Comedy Nights with Kapil. The kapil sharma Show revolves around Kapil Sharma and his team of comedians, including Sumona Chakravarti, Kiku Sharda, Chandan Prabhakar, Krushna Abhishek, Bharti Singh and Rochelle Rao, who play residents of the Shantivan Non-cooperative Housing Society. Normally every episode unfolds in two parts with the first part being a comic skit enacted by the actors of the show and the second part being the celebrity interview where popular personalities from various fields indulge in a light-hearted interaction with karma. Navjot Singh Sidhu was the permanent guest of the show but was later replaced by Archana Puran Singh after 16 February 2019.
On 31 August 2017, the spokesperson of Sony Entertainment Television announced that Kapil Sharma and the channel have mutually agreed to give the show a short break as the shooting of several episodes had to be cancelled in the past few days due to Sharma's poor health. The show started losing TRP post Sharma's mid-air altercation with co-star Sunil Grover. After that, his health started deteriorating which made him skip the show for a couple of episodes. After the controversy, Grover left the show along with Chandan Prabhakar, Ali Asgar and some other cast members. Prabhakar returned to the show along with Bharti Singh appearing in recurring episodes. The show went off air in 2017. The second season took to the telecast in December 2018. Singh and Krushna Abhishek joined the show as new cast.
The show was also in controversy when film director Vivek Agnihotri said that the star cast of his movie The Kashmir Files was not invited to the show because the film does not have a commercial star cast. Later, film actor Anupam Kher denied allegations of Vivek Agnihotri.
The Kapil Sharma Show's first season received a mixed reception from critics and audiences. Namrata Thakker of Rediff.com gave it 2.5 stars out of 5 stars, liking the characters of Sunil Grover and Ali Asgar but saying that "the series has big shoes to fill considering how successful their earlier show Comedy Nights With Kapil was." Chaya Unnikrishnan of Daily News and Analysis gave the series two stars out of five but said, "Kapil Sharma's wit and funny one-liners bring a laugh". Although she praised part of the show ("In fact, the 10 minutes or so where [Sharma] has a monologue is the best part of the show"), Unnikrishnan called it "dull and disappointing". In her 1.5-star review, Letty Mariam Abraham of Mid-Day said: "The whole look and feel of the new set is interesting, even if the jokes are old". However, "Kapil brings nothing new to the plate and it seems like a waste of the prime time slot." The season 2 of the show got a favourable opening according Broadcast Audience Research Council ratings, with 8.1 million impressions.
According to the reports published by the Broadcast Audience Research Council, the show's first episode of the show generated 8,943 responses. Although, some viewers were happy to see the same contestants back after watching Comedy Nights with Kapil, others were disappointed with the show's repetitive humour and chaos. The series' 16th episode, featuring the Sairat team and airing on 12 June 2016, had better ratings in the non-fiction category.