International
The Kumars at Number 42 was also shown in Asia (including India and Malaysia) on the Star World satellite TV channel and on SABC in South Africa. The Australian Broadcasting Corporation screens it in Australia and its previous time slot being right before hugely successful Australian comedy Kath & Kim made the programme hugely successful there. It is also very popular in New Zealand, where it is screened by Television New Zealand. It has been broadcast in the United States on BBC America, and in Canada, the programme can be viewed on BBC Canada, a digital cable channel, weeknights at 9:00 North American Eastern Time. It was shown in Sweden, as Curry Curry talkshow, by SVT2 in 2004, and in the Netherlands on the public broadcasting foundation NPS (Nederland 3). It is also shown in Switzerland on Swiss TV station DRS. In India it was also aired on Comedy Central.
In August 2002, the American channel NBC entered a deal to buy the format but later dropped out.
A new version of the show was planned for Sunday evenings on Fox, restyled as a show in the 2003-04 season featuring a Latino-American family called The Ortegas and featuring Cheech Marin. However the program was dropped from Fox's post-baseball playoffs schedule to focus the network's schedule on the success of The O.C. at the time, and became another one of Fox's series which were scheduled, but never made it to air. Six episodes were produced, but never aired.
The Australian version, Greeks on the Roof (featuring Greek Australians), debuted in 2003 but was soon taken off the air because of very low ratings.
ARY Digital has produced a Pakistani version of the show called Ghaffar at Dhoraji featuring a Gujarati family living in Karachi. Sony Television has produced an Indian version of the show called Batliwalla House No. 43 featuring a Parsee family living in Mumbai.
In Russia, Channel One made the Armenian version of the show called Rubik Vsemogushchiy (en: Rubik Allmighty; Rubik is a short for the Armenian name Ruben). The idea of the show was that an Armenian named Rubik (played by Ruben Dzhaginyan) and his family interview the Russian stars (such as pop singers Vera Brezhneva and Anna Semenovich; TV presenters Dmitri Dibrov, Timur Rodriguez (real name Timur Yunusov), Valdis Pelsh and Sergey Svetlakov; and actors Igor Vernik and Anastasia Zavorotnyuk). There were just four episodes of the show, and it was soon taken off the air because of the critics.
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