“Tandoori Nights (1985 and 1987) was Channel 4's first Asian comedy series. The production team of writer Farrukh Dhondy, director Jon Amiel and producer Malcolm Craddock had worked together before on Come to Mecca (BBC, 1982), and their formidable collective television experience gave rare opportunities to Asian talent behind and in front of the camera.

The second series recruited the talents of Meera Syal, who scripted the first three episodes. Syal's script upends cultural stereotypes, something Goodness Gracious Me (BBC, 1998-2000) was also to do, to great comic effect. To audiences of the mid-1980s UK, it had the elements of a groundbreaking sitcom: a mixed-race relationship, left wing and sexy Asian women, and a restaurant proprietor more interested in success and money than in his cultural roots.”

(Screen Online)

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