Colors CEO Raj Nayak, in an interview with Times of India, has finally revealed his reasons for pulling the plug on the popular TV show ‘Comedy Nights With Kapil’ starring comedian Kapil Sharma.
The last episode of the show, that has run successfully and consistently for two and a half years, was aired on 24 January.
Shocking fans across the country, host Sharma announced in December that he has decided to wrap up the show after the channel introduced a competitive programme called ‘Comedy Nights Bachao’.
Nayak made it clear that the controversies between Kapil and the channel were of a private nature and the two parties still held a lot of respect and love for each other. However, he had decided it was time to speak up because “our silence was being misinterpreted.”
Nayak would have you believe that there's no bad blood. He said Sharma was "a nice person" and "extremely talented".
“It was the channel’s decision to call it ‘Comedy Nights With Kapil’ (originally the show was to be titled ‘Comedy Nights’), as we felt that it would give him a sense of ownership and his loyalty to the show would be 100 per cent,” he said.
Nayak alleged that Sharma had violated his contract with Colors by hosting shows on competitive channels, in addition to renegotiating for higher sums of money. He also claimed that launching ‘Comedy Nights Bachao’ was a forced decision taken to compensate for Sharma’s requirements of reducing the episodes to once a week, and to fill in the 10pm weekend slot that Sharma started refusing to do.
In his initial statement revealing the date of the last episode, Sharma had claimed that the channel was giving ‘Comedy Nights Bachao’ more prominence and diverting celebrities to the show.
The last episode starring Akshay Kumar and Nimrat Kaur was almost cancelled, however was finally aired after Sharma, and several fans appealed to the channel. Sharma even took to Twitter to appeal to Colors to host the last episode on January 24.
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