SRK’s big plans for the small screen

All IPL teams feature on Red Chillies’ next TV show. Telefilms are also on the anvil.

Shah Rukh Khan’s television software company Red Chillies Idiot Box, is busy finding brand new programmes for television.After Knights And Angels, a talent hunt to choose cheerleaders for SRK’s Kolkata Knight Riders, the next to roll out will also be another show on the Indian Premier League. “It’s a new show that will feature all the IPL teams,over a series of six episodes” revealed a source close to the company but did not divulge more details.

Shah Rukh himself proclaimed that he has great ambitions for his television company and wants to produce programmes of international quality. Balancing all areas, there is fiction, comedy and even telefilms in the pipeline. These will be interesting , short films on different genres. Interestingly, the programmes will not be restricted to only NDTV, Shah Rukh’s current favourite channel, but spread across a spectrum of channels.

Red Chillies’s Ghar Ki Baat Hai the comedy series based on Yeh Jo Hai Zindagi, and the Abu Jani-Sandeep Khosla-hosted chat show The First Wives are also on air.

In fact, Shah Rukh Khan’s reticent better half, Gauri, will be seen chatting about her superstar husband for the first time in the chat show on NDTV Good Times on March 28. The popular show was the first to roll out of Khan’s television production house and Gauri’s interview will be the grand finale to this exclusive show.

Gauri who has modelled for friend Maheep Kapoor’s jewellery line and has also designed SRK’s clothes for some of his films is the producer for most of his home -productions. And now it is heard that the superstar’s wife could go a step further and even host a show for her husband’s company. “If there is some show that suits her, we are sure she will be ready to do it,” revealed a source close to the company .