In india, by 2008 there were strings of long running successful shows (kyuki saas bhi kabhi bahu thi or kahani ghar ghar ki or kausati zindagi ki) which had lost their steam and completely become stale as there was only a Saas bahu melodrama, with the male and female protagonist never dieing even after several accidents and returning very much proper without a small scar or taking contant leaps and a full months of marriage in it, there came a completely revamped stories like Balika vadhu and Uttahran which really focused on child characters who constantly were in trouble within a span of 3 months colors were producing highest TRP in the history of Indian television! but but but on July 28th
there came a sitcom named Tarak mehta ka oolta chashma on Sab TV!(where FIR was the only popular show at the time on sabtv) by asit modi on a book written by legendary late tarak mehta