Two of India’s longest running shows — Indian Idol and Kaun Banega Crorepati (KBC) — completed 10 seasons in 2018. Both reside on the Sony Pictures Network India’s (SPN) flagship general entertainment channel, Sony Entertainment Television (SET), and in the last week of 2018, the grand finale of Indian Idol catapulted the channel into second position in the pecking order of most-viewed channels in urban India.
- KBC was launched in 2000 and marked a new era in reality TV
- Indian Idol, launched in 2004, has been a tent-pole reality for SET
- In 2018, KBC failed