{"id":9326,"date":"2015-10-09T16:36:30","date_gmt":"2015-10-09T16:36:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tat.reddaisytrading.co.uk\/index.php\/2015\/10\/09\/citizen-khan-screening\/"},"modified":"2015-10-09T16:36:30","modified_gmt":"2015-10-09T16:36:30","slug":"citizen-khan-screening","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/2015\/10\/09\/citizen-khan-screening\/","title":{"rendered":"Citizen Khan Screening"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"content\">\n<h3>Registration Open for Preview <\/h3>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" height=\"311\" src=\"http:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/image\/ArticleImages\/Citizen%20Khan%20Preview-447x311.jpg\" width=\"447\"\/><\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p>A preview screening of two episodes of BBC One\u2019s award winning, primetime sitcom Citizen Khan is to take place in Birmingham city centre on Tuesday 27 October and the BBC is giving local audiences an opportunity to be part of the event.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p>Birmingham-born Adil Ray along with and co-stars Bhavna Limbachia, Abdullah Afzal Adlyn Ross and Krupa Pattani will be in town for the red carpet screening at Cineworld on Broad Street, and audiences will have the chance to join them for a night of comedy.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p>Details of how to register for tickets for the event are now live via the BBC Shows and Tours website: <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/bbcsignups.external.bbc.co.uk\/inxmail4\/d?q00uo7kq0000sw0qd0000000000000000000k74y2453\">bbc.co.uk\/showsandtours<\/a> <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p>Now in its fourth series, Citizen Khan is a sitcom set in the Sparkhill area of Birmingham. The show follows the trials and tribulations of larger-than-life self-appointed community leader Mr Khan and his family. The opening episode to be screened at the preview sees the return of comedy legend Peter Bowles (To The Manor Born) return to our screens.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p>Adil Ray, creator and lead actor in Citizen Khan, said he\u2019s delighted that the screening will be taking place in his home town.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m very much looking forward to celebrating the new series of Citizen Khan with the people of Birmingham. I owe so much to our great city so it\u2019s only right that we share this moment together. Plus Mr Khan needs to shift a few DVDs. He\u2019s currently flogging VHS copies of Crossroads if anyone\u2019s interested?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p>Joe Godwin, Director of BBC Birmingham says: \u201cWe\u2019re really pleased\u00a0to be holding the screening of Citizen Khan on its home turf, Birmingham.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s fantastic to have a major BBC One peak time comedy set here and I look forward to watching our city on the big screen alongside our audiences.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Registration Open for Preview &#13; &#13; A preview screening of two episodes of BBC One\u2019s award winning, primetime sitcom Citizen Khan is to take place in Birmingham city centre on Tuesday 27 October and the BBC is giving local audiences an opportunity to be part of the event. &#13; &#13; Birmingham-born Adil Ray along with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11753,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9326","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorised"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9326","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9326"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9326\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}