The Kapil Sharma Show winner in TRP war in its opening week

King of Comedy Kapil Sharma’s new show “The Kapil Sharma Show” on Sony TV has emerged victorious in the battle of ratings

When Kapil Sharma announced his The Kapil Sharma Show on Sony TV fans were elated. In a few days, his ex-channel Colors also declared the world TV premiere of Bajirao Mastani on April 23 without any ad breaks. Industry was abuzz about how ego had placed a huge role in the decision.

All eyes were on TRP ratings for week 17 2016 as the results for the biggest battle of TRPs were to be announced. The moment finally arrived and looks like ‘The Kapil Sharma Show’ has emerged the winner in this TRP war in first week post its launch.

According to reports in the media, while ‘TKSS’ got a TRP of 3.0 in the urban sector and 2.8 in the rural taking it to 5.8 in total, Bajirao Mastani, on the other hand, got a TRP of 2.4 in the urban sector. The rural ratings are yet to be out. Not only this, as per reports, ‘The Kapil Sharma Show’ has also entered the Top 5 list in its opening week with 8943 Impressions. This surely calls in for a celebration for the Kapil Sharma gang.

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Super star Shah Rukh Khan was also present in the Kapil’s first episode, but experts say that it was comedian’s popularity which has turned the table in favour of Sony TV as King Khan, who started his acting career on TV, do not command much eye balls on idiot box.