Kumar de Silva
  • THE BONSOIR DIARIES – Chapter 03 – Those early recordings at ITN…

    This year I celebrate 35 years on ‘Bonsoir’ and on Sri Lankan television. Bonsoir closed down in 2010 and in the absence of an archives is ‘Bonsoir Diaries’, the behind-the-scenes stories I wrote in 2013. The book is a cocktail of chapters, bursting at their seams with pithy asides, a trail of faux-pas, tit-bits from behind-the-scenes marinated with anecdotes and drizzled with nostalgia, revealing everything you never saw on your favourite television show … from the 80s through the 90s into 2000.  In celebration of my 35 years on ‘Bonsoir’ and Sri Lankan television this year, ‘The Morning’ newspaper serialises the fifty chapters of the (now sold out) ‘Bonsoir Diaries’ every Tuesday. CLICK HERE TO READ – http://www.themorning.lk/chapter-3-those-early-recordings-at-itn/ 50 chapters over 50 weeks will take us right upto Christmas 2021. Happy Reading !!! THE BONSOIR DIARIES – Chapter 03 – Those early recordings at ITN… Bonsoir had no studio of

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  • THE BONSOIR DIARIES – Chapter 02 – The agony of traumatic ‘screen tests’

    This year I celebrate 35 years on ‘Bonsoir’ and on Sri Lankan television. Bonsoir closed down in 2010 and in the absence of an archives is ‘Bonsoir Diaries’, the behind-the-scenes stories I wrote in 2013. The book is a cocktail of chapters, bursting at their seams with pithy asides, a trail of faux-pas, tit-bits from behind-the-scenes marinated with anecdotes and drizzled with nostalgia, revealing everything you never saw on your favourite television show … from the 80s through the 90s into 2000.  In celebration of my 35 years on ‘Bonsoir’ and Sri Lankan television this year, ‘The Morning’ newspaper serialises the fifty chapters of the (now sold out) ‘Bonsoir Diaries’ every Tuesday. CLICK HERE TO READ – http://www.themorning.lk/chapter-2-the-agony-of-traumatic-screen-tests/ 50 chapters over 50 weeks will take us right upto Christmas 2021. Happy Reading !!! THE BONSOIR DIARIES – Chapter 02 – The agony of traumatic ‘screen tests’ Aruni Devaraja was the

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  • THE BONSOIR DIARIES – Chapter 01 – A diplomatic birth and the journey begins …

    This year I celebrate 35 years on ‘Bonsoir’ and on Sri Lankan television. Bonsoir closed down in 2010 and in the absence of an archives is ‘Bonsoir Diaries’, the behind-the-scenes stories I wrote in 2013. The book is a cocktail of chapters, bursting at their seams with pithy asides, a trail of faux-pas, tit-bits from behind-the-scenes marinated with anecdotes and drizzled with nostalgia, revealing everything you never saw on your favourite television show … from the 80s through the 90s into 2000.  In celebration of my 35 years on ‘Bonsoir’ and Sri Lankan television this year, ‘The Morning’ newspaper serialises the fifty chapters of the (now sold out) ‘Bonsoir Diaries’ every Tuesday. CLICK ON LINK HERE – http://www.themorning.lk/chapter-1-a-diplomatic-birth-and-the-journey-begins/ 50 chapters over 50 weeks will take us right upto Christmas 2021. Happy Reading !!! THE BONSOIR DIARIES – CHAPTER 01 – A diplomatic birth and the journey begins … Bonsoir was

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  • THE BONSOIR DIARIES … The Prologue

    Today, Tuesday 05 January 2021, I celebrate thirty five years on television. It was on this day, in 1986, that I first appeared on the little screen, on Bonsoir, on ITN. What a journey it has been, over the years, across hundreds of editions of Bonsoir and all the other wide and varied TV shows I have hosted … to social media today, to ‘Aperitifs with Kumar’ on Pulse (www.pulse.lk) And as I look back on that journey, I remember with deep gratitude, all those persons both in Sri Lanka and in France, too numerous to single out, who have been a part of that exhilarating voyage with me. Today 35 years later, if I were to single out any one specific facet of that journey which changed my life AND for which I still thank Bonsoir and the Alliance Francaise and ITN and the Embassy of France in Sri

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