The Popats, an eccentric Asian family, burst onto the screen. Thirteen-year-old Anand copes with the madness by escaping into comic fantasies that may just help him stay sane.

The weird and wonderful world of the Popats--the Asian family from hell--is about to burst onto our screens and blossom. You've never seen anything like them. And that's 13-year-old Anand's problem. But by turning his life into a series of comic fantasies, maybe, just maybe, he will stay sane.—Laurence Bowen