Junior B will make his debut on the small screen on Viacom 18’s General Entertainment Channel Colors as host on its new show Idea National Bingo Night produced by Fox Television Studios India Private Limited.

Abhishek insists that it wasn’t his father’s association with the channel which forced him to agree to host the show.

“I liked the concept of the show, it excited me creatively. I liked what they were trying to do and liked what they have done. It is great that Colors thought if me. The decision was theirs, it didn’t have anything to do with the fact that pa (Amitabh Bachchan) was part of the channel,” he says.

The international televised version of the popular guessing game Bingo is simple and interactive, involving not just studio participants and audience but also the viewers who can participate in real time.

Abhishek is all excited about the game show, which doesn't require one to rack their brains to answer questions. One can instead simply sit back relax and play the game, an aspect that was the theme of the show’s first teasers.

“It is something different. It is important to do differently. I have always done so with my career, the kind of films I have done. It has to challenge me, something that I haven’t done before. So this suits me,” he explains.