Broadcaster
After graduating, Hardeep took a job at BBC Radio Scotland as a BBC graduate production trainee. He then moved to the BBC Television Centre, London to direct Children's TV, and then presented from Manchester on Janet Street Porter's series Reportage. He returned to London to direct RTS and the BAFTA winning show It'll Never Work. Hardeep left the corporation in 2000 to begin working independently.
He is best known for writing, directing and starring in Channel 4's Meet the Magoons in 2004. The show was nominated for a Golden Rose at the Montreux Comedy Festival. Hardeep wrote, produced and presented the RTS nominated documentary In Search of the Tartan Turban for Channel 4, which explored cultural identity as a Briton and a Scot belonging to an ethnic minority. It won a children's BAFTA and spun off into a daytime Channel 4 series, Hardeep Does... that covered a variety of different topical issues: sex, religion and pets. In 2006 Hardeep took part in Celebrity Masterchef where he beat twenty two of the others and came second place.
In 2007 Hardeep went on to write and presented A Beginners Guide to Scientology and had a three-part series on Channel 4, £50 Says You'll Watch This, exploring gambling. In October 2006 and February 2007 he appeared on the BBC political panel programme Question Time.
Hardeep has a vast range of radio credits, he is director and writer for the radio production company Above the Title Productions and is a guest presenter for Pick of The Week, Saturday Live, Newsnight Review and Loose Ends.
He has also presented Hogmonay, The Hippy Trail and, most recently, Crossing Borders for Radio 4. Kohli is currently writing a book about food and travel in India and appearing as a regular reporter on BBC1's The One Show, Hardeep also contributes to The Guardian, having become a columnist for Scotland on Sunday in March of 2007.