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I love Masterchef, and I’m glad it’s back for a new series (though please, please make it a little less formulaic) – but ninety minutes of Masterchef? I fear for my eardrums.
The scheduling of the show seems strange – gone is the traditional five half an hour slots a week (which had become three with [...]
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One of our favourite ever reality shows is back tonight. The first series of The Restaurant surprised a few people with its success, but now its third run is here, it’s firmly established as a BBC Two favourite. What makes it work is the combination of so many winning elements: useless participants (and [...]
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As someone who loved Indian Food Made Easy and Chinese Food Made Easy (not least because the recipes actually worked), I am quite excited about Carribean Food Made Easy. I’m not overly familiar with much Carribean cuisine so it’s nice to see it getting some attention (even if I was secretly hoping Thai would [...]
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If you’ve been missing your fix of food-based hyperbole since Great British Menu ended (the banquet is next week, FYI), then fear not, as Celebrity Masterchef is here to rescue you.
In a somewhat quirky bout of scheduling, we have two hour long shows (each containing two heats) on a Wednesday and a Thursday, followed by [...]
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After the longest series yet, Great British Menu raches the final tonight and we finally get to discover who will be cooking the ‘taste of home’ for ‘our returning troops’. Some of the courses in the finale have been spectacular, with the fish round in particular desmonstrating some real ‘wit’, ’skill’, and other GBM [...]
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I was visiting my dad the other week and some Come Dine With Me repeats were on More4. He was surprised at the format and said ‘isn’t this usually an hour?’. I realised that there could be a whole stream of people, like my father, who have missed out on this show in [...]
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The fourth series of Great British Menu starts tonight, and, following the law of diminishing returns that has characterised this show, the prize this time is catering for soldiers returning from Afghanistan, which is all very noble and everything, but in terms of spectacle, it’s not exactly on a par with the Queen or the [...]
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THE LOWCULTURE VERDICT
I trust that by now everyone knows the result of last night’s Masterchef final. If not, be warned, this post contains spoilers and you may want to look away now.
So we were left with an all-male final of Mat aka Ming, Desperate Andy (actually the name of a Cranberries song) and Fit-but-shit [...]
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FOOD! Masterchef, BBC Two, 8.30pm
Because of the overkill last year (normal, celebrity, professionals, kids), it feels likeMasterchef has never been away – but it’s actually a year since the last series proper (won by Sideshow Bob-a-like James, even though Emily made John cry all the time). After Michel Roux’s appearance in the professionals version, [...]
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FESTIVE! Nigella’s Christmas Kitchen, BBC Two, 8.30pm
Christmas is most definitely coming. This week, the schedules are full of foodie, treats, including Christmas at River Cottage (8pm Weds, Channel 4), Willie’s Perfect Chocolate Christmas (9pm Weds, Channel 4) and Jamie Cooks Christmas (9pm Thurs, Channel 4), but the most important of them all is surely [...]
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I see a little silhouetto of a muppet.
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I saw them perform it "live" on GMTV this morning and I nearly spluttered out my tea. 