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 the occasional [...]
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DINING! The Restaurant, BBC Two, 8.00pm Tonight we reach the final of one of our favourite shows of the Autumn, The Restaurant. This second series has been a real treat, with some fabulous challenges, dodgy cooking, terrible contestants, fierce put-downs from Raymond Blanc’s aides, Sarah and David, and a perfect voiceover. There have been a [...]
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CUISINE! The Restaurant, BBC Two, 8.00pm One of the surprise highlights (and ratings winners) of last year was The Restaurant, and its second series is very welcome by a lot of people on our forums. On paper, it’s The Apprentice meets Hell’s Kitchen but in practice it feels very different to those shows – mainly [...]
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COOKING! The Restaurant, BBC2, 8.00pm 2007 has not exactly been a vintage year for the reality genre, has it? It kicked off with Shilpagate during Celebrity Big Brother, prompting Channel 4 to “rest” that show for a bit (hooray!), then Sralan Sugar’s decision to appoint Simon Ambrose as his next Apprentice brought the nation together [...]
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