It used to be good 7-8 years ago when it was actually about the food
Now it's all about Dave Lamb, crap food, attention seeking contestants and cringeworthy entertainment
Channel 4 need to give it a break and if they want to bring it back reboot it and make it more focused on food
That couldn't happen. What self respecting cook would subject themselves to such sarcasm?
Digital Spy is the most widely read TV forum in the UK, so TV executives will be reading here and learning, for free. I ask them then why do you re-commission rubbish, albeit in a slightly different format?
Come to think of it in light of the above. How come there is never a question and answer, anywhere here from the TV execs who are getting advice from all here?
Show instead the early episodes when Dave Lamb was funny and not the bored bloke reading from a script that he has become. I have heard school kids read with more expression. (Take the money and run Dave, eh?)
I can only think that they dare not show the early episodes for fear of exposure to interference later on. Cats stealing, snakes pooing and generally horrible people, who as Thras says are just wannabees.
I bet the TV execs love reading here but I've never seen them give anything back such as Q&A , have you?
Interesting though how people tend to be far more outgoing when they are without their partner/spouse as we see on regular CDWMe.
I've only watched Tuesday's episode, but I would agree that they seem boring compared to the regular CDWM guests. Or as others have said, maybe the producers go out of their way to find weirdos and attention-seekers for the usual format.
I completely agree. Its a shame too but it has been far too formulaic these days...
Contestants always fall into one of the following categories...
Boring Middle classer
Acid tongue gay (usually male) / Spiteful Bitch
I hate all food
Crazy Eccentric
Mutton Dressed as Lamb.
Delusional Hipster Wannabe
Closet Hysteric
They often fall into two or more categories but you can be sure than none of them can actually cook what they think they can. In the early days there were normal people who could actually cook and the "entertainment" was the actual dinner party.
You missed out:
Asian princess
Person who thinks they're posh but can't actually hold a knife properly
Camp homosexual
As you say, the only thing they all have in common is that none of them can cook worth a damn.
I didn't see the first one but quite enjoyed last night's. the gay couple were sweet, (the corrie tattoos!) and the henpecked hubby couple funny. I was telling OH about her not allowing him bread, OH responded with a sigh "you mean like I'm not allowed liver, kidney etc etc
Lawks, it's getting to the stage when C4 won't allow people on reality TV unless they've already done reality TV. The channel is slowly turning into something weird, incestuous and unhealthy. It's turning into...Norfolk!
Lawks, it's getting to the stage when C4 won't allow people on reality TV unless they've already done reality TV. The channel is slowly turning into something weird, incestuous and unhealthy. It's turning into...Norfolk!
Sooooo true!! Tonight's episode was terrible. I really wanted to tell that stupid couple what for >:( Leave them alone! Just because they're not dry humping each other every 5 minutes doesn't mean they're not in love.
I love CDWM but this couples thing was terrible. Ghastly, preening couples, 'hilarious' rude wives, virtually nothing about the actual food and cooking and far too unlikable contestants.
It might have been more interesting if each person in the couple had to do a separate dinner party and they were competing against each other. It didn't work as it was.
Day four and they're already resorting to that time-filling cliche - showing something happening and then having them tell you what happened (taking longer to tell it than it took to show it).
I love CDWM but this couples thing was terrible. Ghastly, preening couples, 'hilarious' rude wives, virtually nothing about the actual food and cooking and far too unlikable contestants.
It might have been more interesting if each person in the couple had to do a separate dinner party and they were competing against each other. It didn't work as it was.
Agree, although I also think the voiceover man has become too catty and loud too. I don't remember his voice being quite so loud and affected before, he seems to have taken it up a notch. It's become more about the annoying people on it and his catty comments about the annoying people, than the actual cooking, as you say.
Memo to channel four
PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE put this sorry excuse for an off shoot show out of its misery(try saying that with a drink inside you !!)
It's not even been on a full week and there's a smack of desperation to it every cliche has been already rolled out ...AND ITS ONLY THURSDAY !!!😢
I imagine that the clips are assembled, a script is written and then Dave Lamb is brought in just to read it, with maybe the odd extra gag. So it's probably the editors who are pushing him to go in that direction. But yes, he's getting increasingly OTT.
If you do want an unintentional laugh could I recommend this weeks Hotel inspector Revisited on Channel Filth sorry Five
Alex revisited a hotel where the owner had the unfortunate nickname of Muff ... The commentary would have been a gift to Dave Lamb
Double entendres galore Missus !!!
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Digital Spy is the most widely read TV forum in the UK, so TV executives will be reading here and learning, for free. I ask them then why do you re-commission rubbish, albeit in a slightly different format?
Come to think of it in light of the above. How come there is never a question and answer, anywhere here from the TV execs who are getting advice from all here?
Show instead the early episodes when Dave Lamb was funny and not the bored bloke reading from a script that he has become. I have heard school kids read with more expression. (Take the money and run Dave, eh?)
I can only think that they dare not show the early episodes for fear of exposure to interference later on. Cats stealing, snakes pooing and generally horrible people, who as Thras says are just wannabees.
I bet the TV execs love reading here but I've never seen them give anything back such as Q&A , have you?
I've only watched Tuesday's episode, but I would agree that they seem boring compared to the regular CDWM guests. Or as others have said, maybe the producers go out of their way to find weirdos and attention-seekers for the usual format.
Not a lot is being said about it on the FB page. Cant see it making a second series. Go back to the old format much more watchable.
I thought I recognised her too. :cool:
You missed out:
Asian princess
Person who thinks they're posh but can't actually hold a knife properly
Camp homosexual
As you say, the only thing they all have in common is that none of them can cook worth a damn.
I didn't see the first one but quite enjoyed last night's. the gay couple were sweet, (the corrie tattoos!) and the henpecked hubby couple funny. I was telling OH about her not allowing him bread, OH responded with a sigh "you mean like I'm not allowed liver, kidney etc etc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L5n3UlRk5C4
Says they are going to get married?
Heres his twitter id
Ciaran James
@JustAGigoloCJ
Looks like they are the new Graham and Ivy.
Sooooo true!! Tonight's episode was terrible. I really wanted to tell that stupid couple what for >:( Leave them alone! Just because they're not dry humping each other every 5 minutes doesn't mean they're not in love.
It might have been more interesting if each person in the couple had to do a separate dinner party and they were competing against each other. It didn't work as it was.
Agree, although I also think the voiceover man has become too catty and loud too. I don't remember his voice being quite so loud and affected before, he seems to have taken it up a notch. It's become more about the annoying people on it and his catty comments about the annoying people, than the actual cooking, as you say.
PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE put this sorry excuse for an off shoot show out of its misery(try saying that with a drink inside you !!)
It's not even been on a full week and there's a smack of desperation to it every cliche has been already rolled out ...AND ITS ONLY THURSDAY !!!😢
Alex revisited a hotel where the owner had the unfortunate nickname of Muff ... The commentary would have been a gift to Dave Lamb
Double entendres galore Missus !!!
Simon... Poor Simon...
P.S. Also I'm clearly the only one who thinks there is no such thing as too much Dave Lamb
Not at all the guy is a legend !!
If I had been him I would have poured the pan full over her bloody head !!
Hated it.
Also I like the new twist of couples, the old format was starting to get boring and needed refreshing up.