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Cooking is not entertainment!
mickbirch2000
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What is it with TV these days, people throwing things in hot oily pans everywhere you look, I really think some television has reached an all time low..
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Although I like Come Dine With Me because the narrator is comedy gold!
Horses for courses really
I kinda wish somebody would go on there, cook them a bacon sandwich and tell them to just eat it and STFU.
But, erm, yeah.
In our house, any TV show related to cooking, antiques, holidays or property is completely banned.
"...topped off with a habanero sauce and nacho chilli cheese..."
To each their own.
Different strokes for different folks.
I find 22 people in shorts, kicking a sphere around on some grass - dull...........plenty of people seem to disagree with me however.
Do you only get a couple of channels or something? Don't like what you see? Pick up the remote.
Sorry, concur......Concur.
Anyone know when Masterchef Australia is on again? Can't wait
Though seing a fat guy gorge himself on huge protions of food (man v food) is not a programme i think is very good.:eek:
Trouble is, these days it seems like the people who invent TV shows are pretty uninventive.
It seems like they ideally want a show with a telephone vote and then they like shows where there's a contest where one person gets knocked-out each week.
They then want cheap shows which means "reality TV" and then they pick a topic from a choice of stuff like antiques, cookery, property etc.
As a result of this we end up with HEAPS of similar shows rather than just one or two.
There are 19 F1 races each year, each comprising around 3 hours of TV. That's a total of 57 hours TV per year.
I wouldn't mind betting that the total number of reality/vote shows per week is more than that.
I actually don't mind, say, CDWM.
It's just that there's also Hairy Bikers, Iron Chef, Ready Steady Cook, Jamies Kitchen, Farmhouse Pantry, Market Kitchen, Nigella Bites, Two Fat Ladies, Masterchef, Junior Masterchef, The F-word, etc (and they're just the ones I remember).
In the face of all that similar dross, it's hard to complain about a couple of hours of footie or an F1 race every fortnight.
You are also assuming that the audience for one cooking show will watch all cooking shows. I may watch the Hairy Bikers but I don't watch Come Dine with Me for example. I may watch Masterchef but that doesn't automatically mean I will also watch Junior Masterchef, Professional Masterchef, Australian Masterchef and Juggling Unicycle Masterchef. I may watch Strictly Come Dancing (a show with a phone vote) but I won't watch others such as Splash, Dancing on Ice, X-Factor, Big Brother, etc. If you just take one show (e.g. The Great British Bake off) it probably tallies up quite well against F1 coverage.
If you want to combine all cookery shows on a graph them you'd have to lump together F1 with Snooker and Rugby and Cricket and Wimbledon and Match of the Day and so on and label that column "Sport".
You could then add other columns for "Reality", "Home Improvements", "Quiz Shows", "Sit Coms", "Drama", "Soaps", "History Documentary", "Wildlife" and so on.
Looked at that way I doubt that the "Cookery" column would greatly overshadowing the other categories.