Chopping Block

Description: ITV2 / Reality Cooking Show / Eight couples take each other on in America’s greatest restaurant challenge.

Newest Review: ... is starting to go bald spoil the 'poetry' of the metaphor. (What?? you say he is from Yorkshire!!!) Back to The Chopping Block. Again it suffers from USA style ultra-fast edits, and a huge amount of padding - this show would be half its length (currently 1 hour including adverts), if some of the padding were taken out. To be fair the fast-paced editing slows down a little for the 'foodie' ... more

... shots. As much as I have seemed critical of the show, I have enjoyed watching it. I normally watch stuff like this in the hope that I will learn something about food and cooking, but most of them are now about the celebrity chef and their personal quir...more

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Chopping Block: Watch this before it gets the chop (728 words)
by - written on 21/05/09 (Very useful, 72 readings)
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OK we are only three episodes in to this, so maybe not much to go on yet. You may still be recovering from being frightened out of your skin by the imposing presence of Marco Pierre White, after having the 2009 Hell's Kitchen landing on our telescreens - now we are being treated to The Chopping Block. ITV2 have decided to screen this more or less immediately after the finish of the end of Hell's Kitchen, probably keen to capitalise on Marco, although it is important to note this may have been more to do with the fact the NBC in the good ole US-of-A, got rather low ratings on this show and eventually gave it the chopping block, in favour of repeats ... Read the complete review

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