Come Dine With Me

You all love it, regardless of whether you deny it or not - this is Come Dine With Me. From relative obscurity as an attempt to make a new programme for Channel 4 daytime to sandwich in and around Countdown when Deal or no Deal fancied having a break, it has burst into a programme that will happily sit in the primetime schedule of Channel 4. The concept is as basic as it could ever be - a bunch of people having dinner parties at their respective houses. Of course, to spice things up a bit they've never met each other prior to the first dinner party and the producers will naturally put together personalities that will hopefully clash. The idea is ...  Read the complete review

I first discovered this gem of a programme one Sunday afternoon on More 4; they were showing back to back episodes over two and a half hours and I was hooked. A simple concept, five people who live in the same area of the country and have never met before take it in turns to cook a dinner party for the others and are then scored at the end of the night. The one who gets the highest score at the end of the week ends up being the winner and wins the prize of £1000.00 You don't have to be a "foodie" to appreciate this programme, as is the case with a lot of reality shows it's the people who make the programme what it is. Personalities clash, people ...  Read the complete review

As a concept Come Dine With Me may not be the most appealing idea of great television but it works to great effect. It is a programme that I will watch whenever I am able to as it is both interesting, funny and hugely entertaining. It caters for those who enjoy cooking programmes and reality television, and combines the two in an almost effortless fashion. I am not sure where they find some of the contestants who take part and almost every episode has an eccentric character who has little tact or manners, and watching how they interact with the other contestants is fascinating to watch. The show is made even better by the narrator Dave Lamb. His sarcasm and wit, along ...  Read the complete review

I thought I would review this programme as I have recently developed an obsession with it, to the point where I have been trawling catch up tv to watch any episodes I can find. It is on Channel 4 and also More 4. You can also find episodes other satellite channels occasionally. It is a genius concept, get four (sometimes 5) people who live in the same city to take turns to host a dinner party each night. The contestants score each other in secret and at the end of the week one person is crowned the winner and receives £1000 cash. The people who enter are a facinating bunch and while the host is cooking their dinnner the other contestants snoop ...  Read the complete review

'Come Dine With Me' is undoubtedly the guiltiest pleasure of them all. The format is undoubtedly old lady daytime trashy TV watching, but it's inexplicably compelling to people of all ages - for some it might be the idea that gourmet meals are within reach, that you don't need a fancy faux-home kitchen studio with millions of assistants buying your ingredients, beating your eggs and pre-heating your oven to produce a great 3-course meal. For others, it might be the petty fighting, the astronomical egos, the (excuse the pun) egg on competitors' faces when, after a week of trash talk, they only pull in 5's and 6's for their evening. For most, it's Dave Lamb's brilliant ...  Read the complete review