This is one of my favourite programmes on TV and it has been for a long time. I watched it way back in the day before it hit the big time. The format of the show’s perfect, you have real people cooking a 3 course meal for 4 strangers who come to their house and the next night someone else cooks and so on, then they all vote who was best. The voice over guy’s wit and sarcasm also add to the show. But…
What Channel 4 have done with the latest series is taken all the good bits of the show and exaggerated them so the focus is now on stupid contestants who can’t really cook getting the piss taken out of them by the voice over guy. Also, the show is edited so that the contestants look like they are fighting with each other all the time. It’s like Big Brother with cooking.
What was previously one of the best bits of the show – the sarcy voice over guy – is now quite irritating as he make a sarcastic comment or an exaggerated hmmm or huff sound every time the contestants speak or do anything. I still like the show but it’s annoying, why can’t they just leave a good format alone?
