Come Dine With Me

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Come Dine With Me
Format Cookery
Starring Many different people
Country of origin United Kingdom
Language(s) British English
No. of episodes 126 (as of January 4, 2008)
Production
Producer(s) Granada London Productions
Running time 30 minutes. 60 minutes for special episodes.
Broadcast
Original channel Channel 4
Original run January, 2005 – TBA 2009
External links
Official website
IMDb profile

Come Dine With Me is a Channel 4 television programme shown in the United Kingdom, first broadcast in January 2005. The show has four amateur chefs competing against each other hosting a dinner party for the other contestants. Each competitor then rates the host's performance with the winner winning a £1,000 cash prize. An element of comedy is added to the show through comedian Dave Lamb, who provides a dry and sarcastic narration. The fourth series began airing on 10 April 2008.

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[edit] Other Broadcasters

As well as being repeated on Channel 4, their sister channel More4 also regularly broadcasters past episodes on Sunday afternoons, with all five programmes from a week shown consecutively in a block. Episodes from the first series are also regularly shown on Discovery Real Time, Discovery Travel & Living, and Discovery Home & Health.

The programme is also shown in Australia on LifeStyle Food channel.

[edit] Derivative Formats

In March 2008 it was announced that rival broadcaster ITV1 had commissioned a new daytime programme, House Guest from ITV Productions, a part of the same company which also produces Come Dine With Me.[1] The format for House Guest is different as it involves a guest staying overnight in each episode and will concentrate on hosting skills. Another change to the format sees the parties being hosted by couples, who may be friends or colleagues as well as romantic couples, rather than individuals.

[edit] International Versions

The format to the programme has been sold to television channel VOX in Germany where it airs as Das perfekte Dinner, to TLC in the USA as Dinner Takes All and RTL Televizija in Croatia as Večera za 5. All four international versions are produced by local subsidiaries of British company Granada Productions. Also Spain will have an own version of the format, Ven a Cenar Conmigo, produced by Antena 3 and ZeppelinTV (Endemol Group). France also have their own localised version of the show under the name "Un Diner Presque Parfait" which literally translated means "A Dinner Almost Perfect". The show is broadcast on the large private broadcaster M6 and has proved popular with older audiences. The show has also fared well in the face of public broadcaster TF1's "Un contre 100"

[edit] Series 1

The contestant in pink is the winner of the week. Week 2 was a tie.

Week Location Contestants
1 Stoke Jane Bagley Sarah Adams-Lipa Tricia Martin Lesley Blood Father Brian Williams
2 London Moona Messamri Bruce Mainwaring Pauline Morrison Michael O'Keeffe Belinda Taylor
3 Leeds Vera Liburd Stuart Moss Craig McAlpine Pippa Hudson Paul Ulett
4 London Jane Furlong David Thomas Sarah Donohue Rocky Scott Paul Martin

[edit] Series 2

The contestant in pink is the winner of the week. Week 6 was a tie.

Week Location Contestants
1 Various Ben de Lisi Mica Paris Ulrika Jonsson Helen Lederer David Quantick
2 Essex Jane Phillips Martin June Tedaldi Kevin Reynolds Keeley Lawrence Amanda Swanwick-Aharoni
3 Doncaster Neena Rainey Katherine Taylor Steve Clift Danny Churchill Rosslyn Thompson
4 Brighton Margaret O'Loughlin Julia John Paula Pearson Nathalie Clarke Melinda Padley
5 Glasgow Aileen Dunn Paul Lydon Christine Thornton Sharon Eaton Ishrat Gazala
6 Nottingham Karen Cullen Gordon Todd Jenny Cross Jarrod Pepper Sam Hughes
7 London Isabelle Goldstein Chris D'Sylva Bill Buckley Jacqueline Gill Serena Wilson

[edit] Series 3

The third series premiered in the summer of 2006, as with the second series the first week featured celebrities. The first five weeks aired on weeknights at 4:30pm while Deal or No Deal took a summer break. After a one week absence it then returned for a further three weeks at 4:15pm. The remaining programmes were held back and aired sporadically during 2007.

The contestant in pink is the winner of the week. Weeks 8 and 9 were a tie. The premiere date is for the first episode of a week, in all weeks there were five programmes shown on consecutive days.

Week Premiered Location Contestants
1 July 24, 2006 Various Rowland Rivron Linda Robson Anneka Rice Toby Young Aggie MacKenzie
2 July 31, 2006 Liverpool Terry White Dan Redfern Niki O'Leary Ian Cook Margaret Twemlow
3 August 7, 2006 Edinburgh Tracy Dobbie Paul Dwyer Tanya Williams James Gammie Jennifer Crosbie
4 August 14, 2006 London Linda Shanson Jonathan Norris Patricia Varley John Santamaria Richard Whitaker
5 August 21, 2006 Derby Julia Knight Graham Fox Patsy Sewell-Mwamba Michele Cooper Danny Fletcher
6 September 4, 2006 Belfast Rosemary McLoughlin Marty Henderson Colin McAllister Jon Cross Caroline Teeling
7 September 11, 2006 Cambridge Rachel Tooher-Rudd Gael Norris Phil Webb Simone Breneis Carolyn Tycer
8 September 18, 2006 Ayr Maureen McKissock Elaine Munro Forbes Robertson Lizzy McCubbin Sarah Pickering
9 January 1, 2007 Swansea David Murray Ernest Lemonheigh Sue Thomas Karen Perry Heather Skipper
10 September 3, 2007 Cheshire Nicola Noblet Katie Noden Edward Davies Jan Burrows Howard Yuill
11 September 10, 2007 Bristol Nick Needs Rachel Hodgson Ronnie Masters Clive Burrell Chyna Warren
12 December 31, 2007 Cardiff Suzanne Green Annette Howard Jim Blythe Charlie Balch Jane Lloyd

An hour-long primetime Christmas special was also produced with a slightly different format to suit the shorter timeslot. Only four contestants took part with each making a separate course for the dinner: starter, fish course, main course, and dessert. After each course the person cooking the next part of the meal would leave to complete their dish at home, which had been prepared earlier, before being joined by the other guests.

Week Premiered Location Contestants
X December 22, 2006 York Rosie Sheppard Wayne Coyle Peter Plaskitt Maria Greenhough

[edit] Series 4

In late 2007 Channel 4 announced on their web site that they would be producing a fourth series for 2008 and issued an appeal for contestants living in Bath, Newcastle, Oxford, Exeter, the Fylde Coast, and Aberdeen.[2] Unlike previous series it would be aired in primetime and only feature four guests so that it could be aired as a single weekly hour-long episode.

Week Premiered Location Contestants
1 April 10, 2008 London Jonathan Ansell Lynsey de Paul Tamara Beckwith MC Harvey
2 April 17, 2008 Newcastle Lee Eley Brian Moore Rebecca Hambly Brenda Mallam
3 April 24, 2008 Coventry James Paley Vera Phillips Griffith Jon Bramley Marie Hughes

Additionally in January 2008 it was announced that another series of daytime episodes will also be produced. These will be in the traditional format of five daily half hour programmes.[3] This report also contradicted the previous claim that the primetime version of the programme will only feature four guests in each location.

[edit] References

  1. ^ ITV1 commissions dinner host series. Guardian (2008-01-25). Retrieved on 2008-03-10.
  2. ^ Appear on Come Dine with Me. Channel 4 (2007). Retrieved on 2008-04-18.
  3. ^ Primetime Version for Channel 4's Dine with Me. Digital Spy (2008-01-29). Retrieved on 2008-04-18.

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