A new cooking series for BBC2 called The Big Family Cooking Showdown will be broadcast in the autumn. There will be two presenters and two judges and they will be invited into the contestants' homes to cook their favourite family recipes. There will be 12 1 hour episodes and the contestants will be whittled down through a series of challenges.
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Baz posted:There is another one called Hidden Restuarants ( with Michel Roux Jr ) starting next Wednesday at 8 on ITV ...
Channel 4 rather than ITV. Some info on that:
There is, according to Michel Roux Jr, a new wave of restaurants opening up in obscure and unlikely locations rather than on the high street. If you didnât know that, itâs probably because theyâre so hard to find. Inspired by this â and the dishes they create â the Michelin-starred chef has set up a simple restaurant tucked away in a Kentish oast house (just for last summer, so donât try to book a table).
Before he devises his own menu, he visits several established hidden restaurants. Thereâs one built on flatbed barges floating in the middle of the River Exe, while the Radic Pavilion â serving fire-cooked feasts â looks like an alien spaceship has landed in Somerset. Several appear, shall we say, ramshackle: thereâs a popular upmarket cafÃĐ housed in the old shower blocks of a north Wales caravan site, while two brothers are passionately promoting goat meat to the customers who eat at their rustic shed in the woods.
âIf you build it, they will come,â the saying goes. But theyâll have to find it first.
Summary
Michel is joined by fellow chef Freddy Bird to tour Britain in search of secret eateries and food mavericks, as he seeks inspiration for a three-course menu for his own restaurant The Oast House. In the first episode, Michel heads to the south west of England and discovers visual feasts inside a sculpture, and visits a floating cafe only reachable by boat.
Whoops ...thanks El Loro 
I don't like Nadia either, but I hope the show is successful 
I might watch the first one
I can't say the cast list inspires me one bit, so based on that assessment alone "I'm Out".
The idea feels a bit weak and one which feels like it has been done in one form or another before.
Wonder how they choose these families?
The cynic in me says they'll be 'known' to someone in the BBC .. in other words a bunch of 'worthy' wanna-be celeb, Daddy runs his own company types
I mean they'll have a child called Poppy or Portia, Daddy will have ludicrous amounts of hair for his age and wifey will have a weather beaten face but loves horses.
See if i'm wrong
Yeah 
Zoe Ball? 
No thanks, I'll pass on this one
Baz posted:Yogi19 posted:Zoe Ball?
Oh ok ...just Hidden Restaurants and Mutiny then
Count me in for those two
Baz posted:Yogi19 posted:Baz posted:Yogi19 posted:Zoe Ball?
Oh ok ...just Hidden Restaurants and Mutiny then
Suits me ....like I said I'm not keen on Nadia anyway
I dislike her too, just not as much as Fake Ball
I hope this isn't supposed to be a substitute for bake off...am not convinced..the idea of families and kids cooking doesn't appeal..bring back the tent
First episode is tonight at 20.00 on BBC2. Each team consists of 3 family members with one of them the boss.
Tonight, the Marks family from west London go up against the Charles family from Yorkshire. Will the Marks family impress the judges with their Scandinavian-inspired dishes or will the Charles' food, influenced by far-flung holidays, wow them?
86-year-old grandmother and former model Toren has a lust for life and rules the roost in the Marks' kitchen, but will her age-old family recipe for Swedish meatballs hit the mark? Betty is the boss in the Charles family, but will her decision to serve up a risotto to a Michelin-starred Italian chef pay off?
My cutlery draw is in desperate need of a good clean at 8pm tonight.
A very positive review of TBFCS on the Radio Times website:
http://www.radiotimes.com/news...wstopper-for-the-bbc
Giving this one a miss
I am watching, I love a Drama over a deflated Souffle.......
I love the 'Brain Surgeon' look the professional chefs adopt when judging.........
I hate risotto whoever cooks it.............
4 husbands.............phew she knows how to cook...........
Burnt chicken skin, not golden and crisp....tsk tsk..............
A perfect Possett whould'a thought it
Bland Swedish fish soup......tsk tsk....
I could not be bothered to make pasta........let alone pasta for ravioli.....life is waaaayyyyyy to short..
Baz posted:Is it any good Syd ?
In a word......No......but I love nothing better than watching other peoples pasta burst.....