Food is hitting our screens with a vengeance at the moment, and it's nauseating. As if we were collectively suffering withdrawal systems, Berry has been resurrected for more Fuck Off Bake Off shenanigans. I feel the relentless appearances of Hollybread, Perkins, Gridlock & Berry [no, this is not the name of a solicitor] are only outdone by the equally inappropriate ubiquity of Meerkats, and the worrying trends of copycats, in the form of Churchill & Brian. I am fully expecting there to be a 'Berry' touted to us in due course, perhaps as an enticement to some sort of baking course.
Elsewhere, we have the not-so-Great British Menu eating up loads of time on BBC2. Expect 1325 references to how the winners will have be be 'up to scratch' to cook for the Women's Institute. Yawn. It wouldn't surprise me to see Berry at that event as well! The hideous prospect of Mel Gridlock attempting to speak in a way that's bearable, let alone be funny to any degree at all, is enough in its own right to put off any sane potential viewer of this tent-based tosh. By the way, the line-up of contestants this year has been picked with diversity not so much 'in mind' as rammed down our throats along with the food. Politically correctness, apparently, is on the menu, while any ability to prepare food is totally optional.
As already mentioned, BBC1 and BBC2 have other food programmes, and these currently include:
Great British Menu
The Hairy Bikers' Asian Adventure [Surely this is a bit OTT considering we had The Hairy Bikers Come Home showing last week on BBC2? The channel is obsessed with hair, what with its useless reality competition - Hair - that most certainly doesn't grow on you]
Back in Time for Dinner
Nigel Slater: Eating Together
Saturday Kitchen Best Bites
Rick Stein: From Venice to Istanbul
The Great British Bake Off: An Extra Slice
Can't Cook, Don't Cook, Won't Cook - Oh Go On Then, I'll Cunting Cook
Friday television is a farce - one that allows a food trail, should the viewer wish; here is the schedule:
5.00pm - 6.00pm: Couples Come Dine With Me (Channel 4)
Time to actually eat ?
7.00pm - 7.30pm: The Hairy Bikers' Asian Adventure (BBC2)
7.30pm - 8.00pm: Great British Menu (BBC2)
8.00pm - 8.30pm: Gino's Italian Escape: A Taste of the Sun (ITV)
Snack time ?
9.00pm - 10.00pm: BBQ Champ (ITV)
9.00pm - 9.30pm: The Great British Bake Off: An Extra Slice (BBC2)
9.30pm - 10.30pm: Rick Stein: From Venice to Istanbul (BBC2)
The dilemma at 9.00pm will surely frustrate food addicts, whose loyalty to BBC Food (the new name for BBC2) is tested by barbecue food which is of course hosted by the internationally renowned Michelin Star chef . . . . Myleene Klass.
Very Preposterous
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