Come bloody dine with me

[speccy1]

Still entertains. It's the only programme where the title is rhyming slang for the presenter.

Haha never though of that! Brilliant!!

 

[Beebo]

Probably, but that's pretty bad. Is that the only remuneration they get? So it's 4 evenings work, + day cooking + ingredients + a hell of a lot of booze, for an average pay of £250. So that's about £10/hour or less.

Edit, apparently they sometimes have 5 entrants, so that's average of £200 each, and then it's 5 evenings, so more like £7/hour on average (but of course you are most likely to get nothing). Surely being on TV should pay more than working in Poundland?

I presume they get expenses, to pay for the food, fancy dress, entertainment and taxis.

 

[Glow worm]

I'm the same with 'HardTalk' with Steven Sackur. Wherever I am in the world, whatever time, if I switch-on the god-awful BBC world TV, the only thing ever on is bl00dy HardTalk ....

Oh I don't know- it does have some comedy moments, like when they try to do the weather forecast, for the entire planet, in about 30 seconds

 

[gavroche]

Anybody been watching the new French series " Spin" on more 4, Friday night? I like it, very good.

 

[Fab Foodie]

Anybody been watching the new French series " Spin" on more 4, Friday night? I like it, very good.

Non.

 

[AndyRM]

I presume they get expenses, to pay for the food, fancy dress, entertainment and taxis.

Given a budget of £250. Taxis are laid on.

A guy I know won it, if you saw the episode with the odious radio presenter in Teesside, that was him. I was working for TFM at the time and in the run up to the broadcast he was unbearable. After we'd all seen it, he was considerably subdued. I don't think he realised how badly he came across in the edit.

 

[T4tomo]

The narrator on CDWM is the best bit.

 

[Lonestar]

Don't they put off buttons on tv's these days? (or remotes,smartarses)

 

[Oldbloke]

I once spent a mind-numbingly boring evening in a Campanile hotel in France, and the French version of it was on. It went on for ages and ages (I think it might have been more than an hour long) and it couldn't have been more different.

Each of the contestants gave a monologue about what they were going to cook and told you 'til your ears bled precisely how they were going to cook it. Then each of them was followed by a camera crew as they slowly sourced their perfect ingredients from the market, before interminable footage of them actually cooking the stuff. The dinner parties themselves were unwatchably dull viewing, and I ended up watching Squawk Box or CNN Business News or whatever other limited selection of English language dull stuff was on instead.

Trust me, whatever you think of our version, it is a million times more watchable than the French one.

That goes for most French TV, even Madame Oldbloke (a Frenchie) prefers UK TV

 

[speccy1]

Don't they put off buttons on tv's these days? (or remotes,smartarses)

I take it you never flick through the channels then??

 

[Lonestar]

I take it you never flick through the channels then??

Nope,most of it is junk plus they have the telly on in my messroom at work for most of the day and when no-one is watching I sneakily switch it off.I also had a concealed remote to do this till I broke it.

 

[Dec66]

Television these days really is, in the main, a load of old rubbish. Apart from Endeavour, which has just ended its run.

However, yearning for a lost golden age of television is not wise. Last night, courtesy of YouTube, I watched an episode of "the classic ITC drama serial, Department S".

My goodness, it was cack. Just like all ITC output; fantastic theme tune, memorable title sequences, dreadful plots and laughably bad acting.

 

[subaqua]

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On a woodrup

 

[Accy cyclist]

Mrs Accy watches it. It doesn't annoy me as much as that other annoying program she watches....Homes under the hammer! She's been watching that for about 10 years. I think it's run its course.

 

[Flick of the Elbow]

Mrs Accy watches it. It doesn't annoy me as much as that other annoying program she watches....Homes under the hammer! She's been watching that for about 10 years. I think it's run its course.

I quite enjoy that one too ! They are kind of like wallpaper tv, undemanding and largely just filling an otherwise blank space on the wall.