We are informed that this show will be scheduled as a prime time Channel 4 show, in the uk .but is still at the pilot stage so it may never get aired !
i heard this from an insider who saw the pilot being filmed
" Now i know Gordon's expresses himself colourfully but he really is evolving into an interesting form of tourettes. Also in the space of the first hour he managed to fit in slagging off delia smith, gary rhodes, jamie oliver very bad idea with his current popularity, AWT fair play and also Tony Blair and Prince Charles and a few members of the audience.
Anyway what is this show about? Well the best way i can describe it is the bastard child of Ready,Steady, Cook and Top Gear??!!
The ready steady cook part is meant to be the main premise of the show
basically a team of amatuer cooks challenge GR to a cook off using the same ingredients so kinda like chef v britain but with a team. The challenging team where 5 fishmongers from billingsgate and they were making a starter of scallops and squid and a main of lobster , monkfish and scallops.
GR picks 3 random people from the audience to help him and for this program they resurrected a plonker from GR previous show Kitchen nightmares
yes its Tim Gray from Bonaparte's.
They have picked 12 audience tasters to be judges and they choose them on their ability to pass a taste identification test tripe, oyster, lamb. Fair enough but they have to film and show 4 jade goody-a-likes spitting out there food and proclaiming its mingeing innit!!
well here comes the big problem
the top gear side of the program.
There are three presenters on this program GR himself, food critic Giles Coren and some eye candy called olivia.
They do reports on "interesting foods" like Giles Coren goes in search of a banned sardinian cheese called Casu Marzu which is basically cheese fed maggot excrement! i kid you not
oh and they eat it maggots and all.
next? Horse Milk? fair enough but then they state that horse milk is the closest milk to human breast milk and then decided to see if it was true at which point they locate a lactating memeber of the audience then take her back stage and milk her !!! Then they invite Nancy Lam to come on stage and do a taste comparison between the horse and human milk!!!!
next they bring out a load of foods with daft names like fanny fish, homo milk, cock soup etc and ask question like Gordon do you get a hard on when you are in the kitchen?
Next they wheel out jodie kidd for a chat show interview about her food habits and naturally make fun of the fact that a model is talking about food.
what else? oh you know on top gear they have the celebrity in a reasonably priced car
Well GR's got his own version called the Ivy League were basically he calls up top restaurant like the Ivy, Nobu, Sketch and asks for a last minute table. When they say no he informs them that its a booking for jodie kidd and see if they can fit her in and then he slowly ask for more and more ridiculous demands like a longer table for jodie kidds legs, jodie fav dish cauliflower cheese, a table next to beautiful people and not ugly people!! and each time he gets a yes the celebrity gets points.
Its all very purile and there just seems to have no flow or continuity. The humour is crude and the cook off just seems to be backdrop like you really don't see GR cooking much just marshalling his troops. And in fact GR doesn't seem to be paying much interest in anything except the cooking and in fact its Giles Coren that seems to come out as the focus of the program.
By this time its about 9.30pm and they are into there 3rd break and i would say 10 people left during the second break and on the third break i decided to leave with my friends and a good 70 members of the audience!!
Whoever came up , scripted and produced this show should be shot !!!
it is such a badly thought out and executed concept.
There is no way that this show will ever be broadcasted in its current state its just too bity and choppy.
So very unimpressed
btw the F word is Food "
