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Come Dine with Me (UK) update
Seven has changed plans for Come Dine with Me (UK) to return to arvo viewing next week.
The show was due to return to 3pm weekdays with “Manchester.”
Now it will be replaced with 10 Years Younger in 10 Days (NZ) repeats.
Whether the show is too similar to My Kitchen Rules premise, or it has decided not to slate the show against The Biggest Loser repeats, which TEN recently added, isn’t clear.
My Kitchen Rules seems to be gaining some ground now that viewers are connecting more with the contestants and format.
Update: CDWM will …
Seven’s Kitchen yet to rule
Seven will be reminded today that MasterChef Australia was no breakout hit for TEN, after a soft launch for its new cooking reality show, My Kitchen Rules.
The show managed 1.1m viewers in its premiere, beaten by a new episode of Two and a Half Men on 1.51m which boomed in Melbourne. The Big Bang Theory also bettered it with 1.24m viewers.
Seven’s show, with a format that so far skates dangerously close to Come Dine With Me, will be trying to get viewers to bond more with its personalities with another episode …
Seven launches Kitchen Rules
Channel Seven launched its new reality cooking contest, My Kitchen Rules, to media in Melbourne last night.
The slap-up dinner in the function room atop South Melbourne Central, Andrew O’Keefe was host for the night, introducing media to the show’s two judges Pete Evans and Manu Fieldel, plus the two Victorian contenders, best mates Clint Yudelman and Noah Rose.
A string of Seven celebs sat down for dinner including Sonia Kruger, Ed Kavalee, Peter Helliar, Jennifer Keyte, Peter Mitchell, David Brown, Tim Watson, Mike Munro, Corrine Grant, Damien Richardson, Axle Whitehead, …
Yep, MASH is back
Looks like not much will change to Seven’s late-arvo schedule this year, with MASH and Deal or No Deal on their way back.
Both return in the week of January 31st, with a one hour “Great Deal Special” episode of Deal at 5pm Monday February1st: “In a special one hour Deal or No Deal, Andrew O’Keefe helps a contestant make the deal of a lifetime in an episode filled with surprises and secret deals.”
MASH reruns return from 5pm Tuesday February 2nd.
Come Dine with Me (UK) fans should note its return to 3pm …
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Gone: Come Dine With Me
The third casualty of summer ratings (following TEN’s Are You Smarter than a Fifth Grader and Nine’s ER) is Seven’s Come Dine With Me.
It was replaced yesterday by episodes of The Zoo at 5pm weekdays. On January 1 it is replaced by Home Improvement.
The UK food series followed amateur chefs as they cooked for one another in a reality series, with a lively commentary by Dave Lamb.
It’s figures last week hovered around the low 200,000s, getting thrashed by TEN News at Five around 800,000.
An Aussie version of the show will air …
Airdate: Come Dine with Me Australia
The Lifestyle Channel unveils its local version of Come Dine with Me next month, the UK amateur cooking show currently airing at 5pm weekdays on Seven.
The 20-part half-hour series is produced by Granada Australia and follows amateur Australian chefs battling it out for the title of ultimate dinner party host.
Each week, over five nights, five total strangers take it in turns to cook up their idea of the perfect evening for the other four. Like the UK series rival dinner hosts snoop around each others’ houses and go to great lengths …
Seven summer update
Seven has updated its first week of summer programming, filling in several TBAs and shuffling a few shows around.
New titles include Stephen Fry in Kingdom as a kindly solicitor who devotes his career to representing the oddball people in the Norfolk town of Market Shipborough, England. Kenneth Brannagh stars as Inspector Kurt Wallander, a brilliant detective who takes each murder case he works on personally and will stop at nothing in his search for the truth. The Take is a UK drama set in the criminal underworld of the East End …
Airdate: Come Dine with Me
MasterChef Australia has a lot to answer for.
Seven will screen the UK food series Come Dine with Me, in which amateur chefs host dinner parties.
It will premiere at 5pm Monday November 30th -yep, no more MASH for now.
The chefs attempt to wow each other and showcase their culinary skills in order to claim the title and cash prize. First up this week, ex-landlady Zoe, has strong opinions on good grub. But will her dinner leave her guests blown away?
An Aussie version is being produced for the Lifestyle FOOD Channel.
Foxtel 2010 highlights
Foxtel’s, Brian Walsh outlined a long list of 2010 programming highlights to advertisers at the second annual MCN Upfront last night, which will be of interest to many subscribers:
- FOX8’s The Contender begins on November 2nd.
- The Chaser’s War On Everything, repeat episodes with a special director’s commentary.
- Sky News Active service will debut on channel 600 in November.
- The LifeStyle Channel will have 22 episodes of Come Dine With Me beginning January 15.
- A third series of Selling Houses Australia.
- American Idol with new judge Ellen in January.
- A second …
Lifestyle to produce local Come Dine with Me
2009 continues to be the year of food.
The LifeStyle Channel has acquired format rights to UK series Come Dine with Me and commissioned Granada to produce the show for Australia.
The 20-part half-hour series goes into production immediately to premiere in early 2010.
“Australians are obsessed with cooking and entertaining and we pride ourselves on understanding this country’s appetite for food media better than anyone else,” said Nicole Sheffield, from The LifeStyle Channel.
“Come Dine With Me Australia is not only exciting for foodies, it’s exciting for all Australians. It is a format that …