…Cooks!

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...Cooks!
Format	Cookery
Presented by	Antony Worrall Thompson
Country of origin	United Kingdom
No. of series	8
No. of episodes	167
Production
Producer(s)	Prospect Pictures
Running time	60-90 minutes (including adverts)
Broadcast
Original channel	ITV
Original run	10 June 2006 (as Saturday Cooks!) – Present
Chronology
Related shows	Sunday Feast

...Cooks! is an ITV cookery show, hosted by Antony Worrall Thompson.

There are different names for the show, depending on which day it is aired. The Saturday morning show is called Saturday Cooks!, and the show which airs during the week is called Daily Cooks Challenge (previously Daily Cooks!).

Worrall Thompson, who fronted a similar BBC One show, Saturday Kitchen defected to ITV in June 2006 after being poached from the BBC along with the production company that made the show (Prospect Pictures) in a deal negotiated by Alison Sharman. It was Ms Sharman who originally brokered the deal that brought Antony to the BBC on Saturday Kitchen in the first place, before she herself moved to ITV.

A sister programme Sunday Feast aired on Sundays in mornings. It is unknown whether the programme will return.

Saturday Cooks! currently airs every Saturday afternoon broadcasting to around 300,000 - 500,000 viewers.

A spin-off series, Christmas Cooks! aired during the Christmas period, at 10.30am on the ITV Network. It returned for a second series on ITV weekdays from 17 to 28 December 2007.