Come Dine With Me

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Come Dine With Me
Format	Cookery
Starring	Many different people
Country of origin	United Kingdom
Language(s)	British English
No. of episodes	126 (as of January 4, 2008)
Production
Producer(s)	Granada London Productions
Running time	30 minutes. 60 minutes for special episodes.
Broadcast
Original channel	Channel 4
Original run	January, 2005 – TBA 2009
External links
Official website
IMDb profile

Come Dine With Me is a Channel 4 television programme shown in the United Kingdom, first broadcast in January 2005. The show has four amateur chefs competing against each other hosting a dinner party for the other contestants. Each competitor then rates the host's performance with the winner winning a £1,000 cash prize. An element of comedy is added to the show through comedian Dave Lamb, who provides a dry and sarcastic narration. The fourth series began airing on 10 April 2008.

Contents 1 Other Broadcasters 2 Derivative Formats 3 International Versions 4 Series 1 5 Series 2 6 Series 3 7 Series 4 8 References 9 External links

[edit] Other Broadcasters

As well as being repeated on Channel 4, their sister channel More4 also regularly broadcasters past episodes on Sunday afternoons, with all five programmes from a week shown consecutively in a block. Episodes from the first series are also regularly shown on Discovery Real Time, Discovery Travel & Living, and Discovery Home & Health.

The programme is also shown in Australia on LifeStyle Food channel.

[edit] Derivative Formats

In March 2008 it was announced that rival broadcaster ITV1 had commissioned a new daytime programme, House Guest from ITV Productions, a part of the same company which also produces Come Dine With Me.^[1] The format for House Guest is different as it involves a guest staying overnight in each episode and will concentrate on hosting skills. Another change to the format sees the parties being hosted by couples, who may be friends or colleagues as well as romantic couples, rather than individuals.

[edit] International Versions

The format to the programme has been sold to television channel VOX in Germany where it airs as Das perfekte Dinner, to TLC in the USA as Dinner Takes All and RTL Televizija in Croatia as Večera za 5. All four international versions are produced by local subsidiaries of British company Granada Productions. Also Spain will have an own version of the format, Ven a Cenar Conmigo, produced by Antena 3 and ZeppelinTV (Endemol Group). France also have their own localised version of the show under the name "Un Diner Presque Parfait" which literally translated means "A Dinner Almost Perfect". The show is broadcast on the large private broadcaster M6 and has proved popular with older audiences. The show has also fared well in the face of public broadcaster TF1's "Un contre 100"

[edit] Series 1

The contestant in pink is the winner of the week. Week 2 was a tie.

Week	Location	Contestants
1	Stoke	Jane Bagley	Sarah Adams-Lipa	Tricia Martin	Lesley Blood	Father Brian Williams
2	London	Moona Messamri	Bruce Mainwaring	Pauline Morrison	Michael O'Keeffe	Belinda Taylor
3	Leeds	Vera Liburd	Stuart Moss	Craig McAlpine	Pippa Hudson	Paul Ulett
4	London	Jane Furlong	David Thomas	Sarah Donohue	Rocky Scott	Paul Martin

[edit] Series 2

The contestant in pink is the winner of the week. Week 6 was a tie.

Week	Location	Contestants
1	Various	Ben de Lisi	Mica Paris	Ulrika Jonsson	Helen Lederer	David Quantick
2	Essex	Jane Phillips Martin	June Tedaldi	Kevin Reynolds	Keeley Lawrence	Amanda Swanwick-Aharoni
3	Doncaster	Neena Rainey	Katherine Taylor	Steve Clift	Danny Churchill	Rosslyn Thompson
4	Brighton	Margaret O'Loughlin	Julia John	Paula Pearson	Nathalie Clarke	Melinda Padley
5	Glasgow	Aileen Dunn	Paul Lydon	Christine Thornton	Sharon Eaton	Ishrat Gazala
6	Nottingham	Karen Cullen	Gordon Todd	Jenny Cross	Jarrod Pepper	Sam Hughes
7	London	Isabelle Goldstein	Chris D'Sylva	Bill Buckley	Jacqueline Gill	Serena Wilson

[edit] Series 3

The third series premiered in the summer of 2006, as with the second series the first week featured celebrities. The first five weeks aired on weeknights at 4:30pm while Deal or No Deal took a summer break. After a one week absence it then returned for a further three weeks at 4:15pm. The remaining programmes were held back and aired sporadically during 2007.

The contestant in pink is the winner of the week. Weeks 8 and 9 were a tie. The premiere date is for the first episode of a week, in all weeks there were five programmes shown on consecutive days.

Week	Premiered	Location	Contestants
1	July 24, 2006	Various	Rowland Rivron	Linda Robson	Anneka Rice	Toby Young	Aggie MacKenzie
2	July 31, 2006	Liverpool	Terry White	Dan Redfern	Niki O'Leary	Ian Cook	Margaret Twemlow
3	August 7, 2006	Edinburgh	Tracy Dobbie	Paul Dwyer	Tanya Williams	James Gammie	Jennifer Crosbie
4	August 14, 2006	London	Linda Shanson	Jonathan Norris	Patricia Varley	John Santamaria	Richard Whitaker
5	August 21, 2006	Derby	Julia Knight	Graham Fox	Patsy Sewell-Mwamba	Michele Cooper	Danny Fletcher
6	September 4, 2006	Belfast	Rosemary McLoughlin	Marty Henderson	Colin McAllister	Jon Cross	Caroline Teeling
7	September 11, 2006	Cambridge	Rachel Tooher-Rudd	Gael Norris	Phil Webb	Simone Breneis	Carolyn Tycer
8	September 18, 2006	Ayr	Maureen McKissock	Elaine Munro	Forbes Robertson	Lizzy McCubbin	Sarah Pickering
9	January 1, 2007	Swansea	David Murray	Ernest Lemonheigh	Sue Thomas	Karen Perry	Heather Skipper
10	September 3, 2007	Cheshire	Nicola Noblet	Katie Noden	Edward Davies	Jan Burrows	Howard Yuill
11	September 10, 2007	Bristol	Nick Needs	Rachel Hodgson	Ronnie Masters	Clive Burrell	Chyna Warren
12	December 31, 2007	Cardiff	Suzanne Green	Annette Howard	Jim Blythe	Charlie Balch	Jane Lloyd

An hour-long primetime Christmas special was also produced with a slightly different format to suit the shorter timeslot. Only four contestants took part with each making a separate course for the dinner: starter, fish course, main course, and dessert. After each course the person cooking the next part of the meal would leave to complete their dish at home, which had been prepared earlier, before being joined by the other guests.

Week	Premiered	Location	Contestants
X	December 22, 2006	York	Rosie Sheppard	Wayne Coyle	Peter Plaskitt	Maria Greenhough

[edit] Series 4

In late 2007 Channel 4 announced on their web site that they would be producing a fourth series for 2008 and issued an appeal for contestants living in Bath, Newcastle, Oxford, Exeter, the Fylde Coast, and Aberdeen.^[2] Unlike previous series it would be aired in primetime and only feature four guests so that it could be aired as a single weekly hour-long episode.

Week	Premiered	Location	Contestants
1	April 10, 2008	London	Jonathan Ansell	Lynsey de Paul	Tamara Beckwith	MC Harvey
2	April 17, 2008	Newcastle	Lee Eley	Brian Moore	Rebecca Hambly	Brenda Mallam
3	April 24, 2008	Coventry	James Paley	Vera Phillips Griffith	Jon Bramley	Marie Hughes

Additionally in January 2008 it was announced that another series of daytime episodes will also be produced. These will be in the traditional format of five daily half hour programmes.^[3] This report also contradicted the previous claim that the primetime version of the programme will only feature four guests in each location.

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• Come Dine With Me at Channel4.com - Official site
• Come Dine With Me - Original Channel 4 site
• Come Dine With Me - Australian broadcaster's site.