Come Dine with me

On January 4th 2013 the Channel 4 Mash Up returns for a night of show-swapping fun from our favourite Channel 4 stars.

Alan Carr causes havoc in a special Chatty Man version of The Million Pound Drop where we see Loose Women (Denise Welch, Sherrie Hewson, Lisa Maxwell and Jane MacDonald) Richard Bacon and Alexander Armstrong take on the Drop in a bid to win £1million for their charities.

8 out of 10 Cats (Jimmy Carr, Jon Richardson and Sean Lock) hijack an episode of Deal or No Deal and in a second DOND hit, featuring in a short sketch, psychological mastermind Derren Brown tries his hand as a contestant but will Derren bring The Banker down?

SW3 also features with a number of Channel 4 faces swapping their postcodes for Made in Chelsea as they strut their stuff and party with London’s glamorous young socialites. Continue reading »

8:00pm Friday, August 24 on C4

This brand new episode sees four Paralympians past and present fight it out for podium glory and a �1000 charity prize. The line-up is: Giles Long, retired swimmer and now Channel 4 presenter for the games; Ann Wild, uber-competitive ex-wheelchair basketball captain and now member of the British shooting team; nine-times Paralympic games gold medalist, dressage rider Lee Pearson; and Rachael Latham, retired Paralympic swimmer and current Channel 4 presenter for the Games.

8:00pm Friday, June 29 on C4

In a week of surprises that include wetsuits and Willy Wonka outfits, David Hasselhoff mega-fan and solar panel engineer Julian Haddock kicks off the West Yorkshire competition with a German theme that includes beer soup and a techno rave in the shed. His guests are student Henry Trevelyan Thomas, who considers himself ‘Devon’s most eligible bachelor’ and online sweet shop owner Jilly Graham, who shocks Zumba instructor Rachel Keighley with her love of toilet humour and wild behaviour.

7:30pm Friday, June 22 on C4

The dinner party contest comes from Hampshire, where motor-mouth mum of four Selena Bartlett, punk rock band member and vegan Jhon Cosgrove, retired boat lover Anson Lane and chatty hairdresser Terese Scott battle it out. With tensions high and �1000 up for grabs, will it be tears of joy or anger as the winner is announced?

Full list of nominees and winners for National Reality TV Awards.

 

Best Business Show

Beat the Boss (CBBC)

Dragon’s Den (Channel 4)

The Apprentice (BBC 1) – Winner

The People’s Supermarket (Channel 4)

The Business Inspector (Five)

 

Best Entertainment Show

The Only Way is Essex (ITV2) – Winner

Kerry Katona (Coming Clean) (ITV2)

Come Dine with Me (Channel 4)

Three in the Bed (Channel 4)

I’m A Celebrity Get me Out of Here (ITV)

Britain’s Got Talent (ITV)

Take Me Out (ITV 2)

My Super Sweet 16 (MTV)

Dancing on Ice (ITV)

 

Best International Reality TV Show

Keeping up with the Kardasians – Winner

America’s Got Talent

Jersey Shore (MTV)

The Hills (MTV)

America’s Next Dance Crew

 

Most Inspiring TV Show

The Model Agency – Winner

The Peoples Supermarket

The Wright Stuff (Five)

Jamie Oliver’s Dream School (Channel 4)

Katie ‘My Beautiful friends’ (Channel 4)

Seven Days (Channel 4)

The Hospital (Channel 4)

Coppers (Channel 4)

 

Reality personality of the Year

Mark Wright (The Only Way is Essex)

Levi Roots (Reggae Reggae Sauce/Dragons Den)

Amy Childs (The Only Way is Essex) – Winner

Katie Price (Katie)

Louie Spence (Pineapple Dance studios)

Joey Essex (The Only Way is Essex)

Kerry Katona (Coming Clean)

 

Celebrity personality of the Year

Jamie Oliver

Duncan Bannantyne

Peter Andre

Cheryl Cole

Sir Alan Sugar

Peter Jones – Winner

Paddy McGuiness

Amanda Holden

 

Best Docusoap

The People’s Supermarket (Channel 4) – Winner

Lilly Allen ‘Riches to Rags’ (Channel 4)

Danii Minogue ‘Style Queen’ (ITV2)

Jedward ‘Let Loose’ (ITV 2)

Katie (Sky Living)

Deadliest Catch (Discovery)

Natalie Cassidy ‘Becoming a mum’ (Channel 4)

Jean Claude Vandamme ‘Behind closed doors’ (ITV4)

 

Best Reality TV Judge

Alesha Dixon (Strictly come dancing)

Karren Brady (Apprentice) – Winner

Amanda Holden (Britain’s Got Talent)

Cheryl Cole (XFactor UK)

Greg Wallace (Masterchef)

Bruno Tonioli (Strictly come dancing)

Elle MacPherson (Britain’s Next Top Model)

Louis Walsh (XFactor)

 

Best TV Presenter

Christine Bleakley (Daybreak)

Evan Davis (Dragon’s Den)

Mark Dolan (Balls of Steel) – Winner

Dermot o’ Leary (X-Factor)

Konnie Huq (XFactor)

Tess Daly (Strictly come dancing)

Paddy McGuiness (Take me Out)

 

Best Reality competition show

XFactor (ITV1)

The Apprentice (BBC1) – Winner

Come Dine With Me (Channel 4)

Three in the Bed (Channel 4)

Britain’s Next Top Model (Living)

Britain’s Got Talent (ITV)

Strictly come dancing (BBC)

Coach Trip (Channel 4)

Masterchef (BBC 1)

 

Best Non-Competition Reality show

Kerry Katona (Coming Clean) (ITV2)

The Only Way is Essex (ITV 2) – Winner

Seven Days (Channel 4)

Katie (Sky Living)

16 & Pregnant (Sky Living)

Natalie Cassidy ‘Becoming a mum’ (Channel 4)

Jamie Oliver’s Dream School (Channel 4)

 

Best Talk Show

Jeremy Kyle (ITV)

The Wright Stuff (Five) – Winner

OMG ! with Peaches Geldof (ITV2)

Loose Women (ITV)

The One Show (BBC)

Alan Carr’s Chatty Man

Vanessa (Five)

The Graham Norton Show (BBC One)

 

Best Game show

The Weakest Link

Deal or No Deal – Winner

The Million Pound drop

QI

Countdown

 

Best Self Improvement/Makeover Show

Gok Wan ‘How to Look Good Naked’

Snog, Marry, Avoid – Winner

Super Nanny

60 minute makeover

The Secret Millionaire

 

Best Social Experiment show

Jamie Oliver’s ‘Dream School’ Winner

The People’s Supermarket

Wife Swap

The Family

Seven Days

Ladette to Lady

 

Source: Tellymix.co.uk

The Channel 4 Come Dine with Me Facebook page has received its 1 millionth like, making it one of the most popular Facebook pages within the Channel 4 family alongside Skins, The Inbetweeners, Shameless and Misfits.

To celebrate, the charismatic and elusive voice of the series, Dave Lamb, has recorded a special message to all Facebook fans – incognito of course – thanking them for their “devoted fan-dom” and for “keeping [him] out of prison”.

Now on air for the sixth year, the popular culinary programme regularly attracts ratings of over 2million for both daytime and peak series. And its Facebook page has proved just as popular providing a home for fans to air their opinions on the series.

Catch Come Dine with Me weekdays at 5.30pm and Fridays at 8pm on Channel 4.

Welcome to highlights for two-little-ducks week. There are 22 letters in the Hebrew alphabet, 22 stars in the Paramount films logo, and 22 numbers in the sequence one-to-22 (bit weak, that one…)

Joseph Heller once said of his brilliant novel: “When I read something saying I’ve not done anything as good as “Catch-22″ I’m tempted to reply, “Who has?”"

In French, 22 I used as a phrase to warn of the arrival of the police. Heard shouted in New York recently…?

There are also generally 22 episodes in a season of US programming, the best of which you can see on Channel 4 and E4 all year round.

Saturday, 28/05/2011

11:20pm Aim Low: The Very Best of Dylan Moran

A compilation capturing Moran’s most hilarious rants from Monster Live (2004), Like Totally (2005) and What It Is (2009). The very best bits of Moran, all delivered with his renowned, shambolic charm, including his take on aging, religion, kids, relationships and the general absurdities of life.

Sunday, 29/05/2011

9pm The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008)

Brad Pitt, Cate Blanchett and Tilda Swinton star in David Fincher’s towering adaptation of the poignant romantic short story by F Scott Fitzgerald of a life lived in reverse. Network premiere. Monday, 30/05/2011 5pm Four in a Bed Four in a Bed is back as four sets of B&B owners across Britain compete to see which one provides the best value for money.

Monday, 30/05/2011

5:30pm Come Dine with Me

Come Dine with Me returns for a new series of daytime shows, kicking off this week in Medway in Kent.

Monday, 30/05/2011

7:10pm The Italian Job (1969)

Iconic 60s crime caper starring Michael Caine, Noël Coward and three frisky Minis.

Tuesday, 31/05/2011

10pm Jamie’s Food Revolution Hits Hollywood 3/6

In the third programme, the increasingly hostile school board shuts down Jamie’s sample lunches at West Adams Preparatory School.

Forced into a distant corner of the school, Jamie discovers that not only can he not cook for the whole school, he must also give up his lunches altogether.

Driven to frustration, he makes a tearful plea to some parents in the school for help, which, despite the language barrier, helps to improve his spirits.

Wednesday, 01/06/2011 8pm

Diagnosis Live from the Clinic

Dr Christian Jessen and Dr Dawn Harper are on hand, live on Channel 4, to discuss medical concerns with viewers at home. This time the doctors are joined by a foot specialist.

Thursday, 02/06/2011

9pm Meet the Elephant Man

Just over 120 years ago, one of the most extraordinary figures of the Victorian era, Joseph Merrick, passed away. Merrick was named the ‘elephant man’ after developing terrible disfigurements from an early age.

Now a team of international scientists are studying the elephant man’s bones, and Brian Richards, who suffers from the same disorder as Merrick, is following in the elephant man’s footsteps.

Friday, 03/06/2011

9pm Saving Private Ryan (1998)

Steven Spielberg’s Second World War blockbuster starring Tom Hanks as Capt John H Miller, the leader of a platoon of D-Day soldiers ordered to find and rescue Private Ryan who is the sole surviving sibling of a family of four brothers.

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8:00pm Friday, April 29 on C4

Come Dine with Me commemorates the royal wedding with this new episode. In a twist to the usual format, four strangers from four different parts of the country compete against one another by throwing their idea of the perfect royal wedding street party for up to 40 guests. The parties include an East End knees-up with a 1940s theme, a glamorous wedding breakfast/ garden party, a Caribbean-flavoured Martinique mock wedding party and a traditional boozy village party on the green with a hog roast.

5:00pm Monday, January 17 on C4

A new series starts on the Kent Riviera, with the first host of the week, full-time mum Lydia Jones. Lydia opts for a French menu and some recipes that, although tried before, she’s never succeeded with. The responses of her guests aren’t ideal: dental nurse Donna tries to work out what a canard is; hairdresser Marcello is convinced that Lydia’s serving grated toast; and artist Anthony is confused by every course. As the evening starts, Ramsgate’s “most stylish man” Marcello wastes no time offending everyone he meets with cutting comments about their appearance.

9:00pm Wednesday, December 22 on C4

Goldie, Tony Christie, Janet Ellis; and Susie Amy are donning their aprons tonight. Goldie throws an ‘Old Skool’ Christmas, putting his guests at ease with a seven-foot boa constrictor and a peculiar hip hop dress code. Susie Amy hosts a ‘Camp Christmas’, including X Factor -finalists Diva Fever. Janet Ellis wants a 1950s ‘Traditional Christmas’, but her plans are almost derailed by Goldie who arrives in the character of an American car salesman. Tony Christie plans to top them all with a stylish, sophisticated ‘Crooner’s Christmas’ while his wife helps out in the kitchen.