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Ready, Steady, Cook (1994)
Ready Steady Cook - What's It Like!
I remember watching Ready Steady Cook since it first started as a 'quiet' little cookery show in 1994 on BBC2. We had the matronly Fern Britton keeping "her boys" in check (Ainsley Harriot, Brian Turner and Antony Worrall-Thompson were always the most unruly) while showing that you CAN make a good meal in 20 minutes from unknown ingredients. It was fun then, and it still is now Ainsley has graduated from chef to host and added a 'quickie-bag round' thereby extending the show from 30 to 45 minutes but still as exciting as before, especially now we can see the votes as a handy little line graph on the screen! Long may it continue!
Randall & Hopkirk (Deceased) (2000)
A curate-s egg of a programme
When I heard that Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased) was going to be remade for the 21st century with modern special effects, I couldn't wait. Then I read that Vic Reeves and Bob Mortimer would be in it, I was salivating with anticipation. Then I saw it. Ah. Yes, some of it was very good (the special effects were as good as I'd anticipated) and having Tom Baker to act as Marty's spirit tutor was a clever move. But the scripts were rather, how do I put it politely, dull. This is as near as a Curate's Egg of a show as makes no odds. To sum up, if you want to escape with a GOOD drama, I can only recommend the original series with the fine Mike Pratt and the hugely under-rated Kenneth Cope.