The idea of another cookery programme on the telly should fill me with dread. It doesn't matter if it's Jamie Oliver, Delia Smith or Nigella Lawson, to the rank and file baked bean brigade (to which most of us, if we're honest, belong) they all serve one hidden purpose: to remind us that we can't cook. Properly.
Which is why most us pay so much to go out and eat in restaurants - and why the likes of Oliver and co can charge so much.
But put all that to one side as BBC 2 serves up Kitchen Criminals (BBC 2, 6.30pm). For the next 20 week nights we can revel in the fact that other people are like us: they can’t cook properly either. But unlike us, they’ve been daft enough to go on the telly to prove their point.
Enter chefs John Burton and Angela Hartnett, who are determined to prove anyone can cook if they want to. And in the process of trawling around the country, they’re going to bring us the worst examples of the people who can’t in the process.
In fact, anyone who shows they even know how to use a knife and fork appears to get sent home. Once said telly-dinner fantatics are assembled, Burton and Hartnett will set about turning them into proper cooks.
As TV cookery programmes go, it is good heartening stuff. And there ends the cooking puns.
Also tonight:
That Antony Cotton Show (ITV1, 5pm): There’s no doubt Cotton has made a real impact as camp Sean in Corrie, but is a chat show for the actor a bit too much, a bit too soon? What will the real Sean be like? Will Sean end up falling into his Corrie character? One thing is for sure, it can’t be any worse than the Sharon Osborne show last year.
TV Heaven, Telly Hell (C4, 11.05pm): One of the best formats on the box at the moment. Sean Lock gets comedians to telly him about their least favourite programmes. Tonight, it’s Jimmy Carr. Let their spark on Eight Out Of 10 Cats continue…
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