Come Dine with Me 

A group of five strangers, each an amateur chef, compete to host the best dinner party, each party solely for the competitors and to be held on consecutive evenings. With a set amount of ... See full summary »

Stars:

Dave Lamb, Lesley Joseph, Bill Buckley

2 wins & 8 nominations.

Cast

Series cast summary:
Dave Lamb	...	Himself - Narrator / ... 149 episodes, 2005-2017

Storyline

A group of five strangers, each an amateur chef, compete to host the best dinner party, each party solely for the competitors and to be held on consecutive evenings. With a set amount of money provided for the party, each host must submit a menu in advance of the week, the menu to consist of at least a starter, a main and a dessert/pudding. At the end of each party, each guest rates the party on a scale of one to ten inclusive. Each guest can use whatever criteria he/she deems important to rate the party, the quality of the food only being one possible factor. At the end of the last party, the host of that party gets the voting results, which he/she reads to the other competitors. The competitor with the highest score wins £1,000. By the end of the last party, each competitor gets to know their fellow competitors a little better. Some may become friends for life, while others wish they had never met.

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Plot Keywords:

food | dinner party | four word title | competition | narration | 

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Genres:

Game-Show | Reality-TV

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Details

Official Sites:

Channel 4 [UK]

Country:

UK

Language:

English

Release Date:

10 January 2005 (UK)

Also Known As:

Arvostele mun illallinen

Filming Locations:

UK

Company Credits

Production Co:

Granada Productions, Channel 4 Television Corporation

Technical Specs

Runtime:

24 min

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.78 : 1

Did You Know?

Connections

Referenced in Loose Women: Episode #14.92 (2010)

User Reviews

Dangerously Addictive Reality Television Show

COME DINE WITH ME now occupies a large slice of Channel 4's daytime schedule, with episodes running at lunchtime, late afternoon and most of Saturday afternoon. Channel 4's sister station More4 runs more episodes in the early evening. Watching several episodes back to back allows certain themes to emerge: the food selection by each contestant is often repetitive; the contestants have entrenched attitudes; their judgments are affected very much by the desire to win the competition; and all of them are more than ready to act in front of the ubiquitous television camera. Dave Lamb's narration contributes to the overall jokey atmosphere, as he makes fun of the contestants' pretensions. From a sociological perspective, however, COME DINE WITH ME is a fascinating text, as it encapsulates within each twenty-five-minute episode the enduring class, gender and age prejudices of most of the contestants. Anyone who thinks that contemporary Britain has changed in terms of its social structure, as compared with, say, half a century ago, would have their assumptions readily undermined here. Snobberies, racial prejudices, and gender jealousies still exist, even if they are perhaps more politely expressed than they might have once been.