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TV Dinner

Feast your eyes on the month’s best food programming


Broadmoor Food-Fight

Star that implies this programme ought to be a jolly good showBuilding on the success of Poor People Can Cook Too, where she taught funny little northern people how to make dinner, Janie Media-Darling has found a yet-further marginalised and malnourished sector of society: the criminally insane. Just like those interchangeable northern towns where, bless them, the locals couldn’t talk properly and probably still watched black and white television, Broadmoor Food-Fight is chock-full of scratchers and biters whose idea of a cooked breakfast is a microwaved kebab. Of course, it’s a learning experience for Janie too – over the next few weeks she’ll be dicing her vegetables with a homemade shiv and tenderising meat with a pool-ball in a sock.


Bangkok Dog Bake

With dog-eating in Thailand going the way of the dodo, it looks like Angus and Jeremy’s road-trip might be at an end. Fortunately, some loose-lipped chickboys spill the beans on an illegal barbecue in Wang Thonglang. Pie-eyed on diesel fumes, they also sample a local specialty: roach-fried roadkill and styrofoam.


Britain’s Hardest Chef

Since last week's eventful quarter-final when John, the ladies' favourite, knocked out the only remaining teenager with his Le Creuset milk pan, it’s fair to say that the men are now truly separated from the boys. But can John's intimidating swearing compensate for his poor technical discipline and lack of martial arts training? With his excellent dragon punch, Ryu looks like the man to beat, but given his weak performance with desserts and vegetarian options, anything could happen. If you like this, then you'll love Kitchen Smackdown on Sky One.

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