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Had I but world enough, and time, I might have written about the following in the past few weeks.
Heston Blumenthal’s return to Little Chef on Channel 4 to see if his new menu and the new-look restaurant, trialled at the A303’s very own Popham services, was a success. Clearly, this allowed for plenty of footage [...]

Posted on November 12th, 2009 under Television. Tags: American Road Trip, BBC 1, Channel 4, Heston Blumenthal, Jamie Oliver, Little Chef, Nanoboy, Pop, Spooks. Comments: None

It’s been all quiet on this (south-)western blog for a couple of days. Blame the snow; everyone else is. Which leaves me very late in posting about Jamie Saves Our Bacon, which aired on Channel 4 on Thursday night. I was with ER over on More4 so caught the programme on C4’s online catch-up service [...]

Posted on February 4th, 2009 under Television. Tags: Channel 4, Jamie Oliver, Jamie Saves Our Bacon. Comments: 4

Verily, Christmas on TV is now officially all about food. There’s too much trouble and strife in the religion side of things, so let’s just eat and be merry. This is a winter festival, after all. We have Nigella on BBC 2; Hugh Fearnley-Whatshisname on Channel 4; followed by Jamie Oliver tonight, also on C4.
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Posted on December 18th, 2008 under Television. Tags: Channel 4, Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall, Jamie Oliver, Nigella Lawson, River Cottage, Willie Harcourt-Cooze, Willie's Perfect Chocolate Christmas. Comments: None

A round-up of the week’s main media news

Posted on December 5th, 2008 under Broadcasting, News round-up, Television. Tags: Annie Mac, BBC, Channel 4, Competition Commission, Diverse Productions, Eileen Gallagher, Eurovision, Footballers' Wives, Fresh One Productions, Graham Norton, ITV, Jamie Oliver, John Barrowman, Last Chance Kids, Neil Morrissey, Project Kangaroo, Radio 1, Risky Business, Roy Ackerman, Shed Media, Shed Productions, Terry Wogan, Tribal Wives, Waterloo Road. Comments: None

The shortest of posts, as it’s the Friday before half term and busy, busy, busy. Suffice to say, the news that Jamie Oliver has reportedly been given a £2m golden handcuffs deal to keep him at Channel 4 has gone down like a turd in the family punchbowl at Horseferry Road, C4’s HQ where, you [...]

Posted on October 24th, 2008 under Television. Tags: BBC, Channel 4, ITV, Jamie Oliver, Sainsbury's. Comments: 2

Regular readers (bless you!) will know that I rate both Jamie Oliver and this series. It’s turned out, perhaps predictably, to be quite controversial and I’ve had a look at the ‘Jamie Go Home’ blog which is vituperative in its loathing of Oliver. I think he’s that sort of a celeb: you either love him [...]

Posted on October 22nd, 2008 under Television. Tags: Channel 4, Jamie Oliver, Jools Oliver, Ministry of Food. Comments: None

So much to blog about, so little time. First, the quickest of updates on recent telly watching. Eli Stone on Sci-Fi was disappointing. Yes, it has Johnny Lee Miller and George Michael in it, two of the sexiest men in the world. (What do you mean, one of them’s gay? Like we would be riding [...]

Posted on October 8th, 2008 under Television. Tags: BBC, Channel 4, Eli Stone, Griff Rhys Jones, ITV, Jamie Oliver, Losing It, Ministry of Food, programming, Sci-Fi Channel, Television. Comments: None