Come Dine With Me
Format	Cookery
Starring	Many different people
Country of origin	United Kingdom
Language(s)	British English
No. Cooking is the process of preparing Food by applying Heat, selecting measuring and combining of ingredients in an ordered procedure for producing safe and edible The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom, the UK or Britain,is a Sovereign state located British English or UK English ( BrE, BE, en-GB) is the broad term used to distinguish the forms of the English language used in the  of episodes	126 (as of January 4, 2008)
Production
Producer(s)	Granada London Productions
Running time	30 minutes. Events 46 BC - Titus Labienus defeats Julius Caesar in the Battle of Ruspina. 2008 ( MMVIII) is the current year in accordance with the Gregorian calendar, a Leap year that started on Tuesday of the Common Granada Productions is one of Europe 's leading commercial television production and distribution companies 60 minutes for special episodes.
Broadcast
Original channel	Channel 4
Original run	January, 2005 – TBA 2009
External links
Official website
IMDb profile

Come Dine With Me is a Channel 4 television programme shown in the United Kingdom, first broadcast in January 2005. Channel 4 is a public-service Television and Radio broadcaster in the United Kingdom centred around a television channel of the same name which began Channel 4 is a public-service Television and Radio broadcaster in the United Kingdom centred around a television channel of the same name which began The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom, the UK or Britain,is a Sovereign state located The show has four amateur chefs competing against each other hosting a dinner party for the other contestants. Each competitor then rates the host's performance with the winner winning a £1,000 cash prize. An element of comedy is added to the show through comedian Dave Lamb, who provides a dry and sarcastic narration. The fourth series began airing on 10 April 2008. Events 879 - Louis III becomes King of the Western Franks. 1407 - the lama 2008 ( MMVIII) is the current year in accordance with the Gregorian calendar, a Leap year that started on Tuesday of the Common

Contents 1 Other Broadcasters 2 Derivative Formats 3 International Versions 4 Series 1 5 Series 2 6 Series 3 7 Series 4 8 References 9 External links

Other Broadcasters

As well as being repeated on Channel 4, their sister channel More4 also regularly broadcasters past episodes on Sunday afternoons, with all five programmes from a week shown consecutively in a block. More4 is a Digital television channel produced by United Kingdom broadcaster Channel 4, that launched on 10 October 2005. Episodes from the first series are also regularly shown on Discovery Real Time, Discovery Travel & Living, and Discovery Home & Health. Discovery Real Time is a male oriented factual television channel produced by Discovery Networks Europe. Discovery Travel & Living is a channel from Discovery Communications. Discovery Home & Health is a television channel based in the United Kingdom.

The programme is also shown in Australia on LifeStyle Food channel. LifeStyle Food is an Australian food channel solely dedicated to food wine and restaurant society

Derivative Formats

In March 2008 it was announced that rival broadcaster ITV1 had commissioned a new daytime programme, House Guest from ITV Productions, a part of the same company which also produces Come Dine With Me. This article deals with the ITV1 brand name as it is broadcast at present Granada Productions is one of Europe 's leading commercial television production and distribution companies ^[1] The format for House Guest is different as it involves a guest staying overnight in each episode and will concentrate on hosting skills. Another change to the format sees the parties being hosted by couples, who may be friends or colleagues as well as romantic couples, rather than individuals.

International Versions

The format to the programme has been sold to television channel VOX in Germany where it airs as Das perfekte Dinner, to TLC in the USA as Dinner Takes All and RTL Televizija in Croatia as Večera za 5. VOX is a German Television channel, headquartered in Cologne and part of the RTL Group, Europe's largest TV radio and production company Germany, officially the Federal Republic of Germany ( ˈbʊndəsʁepuˌbliːk ˈdɔʏtʃlant is a Country in Central Europe. TLC (generally called as The Learning Channel) is a cable TV network in the US and Canada, that carries a variety of informational and The United States of America —commonly referred to as the RTL Televizija is a Croatian commercial Television network that was launched on April 30, 2004 and is 65 Croatia (Hrvatska ˈxȓvatska officially the Republic of Croatia ( Republika Hrvatska) is a southern Central European country at the crossroads between All four international versions are produced by local subsidiaries of British company Granada Productions. Granada Productions is one of Europe 's leading commercial television production and distribution companies Also Spain will have an own version of the format, Ven a Cenar Conmigo, produced by Antena 3 and ZeppelinTV (Endemol Group). Endemol is a television production company based in the Netherlands, with Subsidiaries and Joint ventures in 23 countries including the United France also have their own localised version of the show under the name "Un Diner Presque Parfait" which literally translated means "A Dinner Almost Perfect". The show is broadcast on the large private broadcaster M6 and has proved popular with older audiences. Métropole 6, known popularly as simply M6, is a French Television service owned by a company called Métropole Télévision. The show has also fared well in the face of public broadcaster TF1's "Un contre 100"

Series 1

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Week	Location	Contestants
1	Stoke	Jane Bagley	Sarah Adams-Lipa	Tricia Martin	Lesley Blood	Father Brian Williams
2	London	Moona Messamri	Bruce Mainwaring	Pauline Morrison	Michael O'Keeffe	Belinda Taylor
3	Leeds	Vera Liburd	Stuart Moss	Craig McAlpine	Pippa Hudson	Paul Ulett
4	London	Jane Furlong	David Thomas	Sarah Donohue	Rocky Scott	Paul Martin

Series 2

The contestant in pink is the winner of the week. Week 6 was a tie.

Week	Location	Contestants
1	Various	Ben de Lisi	Mica Paris	Ulrika Jonsson	Helen Lederer	David Quantick
2	Essex	Jane Phillips Martin	June Tedaldi	Kevin Reynolds	Keeley Lawrence	Amanda Swanwick-Aharoni
3	Doncaster	Neena Rainey	Katherine Taylor	Steve Clift	Danny Churchill	Rosslyn Thompson
4	Brighton	Margaret O'Loughlin	Julia John	Paula Pearson	Nathalie Clarke	Melinda Padley
5	Glasgow	Aileen Dunn	Paul Lydon	Christine Thornton	Sharon Eaton	Ishrat Gazala
6	Nottingham	Karen Cullen	Gordon Todd	Jenny Cross	Jarrod Pepper	Sam Hughes
7	London	Isabelle Goldstein	Chris D'Sylva	Bill Buckley	Jacqueline Gill	Serena Wilson

Series 3

The third series premiered in the summer of 2006, as with the second series the first week featured celebrities. Eva Ulrika Jonsson (born 16 August 1967 is a Swedish -born British Television presenter. Helen Lederer (born Llandovery, Wales, September 24 1954) is a British Comedian, writer and Actress who emerged as David Quantick (born 1961, Wortley, South Yorkshire, England) is a freelance Journalist, Writer and critic who specialises Bill Buckley (William Anthony Buckley born 8 January 1959 in Birmingham, United Kingdom) is a former That's Life! The first five weeks aired on weeknights at 4:30pm while Deal or No Deal took a summer break. Deal or No Deal is the United Kingdom version of the Endemol Game show, which was first broadcast on Channel 4 on 31 October After a one week absence it then returned for a further three weeks at 4:15pm. The remaining programmes were held back and aired sporadically during 2007.

The contestant in pink is the winner of the week. Weeks 8 and 9 were a tie. The premiere date is for the first episode of a week, in all weeks there were five programmes shown on consecutive days.

Week	Premiered	Location	Contestants
1	July 24, 2006	Various	Rowland Rivron	Linda Robson	Anneka Rice	Toby Young	Aggie MacKenzie
2	July 31, 2006	Liverpool	Terry White	Dan Redfern	Niki O'Leary	Ian Cook	Margaret Twemlow
3	August 7, 2006	Edinburgh	Tracy Dobbie	Paul Dwyer	Tanya Williams	James Gammie	Jennifer Crosbie
4	August 14, 2006	London	Linda Shanson	Jonathan Norris	Patricia Varley	John Santamaria	Richard Whitaker
5	August 21, 2006	Derby	Julia Knight	Graham Fox	Patsy Sewell-Mwamba	Michele Cooper	Danny Fletcher
6	September 4, 2006	Belfast	Rosemary McLoughlin	Marty Henderson	Colin McAllister	Jon Cross	Caroline Teeling
7	September 11, 2006	Cambridge	Rachel Tooher-Rudd	Gael Norris	Phil Webb	Simone Breneis	Carolyn Tycer
8	September 18, 2006	Ayr	Maureen McKissock	Elaine Munro	Forbes Robertson	Lizzy McCubbin	Sarah Pickering
9	January 1, 2007	Swansea	David Murray	Ernest Lemonheigh	Sue Thomas	Karen Perry	Heather Skipper
10	September 3, 2007	Cheshire	Nicola Noblet	Katie Noden	Edward Davies	Jan Burrows	Howard Yuill
11	September 10, 2007	Bristol	Nick Needs	Rachel Hodgson	Ronnie Masters	Clive Burrell	Chyna Warren
12	December 31, 2007	Cardiff	Suzanne Green	Annette Howard	Jim Blythe	Charlie Balch	Jane Lloyd

An hour-long primetime Christmas special was also produced with a slightly different format to suit the shorter timeslot. Events 1132 - Battle of Nocera between Ranulf II of Alife and Roger II of Sicily. Rowland Rivron (born 1958) is a British comedian musician writer and a television presenter Linda Robson (born 13 March 1958 in Islington, London) is an English actress Anneka Rice (born Anne Rice, 4 October 1958 in Cowbridge, Vale of Glamorgan) is a British television Presenter. Toby Daniel Moorsom Young (born 1963 is a British Journalist and the author of How to Lose Friends and Alienate People, the tale of his Aggie MacKenzie (born 1954 in Rothiemurchus, Scotland) is a Scottish born international television presenter Events 30 BC - Battle of Alexandria: Mark Antony achieves a minor victory over Octavian 's forces but most of his army subsequently Liverpool ( is a City and Metropolitan borough of Merseyside, England along the eastern side of the Mersey Estuary Events 322 BC - Battle of Crannon between Athens and Macedon following the death of Alexander the Great. Edinburgh ( ˈɛdɪnb(ərə Dùn Èideann) is the Capital of Scotland and is its second largest city after Glasgow. Events 1183 - Taira no Munemori and the Taira clan take the young Emperor Antoku and the three sacred treasures London ( ˈlʌndən is the capital and largest urban area in the United Kingdom. Events 1192 - Minamoto Yoritomo becomes Seii Tai Shōgun and the De facto ruler of Japan. Derby (pronounced "dar-bee" /dˈɑːbɪ/ is a city in the East Midlands of England. Events 476 - Romulus Augustus, last emperor of the Western Roman Empire, is deposed when Odoacer proclaims himself Belfast ( is the capital city of Northern Ireland and the seat of government in Northern Ireland. Events 9 - The Battle of the Teutoburg Forest ends 506 - The Bishops of Visigothic Gaul The city of Cambridge (ˈkeɪmbrɪdʒ is a university town and the administrative centre of the county of Cambridgeshire, England Events 96 - Nerva is proclaimed Roman Emperor after Domitian is assassinated Ayr (Inbhir Àir Mouth of the River Ayr) is a town and port situated on the Firth of Clyde, in south-west Scotland. New Year See also New Year The Ancient Romans began their consular year on January 1st since 153 BC Swansea ( Abertawe "mouth of the Tawe " is a city and county in Wales. Events 36 BC - In the Battle of Naulochus, Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa, Admiral of Octavian, defeats Sextus Pompeius Cheshire (or archaically the County of Chester) is a county in North West England. Events 506 - The Bishops of Visigothic Gaul meet in the Council of Agde. Bristol ( ˈbrɪstəl is a city, Unitary authority and ceremonial county in South West England, west of London Events 406 – Vandals, Alans and Suebians cross the Rhine, beginning an invasion of Gallia. Cardiff ( 'kɑːdɪf) is the Capital and the largest city and county in Wales. Prime Time is the major News analysis current affairs and Politics programme broadcast on Radio Telefís Éireann in Ireland Only four contestants took part with each making a separate course for the dinner: starter, fish course, main course, and dessert. After each course the person cooking the next part of the meal would leave to complete their dish at home, which had been prepared earlier, before being joined by the other guests.

Week	Premiered	Location	Contestants
X	December 22, 2006	York	Rosie Sheppard	Wayne Coyle	Peter Plaskitt	Maria Greenhough

Series 4

In late 2007 Channel 4 announced on their web site that they would be producing a fourth series for 2008 and issued an appeal for contestants living in Bath, Newcastle, Oxford, Exeter, the Fylde Coast, and Aberdeen. Events 1790 - The Turkish fortress of Izmail is stormed and captured by Suvorov and his Russian armies York ( is an historic Walled city sited at the confluence of the rivers Ouse and Foss in North Yorkshire, England. Bath is a city in Somerset in the south west of England It is situated west of London and south-east of Bristol. Newcastle upon Tyne ( (often shortened to Newcastle) is a city and Metropolitan borough of Tyne and Wear, England Oxford is currently bidding for the 2010 Wikimania Conference Oxford () is a city, and the County town of Oxfordshire, Exeter ( (IPA ˈeksɪtər is a city, district and County town of Devon, England. The Fylde is a coastal Plain in western Lancashire, England. It is roughly a 13-mile (20-kilometre square -shaped Peninsula, bounded Aberdeen ( pronounced; Aiberdeen Obar Dheathain is Scotland 's third most populous city and one of Scotland's 32 local government council ^[2] Unlike previous series it would be aired in primetime and only feature four guests so that it could be aired as a single weekly hour-long episode.

Week	Premiered	Location	Contestants
1	April 10, 2008	London	Jonathan Ansell	Lynsey de Paul	Tamara Beckwith	MC Harvey
2	April 17, 2008	Newcastle	Lee Eley	Brian Moore	Rebecca Hambly	Brenda Mallam
3	April 24, 2008	Coventry	James Paley	Vera Phillips Griffith	Jon Bramley	Marie Hughes

Additionally in January 2008 it was announced that another series of daytime episodes will also be produced. Events 879 - Louis III becomes King of the Western Franks. 1407 - the lama 2008 ( MMVIII) is the current year in accordance with the Gregorian calendar, a Leap year that started on Tuesday of the Common London ( ˈlʌndən is the capital and largest urban area in the United Kingdom. Jonathan Mark Ansell (born 10 March 1982) is an English singer formerly the high Tenor of the vocal group G4. Tamara Beckwith (born 17 April, 1970) is a former It girl and Z-list Celebrity noted for her coverage in glossy celebrity magazines Michael Harvey Jr, aka MC Harvey, (born 1 May 1979, Battersea, London) is a British musical artist Events 69 - After the First Battle of Bedriacum, Vitellius becomes Roman Emperor. 2008 ( MMVIII) is the current year in accordance with the Gregorian calendar, a Leap year that started on Tuesday of the Common Newcastle upon Tyne ( (often shortened to Newcastle) is a city and Metropolitan borough of Tyne and Wear, England Events 1479 BC - Thutmose III ascends to the throne of Egypt, although power effectively shifts to Hatshepsut (according to 2008 ( MMVIII) is the current year in accordance with the Gregorian calendar, a Leap year that started on Tuesday of the Common Coventry ( is a city and Metropolitan borough in the County of West Midlands in England. These will be in the traditional format of five daily half hour programmes. ^[3] This report also contradicted the previous claim that the primetime version of the programme will only feature four guests in each location.

References

External links

• Come Dine With Me at Channel4.com - Official site
• Come Dine With Me - Original Channel 4 site
• Come Dine With Me - Australian broadcaster's site. Channel 4 is a public-service Television and Radio broadcaster in the United Kingdom centred around a television channel of the same name which began

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