Spot the odd one out:
1. Youth hostelling with Chris Eubank
2. Cooking in prison
3. Rescuing Little Chef with Jamie Oliver
4. Monkey Tennis
That’s right – only number three was actually a serious idea. The remainder were the final, desperate pitches of Alan Partridge as he tried to resuscitate his moribund BBC career with commissioning editor Tony Hayers. Yet somehow they sound more plausible than Fresh One Production’s mooted Little Chef show.
Time will tell, but surely it can’t be true. Jamie Oliver revamps Little Chef? How? Drive it around Italy?
If we’re going leftfield on programme ideas then read on for some of my own creations, all a little more likely to be commissioned I feel.
1. Rhodes to Nowhere: send Gary Rhodes to desolate strips of the earth (Death Valley, Outer Hebrides, Blue Water carpark etc), with nothing and let him scavenge and cook what he can find. In Blue Water this would probably constitute Space Raider and WKD en croute.
2. Viet’Nairn: Scottish chef Nick Nairn has to run a 50 seat restaurant in Vietcong tunnels, interrupted by the occasional US Marine raid.
3. Peytontly Absurd: Oliver Peyton is only permitted to use absurd ingredients (a starfruit, a hammock, Ken Dodd) with which to cook a meal to impress a selection of very serious diners.
4. Harriot’s a’Fire: self explanatory. Unlikely to be commissioned
I reckon they’re all worth a pitch.
Any suggestions of your own?
