I wrote a while ago in relation to ‘Monkey Tennis’; Alan Partrdige’s last desperate pitch to the BBC, and compared it to the mooted idea by Fresh One Production to purchase Little Chef and have Jamie Oliver save it on screen.
And, annoyingly, I tried to be too funny too soon.
But then could anyone know that the BBC would actually go ahead and commission Monkey Tennis – or as close as you could get – and I’d be left sounding repetitious.
Expecting to watch Countdown, I switched on BBC2 the other afternoon I saw a listing that blew my mind – Food Poker.
Wow.
And more importantly: How?
Some production company oik emulated Partridge and meekly juxtaposed two popular interests in the pitiful hope the general public would buy into it.
God how I’d liked to have been a fly on the wall in that meeting between the production company and the commissioning editor.
“People like food, right?”
“You’ve got my attention”
“And people like poker, right?”
“Keep talking”
“Two words - Food Poker”
“How does it work?”
“Who cares?”
“Good point. Here’s £90k”
The BBC describes the programme as such: Food Poker is an innovative take on a cookery show for BBC Two combining the thrill of a poker round with the competitive edge that always ensues when you put two or more top chefs in a kitchen together.
I can assure you it does neither of those.
The BBC also says that the chefs bluff and gamble their way to winning dishes to cook. Again; not really.
That gobby presenter from BBC’s Rogue Traders hands out cards, sounds more excited than a kid on a Sunny D high and the chefs name a dish to cook. I think. There’s also a Blockbusters-style panel of judges who do something. I don’t really know.
More amazingly than anything is how top-end chefs like Theo Randall, Daniel Galmiche and Galton Blackiston were enticed into hopping on board.
The money might be great but in my opinion it’d be less embarrassing to pick up a racquet and rally with a chimp.
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