The best cooking competition shows include memorable contestants, fun rules, creative challenges, and hosts and judges who know what they're talking about and know how to talk about it. With recent ...

Cooking shows have long been "the toast of television: mouth-wateringly wholesome fun, cheap to make and often a surefire ratings hit", said The Times. But now they're facing the chop. A string of ...

Some 30 years ago I found myself working with David Pritchard, a director who turned the late Keith Floyd into a TV star. He had first encountered Floyd, glass in hand, chaotically running a Bristol ...