What started out exactly as we all expected, hilarious car-crash TV, because pretty boring by about half way. Shock horror, Bill Cullen sent them to...

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An almost perfect show about food and business. Only one set of donkeys in first episode. Expect much drama! I have to assume the 9th couple (a mother and daughter) was the comedy section of the show. Tinned mango mixed with cream was the dish they...

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Not quite Top Chef but the presence of Michel Roux transforms it. High end cooking and great TV.

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I had written off this series by the third episode but it still showed glimmers of quality. Luckily those glimmers shone through to beat off the bozos and tooth veneers. The final gave us the two best chefs who were clearly passionate and capable. ...

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After starting with dodos and publicity whores, the final was a joy. Two great chefs with two great mentors. Ace!

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Top Chef has easily become my favourite cooking show of all time. I don't know what it is about its combination of reality tv, food, famous chefs and excitement, but nothing comes close. The season 4 finale was a cliffhanger. Usual warnings apply,...

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google_ad_section_start This is a mixed-martial arts movie written and directed by David Mamet, a man behind scripts for The Untouchables , Ronin and Hannibal . Starring Chiwetel Ejiofor in main role, as well as Tim Allen, Mike Goldberg, Alice...

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A few weeks ago we spent a wonderful weekend at what has to be one of the most enchanting houses in the whole of West Cork , perhaps the entire country. Nestled on its own little island between a fork in the Glengarriff River, this thatched former...

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Great reality fashion series which incorporates talent, no hopers, innovation, blandness, banality and creativity, with plenty of rivalry and tension thrown in for good measure. Highly entertaining.

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