Mystery Diners

Quit scamming people Hollywood. It's why I no longer pay to see your SHI*T!!!

What legal implications are involved with producers who offer no disclaimer and charade their programs as pretending to be real. It is ridiculous they are not held accountable.

I don't understand why the producer can't be sued considering he does not offer a disclaimer that the program has faked scenarios.

Just know something people ---You can't make a "reality" show without making it fake. It's impossible, because what you see takes careful planning and organization. Scenes have to be edited, actors have to know what to say (scripts), scenes have to be re-shot, they use make-up artists, caterers and times of events have to be arranged and scheduled FOR EVERY PRODUCTION, whether it charades as a "reality" TV show or it's a feature film

Only 1 star as there is no zero. Why oh why is this even on a food channel, nothing to do with food, completely fake, terrible acting, set up situations, a million camera angles from a few supposedly secret cameras!!! Even a quick google will tell you how fake it is, and as unbelievable as it is so far 4 of the 19 reviews have been positive...so I guess that explains why they get away with such a blatantly bad show. This show and its brethren Restaurant Stakeout have no place on a channel that is supposed to be about food. It doesn't take a genius to figure out that a food channel is going to be watched by serious foodies who like to see different recipes and cuisines being prepared and tasted, not this pap!!!

When this show came out, I used to watch it with my young daughter, and she thought it was real, so we had some laughs and discussions together about food hygiene. The episodes I recall included a lady who rubbed the hamburger buns under her armpits because she did not like the mystery shopper.

Unfortunately, after a few episodes the show turned more towards harassment of employees, and theft. I did not like the fake creepy stories, so it was back to SpongeBob for us.

The fact that Cooking Channel has the audacity to pass this off as "reality" is an insult to their viewers' intelligence. Everyone on the show is an actor (most are laughably bad) and the entire show is nothing but a poorly-staged ruse passed off as reality for the enjoyment of only the most tragically gullible of TV viewers.

Why on earth would anyone ever want to watch such a blatantly scripted fraud of a show? Bad form, Cooking Channel. There's no place for this kind of trashiness on your otherwise decent network. All it does is undermine the credibility of the rest of your programming.

P.T. Barnum once said that there's a sucker born every minute, and judging by the fact that this show is somehow still on the air, his estimate seems far too conservative.

This is the worst show on television. It is so insanely obvious that the show is faked, that it is insulting to the viewers intelligence that the producers even try to pass it off as real. The people are horrible actors and any person who takes the time to audition for this show has placed a black mark on their resumes for even showing up. I want to watch shows about cooking! Not terrible actors pretend to be terrible employees. Please no more!!!

FOOD NETWORK when you good this show the first thing that shows up is the shows website, only quickly followed by a web page entirely dedicated to people's frustration about this show being fake. Even simply typing the words 'mystery d' prompts Google to auto-fill the words 'mystery diners fake'.