Come Dine with Me

I couldn't not comment, as the show is about to turn twenty, who'd have thought this show would have survived for two decades.

It used to be essential viewing, a show we'd watch as a family, I can't lie, it hasn't been on the radar for about a decade, but the twenty year anniversary, made it appealing.

It has changed a little, the public have become more over the top, louder, more competitive, and even more keen to win that £1000 prize.

It does vary somewhat episode by episode, some are terrible, some are great fun, it all depends on the contestants they've assembled.

Dave Lamb makes the show, he's so funny, so sarcastic, it's his cutting dialogue that makes the show so watchable.

Easy viewing, something you can have on in the background, something you can watch with the whole family, it works.

7/10.

Always an upper to watch Come dine with me is a sure bet Raise your appetite with some laughs A truly reliable winning horse

Great idea for a show but I'm constantly amazed at what the contestants don't know when it comes to international foods.

5 strangers vie to win £1000 prize each stranger hosts and prepares a 3 course homemade meal the diners then score the meal each out of 10 In secret. At the end of the week when all have hosted the scores are revealed and the highest score wins the money. I love this show the people who are hosts are all so different and interesting the narration in between is done by Dave Lamb he is excellent his dry sarcastic humour has me in fits of laughter and he really makes this show .

If you have never watched it and get the chance I would highly recommend

COME DINE WITH ME now occupies a large slice of Channel 4's daytime schedule, with episodes running at lunchtime, late afternoon and most of Saturday afternoon. Channel 4's sister station More4 runs more episodes in the early evening. Watching several episodes back to back allows certain themes to emerge: the food selection by each contestant is often repetitive; the contestants have entrenched attitudes; their judgments are affected very much by the desire to win the competition; and all of them are more than ready to act in front of the ubiquitous television camera. Dave Lamb's narration contributes to the overall jokey atmosphere, as he makes fun of the contestants' pretensions. From a sociological perspective, however, COME DINE WITH ME is a fascinating text, as it encapsulates within each twenty-five-minute episode the enduring class, gender and age prejudices of most of the contestants. Anyone who thinks that contemporary Britain has changed in terms of its social structure, as compared with, say, half a century ago, would have their assumptions readily undermined here. Snobberies, racial prejudices, and gender jealousies still exist, even if they are perhaps more politely expressed than they might have once been.