by Tim Webb

Created on: January 04, 2011   Last Updated: January 05, 2011

I personally tend to find there is very little that can entice me to watch TV at the weekend these days. Even as a Bond fan, seeing the same film shown for two consecutive weekends can get a little bit tedious! However on a Sunday afternoon More 4 tend to show a weeks worth of Come Dine With Me in one go, usually the show is on every weekday for 30 minutes on Channel 4 and concentrates on a single contestant out of the five participants. However here you get the full picture and get to see all five shows from the week rolled into an omnibus edition in one hit.

So the show is basically a competition between five people to dine, entertain and serve a dinner party. Everyone gets to visit each others house and get to know the people they are competing against. The catch is the five people are strangers and have no idea who they are up against. The prize at stake is £1000 cash.

As you can imagine the lengths that people will go to and ensure the dinner party goes smoothly is somewhat extreme, the more extravert the person the more the wacky ideas they have for a menu. The food itself can range from the dire to the impressively superb and the way in which the program has been edited serves this purpose well. It is a strange, if not piece if car crash TV, to watch as you tend to see some players making notes of what the others like and how they prefer to eat food from the mannerisms and the comments said. For me this just adds to it as they playing the game in its entirety.

Everyone is nice to each other to start with, but the flipside of a situation can occur quite easily, if two people don’t like each other, for example if one person has said a comment to which the other has taken offence then the point given after the meal has finished can be interesting to say the least as there is some definite ploys being played out. The most obvious one is always the use of alcohol to simply get everyone juiced up, this does genuinely work on the basis that people just let themselves go and relax more than what they would normally do. However on occasions, this has backfired and the host was last seen sleeping off her hangover, while the guests had to cook the meal! Other occasions, some guests haven’t bothered to turn up at the next house due to illness, this just makes great entertainment to watch as the remaining people usually ask what the problem actually was when they are perfectly fine. Not to mention the person who fell asleep at the table. Usually

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