and begins again in September according to one source.

In the meantime there is a brand new series called:

Market Kitchen Summer (which begins on Monday 23rd or
maybe Tuesday the 24th )

(Premiere) Brand new daily food magazine show presented by Tana Ramsay, Matthew Fort, Matt Tebbutt and food writer Tom Parker Bowles. Celebrity
chefs will drop in to cook for members of the public using the freshest meat,
fish and produce that Britain is rightly now famous for. Naturally, the other stars of the show are the stallholders and local food producers who will tempt you with their delicious wares.

I have looked carefully but may have missed how this is different to MK but maybe this will incorporate some of the suggestions that lots of you have all been making.

Terry, that certainly does sound exactly the same as the current dreary fare. Perhaps it's just compilations from the prior shows, edited even more heavily?

If so, and they were smart, they would focus on those recipes and chefs that had that lttle extra "sparkle" and "life"

Hence, Market Kitchen "Extra"

will it be like GFL summer in concept, with only a few recipes and lots of stuff filmed off set, around the country by different presenters?

Well apart from not mentioning that Tana is Gordons wife, naming all four presenters instead of just two, and saying only that Britain is famous for rather than Britains oldest market is famous for.

It is exactly the same as the intro to Market Kitchen.

I'm wondering if it will be clips from the present series put together with someone introducing and linking them, the same as has been done previously with other shows.

That makes a lot of sense rosti as it would be an extremely low cost production during what are the worst viewing months.

Simply editing existing footage and gluing together with low cost commentary, intros and fillers would be a smart budgetary move.

It's just that I couldn't stand the first running of MK much less a patchwork of old footage (or is it meterage now )

Well, let's just hope they cancel the show during this summer break. Good riddance.

The timing would be great and we could have Jeni back on the air for the autumn!

Well I thought the same as Rosti. There was not a jot of difference that mattered between the description of Market Kitchen and Market Kitchen Summer.

I don't think that it is the same as they used to do with GFL where they did excerpts from previous shows. They haven't said Highlights from previous programmes.

Possibly they did not like to describe it as highlights

Could this finally be a signal of the demise of this awful programme?

I hope so. I yearn for a time when I can look forward to an evening with a fun food and cookery show.

If not, then hopefully it returns completely revamped (eg no Tana)

Yes, Terry, "highlights" would certainly be stretching it a bit

Well this show is ending none too soon for my liking. Good riddance!

It will be interesting to see what actually happens during the summer. But at least the great viewing figures have come at just the right time.

I was delighted to read on this board the news that the current series of Market Kitchen is to end shortly but disappointed to then see that is could be returning in September. Now would provide an ideal opportunity for UK TV Food to end this truly awfull programme for good, regarding it as a very bad mistake, and to have a very serious re think about what to introduce in the autumn. I would like to suggest that Market Kitchem is NOT brought back just left to die peacefully and marked down as a major programming error. Please, UK TV Food, learn from this !! A format like GFL is far more entertaining, instructive, and interesting. I tried watching MK for a couple of weeks but could not stop cringing at its patronising and shallow approach to its viewers, plus the pace was (hopefully was) far too fast. Possibly the worst cooking programme I have ever seen. I really do hope that serious consideration is given to returning to a format, at a more convienient broadcast time, similar to GFL, during the summer. BBC 1 have adopted the tried and tested GFL format with Saturday Kitchen, and ITV did the same with Afternoon Cooks (I think that was the title). UK TV Food is ideally placed to come up with a development of this successful format and produce an excellent cookery show rather than taking ten steps back and producing MK. Going back is often said to be not a good thing to do, but in this case I think it would be !! Finally, to UK TV Food decision makers, I look forward to NOT having MK back. I for one will not be watching it if it does return. I suggest that the viewing figures will benefit from MK's demise, as well as the resultant advertising revenue !!!

Hi 1934 Music, I am sorry to dash your hopes of a few months that are Market Kitchen free but if you look at my original post it is to be replaced by Market Kitchen Summer which, from the description they gave, is exactly the same format.

This Summer series will run through until September at which point Market Kitchen will be back.

Hi there 1934music

It seems we're all at it today (dashing your hopes I mean) - but viewing figures for Market Kitchen are higher than GFL so in the broadcaster's eyes this is a more successful series. Rosti posted the new BARB figures yesterday I think and these demonstrate that viewership is growing.

jan

1934, I could NOT have said it better!!

It is VERY encouraging that Market Kitchen is ending on 20 July...what a breath of fresh air that will be. We'll just have to keep our fingers crossed that the show will not return - or will at least return in a heavily modified version. Rumpurs on other websites indicate that at least this is a possibility!

It does boil down to your simple formula janny...the Market Kitchen format just doesn't work for so many people.

Aside from the postings of some internal staff and foody-programmes-at-any-cost viewers, the comments of discerning, critical viewers indicate that common sense will ultimately prevail. No other food programme has ever created just negative reaction or publicity.

We all can see how MK is an incredibly cheaper programme to produce than Market Kitchen but that doesn't mean we'll all swallow the drivel being spponed out.

Some people will twist anything to try to be right.

The very vocal few on hear shouting the odds are not even a drop in the Atlantic compared with the increasing army of views tuning in, now swollen to 73,000

EXCELLENT FIGURES WELL DONE MK

1934, it really is good news to hear that this series of MK is FINALLY coming to an end!

Your synopsis is good, but I don't know if the programming powers that be take lessons too quickly.

Saturday Kitchen is a great example of how a good show can be [even if you didn't like AWT] but add the "live" factor that GFL had and wow! what a good show it could be.

I too look forward to MK not returning in the autumn.

Great , Bring it back ! Good enjoyable viewing !

Great , Bring it back ! Good enjoyable viewing !

MickeyT I hate to dash your hopes but those numbers need to be taken with a bit of caution for 3 reasons:

1. Sampling error. In the good old days of three or four channels it was pretty easy to get a statistical extrapolation of the number of viewers. Now with all this narrowcasting it's becoming more and more treacherous. This is a problem the rating companies are trying to deal with worldwide. In the example of channels only getting an average of 50,000 viewers at any one time, just having two additional arbitron boxes tuned in to a channel can affect the estimate by tens of thousands.

2. The numbers are anomolous. These numbers indicate a doubling of viewership within a fortnight. This is absolutely unheard of in normal, non-event television. 10% increase, yes, 100%, no. I think we'll need to wait a bit before making any rash conclusions.

3. This is just a ranking report. It's really not useful to anyone and that's why it's offered for free to the public. A programme's rank has as much to do with what people aren't watching as much as what they are.

I am a subscriber to the viewing statistics and the real audited stats, where the viewership is actually followed up, won't be available for a bit more time.

Rubbish MktGuru complete twaddle, if the barb figures were good enough when GFL used them they are equally good enough now for MK

I can't believe that 30000 people tuned in to watch GFL At last UKTV Food has a proper food programme as it's flagship, with decent presenters who don't try and dominate, and proper as opposed to TV chefs.

Martin...barb ranking figures are can be viewed two ways. Even if a show is not in the TopTen rank it can be a very successful show, so fear not about MK.

The point guru is making is that it doesn't matter whether it is in or out of the ranking. If it took all ten spots, it could just be that all the other shows were too dire to watch [which could be the case with the number of dreadful summer repeats now showing], equally though if it does NOT appear in top 10 it could be getting great viewership ratings. That's what the sponsors want. So if it doesn't show in the top 10, I don't think that's anything to really worry about.

Ian F, of course 30,000 people could tune in to a show...that's less than 5 hundreths of a percent of the population.

Dougy Boy
Ian F isnt saying they couldn't he is saying he can't believe theyed want to