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I am with you there IHMac - not about Sky as I love it for the sports, movies and lots of channels but UKTV Food is showing mostly old stuff now that we have all seen before and don't need to keep seeing over and over ...

Porridge - I didn't stop my Sky subscription because of GFL but it did occur to me that there is not a lot on it except for repeats of cooking programmes, repeats of comedy programmes and repeats of films! I decided to actually cook, read a book or go the movies and get out of the house for a change instead of paying a fortune every month to Sky. Freeview has pretty good programmes and when it doesn't, I can do something else with my time. UKTV Food may be just a channel shown on Sky but it has nothing but repeats which I am not happy to pay to watch any more.

IHMac - it was nothing to do with Sky that UK TV Food stopped making this programme! So cancelling your Sky subscription will not help bring back GFL - UKTV Food is just a channel that is shown on Sky and they pay to have it on there.

Oh dear Oh dear - Market Garden really does not work. Just one look at the first edition and I would rather go and tidy my sock drawer. Amateur production, boring style, please take it off. Possibly GFL had run its course after so many years but the entertainment mix was great even if it did turn into "The Jenni Barnett Show" from time to time

Ricky 2, I agree with you - Hairy Bikers and Saturday Kitchen are by far and away better than anything on UKTV at the moment - especially as we are getting so many repeats. Daily cooks is not bad either but AWT on channel 3 I have not actually watched I am not often around for this.
As for Great British Menus - I am a fan of it - the chefs doing the cooking are the ones in touch with the people, after all they are running successful businesses of their own. As for the French, well we know our food is better anyway.

I totally agree with Ricky2! These programmes are just another form of bullying! I hate them - why do the people who make these programmes think we like to watch someone feeling uncomfortable - how Gordon Ramsays programme is popular I will never know! I hate it when we have to wait in a great silence before we are told who is the winner out of 3 people who have all slaved their guts out! I think Anne Robinson has a lot to answer to - we never used to have programmes like these. This is why GFL was good because it was fun and we all learnt something and everyone was made to feel really special; who came on the show.Sorry thats just how I feel!

Good points - but the fact of the matter is, who exactly do YOU suggest judges these shows? Someone has to. If you don't want people who are successful in food to judge them, then who? I agree with you 100% about Gregg Wallace.

Also, I somehow doubt very much that TPB had his books ghost written for him. If you actually bother to have a look at his most recent one, while it's not, I grant you, anything approaching the level of affability and insight of any Nigel Slater, it is actually based on his real experiences travelling the globe having a try of slightly unusual food. Also, he's been on GFL before talking about it and try as I did, I couldn't actually find it in me to hate him even though I wanted to.

I'm sick to death of this kinda food snobbery, from some so-called experts, which exist on these programmes, even before I've seen it. You just know. As much as I enjoy hearing opinions regarding food from all different kinds of people, I really take offence to the aggressive, and know-all manner in which some food writers and chef's give their opinion. As much as I love Masterchef Goes Large, I think the rudeness of both Greg Wallace and John'I think it would have been better with a poached egg on top of it' Torode, is often quite unecessary. 'It's not really my cup of tea', says Torode. I'm sure if you made him a cup of tea, it wouldn't be really his cup of tea. Just who do some of these people think they are? I know that they have to find a winner, but come on!! Don't get me started on Oliver Payton on the Great British Menu. I think he is, quite easily the rudest man I have ever heard. I don't care about how many restaurants they have, or how many plates of Bread & Butter pudding they've consumed in their lifetime. Being successful doesn't mean you know everything. I like my food they way I like it, and see myself as quite adventurous, and open-minded, and I'm not afraid to try new things, but I certainly don't think that anyone has the right to tell anyone else what they can, and can't like, just because they don't like it, or it doesn't fit in with their sometimes blinkered point of view. Sorry for going off on one, but I can just see Market Kitchen being full of the same old pretentious nonsense as alot of other shows. I'm sure on the Great British Menu, the Queen would have been just as happy with egg & chips. In fact, she probably gets fed up with all those symphonies of parsnips, and whispers of walnuts. See!! I just made those up, but I bet you some idiot somewhere would read that on a menu and think, Mmmm...that sounds interesting. Watch out UKTVFood, you could be on the slippery slope of viewers lack of interest. It's a shame(although healthy) when a channel dedicated to food is facing real competition from the terrestrial channels. The BBC Wednesday night cookery shows for example, and the Hairy Bikers, Saturday Kitchen, Daily Cooks and Saturday Cooks. Need I say more? Stop the driver of this runaway train carrying UKTVFood's ego, or you could find it slammed very quickly into reverse. Ooooh!!! I feel much better now. Apologies for my ranting, but contrary to what you might think, I am very passionate about my cookery shows,and what I learn from them.

You see that's another reason why Great Food Live is such an excellent show....because it's live & great & funny & no hypocrisy & of course there is Jenni to pull the show together...or is it unpull as some cases might be?

Sockpuppet - don't worry I'm not that naive! I'm simply responding to other posts questioning why an 8pm showing.

Of course the show has already been recorded based on some clips shown us however......who's to say the reason they decided for it not to be a live show was exactly that - " to be edited so they can show hopefully a "perfect" show

baboush 1 - you don't seriously think the show is actually being produced live each day and then being edited that afternoon for the evening, do you?

It's quite well known now that they've been making the show for the last few weeks in fact, and that it's very much pre-recorded at least a week if not more so in advance.

Shame, I liked it when they loused up on GFL too

If yoou read his bio you'ld see he actually has rather a lot to offer a food programme. A food journalist AND he's written two books on the topic of food, from rather unusual viewpoints. I for one am looking forward to seeing how he handles TV presenting.

It's Tana "Even Gordon isn't a fan of her cooking" Ramsay I'm least looking forward to.

What on earth has Parker-Bowles got to offer any Food programme!!!!!!
Bring back Jeni !!!!!

I also will NOT be tuning in to Market Kitchen.

Where do the planners of these programmes get their ideas ?

I won't be surprised if the reason the programme is being shown at 8:00pm is so that the producers can edit the show heavily to perfection!!!!

IHMac I know what you mean, 8pm is such an odd time, hubby is normally watching with me then so I would'nt get hold of the remote anyway, but also the repeat is such an odd time compared to GFL which I could sit down at about 1.20 and catch the last bit then 15 mins of extra before heading back to work, then I could watch the missed bits whilst cooking dinner, it peeves that they obviously have taken no notice of the PAYING audience at all and I was shocked by just how much feeling this has generated, I would rather watch AWT and that is saying something !!!

It happens quite often it would seem....sometimes they even re-appear! I have had the same problem. Makes you wonder.........?

I won't be watching either. I think what they did to Jenni was disgraceful. I had my moments when I found her irritating but essentially she was great and cannot be replaced, the show was exceptional. It taught us so much and I agree, the interaction was unquestionably great. I will also be 'voting' with my remote and will boycott the Market Garden. Tana Ramsay is riding on her husband's name and I doubt that I will get anything at all out of a market in London! Hardly a programme for the nation let alone for others veiwing around the world. The powers that be have let the success of GFL go to their heads and taken away what was successful. I should imagine it's probably all to do with greed in the end. Hence my boycott on this new programme - hope millions of others will do the same if not the producers have won! So as for Market Kitchen -

I wasn't going to bother watching it at all. It not a matter of giving something new a chance its a question of voting with my remote..... so to speak. If the powers that be won't listen to us then the only other option is to switch off!!!! see what you do when your viewing figures drop.....it won't matter who is sponsoring your new programme!