cleo&gizmo

Answering your question about Waitrose.

I e-mailed the customer services e-mail
customer_service@waitrose.co.uk

I got a quick reply saying they had passed it to the marketting depy

I have also e mailed Waitrose.

Lets hope we see some action with the Ramsey Market Kitchen removed from our screens and replaced by the "Jenni, Simon, Mike, Eric, Frank, Brian and Michel Market Kitchen"

i have also emailed waitrose and got the same reply as rick13, doubt if it will make any difference but i gave it a go anyway, we have to start a campaign to get gfl back, i will back it up 100% as i find market kitchen atrocious. ive seen more life in a dead fish on a bad day. Bring back JENI!!!!

I would have thought that UK food would at least make the effort to ensure that any ‘homemade’ programmes that they produced, were done so to a very high standard, after all it is not as if they have that many to do, since the majority of UK foods programmes are old BBC repeats.

I am disappointed in the way that UK food can produce such a poor, amateurish and boring programme such as MK. GFL may have had its faults, but it was produced to a high standard, was enjoyable and informative. It was an excellent flagship for a UK TV food channel.

I have heard a rumour that there may have been contractual difficulties, resulting from production issues relating to AWT moving from the BBC to the new ITV Saturday cooks programme. I have also heard it was the same production team that defected to ITV that were responsible for producing GFL, the BBC got annoyed at this defection which resulted in GFL disappearing from the BBC biased UK food.

Nevertheless, there is no excuse for the rubbish we are being offered as a replacement for GFL.

Didn't realise there were two chances to get my opinion in. How trite Market Kitchen is. The concept is old hat and the presenters have no personality. Fish pie was included in some of the first GFL shows and done with panache there, not with children in mind. I want new inventive menus.

I tried to watch Market Kitchen last night after giving it a miss for two days and again I haven’t managed to watch until the end. What are we supposed to find exciting about this “exciting new series”? The two teenagers they picked from the street, barely awake, telling us in their own monosyllabic ways they preferred different cakes? The endless chat about water (which on the plus side could put an amnesiac to sleep)? The woman in the market desperately trying to get a poor little girl interested in her broccoli?

Was I the only one to laugh when a man in his fifties asked the chef if he could substitute raisins with chocolate in the cake? I’ve never heard such a phoney question on TV before. And the camera shots, do I need to see the back of some women’s head every five minutes?

Nothing registers with me in this programme. I received the newsletter with all the recipes yesterday and I can’t believe they had done so many things. Mind you, the presentation is so dull that it kind of numbs my brain after a few minutes. There was also an “extra” in the background yesterday who felt the need to take a magazine to pass the time, doesn’t it say it all? She was there and she was bored!

To be a bit more constructive, what I think will improve this series is a TV presenter (not a cook) with a sense of humour who could glue the whole thing together. They also need to send Tana Ramsay home, I’m afraid - she did a few recipes about ice creams for GFL at home and she was perfectly all right.

I will give a chance to Tom Parker Bowles on Monday evening (to be fair), but after that, that’s it. I will watch Barefoot Contessa instead (and I’m also going to register my complaint with Waitrose).

Lets see what this week brings.
I am hopeful that the contributions from Matt Fort (a new cheese ?) will be meaningful, but Parker Bowles not too sure, he seems just like a spoilt brat to me. Although that would even be better than the two who were performing last week.

Not sending anymore messages or watching anymore UKTV Food programmes.
I will also not be doing a weekly 'quick' shop at Waitrose in Wilmslow ANYMORE.
Thanks for not responding to any of my message board comments or indeed the two E-Mails I've sent direct to UKTV Food.
Disgusting show of arrogance from a TV Company.
You shoud be ashamed of yourselfs!!!

ditto here, i will not shop at our local waitrose anymore and im not watching anymore uktvfood programmes, will stick with sweet baby james on bbc2.

Yeah, I remember Tana's ice cream on GFL, wasn't it vegetable ice cream, carrot etc? now THAT did take off in a big way........not
I suppose things do move on but at least let's progress,but not with this tripe.
Jenni has flung so many (now) top chefs into the lucrative limelight I am surprised none of them has thought of a vehicle for her.
How about airing some ideas here, if GFL haven't the gumption to work something out one of our ideas could be pinched by a competitor

Goldbloom,
Good idea.
Perhaps we should just stop posting our comments about MK. It will obviously have the same response from the Customer Services Dept at UK Food.
Did I really think for one minute that UK Food had a Customer Services Dept or were concerned about their customers ?

goodbye uktv food.

I think I've worked it out - You see this was a clever trick by uktV , I think what they are going to do is bring back GFL with jeni with a brand new set etc., and declare they have listened to us, and by doing this dastardly clever deed they increase GFL viewing figures and network it to other TV stations as being the best foodie programme on TV bar none.AND they could increase their revenue overnight after all they would have all these testimonials wouldnt they ? Well you come up with an explanation then !!!!!!!!!

Thank you for all your comments about Market Kitchen.

We really appreciate your feedback as it allows us to develop the programme. It's good to know what sort of recipes, chefs and features you would like to see in the future.

Thanks, UKTV Food team

UKTV Food team.
Good to have a response. Thankyou.
But what does it mean, what are you actually going to DO ?

Suggest that first of all you get rid of Mrs Ramsey, then alter the studio setting - removing irrelavent people in the background, then treat your TV audience as adults and not naive children and finally provide professional presenters who have some knowledge, charisma and style.

Jeni B may be a good place to start.

Call that an explanation ?

my last message or rant has been deleted.
just want to say MK is so bad that if uktvfood don't listen to all these complaints they are going to have a mass exodus of viewers.

we need a good live program not this awkward hard to watch boring uninspiring program.
GFL changed my life and from the other messages it was the same for a lot of other viewers.

Please bring it back.

I am so dissapointed with Market Kitchen. I have watched 3 programmes so far. I have found it very very basic. Fish pies, cottage pies. Anyone who was a fan of GFL will be able to cook most of these dishes with their eyes closed. We have Delia's how to cook for people who need to know how to cook simple meals, and learn the basics. I have found the presenters very amateurish, and the only interest I have is to see if its going to get better. I would like to know why GFL went and why we couldn't have it back as well as MK. I think whoever is in charge has made a very poor decision in ending GFL.

What a complete waste of time watching that dreadful MK.Loved sitting down to GFL,informative and funny why change something that worked and by the feed back everyone enjoyed.

Well I was disappointed by last week's show for all the reasons the vast majority of posters have signalled, and I still don't think the general format is working - for me each show feels like one giant undifferentiated 3 minute segment in a a magazine show where the director's forgotten to shout "cut" and it's just running on and on... but I am liking Matthew Fort tonight.

No, No, No, No - this programme is not improving.

This is a sad period for people who are interested in good food.

Message Board contributors should be invited to the MK to ask some real, un edited, questions of the presenters - not questions like "Can I use a stock cube instead of stock in the cottage pie ?" - Doh !!!

Have to agree with gluck in general; for instance the poor "extra" who asked "can I use chocolate chips instead of raisins" last week of Mark Sergeant when he was making a Spotted Dick did, as chrismerch has said, take questions from the floor to a ludicrous low point...

I still don't think it's working as I said, but MF is better than I thought he'd be. He is my only pleasant surprise so far. The rest has been and

what the hell happened to tonights 11 to 12 programme it seemed to be repeated the same segment after every break i saw tom PB doimg his onions and chillies at least 3 times and we never ever got to see the finished cottage pie

WHAT A DISSAPOINTING PROGRAMME

What a very disappointing programme AGAIN!!! Does Parker Bowles even own a hair comb?? I feel as if I am watching my little brother and my grandad (Fort). Can't you teach us a few better recipes, GFL taught us how to make pies and stews, etc, in the first few years. We want PROPER recipes. Please bring back the wonderful chefs who were on GFL, who know how to cook. This tat is absolutely awful.

I am so fed up, this may sound melodramatic but I don't care, GFL inspired me every weekday to cook, I would watch the amazing chefs and even if I didn't use their recipe I would feel encouraged to try something new and would scour the GFL recipes for ideas, I loved Michel Lemoine, Baines et al and it would make me think about food and what I was going to have for tea for most of my afternoon (sad but I am a foodie), MK does not inspire or move me to do anything other than change channels, I tried really I did to give it another go but the silly generation game stuff and oh so basic recipes give me no urge to do anything except read my cookery books instead, what a poor show it is and way behind in the capabilities of the majority of people who had been tuning in at this time, I really hate to be a whinger but lunchtimes are so flat and boring now, please do something about it.