With the BBC celebrating a peak of 4.6 million viewers for the last series of Celebrity Masterchef, the UK appears to be obsessed with kitchen TV. But it’s not just Celebrity MasterChef that has the ...

Great British Bake Off star Prue Leith has hit out at the amount of TV cookery programmes. She added bosses justify airing so many as “ratings are everything”. Prue, 79, said: “My own opinion is there ...

The programmes are in decline, but in this climate, producers can hardly be blamed for not wanting to go near them with a 10ft breadstick Ed Cumming is a senior feature writer and columnist who ...

Sir, – Almost every day we are subjected to cookery programmes on RTÉ. Most are completely irrelevant to the majority of households. The “celebratory” chefs try to make everything sound easy – from ...

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TV chef Nadiya Hussain has announced her cookery show has not been renewed by the BBC for another series. Hussain has fronted several food programmes for the BBC since winning The Great British Bake ...