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Come Dine With Me is a Channel 4

Channel 4

Channel 4 is a UK Public service broadcasting in the United Kingdom television broadcaster which began transmissions on 2 November 1982. Although commercially self-funded, it is ultimately publicly owned; originally a subsidiary of the Independent Broadcasting Authority , the station is now owned and operated by the #Channel Four Television...
television programme shown in the United Kingdom

United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom , the UK or Britain,is a sovereign state located off the northwestern coast of continental Europe....
, first broadcast in January 2005. The show has four (originally five) amateur chefs competing against each other hosting a dinner party for the other contestants. Each competitor then rates the host's performance with the winner winning a £1,000 cash prize. An element of comedy is added to the show through comedian Dave Lamb

Dave Lamb

Dave Lamb is a British actor and voice-over artiste best known for his work on Come Dine with Me as well as appearances in a lot of well known British comedy programmes....
, who provides a dry and sarcastic narration.

Other Broadcasters
As well as being repeated on Channel 4, their sister channel More4

More4

More4 is a digital television channel, produced by United Kingdom broadcaster Channel 4, that launched on 10 October 2005. It is carried on Freeview , on satellite broadcasters Freesat and Sky Digital , UK IPTV broadcaster Tiscali TV and on UK and Republic of Ireland cable networks including Virgin Media....
also regularly broadcasts past episodes on Sunday afternoons, with all five programmes from a week shown consecutively in a block.

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Come Dine With Me is a Channel 4

Channel 4

United Kingdom

Dave Lamb

Other Broadcasters

As well as being repeated on Channel 4, their sister channel More4

More4

Discovery Real Time

Discovery Real Time is a factual television channel owned by Discovery Networks Europe.It originally launched in the United Kingdom during the 1994 as TLC being a British version of TLC ....
, Discovery Travel & Living

Discovery Travel & Living

Discovery Travel & Living is a channel from Discovery Communications. This name is used in countries of Europe, Latin America and Asia. In other parts of the world the channel is known as Travel Channel....
, and Discovery Home & Health

Discovery Home & Health

For info on Discovery Home & Health UK see Discovery Home & Health .Discovery Home & Health is a television channel based in the United Kingdom....
.

The programme is also shown in Australia on LifeStyle Food

LifeStyle Food

LifeStyle Food is an Australian food channel, solely dedicated to food, wine and restaurant society. As of yet, it is the only channel from a global context that is subject specific to food....
channel.

Derivative Formats

In March 2008 it was announced that rival broadcaster ITV1

ITV1

ITV1 is the generic brand used by twelve franchises of the ITV television network in England, Wales, Scotland, the Isle of Man and the Channel Islands....
had commissioned a new daytime programme, House Guest from ITV Productions, a part of the same company which also produces Come Dine With Me. The format for House Guest is very similar to that of Come Dine With Me, in that several contestants visit each others houses over a week, in which they host dinner parties and grade each other out of 10 in private, even the scoreboard layout is the same. The difference is that in House Guest, guests 'draw toothbrushes' to see who will stay overnight at the host's house, to judge their hospitality skills, awarding them a separate grade.

International Versions

The format to the programme has been sold to television channel VOX in Germany

Germany

Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a country in Central Europe. It is bordered to the north by the North Sea, Denmark, and the Baltic Sea; to the east by Poland and the Czech Republic; to the south by Austria and Switzerland; and to the west by France, Luxembourg, Belgium, and the Netherlands....
where it airs as Das perfekte Dinner, to TLC

TLC (TV channel)

TLC is an United States Cable television network that carries a variety of informational and Reality television. TLC has been owned by Discovery Communications since 1991, the same company that operates the Discovery Channel, Animal Planet and The Science Channel, as well as other learning-themed networks....
in the USA as Dinner Takes All, RTL Televizija

RTL Televizija

RTL Televizija is a Croatian commercial television network that was launched on April 30, 2004 and is 65.5% owned by the RTL Group. It was launched as the second commercial television network with national concession in Croatia, the first being Nova TV....
in Croatia

Croatia

Croatia , officially the Republic of Croatia , is a Central European country at the crossroads of Pannonian Plain, Balkans, and the Mediterranean Sea....
as Vecera za 5 (produced by Constantin Entertainment), RTL Klub

RTL Klub

RTL Klub is a television station owned by RTL Group and broadcast in Hungary. It was one of Hungary's first commercial TV channels and was only two days after the main rival TV2 to begin broadcasting....
in Hungary

Hungary

Hungary , officially in English the Republic of Hungary , is a landlocked country in the Carpathian Basin of Central Europe, bordered by Austria, Slovakia, Ukraine, Romania, Serbia, Croatia, and Slovenia....
as Vacsoracsata, Show TV

Show TV

Show TV is a nation-wide television channel in Turkey owned by ?ukurova Holding. The channel was established by the Turkish businessmen Erol Aksoy and Haldun Simavi on March 1, 1992....
in Turkey

Turkey

Turkey , known officially as the Republic of Turkey , is a Eurasian country that stretches across the Anatolian peninsula in southwest Asia and Thrace in the Balkans region of Southern Europe....
as Yemekteyiz and ALPHA

Alpha

Alpha may refer to:...
in Greece

Greece

Greece , officially the Hellenic Republic , is a country in southeastern Europe, situated on the southern end of the Balkans. It has borders with Albania, Bulgaria and the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia to the north, and Turkey to the east....
as "Kati Psinete"(produced by Constantin Entertainment). Some of the international versions are produced by local subsidiaries of British company Granada International. Also Spain will have an own version of the format, Ven a Cenar Conmigo, produced by Antena 3

Antena 3 (Spain)

Antena 3 de Television, S.A., is a Spain television station and media company, present in the television, radio and movie theater industries. It was the first private station in Spain, commencing broadcasts in 1990....
and ZeppelinTV (Endemol

Endemol

Endemol is a television production company based in the Netherlands, with subsidiaries and joint ventures in 23 countries, including the United Kingdom, the United States, France, Mexico, Spain, Italy, Germany, Brazil, Chile, Argentina, Dominican Republic, Poland, Portugal, Russia, Netherlands, India, South Africa, Lebanon, Morocco, Philippi...
Group). France also have their own localised version of the show under the name Un Diner Presque Parfait which translates as An Almost Perfect Meal. The show is broadcast on the large private broadcaster M6 and has proved popular with older audiences. The show has also fared well in the face of private broadcaster TF1

TF1

TF1 is a private France TV channel, controlled by TF1 Group, whose major share-holder is Bouygues. TF1's average market share of 25-35% makes it the most popular domestic network....
's Un contre 100
1 vs. 100

1 vs. 100 is a game show created by Endemol that is aired in several countries. The game pits one person against 100 others for a chance to win a large cash prize....
. In the Netherlands, the show is broadcasted on Net 5 as 'Smaken Verschillen' (Tastes Differ).

Series 1

The contestant in pink is the winner of the week. Week 2 was a tie.

Week	Location	Contestants
1	Stoke	Jane Bagley	Sarah Adams-Lipa	Tricia Martin	Lesley Blood	Father Brian Williams
2	London	Moona Messamri	Bruce Mainwaring	Pauline Morrison	Michael O'Keeffe	Belinda Taylor
3	Leeds	Vera Liburd	Stuart Moss	Craig McAlpine	Pippa Hudson	Paul Ulett
4	London	Jane Furlong	David Thomas	Sarah Donohue	Rocky Scott	Paul Martin

Series 2

The contestant in pink is the winner of the week. Week 6 was a tie.

Week	Location	Contestants
1	Various	Ben de Lisi Ben de Lisi Ben de Lisi is a London-based American Fashion designer.Born in New York, he studies sculputre at the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, before moving to London to work in the fashion industry in 1982....	Mica Paris Mica Paris Mica Paris is an England singer , radio and television presenter, and occasional actress. She abbreviated her forename to Micha before adopting its phonetic version as she moved further away from her gospel roots....	Ulrika Jonsson Ulrika Jonsson Eva Ulrika Jonsson is a Swedish-born British television presenter and occasional actress....	Helen Lederer Helen Lederer Helen Lederer is a British comedian, writer and actress who emerged as part of the alternative comedy boom at the beginning of the 1980s.Lederer established a stand-up act at the The Comedy Store, London in London and then won minor parts in episodes of The Young Ones , which had been written by her Comedy Store contemporaries Ben Elto...	David Quantick David Quantick David Quantick is a freelance journalist, writer and critic who specialises in music and comedy.He began writing for the music publication NME in 1983 alongside Danny Baker and Paul Morley....
2	Essex	Jane Phillips Martin	June Tedaldi	Kevin Reynolds	Keeley Lawrence	Amanda Swanwick-Aharoni
3	Doncaster	Neena Rainey	Katherine Taylor	Steve Clift	Danny Churchill	Rosslyn Thompson
4	Brighton	Margaret O'Loughlin	Julia John	Paula Pearson	Nathalie Clarke	Melinda Padley
5	Glasgow	Aileen Dunn	Paul Lydon	Christine Thornton	Sharon Eaton	Ishrat Gazala
6	Nottingham	Karen Cullen	Gordon Todd	Jenny Cross	Jarrod Pepper	Sam Hughes
7	London	Isabelle Goldstein	Chris D'Sylva	Bill Buckley	Jacqueline Gill	Serena Wilson

Series 3

The third series premiered in the summer of 2006, as with the second series the first week featured celebrities. The first five weeks aired on weeknights at 4:30pm while Deal or No Deal
Deal or No Deal (UK game show)

Deal or No Deal is the United Kingdom version of the Endemol game show, which was first broadcast on Channel 4 on 31 October 2005. Presented by Noel Edmonds, the show is normally broadcast from 4:15pm to 5pm on weekdays and on Sunday evenings in a varying time slot, normally lasting 45 minutes and sometimes an hour for special episodes ....
took a summer break. After a one week absence it then returned for a further three weeks at 4:15pm. The remaining programmes were held back and aired sporadically during 2007.

The contestant in pink is the winner of the week. Weeks 8 and 9 were a tie. The premiere date is for the first episode of a week, in all weeks there were five programmes shown on consecutive days.

Week	Premiered	Location	Contestants
1	July 24, 2006	Various	Rowland Rivron Rowland Rivron Rowland Rivron is a British comedian, musician, writer and a television presenter. He was brought up in Hillingdon, West London.Rivron first came to fame through his appearances as the comedy character of "Dr Scrote" on the Jonathan Stephen Ross chat show The Last Resort, before appearing on Night Network's Bunker Show....	Linda Robson Linda Robson Linda Robson is an England actress. She is most famous for her role as Tracey in the BBC comedy, Birds of a Feather, which she played from 1989 to 1998 alongside Pauline Quirke....	Anneka Rice Anneka Rice Anneka Rice is a British television presenter.She changed her name to Anneka when she joined the British actors union British Actors' Equity Association, as her birth-name had already been registered with that organisation....	Toby Young Toby Young Toby Daniel Moorsom Young is a United Kingdom journalist and the author of How to Lose Friends and Alienate People , the tale of his failed five-year attempt to make it in the United States as a contributing editor at Vanity Fair magazine; and The Sound of No Hands Clapping, a follow-up about his failure to make it as a Holly...	Aggie MacKenzie Aggie MacKenzie Aggie MacKenzie , is a Scottish international television presenter. Mackenzie was born in Rothiemurchus, Aviemore in the Cairngorms mountain region of the Scottish Highlands and went to school at Kingussie High School....
2	July 31, 2006	Merseyside Merseyside Merseyside is a metropolitan county in North West England, with a population of 1,365,900. Taking its name from the River Mersey, the title "Merseyside" came into existence as a metropolitan county in 1974, after the passage of the Local Government Act 1972, and the county consists of five metropolitan boroughs adjoining the Mersey estuary,...	Terry White	Dan Redfern	Niki O'Leary	Ian Cook	Margaret Twemlow
3	August 7, 2006	Edinburgh Edinburgh Edinburgh ; is the Capital city of Scotland, a position it has held since 1437. It is the seventh largest city in the United Kingdom and the second largest Scottish City status in the United Kingdom after Glasgow....	Tracy Dobbie	Paul Dwyer	Tanya Williams	James Gammie	Jennifer Crosbie
4	August 14, 2006	London London London is the capital of both England and the United Kingdom, and the most populous municipality in the European Union. An important settlement for two millennia, History of London goes back to its founding by the Roman Empire....	Linda Shanson	Jonathan Norris	Patricia Varley	John Santamaria	Richard Whitaker
5	August 21, 2006	Derby Derby Derby is a city status in the United Kingdom in the East Midlands region of England in the United Kingdom. It lies upon the banks of the River Derwent, Derbyshire and is located in the south of the non-metropolitan county of Derbyshire....	Julia Knight	Graham Fox	Patsy Sewell-Mwamba	Michele Cooper	Danny Fletcher
6	September 4, 2006	Belfast Belfast Belfast is the capital city of Northern Ireland and the seat of Devolution#United Kingdom Northern Ireland Executive and legislative Northern Ireland Assembly in Northern Ireland....	Rosemary McLoughlin	Marty Henderson	Colin McAllister	Jon Cross	Caroline Teeling
7	September 11, 2006	Cambridge Cambridge The city status in the United Kingdom of Cambridge is a College town and the administrative centre of the county of Cambridgeshire, England. It lies about 50 miles north of London....	Rachel Tooher-Rudd	Gael Norris	Phil Webb	Simone Breneis	Carolyn Tycer
8	September 18, 2006	Ayr Ayr Ayr is a town and port situated on the Firth of Clyde, in south-west Scotland. It has been a royal burgh since 1205 and the county town of the former Counties of Scotland of Ayrshire....	Maureen McKissock	Elaine Munro	Forbes Robertson	Lizzy McCubbin	Sarah Pickering
9	January 1, 2007	Swansea Swansea Swansea is a City status in the United Kingdom and subdivisions of Wales in Wales. Swansea is in the Historic counties of Wales of Glamorgan. Situated on the sandy South West Wales coast, the county area includes the Gower peninsula and the Lliw uplands....	David Murray	Ernest Lemonheigh	Sue Thomas	Karen Perry	Heather Skipper
10	September 3, 2007	Cheshire Cheshire Cheshire is a Counties of England in North West England. The county town, and the location of the county council, is the City status in the United Kingdom of Chester, although Cheshire's largest town in terms of area and population is Warrington....	Nicola Noblet	Katie Noden	Edward Davies	Jan Burrows	Howard Yuill
11	September 10, 2007	Bristol Bristol Bristol is a City status in the United Kingdom, unitary authority area and Ceremonial counties of England in South West England, west of London, and east of Cardiff....	Nick Needs	Rachel Hodgson	Ronnie Masters	Clive Burrell	Chyna Warren
12	December 31, 2007	Cardiff Cardiff Cardiff is the Capital , largest city and most populous Unitary authority#Wales in Wales. The city is Wales' chief commercial centre, the base for many national cultural and sport institutions, the Welsh national media, and the seat of Welsh Assembly Government ....	Suzanne Green	Annette Howard	Jim Blythe	Charlie Balch	Jane Lloyd

An hour-long primetime Christmas

Christmas

Christmas , also referred to as Christmas Day, is an annual holiday celebrated on December 25 that commemorates the birth of Jesus. The day marks the beginning of the larger season of Christmastide, which lasts Twelve Days of Christmas....
special was also produced with a slightly different format to suit the shorter timeslot. Only four contestants took part with each making a separate course for the dinner: starter, fish course, main course, and dessert. After each course the person cooking the next part of the meal would leave to complete their dish at home, which had been prepared earlier, before being joined by the other guests.

Week	Premiered	Location	Contestants
X	December 22, 2006	York York York is a walled city, sited at the confluence of the rivers River Ouse, Yorkshire and River Foss in North Yorkshire, England. The city status in the United Kingdom is noted for its rich heritage and it has played an important role throughout much of its almost 2,000 year existence....	Rosie Sheppard	Wayne Coyle	Peter Plaskitt	Maria Greenhough

Series 4

In late 2007 Channel 4 announced on their web site that they would be producing a fourth series for 2008 and issued an appeal for contestants living in Bath, Newcastle

Newcastle upon Tyne

Newcastle upon Tyne is a City status in the United Kingdom and metropolitan borough of Tyne and Wear, in North East England. Situated on the north bank of the River Tyne, the city developed from a Roman Empire settlement called Pons Aelius, though it owes its name to the Newcastle Castle built in 1080, by Robert Curthose, the eldest son of...
, Oxford

Oxford

Oxford is a City status in the United Kingdom, and the county town of Oxfordshire, in South East England. It has a population of 151,000. The rivers River Cherwell and River Thames run through Oxford and meet south of the city centre....
, Exeter

Exeter

Exeter Exeter was the most south-westerly Roman fortified settlement in Roman Britain and has existed since time immemorial. Exeter Cathedral, founded in 1050 is Anglicanism....
, the Fylde Coast, and Aberdeen

Aberdeen

Aberdeen is Scotland's third most populous City status in the United Kingdom and one of Scotland's 32 Local government in Scotland Council areas of Scotland....
. Unlike previous series it would be aired in primetime and only feature four guests so that it could be aired as a single weekly hour-long episode.

Week	Premiered	Location	Contestants
1	April 10, 2008	London London London is the capital of both England and the United Kingdom, and the most populous municipality in the European Union. An important settlement for two millennia, History of London goes back to its founding by the Roman Empire....	Jonathan Ansell Jonathan Ansell Jonathan Mark Ansell is an England singer, formerly the high tenor of the vocal group G4 .Jonathan Ansell was born in Bognor Regis in 1982, where both his parents were primary school teachers....	Lynsey de Paul Lynsey De Paul Lynsey de Paul is an England singer-songwriter....	Tamara Beckwith Tamara Beckwith Tamara Beckwith is an England socialite, noted for her coverage in glossy celebrity magazines such as OK!. She is a presenter for MTV, VH-1 and regularly appears as a reporter for television shows including This Morning and Watchdog....	MC Harvey
2	April 17, 2008	Newcastle Newcastle upon Tyne Newcastle upon Tyne is a City status in the United Kingdom and metropolitan borough of Tyne and Wear, in North East England. Situated on the north bank of the River Tyne, the city developed from a Roman Empire settlement called Pons Aelius, though it owes its name to the Newcastle Castle built in 1080, by Robert Curthose, the eldest son of...	Lee Eley	Brian Moore	Rebecca Hambly	Brenda Mallam
3	April 24, 2008	Coventry Coventry Coventry is a City status in the United Kingdom and metropolitan borough in the county of West Midlands in England. With a population of 303,475 at the United Kingdom Census 2001 , Coventry is the 9th largest city in England and the 11th largest in the United Kingdom....	James Paley	Vera Phillips Griffith	Jon Bramley	Marie Hughes
4	May 1, 2008	Bournemouth Bournemouth Bournemouth is a large town in the Bournemouth in Dorset, England. The town has a population of 163,444 according to the United Kingdom Census 2001, making it the largest settlement in Dorset....	Claudette Brady	Sonia Peck	James Dean	Clive Page
5	May 8, 2008	Newport Newport Newport is a City status in the United Kingdom and Administrative divisions of Wales in Wales, in the United Kingdom. Standing on the banks of the River Usk, located roughly between Cardiff and Bristol, it is the cultural capital and largest urban area in the Historic counties of Wales of Monmouthshire and is governed by the unitary authori...	Nick Payne	Tony Wardle	Sam Mallet	Jan Taylor

Series 5

In January 2008 it was announced that another series of daytime episodes would be produced in the traditional format of five daily half hour programmes. As in previous series, a party of celebrity diners kicked off the new run. The contestant in pink is the winner of the week. The premiere date is for the first episode of a week, in all weeks there were five programmes shown on consecutive days.

Week	Premiered	Location	Contestants
1	January 12, 2009	Various	Rodney Marsh Rodney Marsh (footballer) Rodney William Marsh is a retired England football er. He was named after HMS HMS Rodney by his father, who served on the battleship. He played for Fulham F.C., Queens Park Rangers F.C., Manchester City F.C., the Tampa Bay Rowdies and the England national football team....	Lesley Joseph Lesley Joseph Lesley Joseph is an England actress and occasional broadcaster of radio and television....	Paul Ross Paul Ross Paul Ross , UK, is an England television and radio presenter, journalist, and media personality. He is the son of Martha Ross and the elder brother of Jonathan Ross ....	Abi Titmuss Abi Titmuss Abigail Evelyn Titmuss, best known as Abi Titmuss, is an England nurse, turned glamour model, Television Personality and actress....	Linda Lusardi Linda Lusardi Linda Lusardi is an English actor, television presenter and former nude model. She is married to the actor Samuel Kane and they have two children, Lucy and Jack....
6	February 16, 2009	Sunderland Sunderland Sunderland is a city in Tyne and Wear, England. It was formerly a county borough but now forms part of the City of Sunderland. It is situated at the mouth of the River Wear....	Tony Griffiths	Bernice Saltzer	Ashley Hughes	Anthony Merton-Smith	Roy Ledger

In addition to the regular daytime series there were also two primetime celebrity episodes, broadcast on Sunday 15 February 2009 and Sunday 22 February 2009 both at 8pm, following the four-diner format.

Week	Premiered	Location	Contestants
X	February 15, 2009	Various	Julia Bradbury Julia Bradbury Julia Bradbury , is an Ireland-born United Kingdom television presenter, best known for presenting the BBC One programme Watchdog , amongst other documentary....	Philip Olivier Philip Olivier Philip Olivier is an United Kingdom actor and model ....	Edwina Currie Edwina Currie Edwina Currie Jones n?e Cohen is a former British Member of Parliament. First elected as a Conservative Party MP in 1983, she was a Junior Health Minister for two years, before resigning in 1988 over the controversy over salmonella in eggs....	Christopher Biggins Christopher Biggins Christopher Biggins is an England actor and media personality....
X	February 22, 2009	Various	Raef Bjayou	Chris Ellison Christopher Ellison Christopher Ellison is an England actor. He is best known for his role as Detective Chief Inspector Frank Burnside in the popular ITV detective Television program The Bill and short lived spin off series Burnside ....	Michelle Gayle Michelle Gayle Michelle Patricia Gayle is a United Kingdom actor and singer. Gayle had success as a pop singer in the 1990s. She achieved seven top-30 singles in the UK singles chart, her two biggest hits to date being Sweetness and Do You Know? ....	Lynne Franks Lynne Franks Lynne Franks is a public relations consultant. Franks is a United Kingdom-based commentator on women's issues, sustainability, and consumer lifestyles....

External links

at Channel4.com
Channel 4

Channel 4 is a UK Public service broadcasting in the United Kingdom television broadcaster which began transmissions on 2 November 1982. Although commercially self-funded, it is ultimately publicly owned; originally a subsidiary of the Independent Broadcasting Authority , the station is now owned and operated by the #Channel Four Television...
- Official site.
at Lifestyle FOOD - Australian broadcaster's site.
- Page showing results from each episode.