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Controller, BBC daytime and early peak, Jay Hunt, has announced two new food-based shows with a twist.
On BBC Two, Food Poker combines a game of poker with cooking, by pitting two chefs against each other with their "culinary reputations put on the line with every turn of the card".
Using chance, skill and the ability to bluff, the chefs have to win ingredients for a savoury and a sweet dish by playing cards. They then have to cook against the clock with each dish being blind tasted by a member of the studio audience. Made by Optomen, which produces The F Word and Market Kitchen, the show will air later this year.
Making A Meal Of It on BBC One looks at the behind the scenes side of restaurant life as couples compete against each other to run a successful business.
Something for the Weekend's resident chef Simon Rimmer will present. Each day a different couple are given their own restaurant, a team to work in it and 40 hungry customers to feed for £25 per head, with the customers only actually paying what they think the food is worth.
The show, which will air later this year, is a BBC Birmingham production.
Hunt said: Food Poker and Making A Meal Of It build on the huge success of programmes like Great British Menu in extending the range and ambition of our food shows."
On BBC Two, Food Poker combines a game of poker with cooking, by pitting two chefs against each other with their "culinary reputations put on the line with every turn of the card".
Using chance, skill and the ability to bluff, the chefs have to win ingredients for a savoury and a sweet dish by playing cards. They then have to cook against the clock with each dish being blind tasted by a member of the studio audience. Made by Optomen, which produces The F Word and Market Kitchen, the show will air later this year.
Making A Meal Of It on BBC One looks at the behind the scenes side of restaurant life as couples compete against each other to run a successful business.
Something for the Weekend's resident chef Simon Rimmer will present. Each day a different couple are given their own restaurant, a team to work in it and 40 hungry customers to feed for £25 per head, with the customers only actually paying what they think the food is worth.
The show, which will air later this year, is a BBC Birmingham production.
Hunt said: Food Poker and Making A Meal Of It build on the huge success of programmes like Great British Menu in extending the range and ambition of our food shows."
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