The Best
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Length
- 1 season, 10 episodes
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this series is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
How it feels
Three cooks compete in a friendly contest to make the best dish in two categories per episode. A panel of judges rates the food without knowing who made it.
lightheartedcompetitivecasualupbeatfriendlycozyfast-paced
What happens
The Best is a British programme which aired for ten episodes between April and July 2002 on BBC Two. The series starred British cooks Silvana Franco and Paul Merrett and Australian Ben O'Donoghue, who participated in a friendly competition to create the best dish for each of two given categories per half-hour episode. Judging was performed by a rotating panel of three judges, who were not told who created which dish. The series aired on BBC Two every Tuesday night at 8:30pm between 23 April and 16 July 2002 (except 25 June and 2 July due to a knock-on effect of Wimbledon tennis coverage). It was later repeated on the same channel between January and March 2005, and several times on the now-defunct UKTV Food between 2003 and 2009. The sixty recipes seen in the series were collected in a 2003 book, also titled The Best. (ISBN 978-0563488538) (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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