BBC One Daytime to broadcast two weeks of Saturday Kitchen spin off Christmas Kitchen
BBC One Daytime has several festive treats in store for viewers this December.
Published: 9 November 2016
There are early festive treats in store for viewers on BBC Daytime this December
Christmas Kitchen returns every weekday for two weeks in the run up to Christmas and will be hosted by Matt Tebbutt and Andi Oliver. The programme will help audiences to create the perfect Christmas dish for everything from an impromptu party to a planned family gathering, with celebrity guests and chefs appearing across the fortnight.
Fern Britton Meets... will be on air every Sunday in the run up to Christmas with guests including Alexander Armstrong, Nigel Benn and Rebecca Ferguson; and Christmas City will run across one whole week in December to reveal what it takes to deliver a truly special Christmas for the shoppers, workers, residents and tourists in Greater Manchester.
BBC One’s continuing drama Doctors also celebrates Christmas with a feature episode retelling the Dickens classic A Christmas Carol, when Dr Zara decides that The Mill surgery will stage its own festive performance to cheer up her son who is disappointed with his casting in the school nativity. And Father Brown also returns for its first ever Christmas special.
Dan McGolpin says: “We have some early festive treats in store for viewers on BBC Daytime this December. Andi Oliver will join Matt Tebbutt in presenting a new version of Christmas Kitchen, Rav Wilding and Hayley Hassall will be in Manchester City Centre for Christmas City and Fern Britton returns with her Advent interview series Fern Meets... Rounding off the pre-Christmas period we'll have festive specials from both Doctors and Father Brown."
Pictured: Andi Oliver and Matt Tebbutt
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Christmas Kitchen
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In the lead up to the festive season Christmas Kitchen will broadcast every weekday morning on BBC One presented by Matt Tebbutt and Andi Oliver. Andi was recently announced as the new judge of the Great British Menu. Each day audiences will be shown how to create the perfect Christmas dishes for everything from an impromptu party to a planned family gathering.
Matt and Andi will also be joined by celebrity guests including Strictly Come Dancing’s Louise Redknapp. Every day an international chef including Vivek Singh, Thomasina Miers, Sabrina Ghayour, Theo Randall and Tomer Amedi will create a festive dish food from around the world; and former Great British Bake Off contestants will be revealing how to create the perfect food gift.
Andi and Matt will be bringing audiences the best from the festive food archives from favourite chefs including Nigella, Delia, Mary Berry, Nigel Slater, The Hairy Bikers and Lorraine Pascale. And the show will delve further into the archives of Christmas past looking back at how some of our favourite chefs such as Fanny Craddock created the perfect Christmas.
The Executive Producer is Amanda Ross and the Series Producer is Juliet Bacon for Cactus TV
The BBC Commissioning Editor is Alex McLeod
Christmas City
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Christmas City is a five-part series for BBC One Daytime presented by Rav Wilding and Hayley Hassall that looks at what it takes to deliver a truly special Christmas for the shoppers, workers, residents and tourists in Greater Manchester, in the busiest period of the year. For over 15 years Manchester has hosted the hugely popular German Christmas Markets which welcome millions of people into the City Centre every year. But that is just one aspect of our Christmas story and, over five magical weekdays, we’ll also go behind the scenes of the shops, theatres, bars and restaurants, churches and emergency services to explore the massive planning and organisation that goes into making sure everyone who comes into Manchester at Christmas time has a safe, enjoyable and memorable festive time.
Kieron Collins and Dympna Jackson are the BBC Executive Producers and the BBC Commissioning Editor is Jo Street
Fern Britton Meets...
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Fern Britton Meets returns for its eighth series on BBC One in the run up to Christmas 2016.
To mark this season of Advent, there are four hour-long episodes in which Fern Britton talks to a different celebrity guest each week about their life, their career and the beliefs that have shaped them. This series Alexander Armstrong, Nigel Benn and Rebecca Ferguson will all speak to Fern, with more names to be announced. The conversation follows the story of the guest’s life with a focus on key moments in their life and career and the faith that has sustained them throughout. The series is broadcast on the four Sundays leading up to Christmas.
The BBC Executive Producer is Aaqil Ahmed and the BBC Series Producer is Gillian Bancroft
