The Big Family Cooking Showdown
| The Big Family Cooking Showdown | |
|---|---|
| Also known as | Cooking Showdown BFCS |
| Genre | Team cooking competition |
| Presented by |
Zoë Ball Nadiya Hussain |
| Judges |
Giorgio Locatelli Rosemary Shrager |
| Country of origin | United Kingdom |
| Original language(s) | English |
| No. of series | 1 |
| No. of episodes | 8 (as of 5 October 2017) |
| Production | |
| Location(s) |
Cooking Showdown Kitchen: The Main Barn at The Quadrangle Trust, Shoreham, Kent |
| Running time | 60 minutes |
| Production company(s) | Voltage TV |
| Release | |
| Original network | BBC Two |
| Picture format | 16:9 |
| Audio format | Stereo |
| Original release | 15 August 2017 – present |
| External links | |
| Website | www |
The Big Family Cooking Showdown is a BBC team cooking competition. It is hosted by Great British Bake Off winner Nadiya Hussain and Zoë Ball. Each week, two teams of three family members compete in three challenges, judged by Michelin star chef Giorgio Locatelli and cookery teacher Rosemary Shrager. The winners in each of eight heats will move on to a series of further competitions, until a winner is selected. The Big Family Cooking Showdown premiered on BBC Two on Tuesday, 15 August, 2017, and will move to Thursday evenings beginning 31 August.
In each episode, two teams comprising three family members compete in three time-limited rounds. At the end of the three rounds, a winner is selected, who will move on to one of a series of semi-final rounds. The Cooking Showdown kitchen is located in the main barn at the Quadrangle Trust, near Shoreham in Kent.
Official episode viewing figures are from BARB.
About the location, Sally Newall, writing for The Independent said, "Instead of the Bake Off tent, there’s a barn conversion with a country-kitchen-meets-early-Noughties warehouse-conversion vibe. There is lots of wood, exposed brick, shiny copper lampshades and those letters with light bulbs that you tend to see at weddings. Michael Hogan, writing for The Daily Telegraph described the, "swish barn, kitted out in twee, shabby chic style to resemble something from a glossy interiors magazine."
After Channel 4's announcement that they will broadcast The Great British Bake Off on Tuesdays opposite The Big Family Cooking Show, the BBC moved the show to Thursday to avoid a scheduling conflict. The BBC said in a statement, "Channel 4's decision to move Bake Off from its long-term traditional Wednesday slot will be a surprise to many viewers who may see this as a cynical move. We never intended for our new cookery show to clash with theirs. There is room for both and we don't, in this instance, see any public value in two public service broadcasters going head-to-head in this way."
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