Too Many Cooks (TV series)

For the Adult Swim short, see Too Many Cooks (short).

Too Many Cooks is a British cookery competition that aired on ITV from 1 November 2004 to 4 September 2005 and hosted by Kate Garraway for the first series and Jeni Barnett for the second series. The judges for the first series were Brian Turner and James Martin while the second series judges were Gino D'Acampo, Richard Phillips and Alex MacKay.^{[citation needed]}

Too Many Cooks
Genre	Cookery
Presented by	Kate Garraway (2004) Jeni Barnett (2005)
Judges	Brian Turner (2004) James Martin (2004) Gino D'Acampo (2005) Richard Phillips (2005) Alex MacKay (2005)
Country of origin	United Kingdom
Original language	English
No. of series	2
No. of episodes	35
Production
Running time	60 minutes (Series 1) 45 minutes (Series 2)
Production company	Granada
Original release
Network	ITV
Release	1 November 2004 (2004-11-01) – 4 September 2005 (2005-09-04)
Related
ITV Day ITV Food

Format

Four teams of two amateur chefs each competitively cook for three judges. Each team cooks a specified starter, a main course, and a pudding. One team is eliminated after each course, leaving two teams to compete at the pudding stage.^[1]

Transmissions

Series	Start date	End date	Episodes
1	1 November 2004	12 November 2004	10
2	6 June 2005	1 July 2005	25
	30 August 2005	4 September 2005

Reception

TV critic Melinda Houston wrote in The Age about the second series, "a large part of the entertainment comes from watching the judge, the rather bemused Italian chef Gino d'Acampo, examining what the cooks have done with a series of straightforward recipes."^[2]