I've already shared my concerns about Ready Steady Cook with you (click here to refresh your memory). If you can't even be bothered to click the link I gave you, rest assured that I feel that RSC has gone beyond its Best Before Date. It would seem that someone at the BBC (or Endemol who make the show) agree with me. It needs spicing up. It needs a batch of new ingredients. It needs a writer who will tell you the news without using culinary references (I promise I'll stop).

So with that, the show promises "New chefs, new guests and a new look – a feast of transformations are served at Ready Steady Cook!" By the way, you can't blame me for the "feast" comment as that was in the PR mailout. So what do all these changes mean? Well, read on and find out...

In August, we can tune in to BBC2 to join the wild eyed Ainsley Harriott as he unveils fresh culinary talent, a pristine new-look studio, audience-interactive fun and two celebrities every day on Ready Steady Cook! Presumably, it's going to be a bit like it was when it was shunted off to prime-time BBC1 at the weekends some years ago.

The list of chefs-that-you-haven't-heard-of-because-they're-not-on-telly-yet are Alex Mackay, Garrey Dawson and Richard Phillips who will join the Ready Steady Cook chef family and take up residency in the world's wackiest kitchen. Joining the newbies will be a whole host of work-needy slebs, such as Dancing on Ice’s Jason Gardiner and Bonnie Langford, Ex-Neighbours’ stars Jason Donavan and Stephanie McIntosh and oddballers Neil and Christine Hamilton.

Aside from watching Christine Hamilton shouting at spuds, Ready Steady Cook’s new home boasts "a stylish black backdrop with a pioneering layout pitting the red tomato and green pepper kitchens directly opposite each other." Pistols at dawn? Flinging pies at each other across the studio. Where will the audience sit? In the middle?

As ever, there will be the usual twenty minute deadlines, ingredients chosen by contestants and the Quickie Bag challenge. Naturally, the audience will still get the opportunity to decide who wins, this time, with electronic scorepads as opposed to cards with veg on. To keep the common man involved (now he's lost his place at the blender) the new series will see audience members taking to the stage to reveal the contents of the bags and to taste the products of the quickie bag. They'll also get to ask "a quickie question in each show." [Mof Gimmers]