TV has gone cookery mad at the moment. Is there a reason for this? Do people generally start being adventurous over the hobs after coming back from their holidays? I’ve no idea, but still, cookery shows are a plenty these days, and Channel 4 has a new one… with a slight twist called The Wild Gourmets (Channel 4, Tuesday, 8.30pm).
Take one woodsman (I think the proper term is ‘outdoorsman’ but woodsman sounds better) and a former winner of MasterChef tour Britain and what do you get? Well you get two very self satisfied people foraging in a forest living off the things they stumble across/bludgeon to death. Now, shows like can sometimes be a breath of fresh air, but what with the issue of TV telling us fibs at the moment, it may be worth having a big pinch of salt with you when viewing. When Guy Grieve and Thomasina Miers stroke shotguns and eat rabbit Milanese, remember, Bear Grylls and Gordon Ramsay’s fishing expedition. [Mof Gimmers]
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Oh my goodness! Watching this program last night made me want to throw up – what the hell was the point of this commission? What was it trying to prove/tell us? How to exchange mushrooms for eggs at farm shops? That you can eat berries off trees and shoot rabbits to feast on? AWFUL AWFUL AWFUL.
These two super posh prats made me cringe with their awful presenting skills as well as being totally unlikeable and smug. Very self indulgent. It’s was truely horrendous, a waste of money and airtime. I have more respect for Big Brother!!!
Oh my goodness! Watching this program last night made me want to throw up – what the hell was the point of this commission? What was it trying to prove/tell us? How to exchange mushrooms for eggs at farm shops? That you can eat berries off trees and shoot rabbits to feast on? AWFUL AWFUL AWFUL.
These two super posh prats made me cringe with their awful presenting skills as well as being totally unlikeable and smug. Very self indulgent. It’s was truely horrendous, a waste of money and airtime. I have more respect for Big Brother!!!
Oh my goodness! Watching this program last night made me want to throw up – what the hell was the point of this commission? What was it trying to prove/tell us? How to exchange mushrooms for eggs at farm shops? That you can eat berries off trees and shoot rabbits to feast on? AWFUL AWFUL AWFUL.
These two super posh prats made me cringe with their awful presenting skills as well as being totally unlikeable and smug. Very self indulgent. It’s was truely horrendous, a waste of money and airtime. I have more respect for Big Brother!!!
I’m delighted to see that Kathy shared the same emetic reaction. The clues were there from the start, but within moments, Guy was mooning for both the camera, and “Tommy” so that we could see what he’d caught and eaten for his breakfast. Raa raa raa. They must have copied the format from a combination of that awful sketch “Posh Nosh” (with Richard E Grant and Arabella Weir) and a toff, outdoors version of that shocking, Saturday science/cooking programme that had some celebrity’s boffin daughter in it – really bad “mately”, skin-crawley flirty.
Anyway it was just Horrendowse! Horst Rubesch! Pantellons! Kaka!
Bill Oddie is the last TV presenter that provoked such elemental revulsion. Smug doesn’t even cover it. They were so replulsive they became entertaining. Car crash TV. Oh!… and the shot with the 2 posh-wigwam tents! Come on… pull your own one, Guy, your tongue was hanging out almost as much as your tackle in the beach shot. Truly, staggeringly unlikeable people. If I ever see them, I will egg them royally.
Good to see I am not alone in my views on this one. I have to say I think this will become a cult classic – much funnier than posh nosh, all the toecurling ghastliness of the characters from “the Office”, with not a hint of irony from anybody involved in the production of the program. I can’t wait for the next episode.
This programme cracks me up, the show is just another excuse for fantasy escapism for 99.99% of it’s viewers. The other 0.01% are the ones who will actually be inspired to go out and shoot their own hares.
The two presenters, Guy Grieve and Tomasina Miers, are amiable enough and i have nothing against them personally. The Guy is obviously meant to be outdoorsman eye-candy, edited no doubt so that the ladeez will get a glimpse of beefy torso every week. Why this week we had a gratuitous sequence of him lathering himself in the glinting sunset! Paaa-lease.
Whilst watching the credits roll after the first show i turned to my wife and predicted that the production team would be all female. Lo and behold; editors, directors and producers. I’m sorry, if a male production team included titillating sequences of a sexy female presenter IN A FOODIE SHOW, would it be acceptable? Grow up girlies, i will take your show more seriously if you didn’t employ such base production values.
This programme cracks me up, the show is just another excuse for fantasy escapism for 99.99% of it’s viewers. The other 0.01% are the ones who will actually be inspired to go out and shoot their own hares.
The two presenters, Guy Grieve and Tomasina Miers, are amiable enough and i have nothing against them personally. The Guy is obviously meant to be outdoorsman eye-candy, edited no doubt so that the ladeez will get a glimpse of beefy torso every week. Why this week we had a gratuitous sequence of him lathering himself in the glinting sunset! Paaa-lease.
Whilst watching the credits roll after the first show i turned to my wife and predicted that the production team would be all female. Lo and behold; editors, directors and producers. I’m sorry, if a male production team included titillating sequences of a sexy female presenter IN A FOODIE SHOW, would it be acceptable? Grow up girlies, i will take your show more seriously if you didn’t employ such base production values.
I specially liked the bit when you were hunting.
And the part when you were makingsoup.
Gabriel Joseph unt
Am I the only person who finds Tommy gobsmackingly sexy? Captivating to see a normal-looking, practical, attractive woman.
If you want artifice, watch Nigella Express. I’m especially thinking of the episode where an actress comes around and pretends to be heartbroken to provide an excuse to bake cookies.
what a couple of prats!
try being vegetarian, and show some real respect for our fauna……..
and why was he bothering to wear a kilt?
Nearly threw my pot noodle at the telly! What a couple of smug twerps. Truly sick making.
yeah well said stuart – glad you didn’t waste your pot noodle on those pathetic yahs!
I thought the series was dam good. No. 1 they didn’t even seem posh to me and what if they were, I sense some inverse snobbery here. To speak properly should be a basic element of British life, not something to laugh at.
Instead of going to the supermarket like some unmasculine fool, the chap showed us how to live properly, killing (skillfully) his own grub to eat and the great country sports Britain has to offer. I live in the suburbs but love a good old fly fishing or shootin trip. You people need to leave your games machines and experience the great outdoors.