There's no denying that Giles Coren and Sue Perkins have set themselves some arduous challenges in the current series of Supersizers. Whether it's living the medieval lifestyle, consuming gargantuan banquets a la last week's French Revolutionary diet or simply, in the case of the 1980s edition, keeping those shoulder pads firmly in place, there's no denying it's made for enthralling viewing - with, it has to be said, a certain sense of thankfulness that it's them working their way through all those frequently unappetising menus and not you.

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Given that Supersizers is fast becoming one of the highlights of my viewing week, I did feel somewhat bereft when last Monday's edition got bumped from the schedules on account of a certain Wimbledon match featuring Andy Murray (great game, but even so....). All of which means that we are still yet to see Giles and Sue getting to grips with 50s eating, but this week, in keeping with the schedule, our intrepid duo donned corsets and periwigs and headed back to the days of the French Revolution for some serious gorging.

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Last week I lamented the fact that the first in the new series of Supersizers, while an entertaining nostalgia trip, didn't really go far back enough in time to cover anything of culinary interest (it was the 80s in case you missed it and the costumes and haircuts were far more interesting than the Pot Noodles and microwave meals Giles Coren and Sue Perkins tucked in to. The good news is that on this week's show they redressed the balance, going all the way back in time to the medieval era - let's face it, in food terms you couldn't go back much further if you tried (unless they fancied sampling a biblical or Stone Age diet, neither of which sound an entirely appealing basis for a whole show). This of course led to even more silly costumes - chain mail in abundance, pointy hats et al - but there was something strangely compelling about the meals which were being dished up, even if they did err on the side of gross at times.

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One of those little hidden gems tucked away on BBC2 last year, The Supersizers was one of those shows that it was all too easy to get hooked on. The premise involved Giles Coren and Sue Perkins - a surprisingly engaging duo - basically eating their way through a string of different historical time periods and reliving life in those times according to what was on the menu. Often this made for quite compelling viewing, with the 70s and the Elizabethan episodes being particular highlights of the last series. But here we were, this time in the 1980s...

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The Supersizers Go... was once of the hits of last year, featuring as it did journalist Giles Coren and broadcaster Sue Perkins go back in time, dress up in silly clothes and live and eat period food for a whole week. The good news is that Giles and Sue are back for a new series of time-travelling food exploits. So where will they be going this time around?

This week the Supersizers went Regency. Now I thought I knew nothing about the Regency period except that the Prince Regent was Hugh Laurie in Blackadder and his father was the King George of The Madness of King George fame, but I was embarrassed to find it was also the time of Jane Austen. I really should have remembered that from my English degree. Oh well.

"Late 1700s to early 1800s, wasn't it?" said my husband, who didn't go to university. The Regency period was indeed 1789 to 1821. Smart arse.

I don't think I would have watched The Supersizers Go... if Paul hadn't kept raving about it, but once I did it fast became one of my favourite current shows. In case you've missed it, food critic and writer Giles Coren and writer and comedian Sue Perkins eat a different historical menu each week. This week was Elizabethan, which had the potential to be even more stomach-churningly disgusting than Victorian ... and that's saying something.

"Behold! It mattereth not if I should bloat like a veritable boar as thine eyes are distracted by mine ridiculous attire! Har!" I don't quite know how this has happened, but Supersizers Go... is a really good watch. I mean, Giles Coren is a smug git at the best of times and Sue Perkins, well, she veers from ace to punchable. No matter, the pair of them make for a good team in this great series and next week, The Supersizers Go... Elizabethan (BBC Two, Tuesday, 17 June, 9pm)

The title kinda gives it away, but I'll reiterate that Giles Coren and Sue Perkins will spend a week going back to the food of the Elizabethans. That's Shakespeare time to you and me. Not only will they chew the same chews but the hosts will stride the same trews too, making for a rather daft romp through history.

Half way through this entertaining slice of culinary nostalgia, Sue Perkins describes her week-long stint as a 1970s woman like this: "Non-stop Black Forest Gateaux and indiscriminate sex". She could well have been right, although I have no idea - I was born in the early 1970s and sort of can't remember much about what I ate except for the odd Findus Crispy Pancake. It turns out that 1970s food was stuffed full of additives and preservatives and colours and sugar. Basically, the 1970s was where it all started to go wrong.

What's with the massive picture? Get hip to the lip brother because this is the seventies, man. Check out my trews man. They're wi-i-i-i-ide. See these sideburns? Large, man. Hey, and there's this totally hep grub man, from India. They got velor walls in there man! It's pretty far out! Are you gonna keep talking like this for an entire article? Right on. Stick with it brother, 'cuz I'm-a-gonna tell you about The Supersizers Go... Seventies (BBC Two, Tuesday, 10 June, 9pm).

Oh how I've been enjoying this series. It has really been very good indeed. We've already seen Sue Perkins and Giles Coren gag and wince their way through Restoration food (that was funny) and Wartime food (which was also very entertaining). Last night they had a go at the Victorian era, and I was really looking forward to it - I love all that Charles Dickens shizzle. At the top of the show we were told that the average life expectancy of women in the Victorian period was 48. They either died of cholera, consumption or childbirth. I hoped Sue Perkins would survive the hour.

If it's not careful The Supersizers Go... could well become my favourite television programme very quickly, very soon. I really enjoyed last week's series opener (where Giles Coren and Sue Perkins ate only wartime ration food for a week) and this week the pair was back dressing up as 17th century Restoration types and sampling some of the grossest, most stomach-curdling food I have ever seen or heard of. For a week they drank ale for breakfast, wine for lunch and dinner, ate every kind of animal you've ever heard of, and ate parts from every animal you've ever heard of that you would never, ever consider eating. I'm a vegetarian and this made me gag (and laugh out loud when they spat things out), so Lord only knows how Giles and Sue felt like eating this stuff.

We've done our own supersize thing here at TV Scoop (where poor old Mof watched ITV for a whole week), but, of course, we can't take the credit for that idea. Neither can restaurant critic and writer Giles Coren and writer, broadcaster and comedian Sue Perkins, but they seem to have adopted the Supersize thing quite nicely. They did an Edwardian Supersize project last year on BBC Four - where the pair ate a purely Edwardian diet for a week - and that was so popular they've been promoted to BBC Two for a brand-new, six-part series of Supersize experiments. To kick off the show the pair were tasked to eat nothing but rations food and live like a wartime couple. It was very entertaining too.