Quote: Leevil @ November 23 2009, 5:25 PM GMTAre you from Manchester? That was just a random place I picked, honest guv!.
No, but I am northern. And I do like Pot Noodles.
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Quote: Kevin Murphy @ November 23 2009, 7:07 PM GMTNo, but I am northern. And I do like Pot Noodles.
Me too, I'm a big fan of Beef & Tomato 
I also like to add extra ketchup and frozen peas and sweetcorn. Also, fill the water near the top, so afterwards you can drink it like soup 
Enjoyed it, Leevil - a lot of milage there! Ripe for expansion/rewrite!
Quote: sootyj @ November 23 2009, 6:50 PM GMTI may do a version with cannibal serial killers.
Dahmer's broiled penis is less of a hit than Ed Gein's daub of Granny.
Good idea, Sootyj 
Quote: Kevin Murphy @ November 23 2009, 6:57 PM GMTThe show is ripe for mockery, but maybe a better approach would be to use the characters that really do show up every week - the annoying vegetarian, the ambiguously gay professional, the cock-hungry divorcee milf, the wiccan, etc.
Like that one too, Vin.
Looking forward to all three versions!
Cheers, Morrace.
This is the first draft, just had to get it out of my head. So it's a bit rough, but glad you still enjoyed it.
I think the problem is that the real voice over on Come Dine With Me already takes the piss out of the contestants. Maybe you could do some sort of twist on that?
Maybe the contestants could be too aware of the fact that there will be a sarky voice over commentating on their every move?
Yes, good point. I think I could remove him altogether and like I mentioned before, do my own interpretation of the show, as a reality TV thing... 
Quote: Dolly Dagger @ November 23 2009, 8:05 PM GMTMaybe the contestants could be too aware of the fact that there will be a sarky voice over commentating on their every move?
I like that though.
He could be sat in the other room, and they over hear him and go and confront him?
Or he could just be a mad old Grandad sat in the corner of the room. Or Ooo ooo a surly cameraman thinking out loud!!
Quote: Leevil @ November 23 2009, 7:10 PM GMTMe too, I'm a big fan of Beef & Tomato
I also like to add extra ketchup and frozen peas and sweetcorn. Also, fill the water near the top, so afterwards you can drink it like soup
I have so much to learn from you...
Come my child, I shall show you the wonders of Microchips...
This just feels like you're going through the motions with a seed of an idea. It is all a bit predictable, no real sense of surprise and like Dolly says the narrator of the show already provides a sardonic/piss taking role so you need to play with the existing format to not end up almost presenting a transcription of an existing episode. If I were you I'd concentrate on working out a way of aping the show without just presenting things almost as they are, everyone knows the repugnant characters they cynically pick e.g. a self-righteous vegetarian and someone who is into hunting with stuffed animals in their house. Try to work out some extreme OTT characters to push the idea otherwise, because the show is already quite self-aware, it will just read like a normal episode anyway.
Maybe cutting the narrator would work but that is a defining feature of the show so would it necessarily be discernible as CDWM anymore?
All the best Lee.
Maybe if they kept the jovial voice over but did it with deadly serious professional chefs?
Quote: sootyj @ November 24 2009, 12:22 AM GMTMaybe if they kept the jovial voice over but did it with deadly serious professional chefs?
MOB gangster prison chefs!
Or cooking up crystal meth?
The dark Crystal.