What's the secret to why TV cooking shows are dying out?
The food shows of the early 90s went on to become a daily staple of TV schedules throughout the 2000s and 2010s. Then, in just a few short years, it was all over.
The light sprinkling of food shows of the early 90s went on to become a daily staple of TV schedules throughout the 2000s and 2010s. In 2014, there was a complaint that the ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ had, in one week, broadcast 21 hours of cooking shows. Then, seemingly just as abruptly as it all began - it was all over.
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Commissions for all forms of food programmes across British TV have dropped 44% in a year, according to Ampere Analysis. Our media and arts correspondent, David Sillito, takes a look at what's happened.
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