Too Many Cooks (TV series)

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Too Many Cooks
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Genre Cookery
Presented by Kate Garraway (2004)
Jeni Barnett (2005)
Judges Brian Turner (2004)
James Martin (2004)
Gino D'Acampo (2005)
Richard Phillips (2005)
Alex MacKay (2005)
Country of originUnited Kingdom
Original languageEnglish
No. of series2
No. of episodes35
Production
Running time60 minutes (Series 1)
45 minutes (Series 2)
Production company Granada
Original release
Network ITV
Release1 November 2004 (2004-11-01) 
4 September 2005 (2005-09-04)
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Too Many Cooks is a British cookery competition that aired on ITV from 1 November 2004 to 4 September 2005 and hosted by Kate Garraway for the first series and Jeni Barnett for the second series. The judges for the first series were Brian Turner and James Martin while the second series judges were Gino D'Acampo, Richard Phillips and Alex MacKay.

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Format

Four teams of two people competitively cook for three judges. Each team is told what to cook and are given ten minutes to cook a starter, twenty minutes to cook a main course, and ten minutes to cook a pudding. A couple is eliminated after each course, leaving two teams to compete at the pudding stage.

Transmissions

SeriesStart dateEnd dateEpisodes
11 November 200412 November 200410
26 June 20051 July 200525
30 August 20054 September 2005

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