Soapstar Superchef

ITV are planning a Soapstar Superstar spin off. Instead of singing soapstars, this time they'll be cooking.

Soapstar Superchef will pit two teams of actors against each other in a cook-off against the clock. And each team in the show — to be shown daily at 5pm from late spring — will have a professional chef.

An insider said: “Superstar is a strong brand so there’s no reason why it can’t be used for other things.”

Rosemary Shrager has revealed on her website that she will be one of the judges on Soapstar Superchef.

Rosemary, who is better known as the cookery teacher from ITV’s Ladette To Lady, will be judging between the two teams of soapstars who have to cook their way to winning.

What is the connection between being a soapstar and cooking? Least with Soapstar Superstar there was the connection between acting and singing.

Sad, sad, sad

Ah well done ITV, extremely predictable programme. What the heck is being a Soapstar got to do with cooking?

Well done ITV. Another way to tire a format, just like you've done so many times before.

Please tell me this is like... a joke?

Anyone read the interview with Nick Elliott in MediaGuardian today - about wanting to make ITV "the nation's most popular channel" and being fed up about the "negative talk", focusing mainly on the forthcoming Jane Austen season.


Well, it's just a shame that after every interview like that you see from ITV they do something like this - it just shows ultimately nothing seems to be changing. They're still commissioning obviously crap formats!


And although ear marked for a 5pm slot, "late-Spring" suggests to me it's once again ITV attempting to steal Big Brother's thunder by screening an inferior rip-off reality format alongside the first couple of weeks.

I think a lot of you need to remember that not every TV programme created is intended for you specifically.

A lot of people like soaps, and a lot of people who like soaps like cookery too. They're obviously aiming at the housewife sort of audience and I think it will do quite well.

No doubt yet something else for Anthony Wally-Pratface to appear in. What's up Anthony? Is your career dying on its arse? Stick to selling your cutlery sets on Bid TV.

If cooking has nothing to do with being a soap star, I fail to see how a programme like this would be 'predictable'.

I'll give you a clue "Celebrity". There are too many Celebrity shows on ITV1, nuff said.

Oh no!!

This programme is being filmed from Monday 19th March at the ITV Granada Studios in Manchester.