RESEARCH: RESTAURANT COMEDY GENRE

You need to show knowledge of films and television drama / shows and related texts that are set in restaurants or hotels, how comedy and drama are created in these texts and what type of characters feature in them.

• Fawlty Towers (UK BBC TV sitcom) first broadcast 1975. Twelve episodes were made (two series, each of six episodes)
• Hotel ABC  (US prime time TV drama) 1983 to 198
• The Grand (TV series) British television drama series first broadcast on ITV in 1997-1998. It was written by Russell T.Davies and set in a hotel in Manchester in the 1920s
• Harry's Kingdom (BBC TV comedy-drama) 1987 
• The Hotel Inspector observational documentary TV series Channel 5
  In each episode, a celebrated hotelier (Ruth Watson in series 1–3; Alex Polizzi in series 4-) visits a struggling British hotel and tries to turn its fortunes by giving advice and suggestions to the owner.
• The Restaurant Inspector Channel 5 TV series starring Fernando Peire, who advised struggling restaurants on how to achieve higher profits 2011-2012. 
• Cheers (US sitcom) 1982 to 1993, produced by Charles/Burrows/Charles Productions, in association with Paramount Network TV for NBC.
  

You then need to show knowledge of popular TV chefs, cookery programmes and current trends and issues so find pictures of the following, watch them on YouTube then sum them up

• Jamie Oliver
• Heston Blumenthal
• Delia Smith
• Rick Stein
• Nigella Lawson
• Yotam Ottolenghi

Devise fun articles 
'You know you're a Hestonist if you...'

• Serve snail ice-cream, bacon and egg porridge and parsnip cereal
• Have lab equipment in your kitchen
• talk about molecular gastronomy
• Know what cooking sous-vide means
• Put whole oranges in your Christmas pudding 
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'You know you're a Delia-ite if you....'

• Serve bread and butter pudding
•  Are the queen of home cooking
• Like chicken basque and lemon meringue pie
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'You know you're a Jamie if you....'

• Like pukka food
• Bish bash bosh
• Cracking good nosh