Ben Pobjie
Ben Pobjie is a columnist.
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Don’t watch this cult cooking show if Jamie Oliver is as weird as you ever want to get
Just a Dash with Matty Matheson sees The Bear star bringing his cult YouTube show to the Netflix mainstream. So, is it any good?
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In the overstuffed buffet of celebrity foodie travelogues, this is the most charming
He may be best known for creating ’90s sitcom Everybody Loves Raymond, but Phil Rosenthal’s greatest television legacy may well be Somebody Feed Phil.
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- ★★★
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This is as utterly, idiotically mental as TV gets
Part soap opera, part Mission Impossible fan fiction, 9-1-1 is now heading to space.
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Ricky Gervais created two of TV’s greatest comedies. But his standup is slipping
The Office legend’s latest special is another reminder that being funny seems to have dropped down his list of priorities.
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‘Prepare to be stunned’: This festive show crackles with the sweet, jolly, ridiculous things in life
Think you know what cake looks like? ‘Is It Cake? Holiday’ will have you questioning everything, literally.
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Quirky humour over manufactured tension? No wonder this cooking show still reigns, 16 seasons in
Lapsed fan Ben Pobjie returned to review GBBO with some trepidation. Could it still measure up to the giddy heights OG hosts Mel and Sue took it to? You bet it can.
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This cooking competition − and its judge, Martha Stewart − is ‘horrifically mesmerising’
“Yes, Chef” is best viewed as a comedy, because the only other way to view it is as a harrowing look into the darkest heart of humanity, writes Ben Pobjie.
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- ★★★½
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Better than cosy crime? This new show makes murder fun
Full of wit and glee, Grosse Pointe Garden Society is the kind of show that puts you on the killer’s side.
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‘Aspirationally epic’: This Korean cooking show is equal parts weird and wonderful
Culinary Class Wars trades the usual emotional theatrics of Western reality TV shows for bonkers nicknames and a quirky, dramatic flair.
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This ‘exquisitely simple’ TV show is the perfect antidote to these frantic times
Quiet Japanese gem Midnight Diner will leave you with new cooking skills, a strange and beautiful new perspective on life – and most likely in tears.
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