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British TV cookery series (2006–2010) April 2020November 2020 November 2020 Saturday Cooks!Daily Cooks Challenge Antony Worrall Thompson United Kingdom 8 167 Prospect Pictures 60–90 minutes(including adverts) ITV1, ITV3 2006 6 10 y 2010 5 21 y ITV Food ...Cooks! is an ITV television cookery show, hosted by Antony Worrall Thompson, broadcast between 10 June 2006 to 21 May 2010. Formats There were different names for the show, depending on which day it aired. The Saturday morning show was called Saturday Cooks!, whilst the show that aired during the week was called Daily Cooks Challenge. This series aired in a weekday prime-time slot and from its second series was shot in front of a studio audience. It has mostly been broadcast on ITV3 between 2008 and 2012 with new episodes on ITV1. Worrall Thompson, who previously hosted a similar BBC One show, Saturday Kitchen, defected to ITV in June 2006 after being poached from the BBC along with the production company that made the show (Prospect Pictures), in a deal negotiated by Alison Sharman. It was Sharman who originally brokered the deal that brought Worrall Thompson to the BBC on Saturday Kitchen in the first place, before she herself moved to ITV. A sister programme Sunday Feast aired on Sunday mornings. The programme was cancelled due to poor ratings. A brand new series of Daily Cooks Challenge was broadcast from 29 March 2008 to 21 May 2010. Scheduling Saturday Cooks! aired on the ITV network from 10 June 2006 to 15 December 2007. When it first started it aired at 9:25 am but then was moved first to 11:30 am and later, in 2007, to 12 noon. This was to initially compete with the BBC's offering Saturday Kitchen. Spin-offs A spin-off series, Christmas Cooks! aired during the Christmas period in 2006 at 10:30 am on weekday mornings on the ITV network. It returned for a second series in December 2007. In 2008, Christmas Cooks! was replaced by Christmas Cooks Challenge. In the 2009 'Christmas Specials' there were three selected Christmas Cooks episodes, which were repeated from 2008. In 2010, there were no episodes over the festive period. A brand new series of Daily Cooks Challenge was broadcast from 29 March 2010 to 21 May 2010.http://www.ITV.com/lifestyle/food/cooks/recipesseriesfour/recipes/default.html Categories – ITV Player www.ITV.com ITV plc Regular weekly chefs 18em Antony Worrall Thompson Gino D'Acampo Jean-Christophe Novelli Brian Turner Guest chefs 18em John Burton-Race Ken Hom Keith Floyd Ching-He Huang Ed Baines Eadie Manson Frank Bordoni Merrilees Parker Jun Tanaka Maria Elia Sophie Wright Paul Rankin Martin Blunos Silvana Franco Rustie Lee Jill Dupleix Aldo Zilli Mary Berry Richard Phillips Ben O'Donoghue Andrew Nutter Momma Cherri Jo Pratt Wine experts 18em Jilly Goolden Matt Skinner Joe Wadsack DVDs Daily Cooks Challenge: Mains Volume One Daily Cooks Challenge: Mains Volume Two Daily Cooks Challenge: Desserts Daily Cooks Challenge: 3 DVD Box set See also List of celebrities appearing on Daily Cooks Challenge References External links 0973564 Saturday Cooks! 0938982 Daily Cooks! 11324002 Daily Cooks Challenge 16240050 Christmas Cooks Challenge Category:2006 British television series debuts Category:2006 English-language television series debuts Category:2010 British television series endings Category:2010 English-language television series endings Category:2000s British cooking television series Category:2010s British cooking television series Category:British cooking television shows Category:English-language British television shows Category:ITV (TV network) original programming