Can't cook, won't cook!

It seems as though The Delicious Miss Dahl is to be dropped after one series.  Well hooray.  If the BBC was trying to reinvent the cookery genre by using someone who couldn't cook, then they succeeded. It was the idea that failed.  I for one was intrigued by how delicious Miss Dahl would be.  I fell for the hype but after just one glance at her knife action, I realised I was watching a fake.  The only thing delicious about the show was the kitchen.  Yes, she was a pretty woman but with eyes bigger than her face and a voice as high pitched as she was tall, she needed to offer up some pretty delicious recipes.  But Miss Dahl quite simperingly couldn't cut the mustard.

The Gods in commissioning made the classic mistake of thinking the public would be happy to sit back and watch someone beautiful cook.  It worked with Nigella, now let's see if we can make it work with Sophie.  But trying to squeeze someone into another person's persona simply doesn't work.  Nigella was an original who has now sadly become a parody of herself.  The BBC went ahead and reinvented the parody. Even Sophie's narrative (after all, she is the granddaughter of a great writer, we should let her write her own scripts) was tasteless and unappealing.

So, now they say they are looking at new projects for the Delicious Miss-take.  Did she tie them into a contract as hard to get out of as an England football manager's?  Nah!  Not even the BBC could be as daft as the FA.