Great British Christmas Menu (S2020E06) – Watch Online Season 2020 Episode 06

Great British Christmas Menu – Season 2020 Episode 06

Andi Oliver hosts as the top three chefs from yesterday’s dessert and petit four rounds compete for the final courses of a special Christmas feast for some of the key workers who were the heroes of the pandemic.

Ahead for the judges are two rounds of fantastic festive dishes, with everything from the deep earthy tastes of root vegetable mince pies to the technical virtuosity of blown-sugar snow globes.

Actor and comedian Kerry Godliman and regular judges Matthew Fort and Oliver Peyton are joined this week by special guest judge Beverly Knight MBE. Both Beverly’s mother and brother were taken to hospital after contracting coronavirus, and she has also been active in raising over £30,000 for musical theatre performers unable to work because of the pandemic.

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Great British Menu Show Summary

Great British Menu is a BBC television series in which top British chefs compete for the chance to cook one course of a four course banquet.

Series one and two were presented by Jennie Bond, the former BBC Royal correspondent, whereby each week, two chefs from a region of the UK create a menu. In series three and four, both narrated by Bond but with no presenter, three chefs from a region of the UK create a menu; only the two with the best scores went through to the Friday judging. In series five and six, the fifth narrated by Bond while the sixth is narrated by Wendy Lloyd, three chefs from a region of the UK create a menu, with in kitchen judging undertaken by a past contestant chef; only the two with the best scores go through to the Friday judging.

In each series, the Friday show is when chefs present all courses of their menu to a judging panel, tasted and judged by Matthew Fort, Prue Leith and Oliver Peyton. One chef each week goes through to the final, where the judges taste the dishes again and award them marks out of ten. The three dishes that have scored the highest for each course are then put to the public vote.

During the first series, it was decided that a chef could only win one course overall, therefore any chef who won the public vote for a particular course was then eliminated from any subsequent courses they had been shortlisted for. As the results for all four courses were announced on the same day, some chefs were eliminated under this rule. During series two, this rule was dropped, as highlighted by Mark Hix winning both the main course and dessert.

On 28 October 2016, it was confirmed that Prue Leith was leaving the show and would be replaced by Andi Oliver for series 12 in 2017.

On 1 October 2019, Susan Calman was announced as the new presenter for series 15. Filming took place in Stratford-upon-Avon and was completed in November 2019. The show will be broadcast in Spring 2020.

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