A TV treat, let's make it Channel 4's flagship cooking show and get rid of that berk, Ramsay

Join Gordon Ramsay for cookalong live Friday 18th Jan on Channel 4 !

How to guide from Gordon Ramsey. Cook Along LiveGordon is cooking live with the nation on Channel4 18th Jan 9pm

In just one hour, Gordon will prove that everyone can prepare, and enjoy mouth-watering home-made food as he creates a three-course dinner that can be cooked by anyone and dished up in the space of sixty minutes.No matter how rarely you cook, if you buy the ingredients, and get all the utensils you need

Flanked by Food Network president Brooke Johnson and cooking-show host Rachael Ray, Commissioner Gary Bettman announced yesterday that the NHL has opted out of its contract with the Versus cable channel (formerly the Outdoor Life Network) and has reached a long-term broadcasting deal with the Food Network starting in the 2007-08 season.

A TV cooking show is a television program that presents the preparation of food, in a kitchen on the studio set. The host of the show, usually a celebrity chef, prepares one or more dishes over the course of the show, taking the viewing audience through the food's preparation showing all intermediate stages of cooking. These shows are often intended to be at least partly educational, as the host teaches the viewing audience how to prepare different meals with each episode of the show; though some cooking shows (such as Iron Chef) are intended simply for entertainment.While rarely achieving top ratings, cooking shows have been a popular staple of daytime TV programming since the earliest days of television. They are generally very inexpensive to produce, making them an economically easy way for a TV station to fill a half-hour (or sometimes 60 minute) TV episode.A number of cooking shows have run for many seasons, especially when they are sponsored by local TV stations or by public broadcasting. Many of the more popular cooking shows have had flamboyant hosts whose unique personalities have made them into celebrities.Famous cooking shows include: