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Could Ready Steady Cook make a TV comeback?

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Photo credit: Regis Martin / Getty Images

From Digital Spy

Ready Steady Cook could be set for a comeback, at least according to James Martin.

The former Saturday Kitchen host suggested that the show is ripe for a revamp, and expressed confidence that we will see it on our screens again.

"I'm sure (Ready Steady Cook) will be coming back," Martin - who appeared on the programme as a chef - told the Evening Times. "It's too good a format for it to disappear in the ether.

"Times will change and things will come round again. But when you think that show was everywhere at that particular moment in time, that was all over the place, it was a regular thing in the afternoons every weekday, and on Friday and Saturday nights we used to do the celebrity ones, which were massive.

Photo credit: Cactus TV / BBC
Photo credit: Cactus TV / BBC

"They're revamping a lot of shows and I'm sure they'll look at that too," he added.

Martin also revealed that he had doubts after he stepped down as host of Saturday Kitchen after 10 years last year.

"You just turn up and do your job and go back home or to your restaurant," the chef said. "There's no reaction, there's none of that and this was almost instant.

"Straight away, I was thinking 'whoa, whoa, whoa, have I made the right decision? Have I done the right thing?'"

He is also still amazed that it's lasted as long as it did, adding: "I did it for ten years and it has been going on nearly a year now since I've left, and it was on for four years before me, so that's 16 years. It's unbelievable."

Ready Steady Cook originally ran between 1994 and 2010, and was hosted first by Fern Britton and then Ainsley Harriott.


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