Distributor:
Kaleidoscope-Shock Certificate: M15+ | 340
minutes
Region 4
Director:
Sandi Scott
Available to buy Extras: Yes
ANYONE
IN IT WE KNOW?
Jamie
Oliver
WHAT’S
IT ABOUT THEN?
Yobbo
cook de jour Jamie Oliver
decides to open up his first
restaurant, called 15, in London
and putting his money (allegedly
some $1,000,000 of it) where his
mouth is by hopefully proving
his theory that it is passion
for food and not formal
qualifications that go to make a
good cook. To do this he decides
to hire fifteen unemployed
youngsters to become over the
course of seven months the chefs
in his new restaurant.
SO
IS IT ANY GOOD?
Love
him or hate him Oliver is a great TV character and this new release
shows him warts and all, not always just the cockney geezer but also
flustered, stressed and tired out. It also shows him willing to have the
mickey taken out of him in order to pursue something he believes in
(witness his stint on an early morning radio show).
Oliver
certainly chose a stressful time to work on the project with a baby on
the way, a new book out and lots of other business commitments to fulfil.
It's
the kids who make the show though, over the course of five episodes they
transform from nervous Spaghetti Bolognese cooks to confident young
chefs, of course there are run ins as some of the youngsters cope with
the discipline and some definitely have anger management issues
"You've been an arsehole all day today". This 2 disc set is
nicely comprehensive as it also includes the two follow up shows made
six months after the series catching up with the restaurant and the new
chefs.
