…Cooks!

Infobox Television
show_name = ...Cooks!


caption = "Saturday Cooks!" logo
format = Cookery
picture_format =
runtime = 60-90 minutes
(including adverts)
creator =
presenter = Antony Worrall Thompson
network = ITV
country = UK
first_aired = 10 June 2006
(as "Saturday Cooks!")
last_aired = Present
num_series = 8
num_episodes = 167
producer = Prospect Pictures
related = "Sunday Feast"
imdb_id =

"...Cooks!" is an ITV cookery show, hosted by Antony Worrall Thompson.

There are different names for the show, depending on which day it is aired. The Saturday morning show is called "Saturday Cooks!", and the show which airs during the week is called "Daily Cooks Challenge" (previously "Daily Cooks!").

Worrall Thompson, who fronted a similar BBC One show, "Saturday Kitchen" defected to ITV in June 2006 after being poached from the BBC along with the production company that made the show (Prospect Pictures) in a deal negotiated by Alison Sharman. It was Ms Sharman who originally brokered the deal that brought Antony to the BBC on "Saturday Kitchen" in the first place, before she herself moved to ITV.

A sister programme "Sunday Feast" aired on Sundays in mornings. The programme will not be returning due to poor ratings.

"Saturday Cooks!" aired from 10th June 2006- 15th December 2007 when it first started it aired at 9:25am but then later got moved to 11:30am and later on in 2007 got moved to 12:00pm this is because it was being beaten by the BBC's offering Saturday Kitchen as it was very popular. So ITV deceided to move it to a late breakfast slot for it to try and gain viewers. It is currently unknown whether or not Saturday Cooks! will return for a fourth series as it hasn't been on in 2008 so far. It has been replaced by qualifying rounds of the grand prix, the news, films, drama repeats and the Coronation Street Omnibus.

A spin-off series, "Christmas Cooks!" aired during the Christmas period in 2006 at 10:30am on weekday mornings on the ITV Network. It returned for a second series in December 2007.

Regular Weekly Chefs

*Antony Worrall Thompson
*Gino D'Acampo
*Jean-Christophe Novelli
*Brian Turner

Guest Chefs

*Ken Hom
*Keith Floyd
*Ching He Huang
*Ed Baines
*Eadie Manson
*Frank Bordoni
*Merrilees Parker
*Jun Tanaka
*Maria Elia
*Sophie Wright
*Paul Rankin
*Martin Blunos
*Silvana Franco
*Rustie Lee
*Jill Dupleix
*Aldo Zilli
*Mary Berry
*Richard Phillips
*Ben O'Donoghue
*Andrew Nutter
*Momma Cherri
*Jo Pratt

Wine Experts

*Jilly Goolden
*Matt Skinner
*Joe Wadsack

ee also

List of celebrities appearing on Daily Cooks Challenge

External links

*itv.com|id=cooks|title="...Cooks!"
* [http://www.cooksforcooks.com cooksforcooks.com - Official website]
*imdb title|id=0973564|title=Saturday Cooks!
*imdb title|id=0938982|title=Daily Cooks!