1. FRANCE: MINI COOKING & DRAG QUEEN
Mini cooking - C’est Pas la Taille Qui Compte (The Size Doesn’t Matter) premiered last Tuesday 5th September on 6play, the streaming platform of M6 Group, produced by Banijay France.
Big Bertha, one of the protagonist of the first season of Drag Race France, will challenge French food influencers and also chefs in order to create classical dishes, but in miniature version. This particular trend (called in many ways: “Mini Food”, “Tiny Food”, “Tiny Cooking” and others) comes directly from Asia, where the Korean food influencer Mimine made it popular worldwide: on You Tube and other platforms there are hundreds of videos.
A curious mix between the drag queen trend and cooking show (in Asian sauce).
2. THE NETHERLANDS: COOKING & DATING
In The Netherlands, the brand-new daily dating show Date Smakelijk -a format created by Talpa Concepts and produced by Talpa Entertainment Productions- premiered Monday 28th August on SBS6. The title literally means “Tasty Date”, but it’s a play on words, being very similar to the Dutch expression “eet smakelijk”, that means “enjoy your meal”.
And in fact dating and cooking are the 2 keys of the show. In each episode, 4 singletons -divided into 2 potential couples- meet in a studio with 2 cooking areas. One singleton from each potential couple is assigned a cooking area to prepare a chosen meal to impress the potential partner.
During the meal preparation, the 2 hosts - Georgina Verbaan and Patrick Martens (pics) - chat with the participants about food, love and related subjects. If the potential partner likes the dish and there is chemistry between them, the couple leaves the studio with €250 to cover their next date to get to know each other better.
3. SPAIN: THE PRIME TIME IS A SHOW
“Celebration programs” are quite popular in tv: usually they celebrate a personality (famous singers, actors, sportsmen/women…), but sometimes also a period of time (the 60th, the 80th…), a historical event and so on. The program Prime Time, that will premiere 15th September on Spanish OTT Movistar Plus+ (owned by Telefónica), for the very first time celebrates… a tv slot: the prime time, of course.
During the 3 episodes the evolution of television entertainment in Spain since the 1990s will be reviewed, with the presence of many protagonists and lots of clips of great television programs of the last decades (¿Qué apostamos?, That’s My Jam, Grand Prix, El Hormiguero, ‘Tu cara me suena, Gran Hermano, Lo que necesitas es amor, Master Chef… and much more).
It’s an interesting and emotional operation, but it seems quite curious that a digital platform -without fixed scheduled- will celebrate the classic tv slot of the linear and “traditional” tv…