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The first episode of the Documentary, Comedy, series The Supersizers... season 1, 2 was released in 2008-05-20 by British Broadcasting Corporation. The TV show was created by and directed by . Actors in the cast include Sue Perkins, Giles Coren, Sophie Grigson, Allegra McEvedy. The avarenge rating on IMDB: is / 10. Series awards - .
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Episode 1
Wartime
air day: 2008-05-20
In this programme they return to the 1980s – the years of their adolescence. Living in a transformed loft on the Thames, they pattern the excessive lifetime of a few yuppies. To a soundtrack of 80s classics together with the Pet Shop Boys, Duran Duran, ABC and Billy Bragg, they power-lunch their means via the last decade, knocking again champagne whereas speaking loudly into their outsized cell phones.
With Margaret Thatcher operating the nation, they’ve a Tory meal with Norman Tebbit and Jeffrey Archer at Shepherd’s restaurant in Westminster. Sue tries to seek out her interior Sloane by sampling Princess Diana’s wedding ceremony breakfast, whereas Giles tries out the most costly champagne on the Stock Exchange. After every week of nouvelle delicacies, the F-Plan, and New Romantic cocktails, the 1980s ends with Black Monday and a foodie feast with friends Ken Livingstone, Carol Decker, Lynne Franks and Toby Young.
Episode 2
Restoration
air day: 2008-05-27
In this programme, they return to medieval England to reside the lifetime of a Lord and Lady of their nation manor.
Starting life in 1066, Giles takes on the guise of a Norman conqueror, complete with broadsword and chainmail. Sue wears pointy hats and is a damsel in deep misery, as Giles has been given her manor home and all of the lands round it. He can be on a mission to woo her.
Taking on the function of 100 servants is Michelin-starred chef and Anglo-Saxon lookalike Martin Blunos. During the week, he prepares essentially the most luxurious of meals together with cockentrice – a creation comprised of the forepart of a hen sewn to the rear of a piglet.
The Supersizers are are suggested by their physician that meals should be ready to stability their 4 humours, so Sue and Giles uncover if they’re phlegmatic (sluggish and boring), melancholic (unhappy), choleric (bad-tempered) or sanguine (horny and laid again).
During an exhausting week, Giles turns into a chivalrous knight and goes off to expertise the meals of a crusader. Sue learns to play the harp, has visions, and samples medieval courting meals. Together they check out falconry, go on a Chaucerian pilgrimage and dine with historian Colin Spencer and broadcaster Michael Portillo, the place they uncover how the Magna Carta affected what we might and could not eat.
At the tip of every week that covers almost 400 years of medieval historical past, our intrepid Supersizers have a full-blown banquet with greater than 20 friends, contortionist, fire-breather and musicians, whereas a trumpet fanfare heralds the arrival of Martin’s fabulous feast, which incorporates peacock, coqz heaumez (helmeted cock), suckling pig, boar’s head and hippocras.
Episode three
Victorian
air day: 2008-06-03
Restaurant critic Giles Coren and author and comic Sue Perkins expertise the meals tradition of years passed by.
Giles and Sue return to the 1950s, an period began on rations and ended by Prime Minister Harold MacMillan remarking that ‘we might by no means had it so good’.
Cookery author Mary Berry helps Sue turn into the right housewife as they begin the week on rations with canned salmon and horse. Giles has his actual boss from The Times spherical for Babycham and a dinner taken from Elizabeth David’s bestseller, Mediterranean Food.
They are joined by Marguerite Patten and ideal housewife Anthea Turner for a coronation buffet to have a good time the crowning of Queen Elizabeth II. Giles experiences the meal laid on for the Australians after they misplaced the Ashes to England, whereas Sue demonstrates in opposition to the Bomb in Trafalgar Square.
After being proven the way to dance by Bruce Welch of The Shadows, Giles and Sue finish their week at a vacation camp eating on a meal taken from a 1959 menu with visitor social historian Dominic Sandbrook.
Episode four
Seventies
air day: 2008-06-10
Giles and Sue go for a journey again to Revolutionary France within the 1780s. Donning wigs and corsets, Giles and Sue discover out what King Louis XVI ate, why Marie Antoinette was so hated, and the way the Revolution was instrumental in creating the primary restaurant and first restaurant critic.
French chef Mickael Weiss from London’s Coq d’Argent sweats it out within the kitchens offering the lavish banquets in among the most stunning chateaus in France.
During the week, they pattern frog’s legs, a masked meal, an iced sculpture of the Bastille complete with fireworks and Marie Antoinette’s soup earlier than she was taken to the guillotine. Sue tries cake at Versailles whereas Giles has a banquet consisting solely of a brand new vegetable known as the potato.
Following within the footsteps of the king and queen, Giles and Sue escape from Paris in a horse-drawn carriage and finish the week with a meal consisting solely of black meals and with a reside pig because the visitor of honour. The French Revolution in every week is actually a supersized enterprise.
Episode 5
Elizabethan
air day: 2008-06-17
This time, Giles and Sue uncover the culinary delights of the brilliant younger issues within the 1920s. Chef for the week is meals author Allegra McEvedy, offering aspic-inspired cookery. ‘It’ lady Sue will get an actual bob and Giles attire within the dandyish fashions of the interval. During their 1920s week, they go from one social engagement to a different: cocktails at The Ritz, the charleston at Cafe de Paris and motor racing at Brooklands.
During the overall strike of 1926, Giles helps out by engaged on the buses whereas Sue cooks sausages for the volunteers within the park. They even discover time to go on a Tutankhamun-inspired Egyptian expedition to the British Museum, along with a recreation of the picnic provided by Fortnum and Mason for Howard Carter.
The week culminates in a spectacular Red and White Meal cooked by Allegra, with friends Celia Walden, Diana Quick, Lord Ponsonby and David Taylor. The meal hails the tip of the Roaring Twenties and the start of the Wall Street Crash.
Episode 6
Regency
air day: 2008-06-24
In this final programme within the collection, Giles Coren and Sue Perkins spend every week on a weight-reduction plan spanning the Regency Years of 1789-1821. With Rosemary Shrager cooking for them at their nation manor home, they benefit from the full trappings of the landed gentry. Dressing as a Jane Austen heroine, Sue is on a mission to discover a husband, whereas Giles indulges in being a dandy. During their week they struggle boars head and salmon poached in Champagne. They uncover the origins of the sandwich whereas playing away their inheritance on the gaming tables.