It seems that genuine stars kept well away and so the show was left with the real dregs. Marco needs a proper format, not some naff kitchen based contest. I personally would much prefer to hear his opinion on the cuisine of foreign parts than the scripted bilge Jamie Oliver is now broadcasting. Marco has the potential to be the next Keith Floyd, a cook with passion and intelligence who can bring something special to the travel genre. Why nobody has seen this heaven knows! The only other presenter in this league is Rick Stein. Wake up ITV and smell the spices!
If you want to see how not to present the travel tv genre, take a look at the work done by the cadaverous Simon Calder. His byline is something like "don't forget your passport or your smile" Yuk! His work is full of patronising explorations of his own bohemian pretension and is about as passionate as a wet weekend in Norwich. Here is one of the "smart alec" remarks that populate his journalism:
"the thickness of the mattress is in inverse proportion to the proximity of the people"
Nauseating.
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