The perfect dinner

Television series
Original title	The perfect dinner
Country of production	Germany
Year (s)	since 2006
Production company	ITV Studios Germany
Episodes	3525+
Broadcasting cycle	Mondays – Fridays, The perfect celebrity dinner : Sundays (irregular), The perfect professional dinner : Sundays (irregular)
genre	Cooking show
Theme music	Adam Salkeld - Top Spin
First broadcast	March 6, 2006 on VOX

The perfect dinner or the perfect celebrity dinner or the perfect professional dinner is a German cooking show that is produced for the TV station VOX . Repetitions of The Perfect Dinner are also broadcast on the special-interest channel RTL Living . Repetitions of The Perfect Celebrity Dinner were initially shown on RTL Nitro and later on Super RTL .

The concept is based on the British television series Come Dine with Me produced by ITV Studios for Channel 4 .

The first broadcast of the first episode of The Perfect Dinner took place after a pilot broadcast in November 2005 on March 6, 2006 on VOX. From Monday to Friday, the pre-evening program shows a compilation of one day each, in which one of the candidates is shown shopping, decorating the table, cooking, receiving the guests unknown at the beginning of the week and the course of the dinner . In between, the guests give comments on what they have experienced, which end in a reason for the rating. The 1000th program was broadcast from Berlin on February 3, 2010; the 2000th episode on February 3rd, 2014 from Munich, the 2763th episode on March 1st, 2017 broadcast from the Ruhr area.

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There is one participant per working day of the broadcast week, usually five, in weeks with public holidays sometimes fewer. The candidates for a broadcast week come from a city or at least nearby cities. The candidates are invited one after the other to their home by one of the participants in order to serve them a home-cooked three-course menu .

The goal is to host a perfect dinner as the perfect host. In order to determine who achieved this goal or who came closest to it, the host is evaluated at the end by each of the other candidates. The number of points from 0 to 10 per appraiser depends not only on the prepared food, but also on the drinks served, the table decorations and the quality of the host. For the perfect dinner there would be a maximum of 40 points (4 evaluations of 10 points).

On March 9, 2009 the rating system was changed. Since then, 0 to 10 points have been awarded for the food and also 0 to 10 points for "decoration and ambience", so that a candidate could ideally receive 80 points (4 evaluations of 20 points) for his perfect dinner. This rating system was dropped again on August 17, 2009 without giving any reason.

The ratings are initially only known to viewers. In the days that followed, the other guests would entertain their fellow candidates. The winner is the one who had the most points at the end of the week. He receives a cash prize of 3,000 euros; if the points are equal, the prize is shared. The other participants do not win anything.

One condition to which the participants have to submit is that as little as possible of the menu, which consists of exactly three courses, should be prepared, it should be prepared and presented in front of the camera.

The episodes in the week from December 14th to 18th, 2009 were called “The perfect dinner in a dressing gown”. After the meal, a guest was drawn to stay with the respective host. The sleeping guest is not rated until the next morning and also includes the breakfast that the host prepares for him. Since spring 2011 there have been further episodes “in the dressing gown” at irregular intervals. Since 2012, another irregular variant has been broadcast under the title “Who is the professional?” In which a professional chef competes against ambitious amateur chefs under a false name.

Stylistic devices

The camera observes the shopping, the preparatory work, the cooking and the course of the menu itself. In addition, the candidates are interviewed independently of one another. This is primarily about the quality of the food, but also about assessments of the respective host, his apartment and the other participants. While the host is finishing the main course, the guests should visit the apartment together with the camera so that they can get a glimpse of the host's private life. For this purpose, the hosts are given the opportunity at the beginning to present themselves based on their facility. At the same time, the guests are asked to speculate about the host's apartment, which is then often cut with the real images as a contrast. These sequences are cut as interview scenes. In addition, the broadcast is commented on by speaker Daniel Werner with a distinctly ironic undertone. The comments are written by different authors.

Since February 4, 2008, Vox has been broadcasting its programs in 16: 9 widescreen format .

The perfect celebrity dinner

Old logo of "The perfect celebrity dinner"

Basics

As a spin-off of The Perfect Dinner , Vox has been broadcasting The Perfect Celebrity Dinner since August 2006 . The hosts are four celebrities each (sometimes individual candidates are supported by another celebrity), who usually invite guests to dinner in their private apartments. The winner receives a cash prize that they donate to a charitable institution of their choice.

In contrast to The Perfect Dinner , an episode does not consist of several individual episodes that are shown on consecutive days. Instead, the footage shot at the individual dinners is cut into a single episode. This was only deviated from in the first episode, in which five instead of four celebrities took part, and which ran from August 21 to 25, 2006 in five parts on the slot for The Perfect Dinner .

The perfect celebrity dinner initially had a fixed weekly slot on Sunday evening at Vox. It was later switched to a biweekly and finally to an irregular broadcast rhythm. Now only a few new episodes are shown each year.

If the cast was initially mixed and brought together celebrities who otherwise have little or nothing to do with one another professionally, the concept increasingly changed in the direction of specializing the individual episodes on a homogeneous group of candidates. Since 2015, almost only such “special” episodes have been broadcast: The group of participants is made up of celebrities who are already known to viewers in this constellation, mostly from another format of private television. Since 2017 only "jungle special" episodes with participants of the current season of the RTL show I am a star - get me out of here! produced.

Attendees

All broadcast dates for the broadcasts on Sunday evening on the VOX station are listed. Repetitions in the afternoon program or on special interest channels are not listed. For participants without their own Wikipedia article, the profession is also given.

The perfect professional dinner - top chefs

Basics

In August 2015, the episode The Perfect Celebrity Dinner - Top Chefs was broadcast, in which the circle of candidates consisted exclusively of well-known professional chefs. It was about Christian Henze , Sybille Schönberger , Kolja Kleeberg and Attila Hildmann .

The concept of top chefs among themselves was relaunched in January 2017, now as a separate spin-off under the title The Perfect Professional Dinner . The top chefs episode of the celebrity dinner is now viewed by VOX as the first episode of the professional dinner despite the originally different classification and is also broadcast as part of this series if it is repeated.

The participants in The Perfect Professional Dinner are each four professional chefs, from the prominent TV chef to the top international chef who has been awarded three Michelin stars . They usually receive their colleagues in their private houses or apartments. For the preparation of the menus they mainly use their private kitchens, but often use the infrastructure of their restaurants to prepare individual courses or components and get help from their kitchen and sometimes service staff.

The participants are asked in individual and group interviews how they liked the evening hosted by the respective host, but unlike The Perfect Dinner and The Perfect Celebrity Dinner , there is no evaluation system and therefore no winners. An exception is the first episode (originally broadcast as part of the celebrity dinner series) in which the four restaurateurs involved - based on the “pay what you want” principle - were each asked how much money they would spend on the menu would have been willing to have been a paying customer at your host's restaurant.

Attendees

All broadcast dates for the broadcasts on Sunday evening on the VOX station are listed. Repetitions in the afternoon program or on special interest channels are not listed.

Special offers

• In the week before Christmas 2006, The Perfect Christmas Dinner was broadcast from Nuremberg . The individual programs for this were recorded at the beginning of November.
• After that, on the three working days between Christmas and New Year, The Perfect Dinner with three pairs of twins from Munich, including the twins Jutta Winkelmann and Gisela Getty .
• In the week from October 18 to 22, 2010, five singles competed against each other at Das Perfekt Single-Dinner - according to the motto: "Love goes through the stomach".
• In the week after Christmas 2012, an episode of The Perfect Children's Dinner was broadcast for the first time on December 27 at 6:00 p.m. , followed by a second program the following day. In each program, four children between the ages of 10 and 14 competed to cook. In contrast to the programs with adults, there was a price for all participants: fourth place was awarded 100 euros, third with 200, second with 300 and first place with 600 euros.

Spending in other countries

country	Title of the program	TV channel	Year of first broadcast
Australia	Come Dine With Me Australia	Lifestyle Channel	2010
Belgium	Komen Eten	VT4	2009
France	Un Dîner Presque Parfait	M6
Greece	Kati Psinete	Alpha TV	2009
Iran	Befarmaeed Sham	Manoto 1
Italy	A cena da me	La7	2016
Canada	Come Dine With Me Canada	W.	2010
Croatia	Večera za 5	RTL Televizija	2007
Netherlands	Smaken, hide	NET 5
Norway	4-stjernes middag halv åtte	TVNorge	2009
	Klokka åtte hos meg	TV3
Poland	Ugotowani	TVN (Poland)	2010
Russia	Званый ужин (Swany uschin)	REN
Slovakia	Bez servítky	TV Markíza
Slovenia	Kdo Je Kuhar?	TV3
Spain	Ven a Cenar Conmigo	Antena 3	2008
Sweden	Halv åtta hos mig	TV4	2008
Switzerland	Swiss Dinner	TeleZüri	2010
Czech Republic	Prostřeno	Great TV	2010
Turkey	Yemekteyiz	TV8	2008
Hungary	Vacsoracsata	RTL club	2008
	La divina comida	Chilevisión	2016
	Hal a tortan	TV2	2008
United Kingdom	Come dine with me	Channel 4	2005
United States	Dinner Takes It All	TLC

Others

Weekly edition

• On April 7, 2006, candidate Nadja awarded the host Franko 0 points. On December 21st, this evaluation occurred again, from Uwe to hostess Jutta. On August 10, 2012, this rating was also awarded by candidate Sally to the host Frank. On February 20, 2017, candidate Mirco also gave host Karsten 0 points.
• On December 8, 2006, candidate Dagmar from Bielefeld received the highest rating of 40 points for the first time as the hostess. Hannah from Düsseldorf on March 19, 2008, Nina at the single dinner in Cologne on October 22, 2010, Bernd from the Allgäu on August 31, 2012, Jürgen from Dresden on September 6, 2012 and Linda from Rostock on September 2, also achieved the highest number of points . November 2012.
• On October 9, 2007, the show had a record rate of 20.8 percent in the 14 to 49 target group. In absolute numbers from the age of three it was 3.47 million viewers.
• 3 April 2012 committed a candidate suicide after being victims of presumably after their performances in the show between 26 and 30 March of that year, internet bullying had become. This focused on their lack of cooking skills and their play with erotic stimuli. The videos for the week in question were taken from the online platform Voxnow immediately after the announcement of Vox's death.
• On January 13, 2014, the 2000th episode of The Perfect Dinner was broadcast.
• Due to a lockdown in the course of the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic , candidate Uwe had to leave the group during dinner week in the Münster area without having cooked himself. Substitute candidate Christoph was nominated and hosted the Friday evening.

Sunday edition

• Although only whole points can be awarded, Miriam Pielhau rated Ben with 9.5 points in the broadcast on August 27, 2006, which was also included in the official points assessment and resulted in a final score of 28.5 for him.
• In the program of December 26, 2006, the guests waited so long hungrily for the main course of the host Bruno Eyron that they finally ordered a pizza from a delivery service.
• On November 22nd, 2009, a guest was unloaded for the first time: Ralf Möller invited Rob Green out after he was thrown out by Jule Gölsdorf the day before because, among other things, he expressed his cigarette in sushi .
• The lowest individual rating of 0 points was given to Aleksandra Bechtel by Martin Armknecht at the perfect celebrity dinner on September 23, 2007 . Rob Green also rated Ralf Möller's dinner with 0 points, as he had previously unloaded him. On January 15, 2012, Micaela Schäfer from Reimer Claussen received 0 points for her culinary art. January 20, 2013 awarded Kathy Weber at Kalle Schwensen 0 points for offense because he had not invited guests to his apartment and let cook a complete dinner from a chef. Even Alexander Keen awarded 0 points after the dinner by Florian Wess and Gina-Lisa Lohfink was unloaded because of a dispute with Lohfinks make-up artist.
• An episode of the celebrity dinner with Jenny Elvers-Elbertzhagen , Caroline Beil , David Scheller and Bernhard Brink planned for February 10, 2013 was taken out of the program at short notice by the broadcaster due to Ms. Elvers-Elbertzhagen's alcohol problems and the dinner was repeated from Sent April 15, 2012. Ms. Elvers-Elbertzhagen would find herself in a completely different life situation than at the time the program was recorded in May 2012, which is why the episode will no longer be broadcast in the future.
• The broadcast takes place most frequently in North Rhine-Westphalia , while some other federal states have so far hardly been taken into account. Schleswig-Holstein and Kiel took part for the first time in June 2007, Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania in October 2007 with Rostock and Saarland hosted for the first time in January 2008. The broadcast also took place several times outside of Germany. B. on Mallorca , in Belgium , in Salzburg , Cape Town , Kitzbühel , Los Angeles and New York City . In Switzerland , where VOX is also broadcast, the program has so far taken place once on Shawne Fielding in Zurich . In Austria , the perfect celebrity dinner was filmed twice in Vienna and Salzburg, including with Richard Lugner in 2006.
• At the perfect celebrity dinner on June 17, 2007 , Anna Maria Kaufmann achieved the highest possible score of 30 points for the first time. This record was set by Andreja Schneider on September 9, 2007 , by Antje-Katrin Kühnemann on October 14, 2007 , by Mary Amiri on November 25, 2007, by Elli Erl on December 9, 2007 , and on December 30 by Percy Hoven and Michael Wolf , on March 9, 2008 by Ross Antony , on August 3, 2008 by Marlène Charell , on January 19, 2009 by Nicole da Silva , on June 7, 2009 simultaneously by all participants in the round, Rebecca Siemoneit-Barum , Jörg Krusche with helpers Nelson, Mola Adebisi and Petra Nadolny , on June 14, 2009 by Harald Glööckler , on August 16, 2009 by Pierre Brice , on August 30, 2009 by Wolfgang Bahro , on November 8, 2009 simultaneously by all participants in Karin's group Tietze-Ludwig , Rainer Holbe , Benjamin Herd and Maximilian Michael Prinz von Anhalt, on November 22nd by Dunja Rajter , on December 6th 2009 by Henning Krautmacher , on April 4th 2010 by Benny Kieckhäben , on January 9th 2011 by Jochen Bendel , on February 13, 2011 simultaneously from all part participants of the group of Mati Gavriel, Anthony Thet , Nadine and Michelle from Big Soul and Pino Severino , on March 4, 2011 by Marcus von Anhalt and on February 26, 2012 by Ulrike Röseberg .
• Due to “special” episodes, Lucy Diakovska , Jessica Wahls , Peer Kusmagk , Ralph Morgenstern , Oli.P , Enie van de Meiklokjes and Claudelle Deckert have already been three times, Ross Antony , Barbara Engel , Michaela Schaffrath , Norbert Schramm , Ingrid van Bergen , Christina Lugner , Michael Meziani , Peter Bond , Giulia Siegel , Gundis Zámbó , Patrick Bach , Andreas Elsholz , Maite Kelly , Ulli Potofski , Margarethe Schreinemakers , Dagmar Frederic , Achim Mentzel , Gerit Kling , Hildegard Krekel , Milka Loff Fernandes , Annabelle Mandeng , Jochen Schropp , Fiona Erdmann , Ben , René Weller , Kelly Trump , Yvonne de Bark , Benjamin Boyce , Sandy Mölling , Nadja Benaissa , Saskia Valencia , Raúl Richter , Detlef D! Soost , Philipp Sonntag , Dieter Landuris , Antje Buschschulte , Daniel Küblböck , Anastasia Zampounidis , Fabian Harloff , Hendrik Martz , Anna Heesch , Aleksandra Bechtel , Klaus Baumgart , Allegra Curtis , Davorka Tovilo , Thorsten Nindel , Jochen Bendel , Charlotte Karlinder , Lisa Bund , Indira Weis , Katy Karrenbauer , Eva Jacob , Gitta Saxx , Sarah Knappik , Marijke Amado , Horst Janson , Claude-Oliver Rudolph , Moritz A. Sachs , Nicole Belstler-Boettcher , Grit Boettcher , Joey Kelly , Cindy Berger , Mathieu Carrière , Ramona Leiß , Radost Bokel , Micaela Schäfer , Martin Kesici , Rolf Zacher , Anouschka Renzi , Jay Khan , Jürgen Milski , Jürgen Drews , Mickie Krause and Loona have already hosted the celebrity dinner twice.

Awards

• The show was nominated for the 2007 Adolf Grimme Prize
• The show won the German Television Award 2007 in the Best Cooking Show category

Individual evidence

1. ↑ https://www.fernsehserien.de/das-perfekte-dinner/episodenguide
2. ↑ Come Dine with Me on Channel 4
3. ↑ Episode guide “The Perfect Dinner”; accessed on March 1, 2017
4. ↑ Article about Daniel Werner on rundschau-online.de from July 26, 2009, accessed on August 29, 2014
5. ↑ Verena Kerth: "The perfect celebrity dinner" from January 31, 2010
6. ↑ (The video is locked for copyright reasons.) Retrieved February 19, 2014
7. ↑ "Perfect Dinner" sets a new quota record
8. ↑ Suicide after appearing on TV at the “Perfect Dinner”. Retrieved March 11, 2014
9. ↑ Broadcast of the anniversary episode
10. ^ Vox cancels “Celebrity Dinner” with Jenny Elvers-Elbertzhagen in Der Standard from February 8, 2013

Web links

• The perfect dinner in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• The perfect dinner at vox.de
• Watch the perfect dinner online at TVNOW
• Watch the perfect celebrity dinner online at TVNOW
• The perfect professional dinner at vox.de