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Philippa
Posts: 104
Come Dine With Me - Australia
February 2010
Logged on to Lifestyles CDWMA site and all viewer comments are removed! And there is no option to add comments anymore... talk about shutting down the viewing public! Probably just as well.

justmandie
Posts: 3
Come Dine With Me - Australia
February 2010
I did exactly the same thing..!! I wanted to see what people would say about the vile Brian....
I agree with Philippa, let us have our say...!!

Philippa
Posts: 104
Come Dine With Me - Australia
February 2010
I think you'll find they are concerned about future series/episodes & not getting sufficient contestants signing up! Producers really do a good job of finding 3-4 decent contestants and one total cretin... every time. First week Gail who's sole focus was the cost of everything, second week Brian who had a sexual reference for everything, third week the insufferable Bryan and the try-hard Rita (who I doubt has even had a real degustation experience)! Don't think I'll be tuning in for week 4 - just too painful. At least they aren't insulting true food lovers by airing it on Lifestyle Food! Now that WOULD add insult to injury!

Jeff
Posts: 602
Come Dine With Me - Australia
February 2010
Don't hold your breath, they've already done that with 4 Ingredients, why wouldn't they slap this on as well? I don't really think they understand their own viewing audience. I agree though, another "train smash" program, you really feel compelled to watch to find out whether it's going to be as bad as you expect it to be. I felt sorry for the guy who "wine matched" only to have the others already drinking the quaffing plonk!

Nice&spicy
Posts: 44
Come Dine With Me - Australia
February 2010
Yes I felt sorry for that guy too. I find it rather boring so far - not sure that I can muster enough enthusiasm to stick with it.

Philippa
Posts: 104
Come Dine With Me - Australia
February 2010
Couldn't agree more Jeff! One thing which is (kind of reassuring) is that boguns are not delegated to particular suburbs - they are even present on the North Shore and more affluent suburbs!!! hehehe
James did try hard - his efforts at wine-matching were for nought, given his guests... he scored highest with me. Rita and Bryan scored ZERO!

annie31
Posts: 2
Come Dine With Me - Australia
February 2010
All the free-to-air TV stations have forums and they have to cop the good comments with the bad. It's what happens in forums and it's never going to be eradicated.
We pay for the so called privileged of watching Foxtell's or AUSTAR's so called AD free TV (yes, that is how it was advertised) and we get jipped because they are too cheap to put extra staff on to monitor the forums.
The used the excuse that the site got overloaded but that is a crock. If a site isn't big enough then all you do is remove really old content and or expand the website to cope with the traffic.
I would suggest you write to management to complain. If enough people complain then they will have to listen to it's subscribers who after all do PAY THEIR WAGES.

annie31
Posts: 2
Come Dine With Me - Australia
February 2010
According to the forum count I have only one post.
Seems my last post complaining about the removal of the forums has been removed.

Jeff
Posts: 602
Come Dine With Me - Australia
February 2010
I've written (yet again) to complain about 4 Ingredients being shown on Lifestyle Food.

Philippa
Posts: 104
Come Dine With Me - Australia - recipes on Lifestyle Food
February 2010
I find it interesting that there is no 'comment' function on any of the recipes from CDWME... every other recipe on the site welcomes feedback/comment. Producers really do not want to know what the viewing public think - about anything related to the show.