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No. of seasons 10 Presented by James Reeson Language English | 7/10 IMDb Original language(s) English First episode date 2 June 2008 Number of seasons 10 Audio format Stereophonic sound | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Running time 30 minutes (inc. commercials) Original network WIN Television (Regional)9Gem (Metropolitan & Regional, 2010-2016)Gold (Highlights)Good Food (The British Isles)Nine Network (Adelaide & Perth, 2008-2013) Similar The Daily Edition, Good Chef Bad Chef, Ben's Menu, Couch Time, Bondi Vet | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Alive and Cooking is an Australian television cooking show hosted by celebrity chef James Reeson. The program is produced by WIN Television and airs five days a week on the WIN Network.
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Alive and cooking
History
In 2007, WIN Television announced a new cooking show to replace Fresh with the Australian Women's Weekly, a similar show provided by the Nine Network. At the time, WIN were in the middle of intense negotiations with Nine, which resulted in the removal of some Nine-produced programs from the schedule.
Alive and Cooking aired its first episode on Monday 2 June 2008 at 11.30am on most of WIN's regional stations. It remained in that time slot for the duration of the entire first season. In 2009, the Nine Network axed Fresh with the Australian Women's Weekly and replaced it with Alive and Cooking. In late 2009, the Nine Network expanded Nine Morning News to one hour as part of an expansion of Nine News content across their daytime schedule which resulted in Alive and Cooking being dropped from the Nine daytime schedule. WIN, Nine Adelaide and Nine Perth (both owned by WIN), and NBN Television moved the show to 3pm weekdays. In July 2010, WIN & NBN moved the show back to its original 11:30am weekday timeslot in place of Nine Morning News. Nine restarted showing the program again from 24 September 2010 with the launch of their new digital sub-channel GEM.
Availability
Alive and Cooking is broadcast across Australia on GEM. The program has not aired on WIN since 30 June 2016 due to becoming Channel Ten. The show returned later that year, airing at 2:30pm as it was previously.
Merchandise
Some 'Food For All Seasons' DVDs have been released, plus a number of cooking books featuring recipes from the show.
James Reeson
James Reeson is a British celebrity chef who is famous in Australia. He is renowned for his television cooking shows James Can Cook and The Occasional Cook. He was also a chef in various hotels and on cruise ships around Europe and the Mediterranean. He moved permanently to Australia to host Alive and Cooking.