Dinner Disasters - FORMAT
Click here to screen
Synopsis
Can you change your life if you change what you eat?

In our modern society, we often lack the time, energy or skills to share and enjoy a good meal with family and friends and prepare the kind of food that will keep us healthy. Instead, we choose simple solutions and easy ways out. In many households, takeaway meals and unhealthy, artificial food are a symptom of deeper problems in these people’s lives.

In Dinner Disasters, a famous chef steps into the homes of ordinary people to show them the way to a healthier meal and a happier household. He encounters many kinds of challenges. He visits a woman who stopped cooking when she lost her daughter; a couple who live together but never share a meal; a woman who hasn’t eaten vegetables in 20 years; another woman who has replaced all of her food with supplements and pills; and a struggling single mother of three who can’t afford proper food for her children. For every one of them, food has become a necessary evil, and not something to enjoy. Desperate for help, they have asked our chef to come to the rescue.

Our chef will enter their private homes. He must get to know the people in the house, understand their eating habits, and how they got out of hand. He must also confront them with their problem, and find a solution to it all.

In each episode, our chef focuses on one home, creating healthy eating routines for the people he visits, as well as teaching them specific skills in cooking nutritious and tasty meals. A few weeks later, our chef will return to see whether he managed to make a permanent change. Are the lives of these families any brighter?

Season 1: 10 x 45 episodes - Fall 2011 Season 2: 12 x 45. Fall 2012 Season 3: 5 x 45. Spring 2013 Season 4: 12 x 45 In production Jan 2014 to air April 2014

Produced for MTV3 Finland, 2012 Produced for TV3 Denmark, 2013 Produced for TV3 Sweden, 2013

Duration
10 x 60'
Definition
SD
Genre
Formats
Subgenre
Food
Producer
MONSTER
Production Year
2011
Ratings

The third season of Dinner Disasters broadcast on TV3 (Norway) peaked with a 15.6% share.
Season 2 surpassed the channel slot average of 9.6% by achieving a 16.9% share and 216,000 viewers.
These figures exceeded the already successful ratings of the first season, which had a high share of 14.6%.